The Real Lesson in Grubhub CEO Telling Trump Supporters to Resign
Clearly, this email was a terrible idea. People have a right to their own politics without it affecting their career.<p>That being said, the statement sounds terrible when summarised like this. The email was (to my eyes) clearly intended as a message of support to those who felt threatened by Trump&#x27;s policies.<p>By pairing it with Trump&#x27;s politics specifically, it is turned into a threat to those who support Trump. Whether the author did this intentionally is pretty irrelevant, he&#x27;s going to end up threatening those people just as he tried to defend others against being threatened. While he technically didn&#x27;t say explicitly what the title claims, it&#x27;s clearly implied (intentionally or not).<p>If instead, the email had decried actual issues that will (in my opinion) come from the Trump presidency, then that would have been reasonable.<p>This is, as always, the hard question of how far we have to tolerate intolerance. Generally we draw the line at a call to action, and supporting a candidate definitely doesn&#x27;t cross that line.