All these organizations showing the real “global” values — greed, fame, profit. At least saying one thing and doing the other seems to be a truly universal thing.
European teams ditch pro-LGBTQ+ armbands at Qatar World Cup
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#32Here in the US, we have freedom of expression. Unfortunately, most countries (including European countries) don't.
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#33Mostly because FIFA threatened with in-game actions (yellow card) and not fines or other penalties. Players would be punished by making the game easier to lose, which would give ther opponents an unfair advantage.
Disgusting behvarior by one of the most corrupted orgs around.
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I find it mildly concerning that fresh accounts with on here seem to be pushing alt-right conspiracy stuff. My take on Douglas Murray: he didn't understand Foucault, got mad about it, and decided Foucault is an evil Marxist. It kind of rhymes with Jordan Peterson's sentiments about the boogeyman of postmodernism.
As far as accounts go you really don’t have a choice on HN, because eventually you’ll get flagged enough to get throttled/suspended and eventually banned for being too controversial, not following groupthink, etc. Between Theranos and pandemic we’ve got a good corpus of what that looks like, and I don’t have 3-4 years to get my commentary vindicated by the same paid news actors that are causing this shit to begin with.
No offense to the mods, but community “guidelines” translates into skewed application.
As for Douglas Murray, the reviews for his books aged like fine wine.
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I find it mildly concerning that fresh accounts with on here seem to be pushing alt-right conspiracy stuff. My take on Douglas Murray: he didn't understand Foucault, got mad about it, and decided Foucault is an evil Marxist. It kind of rhymes with Jordan Peterson's sentiments about the boogeyman of postmodernism.
My take on Douglas Murray, based on first paragraph of the Introduction of The War on the West: ... a cultural war, and it is being waged remorselessly ...
The man doesn't know the difference between "remorseless" and "relentless".
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#37Here in the US, we have freedom of expression. Unfortunately, most countries (including European countries) don't.
Colin Kaepernick's NFL career has been destroyed just because he kneeled during an anthem. More recently, Kyrie Irving had a lot of problems "just" because he shared a controversial documentary available on Amazon. That's not what I would call "freedom of expression".
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#38Here in the US, we have freedom of expression. Unfortunately, most countries (including European countries) don't.
Colin Kaepernick's NFL career has been destroyed just because he kneeled during an anthem. More recently, Kyrie Irving had a lot of problems "just" because he shared a controversial documentary available on Amazon. That's not what I would call "freedom of expression".
That is exactly freedom of expression. The first amendment protects against government action, which it did in both cases. What it does not and cannot do is force other people to continue doing business with someone, as that would violate their own rights to free expression.
It's shocking how common this misconception is recently. To maintain our democracy citizens need to understand and care about civics. If we reach a critical mass of people who fundamentally don't care what the constitution says, we are in for big problems.
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#39Maybe I just need anti-depressants, but how does everyone else just carry on with the absurd hypocrisy in the world?
Elon says he's going to tweak Twitter moderation from "ban" to "don't spread, but don't delete" for problematic posts. Reaction: American corporations publicly proclaim they're leaving the platform and cutting their advertisement budgets.
Qatar builds stadiums using slave labor, sends rape victims to jail, treats gay people as sub-human. Reaction: Carry on advertising and sponsorships as usual.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the situation or maybe complying w/ Qatar now somehow eventually makes the world a better place in the future? Or if someone can just tell me Prozac/Adderall/Zoloft/something just makes this feel fine and lets you carry on, that'd work too.