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Random people on Twitter can hurt your feelings, but they don't have access to internal systems or private information that can harm your welfare or impair your ability to get your work done.

You're not expected to work with anyone you don't work with.

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That's a pretty narrow view of society. Many people work with people they don't want to, don't like, hate, despise even.

Human beings are capable of all kinds of petty emotions for all kinds of petty reasons, most of which are irrelevant to the discussion at hand. As a society, we recognize that prejudice, especially against the vulnerable, is particularly bad.

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