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I thought we used to have a thread about this but, WTF time for a new one.
The people who held the engagement party at the weekend have copped a lot of stick for their behaviour, a lot of it deserved but this isn't.
The Royal Melbourne Hospital has sacked a female clinical assistant for suggesting Jewish Orthodox revellers from an illegal engagement party in St Kilda should be “put in the gas chamber”.
The comment was made on a Facebook post where people were discussing how the party had the potential to create a superspreader event that could keep Melbourne locked down longer.
The comment was brought to the attention of the hospital’s executive team.
When approached by news.com.au, a spokesperson for the hospital confirmed the worker had lost her job.
Now that is an extraordinarily fast reaction, I assume the person must have been a casual or a recent hire or both, but I don't think you could argue with the outcome.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
We can quibble over whether extreme cases of hate speech like this justify losing your job, but the broader problem is the precedent it sets and the principle it upholds. If you fundamentally oppose employers policing what you say or do off the job then you can’t make an exception for a particularly abhorrent or anti-Semitic remark on Facebook. So yeah, sorry, can’t agree with this.
We need to find a way of responding to people who hold and express vile opinions without running to their employers at the first opportunity and asking them to enact some kind of justice on our behalf. The problem isn’t being outraged and angered by the post; it’s thinking that the RMH have any business dealing with it.
"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange
David wrote:
We need to find a way of responding to people who hold and express vile opinions without running to their employers at the first opportunity and asking them to enact some kind of justice on our behalf. The problem isn’t being outraged and angered by the post; it’s thinking that the RMH have any business dealing with it.
For the record when looking at stuff on Twitter about the party, one goose I saw had made some anti Semitic remarks so I just reported him to Twitter.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
I would have thought that hospitals would need every clinical assistants they could get at the moment. Surely a reprimand was warranted but if the twits hadn't put the event on facebook in the first place they wouldn't have drawn the reactions.
I am waiting for lawsuits to start up about loss of business and reputation etc. It might make people think twice if they start losing homes etc.
The 2 Doctors who were at the event may be in strife as well
ronrat wrote:I would have thought that hospitals would need every clinical assistants they could get at the moment. Surely a reprimand was warranted but if the twits hadn't put the event on facebook in the first place they wouldn't have drawn the reactions.
I am waiting for lawsuits to start up about loss of business and reputation etc. It might make people think twice if they start losing homes etc.
The 2 Doctors who were at the event may be in strife as well
I suspect the ambulance chasers are tracking down the dismissed hospital worker to commence an unfair dismissal action.
When I first heard of this story I was wondering whether it was a case of anti zionism being labelled anti semitic as some in the Jewish community are prone to do to shut down any legitimate criticism or debate about the government of Israel.
In this instance though what the person stated was about as insensitive as it can get and it shouldn't come as any surprise that this specific type of employer has taken this action once notified of it.
What I do hope though is that the employer now shows a level of consistency if other employees are found being blatantly racist against other minorities on public forums.
@David, I tend to agree with what you say. This cancel culture seems mostly a product of the left and the focus on employers to penalise people for expressing unpopular or downright wrong views.
In this day and age, people should be fully aware that if they post controversial stuff under their real name on social media, there can be consequences. Organisations are gun shy about their brand and being being associated with improper stuff.
In this case, if RMH didn't sack this person there would have been a pile on to them, people saying they condone anti semitisim etc etc.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
