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Originally Posted by ex34449
Lets say you owned a company but one of your employees was bashing it as publicly as possible. Would you keep that employee on? She loved the money? Fame?, it's pretty obvious she didn't love the country.
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If I owned a company, I would want all employees to be well paid and happy - because then they would have the desire to make the company succeed and they would have more of a TEAM mentality. If an employee was bashing my company I would NOT necessarily think that he or she was wrong. Maybe we, the company, need to change and meet her or his needs better. I would 1st look to see if the company could be improved and in what way.
In this way, the company is analogous to US society, and the disgruntled employee represents Britany Griner. Everyone knows that the US has a racist history and tendency that way today. With a little bit of EMPATHY, we could put ourselves in Griner's shoes! She grows up with 2 prejudices against her, being a woman and being black. Then she has the added flack of being a foot or more taller than even the boys when she is in grade school. Given all those strikes against her, it is amazing that she grew up SANE and not a delinquent. So, I think that her story is an American tale of overcoming adversity and should be celebrated by Americans! And now she has a 4th strike against her through very LITTLE fault of her own - just the fact that 2 of the world's superpowers are flexing their muscles against each other and she is caught in the turmoil. Her situation can be thought of as being a CASUALTY of a renewed and more intense COLD WAR !
To expand the company analogy, and understand the Grider dilemma better, it may actually be informative to ask, "did Britany Griner let down America, or did America let Britany down"?