If you want to be trite about it and someone claim you have some sort of enlightened vision, that's fine, but don't think whatever you are reading that is reinforcing these views is the gospel. There are two sides to this and it isn't as black and white as you would like to believe and the solutions that many on the other side have bring with them horrendous problems of their own. So for all the reading experience you have, do you have the practical experience? I will give you one personal example.
I see you’ve chosen not to learn, and yet here I am, still spending my time with this. It sucks to give a ****.
thankfully, your own little anecdote of workplace drama, in your own words, has better proven your position in the world (and how you relate to anyone who does not meet the standards of that position) than I could ever hope to. so thank you for that. but I do want to say, heaven forbid you should experience strife or inconvenience because someone (who doesn’t fit the model of excellence and success you followed to your position in life) challenges you, or what I would actually believe to be frightens you. no, your decision, with all the power you had in that organization, is that it would be better to hide that person away, not engage with them, not broker understanding or dialogue with them, to minimize their reality, to deny them opportunity, to refuse to make accommodations, to refuse to challenge workplace norms because it is hard and a potential HR liability.
effectively, to exclude them.
for your comfort.
for your convenience.
to prevent your perceived ‘loss’, or mitigate the risk of loss, which is to say..
you excluded them for your own gain.
it’s funny you say “there are two sides to this”, implying the world and decision making operates in a yes/no, on/off, right/wrong, true/false binary.... but then immediately go on to say the world is not “black and white”. your cognitive dissonance on this issue reminds me a goofy little quote, that being, “in theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, they are not.”
where that quote missed the mark, however, is when a person like you, bave, puts into practice a theory based on power, position, and a plethora of directly oppressive laws and corporate protocols and policing strategies and courtroom orders and lending guidelines and the resultant exclusion that all of the above have effectuated. a perfect theory, perfectly practiced.
the offer still stands.