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I'm not sure it's important to resist this trend, but this is one more way that silicon valley and the people that are part of this culture show how out of touc
by blub 6y ago
I'm not sure it's important to resist this trend, but this is one more way that silicon valley and the people that are part of this culture show how out of touch they are with the real world.
Renaming branches, streets and toppling statues are all cheap gestures that achieve nothing at all but allow those performing them to feel self-important and pose as defenders of the oppressed.
Meanwhile the oppressed would like to have at least their freedom, a roof over their head, a secure job that allows them to make a living and a modicum of respect from those around them. But no, too many people in the US (and elsewhere) can't have that because it actually requires effort, at least more than running some git command or posting a tweet.
This is such an empty and disrespectful gesture that it makes a mockery of what it means to fight against discrimination.
- mercer 6y agoYour comment basically boils down to 'how dare others request empathy'. I find that childish. How do you 'know' for a fact that their concerns are 'cheap gestures' or 'empty' or 'mockery'? And if you don't know this for sure, and accommodating is cheap, why not? Making a big deal of it strikes me as immature.
- blub 6y agoI have no idea what recipe you used to boil my comment but I wrote it like I meant it, so address it like that. For one I meant that the gestures are literally cheap: it costs almost nothing to send a tweet or invent some guidelines. They're also empty because they don't have any effect in the real world.
- mercer 6y agoHow don't comments or tweets have an effect in the real world considering this 'cancel culture' hubbub and all? apparently you can get fired for tweets?
- blub 6y agoAssuming that the goal was to reduce discrimination and racism, getting random people fired does not help achieve the goal and hence has no effect.
- dwaltrip 6y agoPerhaps I’m somehow mistaken, but to me it seems like a very meaningful act to take down statues celebrating those who fought to keep people enslaved