Unforeseen Contingencies

It appears he violated Linked-In's policy on harassment.

From UC's Legal Desk.  Someone posted on Linked-In a tweet from Sen. Tim Scott about how he met with Paris Hilton to learn how "we can better serve America's youth."  Oh, joy!  FINALLY the meeting of the minds for which we've all been hoping.  Prayers answered!   (Heh.)

Someone named Sam (the poster?  Linked-In is too unwieldy for us to go back and check) expressed approval.  "Finally, something will be done to help our youth!"  This is obviously ridiculous.  Paris Hilton is a middle aged woman who used to be a celebrity; i.e. someone famous for being famous.  She has exactly zero intelllectual accomplishments and knows nothing about "serving America's youth."  Her fame was in a previous millenium.  

Well, our boss, whose sole exposure to social media is Linked-In, and whose judgement is obviously lacking since he's gone that far, went ahead and shot his mouth off with the comment: "Paris Hilton is a slut, Sam; morals matter."  Linked-In's moral monitors immediately sprang into action and concluded that this violated LI's "bullying and harassment" policy.  Our boss' comment was canceled, and he has been warned that if he continues in this vein he'll be canceled as well. (Aside: Boss has no dirt on Hilliary Clinton, he's never even heard of her, please leave him alone.)

"We" at the Legal Desk have reviewed the comment and context, and make the following assessments:  First, it's unclear who has been "bullied and harassed."  Was it Sam?  This was simply a response to him, not about him, and neither harassed nor bullied him, just reminded him of facts.  Perhaps Paris Hilton?  She has made XXX pornographic films, and if that doesn't constitute sluttery, what does?  And the comment was not directed at Paris Hilton, who will never see it anyway.  Then is it something about "morals matter?"  Well, they do.  If not, there'd be no argument against bullying and harassment, which are immoral.  Morals matter.  That's why they've existed as long as humans have.  Darwin says so.  And that's not bullying.  So that leaves us with...

...Sen. Tim Scott. Bingo!  We at the Legal Desk conclude that the negative view of Sen. Scott implied in Boss' comment must be the reason for the "bullying and harassment" finding.

In the Legal Desk's professional opinion, the LI cancellation is unjustified.  The only rationale remaining for having Congressmen and Senators is to bully and harass them; that's all most of them are good for.  Cancelling Boss for this would be like canceling him because, when handed a sandwich, he ate it.  But of course, Linked-In is another woke corporate garbage outfit with no principles.  So that's what they do.  And so, this brings us to the second part of our opinion...

Anyone involved in spats on social media, even something so lame as Linked-In, is being idiotic.  Boss, stop it!

// posted by Charles N. Steele @ 22:37