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Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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Re: Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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Post by bambax »

paulsutter wrote: post #37

Left and liberal do not mean the same thing. Basically all of my blue or red friends agree with the principles of Liberalism, which brought us the enlightenment and [modern] civilization. You can ask your own friends, here's a definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism (quote below) In terms of numbers, about 8% of the US population is.. left. 25% is traditional conservative. And the other 67% is regular fo…

> Liberalism, which brought us the enlightenment and civilization itself

Civilization predates liberalism by about 7,000 years.

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Post by undoware »

NikolaeVarius wrote: post #31
undoware wrote: post #25

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Wait why are we not allowed to complain about trans people. Are they special in a way that makes them immune from being complained about? Im fine with trans people. I am asking literally are we not allowed to complain about them.

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epivosism wrote: post #17

What clearly seems wrong is the requirement to fill out forms on the race and gender of people you interview, and to have quotas to control whose voice is heard based on those irrelevant traits (irrelevant relative to the individual person's life, ideas, experiences, ability to express themselves etc.) My policy is to refuse to give my gender or race. If everybody did this, high frequencies of "other" or "unknown" co…

Obligatory story beginning in 1963, where computer scientist Les Earnest explains why he always entered "mongrel" when questioned about his race:

http://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/les/mongrel.htm

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Post by coolso »

NikolaeVarius wrote: post #41
beebmam wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a strict egalitarian and have been doing exactly this, and always encourage others to do exactly this. I refuse to state my gender, race, class, health status, sexuality, or any other qualifier that could categorize me into being discriminated against or in favor of. Let my actions speak to the quality of my character. edit: Not sure why this thread has gone deep into a discussion about pronouns. I don't identify…

At a previous job HR directly contacted me and told me to put my pronouns on my profile. I said sure and proceeded to ignore it. Fuck that shit

Good. This pronoun virtue signaling meme has gotta go. Or at least don’t censor us by limiting us to the ones Officially Approved by the Pronoun Establishment like Instagram and most other places do.

If they can have custom pronouns, why can’t we?

(The answer is because it would immediately undermine the “cause” by shedding light on just how silly but also how 1984-esque the concept is.)

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Post by _bfhp »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #8

Henley's departure from the CBC is a real blow to that organization. The loss of her reporting on critical issues like "Can hitting snooze and taking a long lunch be the real keys to success?" [0] or "Five West Coast hikes you probably don't know about (but should!)" [1] will be catastrophic to Canadians' ability to understand what's happening in the world around them. In all seriousness, I imagine that Henley decide…

She wants to join Bari Weiss in focusing on housing crises, wages and working conditions, billionaire greed and authoritarian drug wars?

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Post by mistermann »

badRNG wrote: post #22

I'm not sure these sorts of articles provide much value on HN. By "these sorts of articles", I mean the ones that have claimed that "diversity efforts have gone too far this time ." Regardless of your support or opposition to diversity, I think one would agree that these rapidly turn into unproductive, highly divisive comment sections that are out of place with the rest of HN.

That even the well above average intellects here can't manage a dialogue much above what you'll find on other platforms seems like a situation that has great potential for providing value.

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Post by finite_jest »

badRNG wrote: post #22

I'm not sure these sorts of articles provide much value on HN. By "these sorts of articles", I mean the ones that have claimed that "diversity efforts have gone too far this time ." Regardless of your support or opposition to diversity, I think one would agree that these rapidly turn into unproductive, highly divisive comment sections that are out of place with the rest of HN.

From HN guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.

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Post by speedgoose »

jfk13 wrote: post #39
epivosism wrote: post #17

What clearly seems wrong is the requirement to fill out forms on the race and gender of people you interview, and to have quotas to control whose voice is heard based on those irrelevant traits (irrelevant relative to the individual person's life, ideas, experiences, ability to express themselves etc.) My policy is to refuse to give my gender or race. If everybody did this, high frequencies of "other" or "unknown" co…

If asked for race, I suggest answering "human".

It's not often, the last time for me was the stackoverflow survey. I usually reply that it's an illegal question where I live.

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Post by john_moscow »

badRNG wrote: post #22

I'm not sure these sorts of articles provide much value on HN. By "these sorts of articles", I mean the ones that have claimed that "diversity efforts have gone too far this time ." Regardless of your support or opposition to diversity, I think one would agree that these rapidly turn into unproductive, highly divisive comment sections that are out of place with the rest of HN.

I would argue that the article highlights the biggest problem of the West. It used to be a society of strong independent and happy individuals, capitalizing on their strengths and trading with each other in search of prosperity. We traded it in for a steady paycheck in exchange for mindlessly fulfilling standardized corporate jobs, and are now surprised that the human ambition got redirected from finding ways to create new value to bashing someone who seemingly got a patch of greener grass.

I think, the way out is understanding that the current divisive ways the society is going are doomed, and that we all have a common problem to solve, and sweeping such discussions under the rug will only delay this outcome.

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