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A little bit sorta. Conservatives will come out to say that you can't force JK Rowling to be pro (or even neutral) on the trans issue. Now, they'll also say t
by bena 1mo ago
A little bit sorta.
Conservatives will come out to say that you can't force JK Rowling to be pro (or even neutral) on the trans issue.
Now, they'll also say that certain people shouldn't be allowed to create. Or at the very least create based on certain properties. Which is admittedly almost a "same result, different mechanism" issue.
But they will claim to allow the market decide (aka "go woke, go broke").
- newspaper1 1mo agoConservatives have many forms of "cancel culture". They want to deport people from places they don't like (or from a race they don't like), they want to enforce Christianity in public places, they want to make being "antifa" illegal... And the ultimate form of cancel culture, conservatives (including the neo-liberal variety) will straight up murder you if you're Muslim and live in the Middle East. None of that is free market.
- bena 1mo agoI don't necessarily disagree. But this is getting rather forest for the trees. End point is: If you don't like who is making your software, make your own. Giving up is just letting them win.
- newspaper1 1mo agoThat costs money though (or takes time, which is money). When you need to eat and put a roof over your head, you realize our system is not setup to allow you to do this.
- bena 1mo agoThey did it though. And I didn't say it would be easy, just possible. I think that's some of the disconnect for some people. They think that simply because a thing is possible, it should be easy.
- newspaper1 1mo agoThey most likely had access to capital though. That is extremely unevenly distributed and not an option for most people.
- allanmacgregor 1mo agoBit of a strawman here, particularly the last one. Find a single US administration in recent history that hasn't killed thousands in the middle east? I'll wait.
- newspaper1 1mo agoWhich is why I said conservatives, including those of the neo-liberal variety.
- epistasis 1mo ago> Conservatives will come out to say that you can't force JK Rowling to be pro (or even neutral) on the trans issue. "Come out and say" something completely uncontroversial and universally accepted? The idea that JK Rowling could be "forced" on this is a weird one. I haven't read a ton of her critics but I've never even encountered the idea of forcing her to do that. How would that even be possible? So strange. The conservative idea of using government force to silence people could "force her, but the critics of JK Rowling only want to flex their freedom of association, not force her.