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When your livelihood is as stake for expressing the wrong views (and I mean outside of the workplace), of course people are going to stop being public about the
by cpursley 4y ago
When your livelihood is as stake for expressing the wrong views (and I mean outside of the workplace), of course people are going to stop being public about them. And this is really dangerous because going underground is where the really nasty stuff festers.
Can't we all just be nice and not personally go after people and instead debate their views in the open?
- derekp7 4y agoThat would be great, except that it seems people can't agree on how to properly debate. One person will bring up something that is in the news, the other person who aligns with the opposite political party may come back with "Like what specific examples? Can you prove it?". And when they bring up something, you try the same thing but they come back with "The information is out there, go look for it." So I've learned to just keep my mouth shut and even quit reading anything that is even close to a tabloid-style presentation. Problem is, what I though were good sources of info ended up lying to me on more than one occasion, that I noticed when I went back to the source (for example, "X says Y", but when I go through the speech from X and hear Y in context, it is clearly something completely different (and sensible) -- even if I can't stand X for other reasons.