It's professional hatred

If you know anything about film, video games, comics, or fantasy in general, you already know there's still racism, sexism, and anti-gay stuff everywhere.  You don't need to know about the Benchdell test to know Hollywood still needs to work on it's image of women.

When you get to the details, though, things are frightening.  Dwayne McDuffie, who brought black superheroes to the mainstream and to children's television was fired for making it public that poor decisions concerning race and gender were being mad at DC comics.  Gail Simone, a prolific and famous writer was fired from the company and rehired due to public backlash or firing the only high-profile woman.

Samus Aran, a famous female video game character was turned into someone suicidal over a man due to executive mandates to 'appeal to target audiences better'--audiences that grew up with her kicking as much evil alien ass as possible, not crying that the alien was her very own baby as the new version does.

Most well-known star trek review sites will give long lists of examples as to how Paramount dropped the ball on giving fans a female character and how not being able to insult her due to her two X chromosomes hurts the fandom more.

Hollywood has a long history of keeping Asian-American actors off the big screen and replacing not just Asian characters with white people, but also stealing the stories and angst of prejudice as outsiders and minorities in movies. 47 Ronin reminded the world of that as studios poured two hundred million dollars down the drain to have a white character outshine all Asian actors and make westerners think one of the most important parts of Japanese history was a made-up fairytale, earning the description 'the worst thing to happen to Japan this century'.

These facts are readily available at one's fingertips with the use of the internet, yet there is loud protest that none of this is true posted all over Linkedin, a site that boasts professional networking.  None of these belong in a professional environment and companies have rightfully faced backlash against these acts of racism and sexism, yet no backlash has been said against linkedin for not only allowing denial of all of this to spread like plague of bigotry, but the site, moderators, and help-desk all advocate calling such denial wrong as 'rude' and 'disrespectful'.

Tell the site that if they allow bigotry posted all over itself, they can't claim the label of 'professional'.