Changes at Basecamp

Post by vzcx » Wed, May 05, 2021, 5:19 AM UTC

nemo44x wrote: post #184

tshaddox wrote: post #117

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What about people whose personal interests and activities directly involve politics? Like people interested in political analysis or reporting, or people interested in competitive policy debate, or even people who actively do advocacy work in their free time? Is small talk about the advocacy work you did over the weekend worse than my small talk about building drones over the weekend?

There’s a lot of things that aren’t political per-se you shouldn’t share with the broader group. For instance, maybe my family has a history of killing wild animals for food. I wouldn’t share our kill shots with my company the same way I would with friends that are interested in hunting. Because I know it’s something a good chunk of people don’t want to see and it’s unnecessary to share. Now imagine I had a few frien…

Post by cutemonster » Tue, May 11, 2021, 6:53 AM UTC

educaysean wrote: post #850

cutemonster wrote: post #849

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> I'm playing along with your analogy here No, I think not. Look here: > When you form a student-led committee on anti-bullying but mysteriously exclude all the victims That's, what's the right word, changing the analogy into madness. I said like this: "Not only group X can have good ideas about something" and you seem to believe that that means: "X must be silenced" -- that's weird, to say the least. I never said th…

As long as you aren't trying to refute the fact that historically silenced people are the de facto authority on being "historically silenced", we're on the same page. And for the sake of clarity - Yes, anyone can and will conjure up great ideas and solutions. No, I'm not calling for such an ideas to be discarded just because the source is "wrong". For your convenience, let me paste my original comment that you had a…