You won’t lose your job for vocally opposing hate. Unless, perhaps, you’re condemning antisemitism.
April Powers, a black Jew, was until recently the chief equity and inclusion officer for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, or the SCBWI. On June 10, Powers posted on SCBWI’s Twitter feed and Facebook page about the “increase in hate speech and random violence against Jewish people,” which the Anti-Defamation League found “more than doubled” in May. Facebook followers were asked “to join [SCBWI] in not looking away and in speaking out against all forms of hate, including antisemitism.”
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