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AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu And so it continues. “It,” being the histrionic meltdown on the left, which continues 10 days after the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade . In this episode, a super-woke production coordinator in the music industry claims he was fired for “speaking up” about abortion rights after admitting he refused to work because he was in “mourning” over Roe. Hopefully, it was a “Don’t let the door hit you…” swift kick.
Ah, but something tells me it was about more than Roe. Read on.
Michael Lopez, a production coordinator at Universal Music Enterprises, posted a lengthy note on LinkedIn last week in which he blasted the company as “anti-gay” for terminating a “queer brown person” during Pride Month for “speaking up in defense of abortion rights,” as reported by the New York Post. Last Friday, like countless other folks, I was devastated by the news of the supreme court’s [sic] attack on abortion rights. Paired with the flood of anti-queer and anti-trans legislation, it’s been hard to process how company’s [sic] expect us to be productive while our rights are being stripped away. Lopez explained that every Friday, “One of my tasks was to process reports for upcoming releases,” and then to email the reports to 275 people. But instead of doing the usual process reports, noted the Post, he wrote an email that read: “I didn’t do them today.” I’m in mourning due to the attack on people with uteruses in the US. Federally guaranteed access to abortion is gone. Instead, it’s Lopez who is gone.
If you’re so inclined, here’s his post. If not, skip it and read on, below — we’ll hit the “high” points.
I’m a queer brown person and I was fired during Pride month for speaking up in defense of abortion rights […]
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