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 Post subject: Re: Adventures in Babysitting: The Catch-All Anti-SJW Thread
PostPosted: Tue February 20, 2018 11:32 am 
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
People have the right to counter-protest. That’s also part of free speech.


Would you feel the same way if the donations were going to the American Nazi party?

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 Post subject: Re: Adventures in Babysitting: The Catch-All Anti-SJW Thread
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 Post subject: Re: Adventures in Babysitting: The Catch-All Anti-SJW Thread
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Maybe Google turning their workplace into its own mini-nation, complete with squabbling political partisans, is a really bad idea. It's like a breeding ground for parasites.

https://gizmodo.com/google-fired-and-di ... 1822277125


Politics aside, asking your employees to opine about pretty much everything is a fraught policy from an HR perspective, and terrible from a morale standpoint.


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PostPosted: Fri February 23, 2018 11:33 am 
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simple schoolboy wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
Maybe Google turning their workplace into its own mini-nation, complete with squabbling political partisans, is a really bad idea. It's like a breeding ground for parasites.

https://gizmodo.com/google-fired-and-di ... 1822277125


Politics aside, asking your employees to opine about pretty much everything is a fraught policy from an HR perspective, and terrible from a morale standpoint.


This should also serve as a reminder that there is no such thing as an “anonymous” system when it comes to HR, no matter what they say.

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 Post subject: Re: Adventures in Babysitting: The Catch-All Anti-SJW Thread
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 Post subject: Re: Adventures in Babysitting: The Catch-All Anti-SJW Thread
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BurtReynolds wrote:
I assume this culture grew out of them making the workplace a place that the employees would never leave. They essentially live there from what I've read.


Yeah, corporate culture becomes a weird thing when you make work like college.

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It's a chance for people to hear grownups have serious discussions about issues without the brain-dead right or the brainwashed left shutting down the conversation.

https://areomagazine.com/2017/08/22/a-m ... modernity/

You listen to EconTalk with Russ Roberts? He had the authors of this on a few weeks ago.

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https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/both-have-crosses-so-norwegian-flag-mistaken-for-confederate-flag/

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 Post subject: Re: Adventures in Babysitting: The Catch-All Anti-SJW Thread
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4/5 wrote:
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It's a chance for people to hear grownups have serious discussions about issues without the brain-dead right or the brainwashed left shutting down the conversation.

https://areomagazine.com/2017/08/22/a-m ... modernity/

You listen to EconTalk with Russ Roberts? He had the authors of this on a few weeks ago.

:wave: I did!

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 Post subject: Re: Adventures in Babysitting: The Catch-All Anti-SJW Thread
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Oh ffs, they aren't that similar

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 Post subject: Re: Adventures in Babysitting: The Catch-All Anti-SJW Thread
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Dscans wrote:
4/5 wrote:
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It's a chance for people to hear grownups have serious discussions about issues without the brain-dead right or the brainwashed left shutting down the conversation.

https://areomagazine.com/2017/08/22/a-m ... modernity/

You listen to EconTalk with Russ Roberts? He had the authors of this on a few weeks ago.

:wave: I did!

Nice!

Hey, didn't you post the link to The Three Languages of Politics a while back? If that was you, that makes sense.

It's a really great podcast. I just started listening regularly within the last year or so. I'm going back listening to old episodes, I've heard almost everything since about mid 2015 at this point.

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 Post subject: Re: Adventures in Babysitting: The Catch-All Anti-SJW Thread
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Nailed it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/22/opinion/free-speech-discomfort.html

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 Post subject: Re: Adventures in Babysitting: The Catch-All Anti-SJW Thread
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4/5 wrote:
Dscans wrote:
4/5 wrote:
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It's a chance for people to hear grownups have serious discussions about issues without the brain-dead right or the brainwashed left shutting down the conversation.

https://areomagazine.com/2017/08/22/a-m ... modernity/

You listen to EconTalk with Russ Roberts? He had the authors of this on a few weeks ago.

:wave: I did!

Nice!

Hey, didn't you post the link to The Three Languages of Politics a while back? If that was you, that makes sense.

I did. In fact, that author was on EconTalk not too long ago.
Edit: I just realized that you probably heard that podcast and that's why it made sense to you that if I read the Arnold King piece I probably listed to EconTalk. I actually read Roberts' blog post about King first.

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 Post subject: Re: Adventures in Babysitting: The Catch-All Anti-SJW Thread
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Is this a for real thread? I mean, are you all trolling and shitposting? I cannot tell. I'm so confused.


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 Post subject: Re: Adventures in Babysitting: The Catch-All Anti-SJW Thread
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 Post subject: Re: Adventures in Babysitting: The Catch-All Anti-SJW Thread
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How perfect that the author's name is Marcie (Mars) Bianco (White)-- at first I thought it was just an ornate joke for the headline

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BurtReynolds wrote:
My favorite bit of idiocy from last week from NBC:

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I had to triple check it because I was convinced it was satire. Once again I've overrated humanity.

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Dscans wrote:
4/5 wrote:
Dscans wrote:
4/5 wrote:
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Bi_3 wrote:
It's a chance for people to hear grownups have serious discussions about issues without the brain-dead right or the brainwashed left shutting down the conversation.

https://areomagazine.com/2017/08/22/a-m ... modernity/

You listen to EconTalk with Russ Roberts? He had the authors of this on a few weeks ago.

:wave: I did!

Nice!

Hey, didn't you post the link to The Three Languages of Politics a while back? If that was you, that makes sense.

I did. In fact, that author was on EconTalk not too long ago.
Edit: I just realized that you probably heard that podcast and that's why it made sense to you that if I read the Arnold King piece I probably listed to EconTalk. I actually read Roberts' blog post about King first.

Yeah, that. Good stuff.

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simple schoolboy wrote:
Can anyone provide a link to a critique of Jordan Peterson that isn't overly obsessed with the trans aspect?

This makes some compelling points; beyond a simple take-down of Peterson's rhetoric, it also examines the root of his popularity

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/ ... we-deserve

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theplatypus wrote:
simple schoolboy wrote:
Can anyone provide a link to a critique of Jordan Peterson that isn't overly obsessed with the trans aspect?

This makes some compelling points; beyond a simple take-down of Peterson's rhetoric, it also examines the root of his popularity

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/ ... we-deserve


That’s pretty fair, but Peterson sees himself as one of his mythical heros, so his wording and “teachings” shouldn’t be taken quite so literally in most cases.

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