Sweet unmerciful fuck. This has blown up way beyond what it should have. A few things to shut up the pearl clutches:
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Generally speaking people don't have problems with business OWNERS. Sure you're technically a CEO but that's like asking why a tomato isn't in a fruit salad.
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No one is really operating under the MO of offing all CEOs everywhere just because they took the job.
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You're absolutely right, not all CEOs are bad. Some still look at their employees and see valued assets that they invest in and grow. And they'll never make the news.
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If you oversaw your company creating an algorithm that literally put weighted values to people's lives and then denied them coverage that they were confirmed to be eligible for through the programs that they pay you money for while also when being pointed out that this algorithm inaccurately denies people their coverage and has caused actual documented deaths....then if you're going to play at that table with people's lives don't look shocked when it's your turn to ante up.
Because the second you target someone it becomes a specific threat of violence. A vague meme is different because it has ambiguity for the reasons I said. It's a dog whistle. It can mean different things to different people. Me personally I see it as attacking them at their wallets and reputation and freedom. I don't want people gunned down in the streets. I want prison. Others might mean actual violence. How you interpret it is up to you. If you need to ask every individual person what they mean, you do you, but that's a waste of time and who cares.
My stance of ACAB is if you aren't reporting the bad ones you're bad too. I'm sure there's good cops out there but you don't see them as much. Until they have consequences for their actions by removing immunity they are all potentially the enemy and you need to watch your back.