Thought-provoking piece, I want to reread it and reflect more on it. There's one problem I'm imagining--not as a counterpoint to your argument, but because I largely agree with you and I'm not sure how this fits in. That is, what if some employees are feeling frequently distracted in a bad way by the politically provocative participation of coworkers? For instance, what it some coworker keeps posting Freddie de Boer or Glenn Greenwald pieces that raise interesting points, but are perceived by other employees as expressing a vague aspect of aggression? Or, what if there are apologists for Israel's military, or for Palestinian militants, and the arguments are sometimes ending in tears? What I'm trying to get at is, couldn't there be situations where a manager who wants employees to feel safe and heard might legitimately need to say, let's take a pause from posting about politics for a while?
Thought-provoking piece, I want to reread it and reflect more on it. There's one problem I'm imagining--not as a counterpoint to your argument, but because I largely agree with you and I'm not sure how this fits in. That is, what if some employees are feeling frequently distracted in a bad way by the politically provocative participation of coworkers? For instance, what it some coworker keeps posting Freddie de Boer or Glenn Greenwald pieces that raise interesting points, but are perceived by other employees as expressing a vague aspect of aggression? Or, what if there are apologists for Israel's military, or for Palestinian militants, and the arguments are sometimes ending in tears? What I'm trying to get at is, couldn't there be situations where a manager who wants employees to feel safe and heard might legitimately need to say, let's take a pause from posting about politics for a while?