... in the boardroom it's bad form to mention people's human rights abuses
I'm the sort of person who stays away from meetings for that reason. Not because of any claim to be "for great justice!", just that I'm tetchy and the more I'm supposed to not mention something that's just wrong and glaringly obviously so the more likely I am to snark about it. Even at the best of times I've been told off for being "flippant" simply for having an opinion. Well okay, repeatedly taking the piss out of my idiot manager was perhaps a minor factor too.
But people do need to speak up and not be suffocated by misuse of etiquette. I'm fairly confident where the Larian chaps stand.
One of the reasons I know about this situation is that a family friend is a woman of Malaysian descent, married to a Scottish woman over here. They've talked to me about how they feel when they visit family over there, and have to go covert lesbian "friends". Not cool, and not a nice feeling. I just think that if I were an employer with a Malaysian operation, and obviously not knowing the sexuality of all my staff (nor expecting them to declare it), I'd be wondering quite seriously about the position I might be putting some of them in.
Yeah, that's nasty. Probably too easy for me to say "I'd just refuse to go" when there are all sorts of commitments, whether personal, work or both. It shouldn't be that way.
