I think it should be clarified that people are not being fired for how they vote. Odious though he may be in my opinion, nobody is going to lose their job just because they voted for Ted Cruz.
Some people, however, are being fired for creating a hostile work environment, which is markedly different. Pedro Pascale’s sister, Lux, is trans model/actress. Jon Favreau (Writer) and Taika Waititi (Director/Actor) are both Jewish (and Taika is Māori, as well). If you constantly say transphobic and antisemitic shit all the time, that’s going to make your workplace pretty hostile to your trans and Jewish colleagues (or colleagues with trans or Jewish family members whose humanity you’re downplaying). Taika just released a Holocaust-related movie last year about tackling right-wing Nazi propaganda—do you really think he feels super comfortable working with somebody who says being asked not spew right-wing, Nazi-ish propaganda is the same as the Holocaust? FUCK NO. Do you think Pedro feels comfortable working with somebody who doesn’t believe his sister deserves full human rights? DOUBT IT. And this is just the stuff she’s said on social media. For all we know, she’s said much worse on set, and this is just the final straw.
Nobody can fire you for exercising your right to vote, but if you tell your minority colleagues they’re not deserving of rights and use their traumas to victimise yourself, then that’s creating a hostile workspace and nobody has to put up with that shit.
(Also, as an aside: So long as Republicans remain obsessed with the idea of letting the free market determine everything, I don’t see how they can complain when a company decides having a racist on staff is bad for branding. Like, y’all let Reagan make your bed, fucking lie in it).
On this day, 16 February 1936, elections were held in Republican Spain and the left-wing Popular Front emerged victorious. But despite the Republic having been in place for five years, Morocco was still not freed from colonial domination. The Republic would eventually pay for this, when the nationalists made use of Moorish troops to defeat them in the civil war.
Trinidadian communist George Padmore wrote at the time in response to left-wingers internationally decrying Moroccan soldiers often in racist terms: “It is not the politically backward Moors who should be blamed for being used by the forces of reaction against the Spanish workers and peasants, but the leaders of the Popular Front, who, in attempting to continue the policy of Spanish Imperialism, made it possible for Franco to exploit the natives in the service of Fascism…
“Had the Popular Front Government, immediately it assumed office, issued decrees granting the colonial peoples economic and political reforms as a gesture towards self-government and appealed for their support against France, it would have been assured… For the Moors have no particular ideological interest in Fascism. They, like most colonial peoples, are not concerned with the conflicting political conflicts going on in Europe. To them all whites are alike – a feeling which can hardly be otherwise when Labour and Popular Front Governments oppress and exploit them in the same way as Tory and other reactionary Capitalists… Not until the European workers’ movements, especially in countries with great empires like Britain and France show more solidarity in deeds and not words will this distrust and suspicion be removed.”
Learn more about the civil war in our podcast episodes 39-40: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1653723694812774/?type=3
The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable. We prefer to trust to chance and to believe what is not true, rather than to own that not one of us can see what really is.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education (via philosophybits)
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