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Fired by woke? You may be entitled to compensation. (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 67 points 9 months ago (4 children)

For reference, this was the Instagram post that got her fired:

"Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbours...even by children. Because history is edited, most people today don’t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbours hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?"

So not outright hatred of any other groups, but she's basically trying to equate "oppressed" Republicans being generally shitty people to Jews during the Holocaust. If anyone in America is promoting hate at this point in time though, it's Conservatives and Right-wing media.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Republican/conservatives love their macho rugged individualism persona. Fuck your feelings, big trucks, tough guy/gal demeanor.

And in the same breath, they will whine about how they are oppressed because people dislike them for their words and actions that are actively demonizing others. Minorities, LBGT, liberals, name it. They very vocally victimize others and then play victim when called out for it, all while trying to act tough.

It's like they saw every despicable bully trope on TV, that always ends up tucking tail and running when their comeuppance arrives, and said "yeah, that's who I want to be"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean, they idolize the losers of history, like the Nazis and the Confederacy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

I love this perspective - short, succinct, and true.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Projection. The right wing fervently hates liberals and wants to persecute them, so they assume it goes the other way too. It's always projection.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And if I got drunk in my company's customer parking lot with a corporate tee shirt on, I'd get fired too 🤷

What she is saying is public, ignorant and specifically objectionable to a lot of Disney fans.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Walt would’ve been 100% on board with it however.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I started reading knowing nothing about this person or what happened to her, so at first I'm like "ok, this seems reasonable", "why would you get fired for this", but there it is, those last two words like a slap in the face that change the entire context of where she was coming from, and going, with that twisted thought..

They always blame marginalised people for "playing the victim", but there are no bigger victimhood seekers than bigots. It's projection all the way down.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

She needs to be the victim in the scenario and not the Nazi making neighbors hate Trans people.