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mornelithe on 30 March 2016

According to Nintendo's own statement, she was fired for having a second job that conflicted w/ her work at Nintendo:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/03/31/nintendo-terminates-fire-emblem-fates-spokesperson

http://gameranx.com/updates/id/46802/article/nintendo-fires-treehouse-employee-amid-public-controversy/

However, one wouldn't be surprised at all to find out that a person hired for PR purposes, got fired for bringing negative PR to the company.

"Alison Rapp was terminated due to violation of an internal company policy involving holding a second job in conflict with Nintendo’s corporate culture. Though Ms. Rapp’s termination follows her being the subject of criticism from certain groups via social media several weeks ago, the two are absolutely not related. Nintendo is a company committed to fostering inclusion and diversity in both our company and the broader video game industry and we firmly reject the harassment of individuals based on gender, race or personal beliefs. We wish Ms. Rapp well in her future endeavors.”



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animegaming on 30 March 2016
wombat123 said:
Wyrdness said:

World doesn't work that way, defending her would be interpreted by the mainstream media as defending her stance, she herself didn't help matters as she openly engaged and taunted people herself. If you champion controversial views like pedophilia prepare to fight your own battles in regards to them.

Exactly. People nowadays keep on forgetting that there are consequences for your actions.  If you want to push a controversial opinion, you better damn well make sure that you either have ironclad job security or are well-off enough that you don't have to work.  From what I've seen, the people defending Rapp seem to be following some kind of odd narrative about harrassment when from what I've seen, she was giving as good as she was receiving.  And honestly, I have a feeling if this person were named Andrew Rapp, a lot of the people complaining about this probably wouldn't give a damn.

while usually i would say that no should take anything said on twitter seriously but when you work as PR for a company like Nintendo while saying pro-pedo stuff at that point your basically giving your 2 week notice.



wombat123 on 30 March 2016
animegaming said:
wombat123 said:

Exactly. People nowadays keep on forgetting that there are consequences for your actions.  If you want to push a controversial opinion, you better damn well make sure that you either have ironclad job security or are well-off enough that you don't have to work.  From what I've seen, the people defending Rapp seem to be following some kind of odd narrative about harrassment when from what I've seen, she was giving as good as she was receiving.  And honestly, I have a feeling if this person were named Andrew Rapp, a lot of the people complaining about this probably wouldn't give a damn.

while usually i would say that no should take anything said on twitter seriously but when you work as PR for a company like Nintendo while saying pro-pedo stuff at that point your basically giving your 2 week notice.

You know what one of the funniest things about this is?  One of the people defending Rapp, Patrick Klepek, actually wrote a big article earlier this month that publicized Rapp's controversial opinions.  He's probably just as, if not more, responsible for Rapp getting the axe than the people he blames.



animegaming on 30 March 2016
wombat123 said:
animegaming said:

while usually i would say that no should take anything said on twitter seriously but when you work as PR for a company like Nintendo while saying pro-pedo stuff at that point your basically giving your 2 week notice.

You know what one of the funniest things about this is?  One of the people defending Rapp, Patrick Klepek, actually wrote a big article earlier this month that publicized Rapp's controversial opinions.  He's probably just as (if not more) responsible for Rapp getting the axe as the people he blames.

LOL Kotaku you really are the Fox news of gaming jounalist.



Valdath on 30 March 2016
PwerlvlAmy said:
considering she defended child pornography, it doesnt surprise me she was fired


http://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/nintendo-urged-fire-woman-centre-7464276

Oh wow.

 

I'm glad she got fired, what a degenerate.



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Raven on 30 March 2016
PwerlvlAmy said:
considering she defended child pornography, it doesnt surprise me she was fired


http://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/nintendo-urged-fire-woman-centre-7464276

This, the timing of the firing is really just coincidental.



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wombat123 on 30 March 2016
RavenXtra said:
PwerlvlAmy said:
considering she defended child pornography, it doesnt surprise me she was fired


http://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/nintendo-urged-fire-woman-centre-7464276

This, the timing of the firing is really just coincidental.

If some of the rumors of her second job are to be believed, I'd understand why NOA would want to fire her right away.



animegaming on 30 March 2016

this god damn shirt of her's really doesn't not surprised me that someone like her would have it.



Lafiel on 30 March 2016
Zkuq said:
By the sounds of the article, it seems like she wasn't a bad person (and I generally dislike feminists, or at least the ones that get the most publicity). Too bad she got fired.

every person who thinks females and males deserve to have the same rights, wages (for equal work) and opportunities is a feminist though



Arminillo on 30 March 2016

if you defend pornography Nintendo is keeping you as far away from their western operations as possible. Sucks that people dug so hard to fire her, but honestly Nintendo should've taken this into account when considering hiring her, if it is indeed connected to her LinkedIn.



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