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In this case person C was not a random person unconnected with the company. Ms. Milan was the chair of the RWA ethics committee at that time and as such could be considered in a position of authority. Most companies would frown on executives going outside the company as a step in complaining about a employee never mind making it the first step.
Have you seen any evidence that Ms. Milan attempted to communicate with Ms. Davis about her concerns prior to the "fucking racist mess" tweet that kicked off this kerfluffle?
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I have not even gone to look. Honestly, I was trying to boil this down to a problem that removed the hot-button political issue so it could be discussed outside the partisan vitriol. I was simply trying to show how an organization that makes a thing and represents the people who make those things was handling an ugly internal/external dispute.
Though I will say, it is perhaps possible that Person C was concerned about retaliation, reprimand or felt that internal channels would be useless and therefore went the public route. I'm not defending the decision or saying it was the smart way to go about it, but there could have been reasons. It is also possible that there is an internal policy not to discuss those internal complaints publicly. Maybe Person C is not permitted to say whether they attempted an internal report or not. We are not likely to ever know.
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Though I will admit that conflating product improvements with claims of racism was worth a laugh.
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I wasn't trying to conflate nor was I doing it for a laugh. In law school, widgets are used by professors as an example of a completely undefined thing. It doesn't have to be a product that is manufactured. It could be a creative work, it could be a service. I perhaps should have been more clear about that at the outset. However, books - still products, so it isn't that far of a stretch anyway. And I did not say improvements - I said that some thought the widgets "bad" and some just "outdated," which is the same language many in this thread have used.