whiskyseagull

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by whiskyseagull 9y ago
Crying "whataboutism" is just a way to deflect from charges of hypocrisy.
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by whiskyseagull 9y ago
Do you think media outlets that lean left act in good faith when they interview controversial figures from the right?
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by whiskyseagull 9y ago
Isn't it the left that has aggressively pushed politics into the workplace under the guise of fair treatment and equality?
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by whiskyseagull 9y ago
That's convenient, so you would support people only willing to be interviewed by sympathetic interviewers who agree with them on controversial topics. How are these things supposed to be worked through if no one is willing to engage in
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by whiskyseagull 9y ago
So to extrapolate, you believe that she was reasonably concerned that the Guardian might be a right wing tabloid that would twist her words?
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by whiskyseagull 9y ago
Of course he still has the legal right to do it. The US hasn't gone so far yet, as other western countries have, to ban "hate" speech, and he hedged his arguments well enough that it would be hard to ban that kind of talk out
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by whiskyseagull 9y ago
Point 2 is a red herring. No one is arguing that it wasn't in Google's short term interests to suppress thoughts that were controversial to a large part of it's work force. The debate, at least on the surface, is about whethe
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by whiskyseagull 9y ago
There's another irony in the article: "Damore’s girlfriend has agreed to meet only after being assured that, like her, I disagree with her boyfriend’s views." Unfortunately this has become typical in some parts of the left an