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> & telling people who don’t agree that they aren’t welcome Are you familiar with the Paradox of Tolerance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
by rkangel 3y ago
> & telling people who don’t agree that they aren’t welcome
Are you familiar with the Paradox of Tolerance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance)?
It is best understood as a social contract - in order for a group to function, people need to tolerate each other. People who don't obey that social contract are therefore not eligible for being in the group.
- jrsj 3y agoYes, but in most cases I have seen that is just used as a justification for hostile behavior that has nothing to do with actual intolerance. The opposite tends to happen - you let people like this get power & their intolerance is then what is tolerated out of fear that they’d come for you next if you called them out on it. An example: I once had someone tell me to my face that I shouldn’t have an engineering job at all because no white men without a college degree should be “allowed” to. At work. However, this person was involved in ERGs and close with people in HR, so I didn’t have much choice but to just accept it and move on. Another good example I’ve seen personally: employer hires a new CTO. He sets up the second phase of our interview process to be a phone call with him, and out of dozens of candidates he only allows Muslim candidates through this process. This was the clearest case of discrimination I have seen. When someone on my team speaks out about this, he’s fired and we are all scolded about racism being unacceptable. This isn’t a social contract, it’s organized harassment and abuse by politically obsessed weirdos and it has no place in any professional environment.