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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Twitter mobs don't have firing power, bosses do. If you incite a twitter mob and your boss doesn't think you're worth the trouble to keep around, then tough titties.
You'll need to provide some more details of your so-called examples. I suspect you are euphimizing 'politics' in place of hateful behaviour.
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I'm talking about the publishing industry, where commercially successful writers are regularly dropped by their publishers (and blacklisted by the Big Five cartel that controls most bookstore distribution) for being (a) Republican, (b) Christian, (c) seriously practising any other established religion, (d) politically neutral, (e) insufficiently enthusiastic Democrats, (f) using a plain English word instead of a ‘woke’ euphemism, (g) using last year's euphemism instead of this year's euphemism, (h) not
au courant with the trendy left-wing cause of the hour. Of course, all these things can be and are labelled as ‘hateful behaviour’, which is all the excuse the Twitter mobs need. You sound like just the sort of person who would do that, since you trotted out the ‘hateful behaviour’ excuse for a situation you know nothing about.
The point is that bosses themselves are afraid of being fired, cancelled, or boycotted, and few of them, especially in the arts and entertainment fields, have the guts to defy a Twitter mob, or the horse sense to ignore it until the storm blows over and the mob finds a new target. With publishers, what it amounts to is that they are looking for excuses to break their contracts with authors who are making money, and believe they can get the same level of net profit by replacing them with unknown writers who will earn the publishers diversity points while being paid a pittance for their work.
It doesn't work, of course, which is why the Big Five publishers (formerly Big Six, soon to be Big Four) are slowly going down the tubes. Only a constant stream of mergers and acquisitions keeps their sales roughly flat; they buy up new businesses to compensate for destroying the old ones. But that's another story.