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We were having a spirited conversation in the breakroom about the current efforts by the Republicans to to control women's reproductive rights.
It started when I brought up Rand Paul's effort to add a personhood amendment to the flood insurance bill.
Now I'm willing to admit we might have been a bit loud but nobody was saying anything rude and in fact everybody agreed on how asinine the agenda has become.
Which was the point that the young ETL stuck their head into the room and demanded that we refrain from being so loud and having conversations that made people 'uncomfortable'.
My break was almost over so I shut up but later I asked around trying to find someone who might have been unhappy to be in the vicinity of our convo.
Everybody said they had no problem and that they were used to me.
A couple of folks even said they liked the 'serious stuff' that got discussed because they learned things.
I'm not going to get pissy about it, sound carried and it's possible that there was somebody who complained.
But if I'd been the ETL I probably would have just asked to for lower voices.
It started when I brought up Rand Paul's effort to add a personhood amendment to the flood insurance bill.
Now I'm willing to admit we might have been a bit loud but nobody was saying anything rude and in fact everybody agreed on how asinine the agenda has become.
Which was the point that the young ETL stuck their head into the room and demanded that we refrain from being so loud and having conversations that made people 'uncomfortable'.
My break was almost over so I shut up but later I asked around trying to find someone who might have been unhappy to be in the vicinity of our convo.
Everybody said they had no problem and that they were used to me.
A couple of folks even said they liked the 'serious stuff' that got discussed because they learned things.
I'm not going to get pissy about it, sound carried and it's possible that there was somebody who complained.
But if I'd been the ETL I probably would have just asked to for lower voices.