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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
#62I'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 99% agree with you.
One small counterpoint: Employers enjoy a bully pulpit on these issues. Employees with legitimate concerns about their employers' stances / policies sometimes can't even discuss them without the risk of losing their livelihood.
This can create a situation where individuals perceive that "the whole world" is telling them they're wrong, and are bad people for being wrong in this way. HN's anonymous-yet-respectful forum can somewhat help with this.
If nothing else, it's encouraging to know that they're not alone, but rather in an environment where other dissenters are also silenced.
Re: Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
#63I'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.
They very reliably rise to the front page (because people like arguing about this stuff) and then sink off again (because, I believe, the HN algorithm penalizes a low upvote-to-comment-count ratio). I predict this'll be gone in two hours...
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#64This is incredibly tedious. I can't fathom how this has anything to do with "Hacker News" but I guess it's appeal to a certain subset of the audience here overrides that.
The strong opposition to diversity efforts has been a pretty common trait associated with the tech community/silicon valley. It seems reasonable that a subset of the culture that produced the work environment at Blizzard [1] or has historically rallied behind alt-right thought leaders would also be here on HN. Talk to any woman software engineer, I 100% guarantee they have multiple stories about dealing with a...specific type of guy.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/8/22823991/activision-blizz...
Re: Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
#65Hmm going on a tangent here: do HNers "consume" news from old style media any more? I'm pretty certain that I haven't got my news from either radio or TV in a billion years. Since I had a pet dinosaur.
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#66Quoted post unavailable.
" Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Moreover, dang, look at the vibe you're managing. This is on you, boo:
1. A group of people repeatedly use a euphemism to attack a much smaller and less powerful group 2. When a member of that group points it out, the comment is literally faded, erased, by the editor responsible for managing the tone of that more powerful group
And before you say it, this is me assuming good faith. I know you don't hear it. You're not evil. Neither is (most of) HN.
But this is legit every day now. I've been a contributor to HN for over a decade, but now I hesitate before letting my fingers type 'news.ycombinator.com' into that location bar.
It simply hurts too much. Like someone putting glass in your porridge.
Re: Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
#67What 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…
I mean it sounds bad, right? But if all the people they talk to for stories are white - and they’re attempting to fix that, and track their progress in fixing that - how exactly should they go about doing that?
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#68I wonder where she will go after publishing her book. Postmedia? Bell media? Staying independent? The news landscape in Canada is rather limited and still consolidating. Think what you may about the CBC and its biases, its nothing compared to the National Post where the owner, Conrad Black, airs his crappy opinions.
Quitting [media organization] and starting a substack seems to be pretty popular these days.
Re: Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
#69> It is to sign on, enthusiastically, to a radical political agenda that originated on Ivy League campuses in the United States and spread through American social media platforms that monetize outrage and stoke societal divisions.
I’m glad people are starting to realize that participating in culture wars, regardless of the side, is supporting American cultural dominance.
I say this as a fairly jingoistic American, who feels American influence does much more good than harm.
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#70“The last 18 months” coincides perfectly with start of the BLM protests. I’ve been involved with an arts-based non-profit for a long time. They do very specific type of older art. They produce it, exhibit it, encourage others to produce it, etc. The art form is Eurocentric, with a political history that contains some small instances racism, and vast oceans of mainstream liberalism. Every since BLM protests happened (…
Suggest to them that they talk about exactly what you are saying here. Say that it's difficult. That we are figuring it out. Put together exhibitions that talk about it. That's a hell of a lot better than shutting down communication. Be inclusive. Ask for help from other galleries who have better representation. Maybe they can do an exchange.
Identify what there is to be afraid of - it's the necessary step to moving forward.