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What's the alternative? What is the best source of information available to the public? It's easy to take potshots, show me a news source that's better.
Financial times.
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The woke-left isn't going around arresting people, nor do they have much (if any) influence in high levels of government.
They are getting low level employees fired from their jobs, though. They have a lot of power in educational institutes, media organizations and HR departments.
The "orthodoxy" the author writes about is real. I am a skeptic and cynic by nature. In my experience "common wisdom" is usually anything but. In software and technology I've found when you eschew dogma and "best practices" you more often than not get better results. But, in 2020 you cannot question or be skeptical of the "progressive" agenda. Merely hinting that you are not fully bought in will get you labeled as a…
> But, in 2020 you cannot question or be skeptical of the "progressive" agenda. Merely hinting that you are not fully bought in will get you labeled as a racist, or even worse these days, a "Conservative". Is it really the case? Or is it a perception you have? I've become less and less liberal the past three months, for multiple reasons, and at least in my liberal bubble, i did not face any backlash.
However, in day to day life, there's a good chance no one will care about your political leanings, unless you live in Portland or something.
> All this bodes ill, especially for independent-minded young writers and editors paying close attention to what they’ll have to do to advance in their careers. Rule One: Speak your mind at your own peril. Rule Two: Never risk commissioning a story that goes against the narrative. Rule Three: Never believe an editor or publisher who urges you to go against the grain. Eventually, the publisher will cave to the mob, th…
Basically anytime someone famous and successful comes out against cancel culture, the standard rejoinder is it can't be so bad. Doesn't seem to have stopped your career, so why are you whining?
And the point is for every high-profile person criticizing cancel culture, there's a vast dark matter of nobodies who's lives and careers have been ruined. Nobody's reading there op-eds. Things are that bad for Bari Weiss, practically a household name, and not even that conservative relative to the median American. Now imagine being an entry-level associate reporter, and a self-identified Republican.
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This is what-about-ism, not a substantive objection. One need not point out every obstacle to open debate in order to identify one important obstacle to open debate.
It's not what–about–ism because they're not neutral agents. I'm not saying "they say they want intellectual curiosity, but what about unpaid interns" — I'm saying "they say they want intellectual curiosity, but they are the ones actively preventing that from happening ".
Please explain?
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Being barred from employment in your industry due to your non-work-related political opinion and affiliations is literally McCarthyism though.
I was interviewing a candidate last year for a software engineering position. Interview was fine and he was capable. I decided to find him on Twitter. He said immigration was ruining the country, and that there are too many Indians / Chinese in the Bay Area. About half of my organization either have an H1B visa or a green card. Am I a McCarthyist for rejecting him outright without hesitation?
...but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about people being punished for daring to disagree with the progressive agenda.
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What viewpoints? Are we just supposed to guess, or automatically know which viewpoints you mean?
Communism division of work, central planning for college-level education? Worker cooperative can be more efficient than traditional company in some sectors, did you ever read any piece on that? I mean, the two time i went in the US, i was in really liberal and even socialist environment, and very few seems to even have heard of worker cooperative, so it would be surprising, but HN always surprise me positively, so wh…
"worker cooperatives site:nytimes.com"
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>How do I tell the difference between an honest citizen journalist, a propagandist, a liar, a lunatic, or a troll? Critical thinking skills, independent research, and open dialogue
> Critical thinking skills A lot of people stay at the dunning-Kruger peak on that for a very long time and over-evaluate their (i for sure did for several years at least). > independent research Those who have the time to do this for half the semi-important issues in the world are lucky(like most of of on HN i think). And i started 2 month ago informing myself about climate change and what does it mean to stop using…
Many prefer poisonous fast food to a healthy home cooked meal, just as many prefer to read twitter comments and click bait than to read a book
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They are getting low level employees fired from their jobs, though. They have a lot of power in educational institutes, media organizations and HR departments.
> They are getting low level employees fired from their jobs This is an interesting intersection. It either implies that all employers are left-aligned (not true) and therefore willing to fire employees that hold right-leaning opinions, OR that low level employees are so expendable that it literally any reason can get them fired if enough people complain.
But I doubt they will care until a conservative employer fires someone for tweeting support for a progressive belief.
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So you're digestion of her letter should not be informed in anyway by the fact that she routinely employed the tactics that she now claims she's a victim of? She's spent her career vilifying and seeking out personal retribution for people who she's disagreed with, I don't know how this doesn't factor into one's purview.
I think readers here think that you are engaging in an "Ad hominem" attack on Weiss but since she herself is the subject of discussion I don't see why you wouldn't include her historical contradictory actions in a response.
...because that's a bad faith argument. Arguing the arguer rather than the argument is not an honest debate.
I don't care about Wiess specifically - I care, as most here, about the cancer of Cancel Culture.