Machiavellian said:
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Basically what I see in this comment is you showing your own bias. You defend Kamiya just like the people defending this woman. You try to find edge cases to support that things are different with Kamiya then then woman but in reality it is not. It doesn't matter if kamiya acted the ass when provoked or not, when he publicly act the ass he is representing his company and negative feedback. The sole reason he does not get fired is because he is Kamiya and he is more important to his company.
Totally agree, but then again would she just been reprimanded and asked to give a public apology instead of being fired if she was considered more valuable to the Disney. Its a question to consider.
Totally agree here as well but that is the problem also with public forums. You call it attacking the fan base, while to her it was her disagreeing with another person. It seems people expect political tact when dealing with other people on public forums but only for the people they do not like. At the end of the day, the company made a decision to fire her instead of asking her to give the person an apology. The fact that everyone is supporting getting fired first means that this can and will always be the policy because of your support. Now anything that is said that people disagree with, calls for firing will be the route and it will force people you truly want to interact with to go away.
Its a double standard because its never going to be equal. It will always be political and most times it matters not if it make or cost money, its who benefits the most. If you support this person firing, then you support anyone getting fired for anything they say out in public. I am quite intimate with this situation because I was fired from Microsoft for posting on forums. I was not abusive, I was not being an ass or rude or anything. I was fired because it was found out that I worked at microsoft and so my statements at the time was considered coming from MS. The whole topic was Mac vs PC and this was in the early 90s. Now you have companies snooping around your facebook and twitter feeds. Watching your public post on forums etc. Its a catch 22 and you can believe that such things will get even worst before it gets better.
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Actually no. It's me acknowledging one situation is not like the other. First of all, the company is a large part his, and he is the brand. He can't damage his brand unless he is being blatantly sexist or racist, which he has never been to my knowledge. Price, on the other hand, made public assumptions that someone who also represents the brand is a sexist and put him on blast as such. Being a grumpy and unpleasant individual is not the same as being a gender-baiting misandrist.
I don't think her image would have been conducive to Disney. Maybe if the comment she made was a little more vague, but it was too obvious to argue.
Now let me ask you this: do you think she would have apologized if given that opportunity? Or do you think, given her actions surrounding all of this, she would have played a victim card and gone to the shill media with a sob story?
And you can't conflate every negative thing said online with things like bigotry.
