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Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by TaylorAlexander »

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For folks without 1:19:51 to spare, can you summarize the points of that video? I'm not familiar with Chappelle's other work, but I watched the special (The Closer) and I didn't see what you seem to claim. I noticed: * The heroine/protagonist is a trans woman. * Chappelle was meticulous about using feminine pronouns (with one deliberate exception, I'm not going to spoil it, but it was respectful). * He argued for tra…

Feel free to watch it for 20 minutes on 1.75x speed and just get what you can from it. One of the things I learned as a white guy (before transition) was that expecting marginalized groups to shoulder the burden of education is real draining. I did what I can to explain in my comment that Chappelle was punching down and bringing up old tropes. But I’m exhausted just reading the replies. I watched the video six months ago. I don’t remember the specifics and I don’t have the time today to watch the video again and paraphrase it. Just being honest and direct, not mad or anything. Hope that makes sense. Really tho just 20 minutes at 1.75x speed will get you some of the arguments so give that a shot. It would even be rad for you to come back here and answer your own comment with what you’ve learned. Thanks and sorry I couldn’t be more helpful.

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Post by kortilla »

sidlls wrote: post #247
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> There's a shortage of engineers that don't meet some incredibly stupid, ego-driven arbitrary gate-keeping policies. I suggest you hire people who don’t meet the bar and see what happens. The reason your recruiters have dozens of resumes to sift through is because software engineers make bank and that’s not a secret. Most of those resumes will be people who don’t even understand what software engineering really enta…

My goodness, I’ve been in this industry for 15 years, have been an EM and am currently a TL on my team. I’ve seen what you’re referring to, but you are grossly exaggerating the issue. In my current role we have had candidates we really want rejected at the second pass review for “fit”, “culture” and “ambition/greatness/accomplishments” reasons which are entirely arbitrary (“he dropped out of a PhD program”, “his unde…

I am not exaggerating. We have never rejected for facile reasons like that. The only “culture” rejection we had was a candidate who became verbally aggressive in a technical interview.

Perhaps your technical bar is very low so you can afford to be picky? If so, your company sounds super fucked up. You’re willing not hiring candidates for dumb reasons when hiring is difficult.

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Post by TaylorAlexander »

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I never understood the violence argument. There are 1 million transgender people in the US https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5227946/ There are 44 murders against them in 2021, which apparently was the worse year ever. https://www.hrc.org/resources/fatal-violence-against-the-tra... This is a murder rate of 44/1mil, or 4.4/100k. The general population murder rate is 6.9 in 2021 https://www.foxnews.com/us/us…

There’s a lot of violence that isn’t murder. My trans ex was a victim of abuse in a city where no one cared about trans people.

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by sidlls »

kortilla wrote: post #314
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My goodness, I’ve been in this industry for 15 years, have been an EM and am currently a TL on my team. I’ve seen what you’re referring to, but you are grossly exaggerating the issue. In my current role we have had candidates we really want rejected at the second pass review for “fit”, “culture” and “ambition/greatness/accomplishments” reasons which are entirely arbitrary (“he dropped out of a PhD program”, “his unde…

I am not exaggerating. We have never rejected for facile reasons like that. The only “culture” rejection we had was a candidate who became verbally aggressive in a technical interview. Perhaps your technical bar is very low so you can afford to be picky? If so, your company sounds super fucked up. You’re willing not hiring candidates for dumb reasons when hiring is difficult.

I really enjoy it when techies show their egos and contempt, without having the full picture. I'm speaking with an EM where I work now, who just insulted my entire team and the rest of the engineering organization, and puffed himself up with his resume (which essentially consists of various CTO/VP/Director level positions one failed or small-time startup after another). I'm half tempted to report him to HR, to be honest, because his pointless antagonism serves no purpose other than to stroke his own ego by deriding his peers and venting his spleen.

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Post by resoluteteeth »

rendall wrote: post #141
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> if you’re not trans you may not understand transphobia very well but it’s similar to white people saying they don’t think something is racist This is just a terrible, terrible argument, that leads to a continual ratcheting up and broadening of the definition of "transphobia". Transphobia should mean only "fear or hatred of trans people". What it comes to mean, however: questioning self-identification, questioning t…

> This is just a terrible, terrible argument, that leads to a continual ratcheting up and broadening of the definition of "transphobia".

> Transphobia should mean only "fear or hatred of trans people".

> What it comes to mean, however: questioning self-identification, questioning trans women in women's sports, questioning trans women in women's spaces, questioning the use of puberty blockers in young children, among others. With these now defined as transphobia, it is no longer necessary to acknowledge any principled, genuine objections or concerns there, because even raising these topics is transphobic (or TERF) by definition. The sad thing here is, a frank discussion might indeed allow trans women and bio women to come to some accommodation, but insisting that some people are the only ones who can define certain words like transphobia elides those conversations.

> No. Words matter and words belong to us all, not only to those who decide

If you're opposing transgender people's attempts to secure rights that they are attempting to secure, why should you not be labelled as "transphobic" just because you personally feel that they might be able to get some more limited set if rights that you, as a cis person, are willing to give them?

It's like complaining that people are calling you "racist" for supporting segregation even though you personally feel that segregation is best for black people and therefore you aren't opposing equal rights.

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Post by karmasimida »

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Sidebar, but the "Cuties debacle" is nothing more than a moral panic. Cuties is a great movie about an immigrant kid struggling to cope with a broken home by escaping her parents and becoming a "normal French girl." She doesn't know how to fit in so she tries to gain acceptance with her non-immigrant school-friends by hyper-sexualizing herself. The story a searing criticism of the sexualization of children, not a cel…

Its not a great movie, you don't need to see the whole movie in order to see enough to realize its fucking sick.

I saw the whole movie and it is a regular coming of age movie as I remembered

Don't understand what is the fuss about it from the conservatives

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Post by nautilius »

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OP very clearly writes that they "don't think it's transphobic to push back on trans activists" who, unlike him, "demand the world accommodate" . Again, the only 'accommodation' that is asked is to just let them live. Seems like not a hard thing to do, and not something one would have to go out of their way of to 'push back against'. If you don't like the thought of buttfucking, don't. If you don't like the thought o…

> Again, the only 'accommodation' that is asked is to just let them live. Seems like not a hard thing to do, and not something one would have to go out of their way of to 'push back against'. But OP is letting them live. Unless you are alleging OP is running around killing trans people??

OP is making no statement about what they do, only that they find it reasonable to push back against that simple wish of the trans community.
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