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I too am tired of the Five Minutes Hate. Seems like every day there's another person, company, entity the news says I'm supposed to dread and boycott. United, A

I too am tired of the Five Minutes Hate. Seems like every day there's another person, company, entity the news says I'm supposed to dread and boycott. United, American Airlines, Uber, Macys, Chick-fil-a, the list goes on.

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mikeash 10y ago
Unlike the ones in 1984, nobody requires you to participate. I, for one, appreciate it. It's highly inconsistent, but it's one of the few ways that we can check the power of entities with vastly more resources than most of us will ever have.
- throwanem 10y ago
  What does it say about the construction and stability of our society that this should be true? I can see why someone might appreciate it, and I used to feel the same, but on further reflection I find it cause for considerable trepidation about the future.
  - mikeash 10y ago
    I see two possibilities. One is that individual humans are being gradually edged out in favor of these composite entities, and this is our lame attempt to fight back. The other is that bad treatment has always happened and companies are just not adjusting quickly enough to the new social media world. In olden times, companies knew not to piss off influential people, but had much more leeway with common riffraff. Now the common riffraff can be highly influential and companies haven't quite caught on to this yet. I think/hope it's the second....
hashkb 10y ago
That's the exact attitude that leads those companies to behave badly. Its crazy that we love chicken enough to let CFA, a proudly bigoted org, succeed in NorCal.
- 67726e 10y ago
  > a proudly bigoted org, succeed in NorCal. Then don't eat there and shut the fuck up about it. It's a fucking sandwich joint. They're not putting queers in camps.
- triangleman 10y ago
  Do you have any proof that Chick-fil-A is "proudly bigoted"? Like is there a page on their website somewhere saying "gays need not apply"? Or is it ok now to redefine words whenever we want? Because that would be... ungood.

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mikeash 10y ago

Unlike the ones in 1984, nobody requires you to participate. I, for one, appreciate it. It's highly inconsistent, but it's one of the few ways that we can check the power of entities with vastly more resources than most of us will ever have.

throwanem 10y ago
What does it say about the construction and stability of our society that this should be true? I can see why someone might appreciate it, and I used to feel the same, but on further reflection I find it cause for considerable trepidation about the future.
- mikeash 10y ago
  I see two possibilities. One is that individual humans are being gradually edged out in favor of these composite entities, and this is our lame attempt to fight back. The other is that bad treatment has always happened and companies are just not adjusting quickly enough to the new social media world. In olden times, companies knew not to piss off influential people, but had much more leeway with common riffraff. Now the common riffraff can be highly influential and companies haven't quite caught on to this yet. I think/hope it's the second....

hashkb 10y ago

That's the exact attitude that leads those companies to behave badly. Its crazy that we love chicken enough to let CFA, a proudly bigoted org, succeed in NorCal.

67726e 10y ago
> a proudly bigoted org, succeed in NorCal. Then don't eat there and shut the fuck up about it. It's a fucking sandwich joint. They're not putting queers in camps.
triangleman 10y ago
Do you have any proof that Chick-fil-A is "proudly bigoted"? Like is there a page on their website somewhere saying "gays need not apply"? Or is it ok now to redefine words whenever we want? Because that would be... ungood.