He doesn’t wear the pants in the family.
Via Helena IR:
When Jordon Dyrdahl-Roberts took to Twitter Wednesday night to explain why he quit his job at the Montana Department of Labor and Industry over a request to work on a subpoena from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, he didn’t expect much attention.
Maybe just a few messages of support from friends and a few donations to help his family buy groceries for a week while he searched for new employment.
One day, more than 25,400 likes, 11,300 retweets and far more financial support than he was expecting later, the Helena resident is still processing it all.
“When I put it out on Twitter, I wasn’t expecting it to get the legs it did,” he said Thursday afternoon.
Dyrdahl-Roberts is quitting his job over what it would have required him to do: respond to subpoenas from ICE about Montana employers and their workers.
As a legal secretary with the department since 2011, Dyrdahl-Roberts was asked this week to assist the Department of Labor and Industry in complying with recent subpoenas.
That was something he called “a step too far” for him.[…]
There have been a few negative reactions as well, but Dyrdahl-Roberts said because he’s a white man, he’s less likely to be attacked on social media.
“I’m white as rice and a guy, so there’s a different Twitter culture that gives me a latitude to say things without extreme harassment campaigns,” he said. “It’s a lot easier to be a straight white guy on Twitter than it is to be anything else. I got a few comments, but they are far, far, far outnumbered by the number of positive comments.”