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My reference to choosing pronouns was an objection to my company making it policy, not whether I am personally comfortable with using whatever pronoun someone w
by eggy 4y ago
My reference to choosing pronouns was an objection to my company making it policy, not whether I am personally comfortable with using whatever pronoun someone wants to be called. Two different scenarios with different meaning and consequences.
As far as your poll goes, it had only 79% respondents, 10,682 to be exact. I would say most people in this culture would respond with what they are being told is the socially acceptable response when being asked by a pollster, not what they really think - the silent majority of the exhausted to quote someone I forget at the moment.
I grew up in the 70s in NYC, and there were the FALN bombings and skyjackings in the US at the time. Still OJ Simpson ran to the gate! Do you miss not having to take off your shoes? Do you really think this is a valid thing to ask people to do in the name of their personal safety because one guy tried unsuccessfully to light his show in the bathroom? Meanwhile, your laptop goes through a scanner that simply shows a dense square that should be your battery, but could be anything they would not pick up anyway?
I don't waste mental bandwidth trying to bring things back, but to halt the progression of unfounded ideas being turned into social and public policy unnecessarily curbing my liberties under the guise of the good and making the world less open for my children. What do you spend your bandwidth on?
- claytongulick 4y agoI'm increasingly convinced that the natural, entropic state of civilization is authoritarianism. Laziness breeds tyranny. It takes active energy to constantly resist and push the ball back up the hill. Many people just don't have it until something completely egregious drives them to take action.
- 082349872349872 4y agocf http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0168%3Abook%3D8%3Asection%3D563e http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%... but contrast https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24069572 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24069572 Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyklos#Polybius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyklos#Polybius
- 082349872349872 4y agoIf your only objection is company making it policy, I'd suggest malicious compliance, ranging from 'whe/whim' (if appropriate) on the harmless side, through strange unicode characters, to some equivalent of Little Bobby Tables on the harmful. This is your chance to see if they actually pay any attention to what they've asked you to enter? cf https://www.tandfonline.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/tandf/journals/content/ucha20/2002/ucha20.v015.i03/09332480.2002.10554810/production/09332480.2002.10554810.fp.png_v03 https://www.tandfonline.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/t... Yes, defo, to the shoes. (On the rare occasions I fly now I wear mocs specifically due to this, but lost a nice knife a decade ago because I'd forgotten I had it in my pocket) And you and I both know that booting the laptop proves nothing. I spent my mental bandwidth on learning a new language (~2 years) and acclimating to the local culture (~5 years) in emigrating to a polity whose social and public policies more closely align with my notions of liberty (in particular, the state motto doesn't just go one way, like e pluribus unum, but also emphasises that the many conversely have their obligations towards the one) and good and openness. Merry Christmas (or whatever you all celebrate) to you and our threadmate!