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>CEOs can have political opinions. Can they? As I recall, many were arguing the exact opposite when Brendan Eich decided to voice some political opinions durin
by quanticle 8y ago
>CEOs can have political opinions.
Can they? As I recall, many were arguing the exact opposite when Brendan Eich decided to voice some political opinions during the 2014 elections.
Or is it just that CEOs can have political opinions only when they happen to agree with yours?
- refurb 8y agoYou don’t understand. CEOs are allowed to have political opinions as long as they are the right political opinions. Everything else is hate and shouldn’t be allowed.
- komali2 8y agoSaying gay people shouldn't get married isn't a political opinion, it is you said it first, just hating arbitrarily a randomly assigned group of people. Are you suggesting it's the same ballpark as saying "I don't like the current elected official?"
- refurb 8y agoAnd people wonder why politics is so divisive now. It’s not longer about disagreeing with someone, it’s about painting them as immoral and not worth engaging. Have concerns about immigration levels? You hate immigrants and that’s wrong. Worried about crime? You hate minorities and that’s wrong. Worried about government spending on welfare? You hate the poor and that’s wrong.
- komali2 8y agoWait, do you mean when he supported banning gay marriage? Outside of that, I'm not aware of any controversies around him. Arguing some humans should have less rights than others is imo not a political opinion.
- quanticle 8y agoIt's not? Where do you think rights come from? The question of who has rights to do what is the central question of politics. Pretending that questions of rights are not questions of politics is a sleight-of-hand move that is designed to put your opponents on the defensive and reverse the burden of proof.
- komali2 8y agoI've heard this argument before, but I disagree. Politics is the debate of honest ideas and philosophies regarding governing. Arguing whether a given right should be granted to certain groups of people based on race, sex, creed, or sexual orientation is not about governing.
- quanticle 8y ago> Arguing whether a given right should be granted to certain groups of people based on race, sex, creed or sexual orientation is not about governing It's not? What is it then? Where do you think rights come from? Rights only exist insofar as government guarantees those rights. I only have the right to life because the are police and armed forces who guarantee that right to me. I only have the right to liberty because the Constitution, via the fourth, fifth, eighth and fourteenth amendments, restricts what the government can do to me. The question of who does or does not get rights, and how those rights are adjudicated when they conflict is an inherently political question. It is the root of a philosophical debate that goes back to Ancient Greece. To claim it is not political is to remove the all questions of ethics from politics. It is to reduce politics to a mere math problem, solvable by technocrats.