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It doesn't surprise me anymore. Aren't we well into the mainstreaming of woke opinions by now ? The elect are as allergic to sociological statistics as the righ

by screye 5y ago

It doesn't surprise me anymore. Aren't we well into the mainstreaming of woke opinions by now ? The elect are as allergic to sociological statistics as the right to vaccines. All numbers point towards the counter productivity of police abolition, removal of standardized testing, BLM protests, 'compassionate' district attorneys, school closures, unquestioned affirmation of identities, "trust science" and dozens of similar initiatives. Yet any criticism is met with firings, being blacklisted from industry/social media, character assassinations, and forcing these people to find refuge with the right. From heavyweights like Rowling, Chapelle to academics like Chomsky, McWhorter and statisticians like Nate Silver. No one is spared with no space for nuance. This is one of my uncharacteristically emotionally loaded comments on HN. I don't want HN to become a flamewarry place, so this will be a one off comment. But, it does feel a little hopeless.

cowvin 5y ago
"Two of his colleagues warned him that he was potentially heading toward disaster; another, according to Kriegman, screamed that he “should fucking do [his] job” instead of spending time fighting about Black Lives Matter. (None of the Reuters employees returned a request for comment.)" It sounds like instead of doing the job they hired him to do, he was spending his time arguing about BLM. I mean expressing his opinion is one thing but if it's to the point that his presence is an overall negative for the company, he should be fired. I mean this guy knew he'd be fired if he kept doing what he was doing and chose to get fired, so it's hard to have any sympathy for him. It's like if someone goes to work for Fox News and spends all their time arguing with everyone at the company about how Democrats are great and Republicans are evil, they will get fired too.
- civilized 5y ago
  This opinion makes sense if we're fine casting Thomson Reuters as merely the flip side of Fox News, rather than an organization that aspires to a higher integrity culture.

by screye 5y ago

cowvin 5y ago

"Two of his colleagues warned him that he was potentially heading toward disaster; another, according to Kriegman, screamed that he “should fucking do [his] job” instead of spending time fighting about Black Lives Matter. (None of the Reuters employees returned a request for comment.)" It sounds like instead of doing the job they hired him to do, he was spending his time arguing about BLM. I mean expressing his opinion is one thing but if it's to the point that his presence is an overall negative for the company, he should be fired. I mean this guy knew he'd be fired if he kept doing what he was doing and chose to get fired, so it's hard to have any sympathy for him. It's like if someone goes to work for Fox News and spends all their time arguing with everyone at the company about how Democrats are great and Republicans are evil, they will get fired too.

civilized 5y ago
This opinion makes sense if we're fine casting Thomson Reuters as merely the flip side of Fox News, rather than an organization that aspires to a higher integrity culture.