> For example if you work at Google or Facebook and you speak up against affirmative action hiring practices or transwomen in women's sports, you will be fired. The excuse will be that these opinions are "hate speech" or that they violate some policy of discrimination at work place or made someone feel "unsafe" or whatever else.
It's ridiculous isn't it, how these flawed stances became some sort of woke orthodoxy in recent years.
Another jarring instance of this is, they'll all go on about how important mental health and neurodiversiry is and blah blah blah, but as soon as the office autist steps out of line and says the 'wrong' thing, they all pounce on him relentlessly and without mercy. I mean, just look at how RMS was treated, simply for expressing his honest opinions. Hounded out of his job.
Too much of politics is about racism and similar identarian issues these days, at the expense of more fundamental topics.
For example, BLM should really have been about police brutality and police abuse in general. It's not just black people who get regularly shit on by the cops. But by making it all about race, the more general point is missed and no progress is made.
Another example, you get Biden paying lip service to trans rights, but nothing about introducing Medicare For All - which would actually make things better for everyone, including those with gender dysphoria who require access to healthcare professionals.
Of course, people who see all the country's problems through an identity politics lens don't like it when you point out things like this.
> Some people's politics is other people's human rights.
Yeah but this all started because some of the more hysterical employees started saying nonsense like: a list of funny customer names is the first step towards genocide. Some people's politics are just retarded.
It's ridiculous isn't it, how these flawed stances became some sort of woke orthodoxy in recent years.
Another jarring instance of this is, they'll all go on about how important mental health and neurodiversiry is and blah blah blah, but as soon as the office autist steps out of line and says the 'wrong' thing, they all pounce on him relentlessly and without mercy. I mean, just look at how RMS was treated, simply for expressing his honest opinions. Hounded out of his job.
No dissent allowed in this new religion.