A few days ago, a top executive at Boeing resigned. Niel Golightly, ex-Senior Vice President of Communications at the Boeing Company, apologized in a statement for penning an “embarrassingly wrong and offensive” article…in 1987, thirty-three years ago. In an email to Boeing staff Golightly wrote, “The article I wrote – with arguments I disowned soon after – makes for painful reading. Painful because it is wrong. Painful because it is offensive to women.”
Given the decades that have passed since the article’s publication, you would reasonably assume what Golightly wrote must have been very monstrous indeed. In fact, Golightly – who was serving in the military at the time – had explained why he thought women should not serve in combat roles. It is worth noting that the United States didn’t officially lift the ban on women serving in combat until 2013, just seven years ago. In other words, the position that Golightly took was U.S. national policy, and completely mainstream at the time.
And so, the public purge continues.
Golightly’s case is certainly one of the most bizarre and extreme examples of so-called “cancel culture,” but it is not necessarily the most disturbing ...
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