Does anyone find Kickstarter’s conflating of corporate ethics and adherence to far left political positions disturbing? Diversity hiring, “salary equity”, and other such policies are extremely hot issues; nearly every time they are discussed here the threads have hundreds of replies and give the mods a run for their money to manage. Chief among these recent issues is the recent controversy around deplatforming of political speech. This appears to have bit the louder left wing folks at Kickstarter (banning of the nazi punching comic book), to which at least one such employee cried foul at since it violated their dogmatic political worldview.
If you’re going to allow your employee’s controversial political opinions to guide corporate policy, I’d argue it’s unethical to build a culture in which disagreement is not permitted. A substantial number of people disagree with these policies and want to debate them, you can’t just dismiss those people as having wrong ideas and push forward patting yourself on the back for being the ethical good guy.
If you’re going to allow your employee’s controversial political opinions to guide corporate policy, I’d argue it’s unethical to build a culture in which disagreement is not permitted. A substantial number of people disagree with these policies and want to debate them, you can’t just dismiss those people as having wrong ideas and push forward patting yourself on the back for being the ethical good guy.