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"Silence is violence" is the most authoritarian argument possible: it forces you to voluntarily identify your side, even if you refuse to do so. There's a reaso
by curtisblaine 3y ago
"Silence is violence" is the most authoritarian argument possible: it forces you to voluntarily identify your side, even if you refuse to do so. There's a reason why voting is secret: because no one should be forced to suffer consequences for their ideas. Forcing people to out themselves is bad, and it's time to ostracize who does it (along with those who incite mob pressure to fire wrong-thinkers, or to ban speakers from public places)
- chihuahua 3y ago"Silence is violence" would fit in very well in George Orwell's "1984". If you're not proclaiming the party line incessantly, you're an enemy of the people.
- marcosdumay 3y agoThat except from the declaration looks like it was taken directly from the confessions the "criminals" are forced to do in 1984. But well, I guess they share the same roots.
- WalterBright 3y agoThe NLRB has come out against secret ballot elections: https://www.mwe.com/insights/nlrb-abandons-primacy-of-secret-ballot-elections-employers-should-reassess-labor-relations-risk-and-develop-new-action-plans/ https://www.mwe.com/insights/nlrb-abandons-primacy-of-secret... Secret ballot means you vote your conscience. Open ballot means you vote the way the proctor tells you to, or else.
- upbeat_general 3y agoI think you misunderstood the NLRB article entirely. The change is that in cases of election violations, the default remedy is now forced bargaining. There don’t appear to be any open elections, only the increased possibility that a union is formed by default.