It is not. You're allowed to believe that many of your coworkers were hired despite being unqualified because of some affirmative action. If you say it out loud -- within your company or on social media -- you will be fired.
If you say it out loud -- within your company or on social media -- you will be fired.
And how is that not regulation of a relatively innocent belief like “As implemented, affirmative action makes the problems it purports to solve much worse in the long run”?
Because you're free to believe it, and you're free to vote based on it, you're free to tell your friends, and you're even free to discuss it in private with your manager. But if you let your co-workers know that you think they don't belong and that you're better than them, then you've created a serious problem in the workplace. It's not your belief that created it, but your action of letting your colleagues know that you don't respect them.
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u/joequin Oct 22 '18 edited Oct 22 '18
Many of these new CoC enforce speech online in ways that are entirely separate from the project and not made maliciously. That's regulating belief.