What Topics Should Be Discussed At Work?

Where do social justice topics fall?

You may be familiar with the Keenan Anderson situation in Los Angeles (although he himself was a teacher in DC). If you’re unfamiliar, here’s the video.

If you are the type of person that analyzes police videos despite never having done police work yourself, you can analyze this any number of ways. He isn’t following instructions (“comply!”) and that’s where the shit goes off the rails. (That’s the conservative angle to it.) What liberals will respond to is, near the end of the video, he screams “They’re trying to George Floyd me!” OK, so enough of politics.

Whenever we have one of these cultural flashpoints, be it Floyd or COVID protests or any number of things, I wonder: should we be discussing this stuff at work? My usual answer is “no,” because if we tried to have a group discussion about a societal topic in an organization, probably the executives would ask HR to plan it, and it would be useless and meandering.