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I don't get this. He has a pretty, IMO, hateful view of the world. I don't care if he is honest if he is also a sociopath and a fucking asshole.

Use this filter. If you were running a company and came across this type of personality, would you want them in your company?

What if they were anti-gay? Anti-white? Anti-immigrant? And not just held those views but basically YELLED them in PUBLIC while using your company name? Yeah, common sense says you need to get rid of them.

No, BI is better off without him. I would say the tech industry as an entity would be much better off the less of these people we have in it. It has nothing to do with honesty, but empathy, intelligence, and common sense.

Practically, these are great, fair, and true points, and I agree with them. Idealistically, another side of me fucking hates this. Nothing would ever change, and humanity would never progress if we withheld our differences of opinion. At what point does an opinion become too extreme to share?

When it is conflated with your work, or you education or anything that is not 100% you. And have absolutely no illusions. If you have a hateful opinion, fine. But if you are very vocal about it, even just between the walls of work, don't expect to not be disciplined for it. You are creating a hostile work environment and, well, I'm sorry, you can't expect to protected in that case.

And, btw, this is not hard. Get a different twitter account if you want to spout your opinions. Make sure it has no connection to your work.

I have three twitter accounts. One is "me", that I use for work stuffs. One is more for close friends and people I know in public. The last is my controversial one that I use.

He is absolutely free to share it. As he said in a previous rant, "this is a free country". However, it seems foolish of him to expect the entity he represents to continue employing him when his views go against that entity's interest (making money).

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