Why we must protect the right to not do your job.

The “still does their job” meme. I’m not okay with it.

I get it. It’s funny, it’s an excuse to post pictures of Dana Scully and that knight from Monty Python with no arms. I am 100% in favour of more Dana Scully, everywhere, forever.

But- I hate to say this- I think that this meme is fundamentally misguided and incredibly harmful. Have we no better way to argue with Kim Davis bar telling her that she should do her job? That she should sit down, shut up, and do what we pay her to do?

Would we be saying this if Davis’s views were different?

I do think that Kim Davis needs to either do her job or step down and let someone else do it. However, I *don’t* agree that it’s always as simple as that.

Your job is not always the right thing to do. We know this. “Just following orders” is never an acceptable excuse to do something immoral. We need peaceful ways to make our points and fight for our beliefs. Sometimes, putting down our tools and refusing to perform part or all of our work is one of them.

Let me tell you a story.

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