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How to determine? Just follow any open source project that has been slowly taken over by mediocre representatives of U.S. corporations (i.e., almost any project

by bmab 5y ago

How to determine? Just follow any open source project that has been slowly taken over by mediocre representatives of U.S. corporations (i.e., almost any project). The new mediocre ruling class uses criminally charged language ("harm", "suffering", "effect on people", "consequences"). There are "reporting" links everywhere. Reporting others is encouraged like in the German Democratic Republic. All this has changed drastically if you compare it to 10 years ago. The question you ask is interesting though: Are younger people being used in the social justice power games played by Boomer and Gen X administrators? That would be similar to white consultants lecturing about people of color to boost their incomes. I think it is a bit of both. Helicopter parenting has made teenagers more fragile and your friendly administrator sees an opportunity to administrate and get power and cash.

enkid 5y ago
You're saying because you can quickly flag abusive content on social media, we've become too sensitive to harm? I don't see how one implies the other.
wirrbel 5y ago
Have you lived in the GDR? How can you draw this comparison?
- cvacc 5y ago
  Yes, I have. I see the same methods being used, though the outcomes are "just" cancellations and not imprisonment (yet!).
  - wirrbel 5y ago
    You seem to equate a 'report' button with a terror regime. So, is the federal republic of Germany which allows you to report something to the police for investigation also 'like the GDR'?
    - blueflow 5y ago
      Don't forget the Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter, please. The denouncing culture in the DDR is nowhere comparable to what happened in the BRD.
- blueflow 5y ago
  The "loosing the job" part is almost the same. In the GDR, the state went large ways to distance themselves from facism and the anti-semitism of the past, while in reality, the jews weren't treated in a reasonable ways, couldn't get their property back and such nuisances. My mom was a teacher in the GDR, and she made the mistake of asking "How are the jews in the GDR doing now?".
dartharva 5y ago
But.. are these "mediocre representatives of U.S. corporations" representative of the average U.S. citizen?

by bmab 5y ago

enkid 5y ago

You're saying because you can quickly flag abusive content on social media, we've become too sensitive to harm? I don't see how one implies the other.

wirrbel 5y ago

Have you lived in the GDR? How can you draw this comparison?

cvacc 5y ago
Yes, I have. I see the same methods being used, though the outcomes are "just" cancellations and not imprisonment (yet!).
- wirrbel 5y ago
  You seem to equate a 'report' button with a terror regime. So, is the federal republic of Germany which allows you to report something to the police for investigation also 'like the GDR'?
  - blueflow 5y ago
    Don't forget the Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter, please. The denouncing culture in the DDR is nowhere comparable to what happened in the BRD.
blueflow 5y ago
The "loosing the job" part is almost the same. In the GDR, the state went large ways to distance themselves from facism and the anti-semitism of the past, while in reality, the jews weren't treated in a reasonable ways, couldn't get their property back and such nuisances. My mom was a teacher in the GDR, and she made the mistake of asking "How are the jews in the GDR doing now?".

dartharva 5y ago

But.. are these "mediocre representatives of U.S. corporations" representative of the average U.S. citizen?