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Kevin was fired for promoting alt-right views on internal message boards at Google, and not for supporting a protest. He made several of his co-workers uncomfortable enough to report him to their managers, who gave him several warnings before rightfully terminating him as an employee.

Here's a more detailed write-up about Kevin Cernekee, what he stands for, and why no one wants to work with him (link below).

https://medium.com/@mikewacker/the-other-side-of-kevin-cerne...

edit: Thanks for the downvotes, too. I'm sorry you couldn't contribute more (read: anything) to this thread.




He was fired for his political position, which is, AFAIK, not a rare case in US companies.

In the link you provided it's clear he was hated and fired for political discussions in mailing lists.


By political discussions, you mean openly supporting (and fundraising at Google for) white pride organizations?


Well yes. Supporting political organisation is the form of political activity. He was bullied and fired for these actions only, I don't see any mentions that he was annoying people any way other than expressing his views. How is that different from penalising people for supporting violent protests?


> Supporting political organisation is the form of political activity.

White power may be a tenant of many different political factions, but it is not a political ideology in itself.

White power is a racist belief. That's it.

> He was bullied and fired for these actions only, I don't see any mentions that he was annoying people any way other than expressing his views.

I don't see any evidence that Kevin was bullied in any way.

Did you not read my last reply to you, before making this reply? Kevin was fund raising, using Google resources, for white supremacy groups.


>Kevin was fund raising, using Google resources, for white supremacy groups.

If he would fundraising, using Google resources, for LGBT groups, would he be fired?


One group stands for supremacy, while the other stands for equality.

Why are you are using a false equivalence to make a point?


Because both are just a political stances.

If it's okay for you to punish for one stance and not to punish for another then you are pro-censorship. So don't be surprised when companies start to censor people you like - you allowed them to do that.


> Because both are just a political stances.

White supremacy is a racist belief, not a political stance or faction.

Why are you using a false equivalence to make a point?


Are you now advocating punishing people for their beliefs?


Nope.




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