Goladus

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by Goladus 9y ago
New America is a think tank and civic enterprise committed to renewing American politics, prosperity, and purpose in the Digital Age. We generate big ideas, bridge the gap between technology and policy, and curate broad public conversation
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This is true, but it does mean we have drag people past thinking about free speech strictly in terms of the 1st amendment. All too often people respond to a situation like the OP with "freedom of speech does not mean freedom from cons
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Also, a corollary: employment monopolies can be established with blacklists. Refusing to hire someone because they were placed on a blacklist for protected speech is wrong (and I believe, illegal). After the Damore incident there were nume
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by Goladus 9y ago
Suppose a company has a disgruntled employee. The employee starts badmouthing them all over the place. Assume it doesn't rise to the level of libel or slander, but they're still causing significant problems. Is the company suppos
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by Goladus 9y ago
(a) Being a protected class only changes the level of scrutiny applied to the case. Not being a suspect class simply means that you get to use lowest standard, which is "Rational Basis." (b) Most people being called Nazis are not
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Some smart people think that you may be more right than I realized: https://blog.simplejustice.us/2017/08/10/walter-olson-a-circ... Effectively they're saying that the "Hostile Work Environment&quot
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Not like you gave me much to work with. It was a single sentence of bland sarcasm.
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A minor nitpick, I would say that the main difference between what's happening now and the Orwellian model is that the coercive pressure for maintaining ideological conformity is mostly not government power (yet, in the US). Instead,
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Peterson tentatively suggested that he ought to consider giving it a shot.
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> He conflated group and individual variability, for one thing. Check out this graph from the paper: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DGsHRXlXcAARj6E.jpg Frankly it is one of the more concise and effective presentations
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The question in my mind is: Does an opinion suddenly become a "thought crime" if expressing it publicly might get you fired from a non-governmental employer? Coercive behavior of any sort is rarely an appropriate response to a s
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Link me one.
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Anyone who thinks the Google author's piece represents degradation of the workplace environment needs to put up a valid non-circular argument for why that is the case. No one has. And no one will, because the piece is very polite, sin
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Calling this a "manifesto" is mostly laziness. It is not actually a manifesto. It is a call to dialog. It is a memo that identifies and describes a perceived problem and thoughtfully follows through with some reasonable suggest
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People are fired for exhibiting corrosive, counterproductive, or otherwise bad attitudes every day. Are they all victims of "textbook thoughtcrime punishment?" The Google manifesto does not represent a "corrosive, counterpr
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More like "the [heretic] has burned any social capital or respect their coworkers might have had for them, and so no longer are capable of working in a collaborative environment with their peers" This says more about the bigotry
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by Goladus 9y ago
You are saying what the guy posted wasn't offensive and also that everyone is finding it offensive. Heh, interesting point, though I chalk it up to a bit of carelessness. When you say: That makes no sense unless everyone is stupid.
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Except for the fact that it implies that men are in higher, more well paid positions because of inherent biological traits. His point is quite clearly based on statistical reasoning, not absolutes. He makes this point blatantly clear whe
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by Goladus 9y ago
No, Yonatan Zunger is the one who should be embarassed. He lies in his very first paragraph, setting up a straw man which is consistently relied upon throughout the piece. The original manifesto is thoughtful, articulate, thorough, and sin
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And yet, it has 178 upvotes at the time of posting.
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So much emphasis on how senior he is I have trouble getting past the blatant lie in the first paragraph. And then the case he presents to support his first objection is to... not present a case at all. By the time he gets to the digressi
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I haven't read the manifesto I have. The response labeling it "anti-diversity" is a pathetic and dishonest attempt to dismiss the entire thing. The "manifesto" is an honest attempt to start dialog, the shrill pr
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There is an additional irony to how all this proceeded, in that Congress seldom ever moves to meaningfully limit the President’s powers in the foreign policy arena — see the blocking of Rep. Barbara Lee’s AUMF repeal amendment earlier in J
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Without Debate, Conformist Politicians Ramp Up the New Cold War(medium.com)
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> Which costs millions. Who should foot the bill for that? Presumably, the world-famous multimedia behemoth willing to assume the risk of getting sued in order to publish newsworthy truth. In this case, it'll be Buzzfeed, since th
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That's important but I think people over-estimate it. It's both. I predict that if you analyzed the github network, you'd find many hubs are based around companies that chose to move their workflows to github based on featu
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The reason is github did a fantastic job of implementing useful features. The visual design is unmatched and they have done a great job implementing developer oriented integrations and social features. A more federated approach to this sor
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It doesn't actually contribute to the discussion, it just derails it. You did not quote my post in its entirety. Before the saying anything about the US being a free country, I asked a pointed, important question that the parent had
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I think that's still a bit heavy-handed, but it's much better than what the parent to my original comment had implied.
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The Gawker fiasco absolutely did spook other media outlets and has made them nervous about publishing negative stories about other media figures. Whine all they want. What needs to happen now, if the big media companies want to defend t

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