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What do you mean when you say you don't believe it's a "slippery slope"? That the proper boundaries are obvious to everyone?

I think the reason this is okay is that notifying a school or employer of your behavior is not the same as persecution.

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There's this idea I've seen a lot lately amongst social justice activists that the correct boundaries are obvious and a simple matter of common decency, and that anyone who dares to question this by asking where they should be placed is simply obfuscating to justify bigotry and harassment. Of course, no two people's idea of where the obvious, clear boundaries are is actually the same, it's just they don't generally realise this because it's never discussed. Occasionally something happens that different members of the community do see differently and all hell breaks loose.

Many times, the "asking questions" thing is done not in good faith, and that's why it's dismissed out of hand.

I see no problem with giving someone a heads up that they've employed an asshole.

The problem with this is that things change from time to time. Replace "asshole" with "Japanese sympathizer" during/after World War 2, or "Communist sympathizer" during the reign of McCarthyism. Would you be so quick to say that this is a good thing then?

Who's your employer?

It's readily available if you google my name and usernames; available in my profile.

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