How should you take social justice retribution? That’s what this is. She wasn’t doing anything even remotely negatively related to her MD career.
Had she been on serious drugs or constantly drunk at the clubs I could understand. Others have eluded she was drunk or on drugs. However there is no evidence of either and no charges were even filed by police. The Uber driver agreed to accept money from her rather than press charges.
Her being fired is yet another case of “social justice”. Companies are setting the precedent for this and it doesn’t make it right.
People should have the right to express themselves and have a life separate from work as long as, given the specifics, one does not harm interfere or is in direct conflict with the other in a meaningful way. For instance her “making the hospital look bad” means nothing. The hospital is not a privately owned for profit company with a stock value.
Firing people for their opinions, getting into a bar fight, getting charged with __________ (fill in the blank), saying something racist, being accused of domestic violence, stating an unpopular political opinion – is no reason to fire someone if it does not directly affect their job in a meaningful way.
What’s also disturbing is the fact other cattle cheer them on as an emotional reaction (yes! fire her! That bitch! Yes!). But if/when said individual cattle are in a similar situation – suddenly it’s an injustice. I do not want to live in the former USSR, Hilter’s Germany or Pol Pot’s Cambodia.
That is where this country is headed with this line of thinking.
Yes. Many things that you pointed out is true. For example, people’s backlash about the incident and their ignorant comments (like ‘Evil Hindu Bitch’.. which is both an attack to her race/ethnicity and her character.. and this commenter might never have met her in personal life to judge her character like that .. based on a single event) are social evil. But that doesn’t mean I will go “F~~~ these white racists!” .. because this will only upscale the hate-o-meter.
I’ll give you an example; just a few days ago, there was an incident in a city near the one where I live; a dude put a pakistani flag on his bike and was arrested. Now, to arrest someone just because he put a flag of some other nation on his vehicle seems absurd.. total injustice. But the Indian people were scared because of Jihadi attacks etc. etc. and because of the stigma already present about Muslim countries. Sure it was unjust to arrest one person for doing something that most people won’t consider a crime; but that doesn’t mean the law enforcers should compromise other people’s safety and security and do ‘what is right’ for one person.
Consider these few points:
~ Think about what you would have done had the driver been you. Your car and personal property trashed by a privileged individual who you could not touch if there were no laws to protect you. But you were offered cash that would be the value of all yur property destroyed in the incident + 3 months’ salary (I think the only reason the driver didn’t pressed charges was because he needed the money more than he needed justice). In your opinion, does money equate justice? Of course not. Then why would you take the money? Think about it.
~ Think about how you’d have felt if it was you in the Dr’s place. Wouldn’t you have regretted your actions? What if it wasn’t a taxi driver, but a dying patient who would have faced your wrath…. can you imagine how it would feel? (disregard if you hate feelingz and putting yourself in a woman’s shoes)
~ Imagine you were the chairman of Jackson Memorial Hospital and you had the veto to save her job. Won’t you think in the lines of ‘if I allow this doctor to continue in this hospital, one day she might kill a patient because she can’t control herself’? What is more important to you.. her share of justice or the safety of the patients in YOUR hospital?
~ If she was found to be unaccountable for her actions, it would have sparked a lightbulb in the minds on millions of future-Dr-Ramkissoons worldwide:
“Woah! She didn’t get charged? That means we won’t too. Yeay! Let’s beat up a taxi driver and watch the fun!”
From a common brotherhood perspective of this place, how p~~~ed off would you have been?
Things would have been too easy if they were as simple as ‘doing what is right’. But they are not. That is why people hate SJWs. They believe in ‘doing what is right’. But what is right for one may not be right for another. What do they do then? They take a majority vote: “Do what is right for the greater majority. No, its not 100% right but it has to be done” and a rift forms right there between those who favours and those who do not. You just happen to be on the other side unlike us. But that is purely your choice and you’d neither be right nor wrong in your place. That’s why we are called men going our own way..and not men going one way.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Varun 3 years, 9 months ago.
