AIBU to think public racist / anti immigrant / anti trans posts can justify dismissal?

The GP receptionist had some vile stuff on her very open FB page, I have no 9dea if it’s this she was sacked for or something else. However she works in a role where she will come into contact with asylum seekers and if her attitude is as foul at work (even subconsciously) then she cannot be trusted to do that job effectively.

@Slightyamusedandsilly If you didn't want to include discussion about 'anti trans' in this thread, why did you put it in the thread title??

Were you particularly rude? Can’t imagine how that would be a disciplinary offence? Unless you threatened to bomb the CEO’s house or something!

Ok. So I'm gender critical, openly so. In the course of my work I help people including those who identify as trans.

Because it's my job I use their preferred pronouns, even those of 4 year olds, which I openly state (not at work) is ridiculous and probably an issue with the parent not the child.

If I attend a 'let women speak' rally and talk about my opinions should I be sacked?

Some people seem to think so - clearly my hateful opinions mean that I could not possibly do my job.

I disagree.

I think it’s been done to death on here, TBH, but start another thread to focus on that if you wish to discuss it in greater detail. See? The joys of free speech.

Did Aberdeen uni not initially try and deflect by saying Herbert s posts were nothing to do with his job?

So are you going to answer the question or not? Or is it that you don’t want to out yourself as a hypocrite?

Actually, it falls under the scope of what you are arguing about. Either aggressive, violent threats of abuse are sackable offenses or not, surely it shouldn’t matter who they are against.

Well, not sure that’s consistent with the existing body of ECHR jurisprudence. The only reason the freedom needs to be protected is because of the consequences of free speech. Are you usually hard of thinking?

What did the TA actually say?

That’s a logical fallacy. They might be perfectly good at their job. If they are bad at their job, then they would be fired for being bad at their job.

There’s no need to fire them for something else on the assumption that it may or may not indirectly have an impact on their job.

No no no, op thinks violent threats to gender critical people is something different and not for discussion here…

There have been cases where people have gone ferreting about to “identify” people’s anonymous social media in order to doxx them. Should they be sacked if it’s discovered by underhand tactics? It’s an interesting question.

Do you think anyone in this photo should have been sacked?
https://news.sky.com/story/scottish-politicians-and-jk-rowling-voice-anger-over-decapitate-terfs-sign-at-pro-trans-rally-in-glasgow-12793544

If you sack someone for being racist but don’t sack someone for being ableist is that a discriminatory process?

Organisations have to tread carefully so avoid excusing some behaviour and penalising others when objectively there is no material difference in the potential for offence to their user group.

This, so @Slightyamusedandsilly drawing attention to the posts of those who call for the killing of gender critical is something different?

Can’t really comment on that specific case as I don’t know exactly what was said. So my points are general mostly. Do you have a link?

This shouldn’t even need to be a question.

He should have been sacked and arrested immediately.

It’s one thing to secretly have an opinion, but to openly type it out and share it on your social media is another level and these people should absolutely suffer the consequences of it.

Unfortunately, many people will imply that they were hacked.

Apart from MN, I have no social media but my work place has a very strict policy on it.
Before we’re even offered the job, our social media history is throughly checked and as part of our contract if we write any extreme or prejudice views then we can be sacked.
I assumed most places would be similar.

I do not have any sympathy for anyone who actively chooses to make their opinion public to the world.

They make a conscious decision to post and so therefore they should suffer the consequences.

I would not want my DC attending a university where members of staff find amusement and joy in a woman being beaten to death.

Me too

Yep. Especially when actual rapists have been released after serving far less than that because of over crowding in prisons.

I agree.