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>The demonstration’s numbers fluctuated throughout the day, the two employees said, ranging from a dozen to 30, and the protesters departed sometime in the late afternoon.

So less than 1% of the company? Not trying to minimize the issue here but let's also not make events sound bigger than they really are.

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In the same vein, let's say there are only 400k people online showing outrage at this. That's less than 0.01% of the world's population. Now weigh this ratio against the violation of human rights, police violence, ethnic cleansing and organ harvesting, and ask your question again.

Thinking that numbers is all that matters is the same as valuing $$$ over morals, which is what this is all about.

You're making a strawman argument about morals, which is not in the same vein as what I said. My point was this piece was sensationalized.

Even at the size they are, that's still enough people to make a scene -- Enough to bubble upward and ask for a disciplinary decision, I'd think.

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