't it?

Except it didn't happen. Here's what did happen. It is true that Netflix suspended that employee. It is true that that employee also tweeted about the Dave Chappelle special. Those are two true things. Except one didn't cause the other. According to Netflix, what did cause it, I think, was the way she did it. Maybe she attended a meeting she wasn't supposed to be at or something. So it wasn't her opinion. It was the way she managed her interactions, right?

So when The Verge reports this they make it seem as though these two things are connected when in fact they're just two facts. They're not connected. They're indirectly connected because I'm sure her behavior wasn't, got her fired probably sprung from that, but it wasn't because of the opinion. And I actually think that Netflix does genuinely, you know who knows, I can't read their minds, but I think Netflix probably genuinely appreciates hearing from their employees on the stuff like this that matters. Why wouldn't they? Why wouldn't they, right? I mean if you're a big company you do want to feel out what the employees are thinking, especially the stuff that they're really hot about. Of course you want to know that.

So of course Netflix wanted to know what its employees were thinking about. Of course. And do they mind that the employees are making a statement against discrimination against the trans community? Probably not. I don't think Netflix cares. Let me say it more positively. I'm sure Netflix management would support people speaking out in favor of treating everybody well. Now it's a difference of opinion about whether Chappelle was treating people well or not. But nobody's disagreeing with the concept, at least in Netflix I don't imagine. Nobody's disagreeing that you shouldn't be unkind to people for no reason.

So for The Verge I'd like to offer a headline of my own. It goes like this: Two things that are true. All of the staff of The Verge, and I'm pretty sure this is true, maybe not a hundred percent but close to a hundred percent, a hundred percent of the staff of The Verge masturbated after the Holocaust. That's true. That is completely true. Now not 100 percent, but almost every member of The Verge masturbated after the Holocaust. I don't think we can feel good about that, can we? Now I'm not saying because of. Not because of. It was just after. They're just two facts that happened. I'm just reporting two facts. You deal with it. You do what you want with the facts. If you're connecting them in your mind, well that's on you. I'm just telling you that the entire staff of The Verge masturbated after the Holocaust. I don't know how you feel good about that.

David Leonhardt, which is a cool name because I assume that's based on Lionheart at some point in history, but David Le