• LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    Toby Shannan, the former chief operating officer of the e-commerce business Shopify, has called on Mr. Haidt for advice on facing ideological battles in the workplace. He said Mr. Haidt got him through a bumpy period in the lead-up to Donald J. Trump’s election in 2016, when some of his employees were fuming about Shopify hosting online swag shops for right-wing groups like Breitbart News. With Mr. Haidt’s counsel, Shopify determined that users could sell merchandise with political commentary, but none with explicit calls to harm.

    Ah yes, so long as it’s all dogwhistles and not explicitly saying “kill the poors, browns and queers” then it’s all good.

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      8 months ago

      he’s good at telling us how to convince our workers it’s okay to sell things made by those who hate or want to erase them

      Idk why that’s a positive

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        8 months ago

        To neolibs every sale is a positive, equality is only useful when it generates sales of queerbait products.