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Microsoft fires two more employees for participating in Palestine protests on campus
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this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2025
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Didn't really expect them to do anything different, but at point someone's gonna have the "Are we the baddies?" realization right?
I assume that's how the former and current Microsoft employees wound up here. Management, on the other hand, is not selected for their self-awareness.
They broke into the president of Microsofts office. Do you think that they shouldn't be fired for doing that? You can't just do whatever you want in the name of "protest".
There's zero reason to give a shit about rules and norms that are being used as cover for aiding genocide.
Microsoft aren’t “aiding genocide” ffs. Some protesters feelings don’t mean they can just break whatever rules they want without consequences.
FAFO.
The person you are replying to is a well known openly fascist MAGA apologist. There is little point in attempting any kind of good faith discussion with them.
You sound like LLM before LLMs were a thing. Confidently wrong.
Some reading material:
Firstly your entire premise depends on there undoubtedly being a genocide, despite that not being an established fact.
Secondly, you’re basically saying any company that provides products or services to a country that anyone accuses of a genocide is complicit and helping the genocide happen? That’s ridiculous and quite frankly idiotic.