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In what context is focusing ones outrage at all useful, ever? This is just reinforcing destruction, promoting group identity, enabling a mob mentality, and some

In what context is focusing ones outrage at all useful, ever? This is just reinforcing destruction, promoting group identity, enabling a mob mentality, and sometimes promotes violence. Honest critique is one thing, mob mentality outrage is not an honest critique.

aaomidi 5y ago
The company is doing what would be illegal in most places, and definitely immoral here. They deserve the outrage and the outrage is the only thing that's gonna fix this. Also to answer your question. Literally every single positive change in this country has come out of focused outrage. Civil rights movement LGBT rights Women's rights The basic amount of worker and consumer rights.
- version_five 5y ago
  So we've escalated from "top paying tech company decided I can't work remote" to the civil rights movement... this thread is an interesting study in internet discourse
artificialLimbs 5y ago
Individuals can choose to do the actions you describe and that needs to be dealt with at an individual level. What is being discussed is responsibility for actions.
MisterBastahrd 5y ago
You can't figure out why, in a community full of developers, that it might be useful to know which employers are lying about remote work?
- hitpointdrew 5y ago
  That wasn't my point. I think that would be part of an honest critique. The other commenter basically said focusing outrage was not problematic. I don't have any issue with honesty and transparency around hiring practices. However, I do think the appropriate place to do something like that would be on a site like glassdoor, and not a platform like twitter. I think as a country we have way more than enough "outrage" at the moment, I don't see any benefit to adding fuel to fire and communicating it a way that is likely going stir up hashtag vomit.
aerovistae 5y ago
Mob mentality outrage is one of the few things that produces effective change. Would you encourage the same policy of not naming the the accused parties with the #meToo movement? Because it's not productive or worthwhile to focus on a few individuals? And where would that movement have gotten if none of the parties involved had ever been named?

aaomidi 5y ago

The company is doing what would be illegal in most places, and definitely immoral here. They deserve the outrage and the outrage is the only thing that's gonna fix this. Also to answer your question. Literally every single positive change in this country has come out of focused outrage. Civil rights movement LGBT rights Women's rights The basic amount of worker and consumer rights.

version_five 5y ago
So we've escalated from "top paying tech company decided I can't work remote" to the civil rights movement... this thread is an interesting study in internet discourse

artificialLimbs 5y ago

Individuals can choose to do the actions you describe and that needs to be dealt with at an individual level. What is being discussed is responsibility for actions.

MisterBastahrd 5y ago

You can't figure out why, in a community full of developers, that it might be useful to know which employers are lying about remote work?

hitpointdrew 5y ago
That wasn't my point. I think that would be part of an honest critique. The other commenter basically said focusing outrage was not problematic. I don't have any issue with honesty and transparency around hiring practices. However, I do think the appropriate place to do something like that would be on a site like glassdoor, and not a platform like twitter. I think as a country we have way more than enough "outrage" at the moment, I don't see any benefit to adding fuel to fire and communicating it a way that is likely going stir up hashtag vomit.

aerovistae 5y ago

Mob mentality outrage is one of the few things that produces effective change. Would you encourage the same policy of not naming the the accused parties with the #meToo movement? Because it's not productive or worthwhile to focus on a few individuals? And where would that movement have gotten if none of the parties involved had ever been named?