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I just downloaded it to support them. The more absurd the PC bullshit gets, the more the rest of us will push back just to spite you. I can't wait for my new

I just downloaded it to support them. The more absurd the PC bullshit gets, the more the rest of us will push back just to spite you. I can't wait for my new shirt to arrive.

andy_ppp 12y ago
It's not PC it's called the free market? If I don't like Uber I have the choice not to use them. Anyway, watch this :-D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmsV1TuESrc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmsV1TuESrc
- imanaccount247 12y ago
  I didn't say you had to use them. I said that when you come out and say "I'm boycotting X because they violated SOCJUS law" you help them more than you hurt them. Because the number of people who think the PC/SJW nonsense has gotten absurd is much higher than the number of people who think it is cool.
  - scott_s 12y ago
    I think far, far more people will find Emil Michael's statements unacceptable than not. Including, I think, Uber itself.
    - imanaccount247 12y ago
      I think if the majority of people would find his statements unacceptable, then people would not feel the need to deliberately misrepresent his statements to make them seem less acceptable.
mipapage 12y ago
Well, its not PC is it? It is holding oneself to a standard. It is clear that this man - and Uber it would seem - are not behaving to a standard that people would support. A concept so simple that is lost on so many.
- imanaccount247 12y ago
  >Well, its not PC is it? Really? Then why is it so notable that the person is a "female journalist"? Why are people deliberately distorting "journalists are dragging our private affairs out to use against us, we should do it to them" as "he's threatening to reveal the locations of people's children"? >are not behaving to a standard that people would support. Many people do support, that's precisely what I said. I am supporting them, lots of people are supporting them.
  - mipapage 12y ago
    It would be quite hard to judge how many people 'kept Uber installed despite this incident'. A simple scan over HN and the comments under the stories about this do not support your stance that many do support Uber in this. The simple idea of "journalists are dragging our private affairs out to use against us, we should do it to them" is where these people fell down. Sure, some people are distorting it and it could therefore give the appearance of being pc, but in reality this is a moral problem. Had they (he) held themselves to a higher standard, behaving in a morally responsible way, none of these things would happen and indeed they could be a leader in more ways than they originally intended to be (transportation).
    - imanaccount247 12y ago
      >A simple scan over HN and the comments under the stories about this do not support your stance that many do support Uber in this. HN posters are not a random sample.
      - mipapage 12y ago
        You are correct. I figure that HN and the commenters on the articles about the issue are the people who know about this issue, the general public perhaps not so much. Going by those assumptions, rule out the general public, and while I still don't have a random sample, I have something. Pretty much the only thing around without actually polling. And that only thing concludes the opposite of "lots of people are supporting them." But whatever, that's all smoke.
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I just downloaded it to support them. The more absurd the PC bullshit gets, the more the rest of us will push back just to spite you. I can't wait for my new shirt to arrive.

andy_ppp 12y ago

It's not PC it's called the free market? If I don't like Uber I have the choice not to use them. Anyway, watch this :-D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmsV1TuESrc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmsV1TuESrc

imanaccount247 12y ago
I didn't say you had to use them. I said that when you come out and say "I'm boycotting X because they violated SOCJUS law" you help them more than you hurt them. Because the number of people who think the PC/SJW nonsense has gotten absurd is much higher than the number of people who think it is cool.
- scott_s 12y ago
  I think far, far more people will find Emil Michael's statements unacceptable than not. Including, I think, Uber itself.
  - imanaccount247 12y ago
    I think if the majority of people would find his statements unacceptable, then people would not feel the need to deliberately misrepresent his statements to make them seem less acceptable.

mipapage 12y ago

Well, its not PC is it? It is holding oneself to a standard. It is clear that this man - and Uber it would seem - are not behaving to a standard that people would support. A concept so simple that is lost on so many.

imanaccount247 12y ago
>Well, its not PC is it? Really? Then why is it so notable that the person is a "female journalist"? Why are people deliberately distorting "journalists are dragging our private affairs out to use against us, we should do it to them" as "he's threatening to reveal the locations of people's children"? >are not behaving to a standard that people would support. Many people do support, that's precisely what I said. I am supporting them, lots of people are supporting them.
- mipapage 12y ago
  It would be quite hard to judge how many people 'kept Uber installed despite this incident'. A simple scan over HN and the comments under the stories about this do not support your stance that many do support Uber in this. The simple idea of "journalists are dragging our private affairs out to use against us, we should do it to them" is where these people fell down. Sure, some people are distorting it and it could therefore give the appearance of being pc, but in reality this is a moral problem. Had they (he) held themselves to a higher standard, behaving in a morally responsible way, none of these things would happen and indeed they could be a leader in more ways than they originally intended to be (transportation).
  - imanaccount247 12y ago
    >A simple scan over HN and the comments under the stories about this do not support your stance that many do support Uber in this. HN posters are not a random sample.
    - mipapage 12y ago
      You are correct. I figure that HN and the commenters on the articles about the issue are the people who know about this issue, the general public perhaps not so much. Going by those assumptions, rule out the general public, and while I still don't have a random sample, I have something. Pretty much the only thing around without actually polling. And that only thing concludes the opposite of "lots of people are supporting them." But whatever, that's all smoke.

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