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> Instead, we can barely talk about it. Is your contention that the main thing about the election of Trump that upset the people in this video that he took a c
by jlebar 8y ago
> Instead, we can barely talk about it.
Is your contention that the main thing about the election of Trump that upset the people in this video that he took a cooly rational stance against some forms of immigration?
Banning all Muslims -- including citizens and visa holders -- from entering the country does not seem to be aligned with this position.
Saying that a judge was unqualified to do his job because of where his parents were born does not seem to be aligned with this position.
Blasting the family of a soldier who died saving others on the basis of their race and religion does not seem to be aligned with this position.
If your point is that you're frustrated that Trump has lowered the standards of intellectual dialog in the country, well, join the club, friend.
- simonsarris 8y agoNo, my contention is that people who want to talk about immigration often get a response sidetracked with talking about Trump & co and whatever their positions are, instead of talking about immigration. (Or worse, lumping any positions into support for whatever they're doing.)
- UncleMeat 8y agoThat's fine, but that clearly isn't what happened here. This is very specifically about Trump.
- simonsarris 8y agoThe parent-most comment I replied to is commenting specifically on workplace tolerance, which I take to mean among employees and their own views. Trump does not work at Google, Trump supporters at Google may support his policies, or not, and for his reasons or for their own reasons. Conservatives more generally have claimed Google is intolerant of their views, which is the reason this video is making the rounds in the first place. So I disagree, I do not think this is very specifically about Trump. I think this is about workplace discussion of political issues, and for that matter is an issue in SV that pre-dates Trump. For example from 2015: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/closeted-conservatives-of-the-high-tech-heartland/390048/?single_page=true https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/closete...