This sounds like the worst of both worlds. Vehemently pro-choice employees are unlikely to be placated, and pro-lifers are going to boycott the company anyway.
It's cool that it's open-sourced, but I've never been impressed with the content. Even when an article is about a topic I'm interested in, it's hard to get past the Buzzfeed-style "How do you do, fellow kids?" tone.
I remember seeing one of these signs in 2013. I was immediately intrigued since, outside of facebook and craigslist, there was very little web activity in my state, much less my impoverished hometown of 4000. The fact that the town's name was misspelled in the URL was even more interesting.
I also tracked the source down to NuStar Solutions. After a bit of digging, I found that just before the signs went up, a Craigslist ad was posted looking for a local to place signs around town. Not long after, there was a "response" ad posted by the person who had placed the signs, warning others that it was a scam and that they hadn't received payment for it.
You have the theory reversed. It's that hookworms caused lethargy, which was perceived as laziness. As a result, the southern accent has become associated with laziness.
Personally, I think it's more related to negative opinions about the South following the Civil War, which is why even upper-class southern accents face the same stigma.
> Generally, we remain neutral as to the content because our general council and CEO like to say that we are the free speech wing of the free speech party.
You're confusing the First Amendment with the principle of Free Speech.
When it comes to privately owned forums, they may have absolute control over what is acceptable to say, but those who disagree with their policies are perfectly justified in criticizing them for violating the principle of free speech.
But it isn't even as black and white as you say from a legal standpoint. There is precedent (Marsh v. Alabama) for the owners of a publicly-used, privately-owned space to have their rights limited in order to protect the constitutional rights of persons using the space. The same principle could apply to sites as large as Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit.
It is presently endemic among the left rather than the right. That doesn't mean it's intrinsically related to the other ideas associated with the left.
> Rejection of the mainstream as an ideology just leads to the acceptance of an alternative mainstream and alternative orthodoxy. There is no true "free" thought, everyone is bound to some framework of prejudice and bias.
> Identity politics flying the flag of "free thought, only so long as you reject the mainstream and the left" still seems to me to be identity politics.
The rebuke here is aimed at the left's hostility to dissenting political opinions, not against the left's political opinions as such. That's the distinction.
To your first point, all I can say is that I doubt it. I see a lot of moderate liberals becoming more conservative. It's anecdotal, of course, but it's everywhere.
> the best way to describe what you call conversion of liberals is radicalization of the youth
That might be accurate if Shapiro or Peterson were radical conservatives. Both fall squarely into the "social liberal" category.
> It's not like these members of the inaccurately titled "Intellectual Dark Web" are actually interested in changing anyone's mind.
This is incredibly disingenous. That is exactly what they're trying to do, and quite successfully. Peterson's book sales are skyrocketing, and not among convinced rightists. Browse any conservative forum and you'll find that the vast majority of the new wave of conservatives are former liberals who were convinced by these people.
In other words, several diverse groups of people, engaging in respectful disagreement, are complaining about another group for being disrespectful in its disagreement.
It sounds like your Model-T reference is being applied in the wrong direction.
Am I missing the racial component here? It just sounds like a very religious woman who was concerned about them wearing metal shirts. I've had people freak out over the same thing, as have my metalhead friends. All white.
> Lately, I've had a text editor opened up separate from my code editor where I kind of document my train of thought - especially on fuzzy, complex stuff.
I do something similar. I have a dedicated to-do app, but I like having a more freeform text log as well. On a Mac, https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes works well.
Just want to point anyone looking to test their own VPN to https://ipleak.net/. That's been my go-to, and it seems more comprehensive than the linked service.
> There's a difference between advancing your political beliefs and not accepting the current status, and participating in antisocial behaviour in response
I'm a little unclear on what you're talking about here. What antisocial behavior in particular? I'm part of that 20%, and wondering at what point does expressing my opinion become "antisocial".
For reference, roughly 6% of the population is vegan[1]. Are they antisocial for protesting what is, in their opinion, murder?
I actually agree with a lot of this. If I thought that 15 random wild-west fantasists could pull of a coup, I'd see more of an issue with the right to own guns.
But the point isn't that when the government comes for me in particular, I can stop them. It's that when the government does something so horrific that the citizenry as a whole decides to do something, they can. Local, ad-hoc militias across the country could definitely get the job done.
I have a racially ambiguous look and jarringly foreign name, and haven't experienced much other than innocent "what [race] are you" and "what country are you from" questions. The biggest issues I had when moving to the country were cultural.
I grew up in Texas, then Mississippi, for reference.
> There are very few high paying jobs
> There is limited access to medical care
> Local government ineptitude has a very real daily impact
> Small tax base means surprisingly high taxes, but real struggle to maintain infrastructure (especially schools)
Sounds like poor white and poor black Americans face fairly similar issues.
> “Traditional” upbringing, often religious based, that breed skepticism toward anything “foreign” - which means everything from non-white people to AirBnB.
The xenophobia of rural whites is vastly oversold. I've never heard of anyone around here afraid of AirBnB. The level of racism I've seen in white communities is on par with the level I've seen in black communities. Which is to say that there's an undercurrent, but not a hysteria.
> A fear that Washington DC really is a threat to their freedoms.
Do urban Americans really not feel this way? It certainly seemed otherwise during the summer of surveillance.
> For example, there is a view that gun laws aren’t really about guns, so much as a perception of a slippery slope toward totalitarianism.
It's not that gun laws aren't about guns. It's that the rights of citizens to defend themselves against a tyrannical government _should one arise_ is important enough to be included in our Bill of Rights. I still don't understand how those who believe that our current president is a totalitarian monster can't sympathize.