Apparently the last Lindsay Clancy post disappeared, which means somebody’s corporate empathy costume got tugged a little too hard. Nothing screams “we welcome difficult conversations” quite like deleting one the moment it makes a self-appointed morality officer uncomfortable.
The case must have Nike’s compassion cartel working overtime. Nothing excites these sanctimonious office hemorrhoids like a horrific tragedy complicated enough to turn into a sermon about their own emotional intelligence.
Watch them flatten three dead children, postpartum mental illness, and criminal responsibility into a fashionable opinion—then congratulate one another for being “brave” enough to repeat it. By lunchtime, someone will have converted the case into a leadership lesson, added an inspirational quote, and tagged six executives.
These are the same compassionate saints who will defend a complete stranger while the facts are still being weighed by a jury, then casually celebrate a coworker losing their livelihood because an org chart needed “simplifying.”
At Nike, empathy is apparently limitless—as long as it costs nothing, threatens nobody important, and can be performed publicly for applause.
Now hurry up and delete this one too. Someone might accidentally experience an opinion they didn’t approve in advance.