>Having an unpopular opinion isn't grounds for "proper judgement" why? i don't understand this. if he's entitled to his unpopular opinions why in the world isn

>Having an unpopular opinion isn't grounds for "proper judgement" why? i don't understand this. if he's entitled to his unpopular opinions why in the world isn't everyone else held to the same standard? i'm entitled to my unpopular opinion (at least on hn) that he's a socially inept idiot who shouldn't be in a public facing position. will i be spared downvotes and a slew of responses harassing me? i doubt it (it's already happened twice). this has literally always been in the court of public opinion because guess what? he's not an engineer and we're not assessing the quality of his work here - we're assessing his ability to be a public persona.