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Hopefully it's a lesson for other companies to be very careful for hiring "woke" SJW's after seeing the chaos they're causing.

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Much of what was regarded as “woke SJW nonsense” 15 years ago is now completely mainstream. I’m sure even you — who clearly has some preoccupation with progressive social thought as you post on about “SJWs” multiple times per day on average — have some beliefs that would have been considered insufferably woke and obnoxious by people like you in 2003.

The things that I believe are real social justice have no hint of becoming mainstream anytime in the next 20 years. SJW, in the connotation, is a term reserved for extremists, and there's no shortage of them, and they deserve the same scrutiny as any other political extremist.

> 15 years ago is now completely mainstream

Such as? Furthermore, I don't care about mainstream, a lot of mainstream stuff today is trash honestly.

> have some beliefs that would have been considered insufferably woke and obnoxious by people like you in 2003

My basis has been consistent for over 1400 years now.

It sounds like the problem wasn’t the hiring, but rather the questions around the firing.

It definitely was the hiring when HR was targeting SJW's to show how "progressive" the company is. What those employees end up doing is causing tantrums and playing victim then suing their employers. Now that the employers are finding out how expensive and destructive those people are, they'll actively avoid hiring them.

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