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Message is breaking code of conduct is fireable.
To be clear, in Colin's case it was breaking code silently and respectfully to address an issue that impacts many people in our country that are black. And in affect, it was about his point of view regardless of what the league says as the NFL chooses which codes to enforce and not enforce like drugs, murder, domestic abuse, etc... The google situation is not comparable but I do understand the connection you are trying to make.
Sure - my point is it doesn't matter how or if you break the code. The actual criteria is that you generate political controversy in the press - the how or if doesn't matter. I have no doubt that Google fires people for code of conduct violations with just as many exceptions as the NFL.
D1 Colin wasn't complaining about his life. And he was not making a general statement about black people being killed disproportionately.
I'd argue the definition of breaking code of conduct, in reality, is "it's controversial and got outside publicity." Not that it actually violated rule 3.1.8
OP: Do you honestly believe if they had written a pro-BLM memo that espoused that groups racist views they would have been fired?
Not to mention most of what the media wrote about the google memo was blatantly false. Should someone get fired because liberal journalists wrote falsehoods about them?
D1 - I'll avoid responding to some of your word choices there. I don't think standard BLM rhetoric from a Google engineer would generate the kind of publicity that this did, but if it was extreme to generate this much publicity, then yes. I'd argue that journalists are more attracted to what creates controversy and clicks than partisan bias - so they definitely emphasize the controversial pieces of any story. Which in this case meant focusing and reading into the most controversial few paragraphs. Yes, that does mean that being unlucky enough to 'go viral' with anything political means you're at very high risk.
I think that in this day and age, where a lot of consumers are willing to change their habits based on their perception of a company (see Uber, NFL viewings falling with Colin, etc.) that it's a fact of life and makes good business sense. I find it a bit concerning for general quality of debate that public statements of political items can have so many private consequences. I'm quite careful on expressing political opinions outside one on one in person conversations (though my opinions are pretty unexciting). I have quality political conversations with fairly radical folks on both sides - but strongly avoid discussing them online or email etc.
OP: Go onto the BLM website. Replace black with the word white. It looks like David Duke wrote it then...
I also agree it would generate this kind of buzz, because liberal journalists would be celebrating it, not lying about it. Journalists didn't "focus in controversial portions of the memo" they flat out lied about the contents and conclusions of it.
Also, NFL viewings didn't fall just because of Kap, but because of all of the asinine statements from players who don't understand statistics or just how lucky they are to be in America (i.e. When you account for all other factors there is no evidence that black men are killed in a disproportionate amount to any other sub group). Not to mention people watch sports to escape from the shitty lives they lead not have spoiled rich athletes complain about their lives.
Its the respective echo chambers they went against
EY2: As I already stated, when you control for other factors (e.g. Poverty, propensity to commit violent crimes, urbanization) the 'disproportionately' disappears. They were protesting something that didn't exist. He also said he was ashamed to be living in America where there is no other country in the world that is better to be black in which has a significant black population.