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While the headline says they all quit, in the story an employee says they were sent home with what is pretty obviously a threat to comply or get fired:

A former employee who wished to remain anonymous told NBC News she cried when she was instructed by O’Connor to remove the LGBTQ+ titles. When she refused, the employee said she was sent home to reflect if she wanted to work at the store.

This is arguably constructive dismissal, which does count as termination on the part of the employer. It would have to go to court to say for sure, but it’s not something I would fuck around with if I was employing people.

In context, she’s portrayed as dumb for it and specifically said she was going to vote communist because the guy was handsome. It’s not very flattering to her, and IIRC she changes (or is implied to consider changing?) her vote to Bush at the end.

Now, what I actually WOULD consider a woke episode for the time was the episode about Dale’s dad being gay and working in the gay rodeo. This was 2 years before Bush’s re-election bait was to say he wanted to add an amendment to the US Constitution to outlaw gay marriage.

Also the episode where Peggy winds up making friends with drag queens because of her enormous feet.

They got fired for refusing to pull the books and you think their boss (who is parroting right wing shit about protecting the children) is going to let them repeatedly bring up that they shouldn’t have been removed? You are writing fanfic.

Yeah, I was a kid when SNL was still airing those skits and they didn’t feel enlightened to me at all. Like, this is the same show that “joked” that Brandon Teena (who was already known to be murdered at that point) deserved to die for reporting his rape. Like, not as a shocking thing a heel would say, just a crass joke. It was hilarious to people then, that’s the environment It’s Pat is in.

The 90s were fucked up, y’all.

If you’re coding or whatever this is fine. But I would really, really like my doctors and engineers to be educated by other doctors and engineers.

You frame that as if the same can’t happen if you use AI. At least if you actually do the work you have the knowledge and the ability to research.

I’m old enough to have voted when that was airing and had completely forgot that it actually said ‘steal’ and not ‘download’, lol

Frankly any society that embraces this sort of thing should collapse, because the alternative is too disturbing.

This might be me being too pessimistic about it, but I feel like this is an offshoot of the ‘NT snap-judgements of autistic people tend to be more negative’ tendency that’s been found repeatedly in studies. When you have a huge amount of negative interactions and bullying due to behavioral differences you might not even be aware or in control of, of course it’s going to make you hypervigilant and try to prevent it.

Can’t wait to see all the exciting ways this fucks up people’s computers.

Good intel, but the specific book I’m checking out isn’t listed there. Craft books can be hard to find!

Shiny!