• Flying Squid
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    8410 months ago

    Jesus Fucking Christ! The two people that they fired… are NEURODIVERGENT!

    And this is all because of some temporary employee who refused to believe that the autism symbol had nothing to do with Pride.

    • @MNByChoice@midwest.social
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      1710 months ago

      Agreed. I had thought it would be a bit more “wink wink nudge nudge”, but no. The display was not about anything than it was.

      • Flying Squid
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        1510 months ago

        It’s absolutely outrageous. My wife is an assistant library administrator. I’m worried for her all the time. If these assholes don’t get their way when it comes to libraries in a legal manner, I’m terrified of what they’ll try to do to get their way.

        • @PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world
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          1610 months ago

          My fiance is a librarian in Ohio and we’re planning on moving out of state next year because all this shit. Even when people are being civil, he tells me that the books they’re checking out have been getting really concerning. Mein Kampf is currently on an eight month hold list.

      • Flying Squid
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        110 months ago

        Agreed, I’m just saying this is especially egregious. It would be like (although this would be illegal) firing a black person because of a black history display.

  • @DrPop@lemmy.one
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    4610 months ago

    This is like that episode of Parks and Rec where Leslie married the penguins because it was cute, later to find out there were both boys, this making her action a political statement. People are fucking stupid, that person who complained could have easily looked it up after being informed of what the symbol meant. The board deserves to be sued for their shit decision. Who decides not to sponsor a parade because one of the floats is for pride? Sounds to me like the board is the one with the agenda.

  • Actaeon
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    3110 months ago

    This is all kinds of stupid. Not only are these folk openly bigoted, they don’t care whether their bigotry is misapplied from their stated target. They just want to hate somebody.

  • Obinice
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    2110 months ago

    Even if it were a gender thing, that’s still discrimination in the UK, you can’t sack people over that here.

    Madness. They’re going mental over there. I hope they can purge these fascists before the fascists purge them, because gods knows they’re working towards it.

  • SeaJ
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    910 months ago

    Ruth Splitter looks to be a 60 year old asshole with nothing better to do than look to be offended.