More vague generalizations with absolutely no clear evidence or examples to back it up. Notice how I actually provide concrete examples in my posts? When I talk about how awful Jordan Peterson is I quote him and reference his work. I try to do this whenever I make claims in this thread, and though I don’t always do that well, it’s something that I try to do. You should start doing stuff like that because I don’t even know how to respond to any of this. It’s just “some people say this, some people say that. This vague thing is happening. That vague thing is happening.” It’s a waste of everyone’s time. Not because I disagree but because it doesn’t say anything. It’s just a vague statement that no one can relate to because we don’t even know what the problem is. What’s happening in the tech industry? Are people getting fired for voting Republican? Are they being forced to participate in gender-reassignment activities? Are they being forced to renounce God? What’s happening? How are we supposed to respond to “what it’s doing to the tech community right now” when you don’t even tell us?
You get combative, complain I’m ignoring you, then make baseless accusations when I do engage that demonstrate you either didn’t read or simply disregarded what I posted earlier.
You disregard my points all the time. You just did it again. You ignored my points just made on Peterson’s lawsuit as well as the questions I posed to you about that situation. You instead zeroed in on this so you could play the victim again. You’ve done that many times and I’m used it, but it’s still pretty annoying to have a point go ignored in favor of this kind of shit.
What’s the point of reading these walls of text?
I don’t know. You abandoned the thread under this same pretense a while back.
Read the several paragraphs I posted about the Linux CoC pages ago. That’s real and it’s happening now.
I looked back at it and I agree with you. That’s horrible. You know why it’s happening, though? Because the feelings and opinions of regular people have been granted legitimacy because of social media. If these companies would just say “Go fuck yourself” every time a person brought up an old tweet demanding that somebody be fired, then we wouldn’t have this problem. You even mentioned James Gunn yourself, which is proof that this phenomenon isn’t unique to one side of the spectrum or the other nor is it unique to the tech industry. The outrage mob is a natural result of caring about everyone’s thoughts and feelings, which is something I’m opposed to. See? We can kind of agree on something. By the way, how is this much different than wanting those professors fired for their crazy opinions on Jordan Peterson?
Read again about Damore. But as you said in your response to that incident, it happened a whole year ago so I guess it’s not relevant anymore.
Watch the Google company meeting video where senior management expresses their sadness and concern, to the point of tears in some cases, that Hillary lost the election. This is a company meeting where anyone in attendance who is conservative certainly had views that would not have been welcome during that discussion. Tell me after watching it that Damore’s memo was handled fairly.
Read something other than traditional media outlets if you want to know these things.
What, like InfoWars? I read a variety of media outlets. I’ve made that clear many times. Here’s some reading I did on Google’s firing of people for talking about controversial subjects. Turns our Damore isn’t the only one and liberals are also reprimanded and fired for equally shitty reasons. Given that your sympathies are only directed towards those on the right, I’m not surprised that you aren’t familiar with this, but here’s some interesting coverage of that:
Is Gizmodo part of the globalist, leftist agenda? Is this article fake news? Is it too “traditional” for you? (By the way, what do you even mean by “traditional media outlets”?)
My take on this is that the Google services, like all massive, monopolistic corporations, need to be nationalized. Then first amendment protections would apply to their platforms as well as their hiring and firing practices. That’s my solution to this problem. What’s yours?
I’m happy to share what I know and discover to a certain degree, but you’re responsible for your own knowledge. Take what you’ve been given and use a damn search engine if you care to know more. You shouldn’t rely upon what you read on a forum any more than I do.
Of course I’m responsible for my own knowledge. I’m certainly not going to rely on you of all people to educate me, but it’s obnoxious having a conversation with someone that doesn’t back up their claims most of the time. It’s really hard to even know what they’re specifically talking about most of the time.