Minds have been changed on a lot of things that are pretty wild lately, in a short span of time. If this stuff continues, there might be further pretty wild changes of mind.
>But Reddit's messaging has angered some employees who were given high marks in evaluations and then let go.
Yeah, managers often damn with faint praise. If your evaluation is full of soft language about how great you are instead of specific metrics on what you've accomplished, you're not doing well.
A person I worked with was featured in an interview at one point about workplace discrimination. He showed the interviewer one of his old evals intended to evidence his value as an employee. It featured a lot of flowery language like "works well with others" and praising him for being on time.
Meanwhile the dude was a useless narcissist. If you looked closely at the eval sitting on the table in the interview, you could see that the "lacks competence" block was checked. There's no way the interviewer didn't notice it.
Reddit really seems like a dead-man-walking company. There are too many problems with it - socially, organizationally, and culturally. In the company, but especially on the platform.
They're the most rabidly exclusive platform on the internet, and that seems to intensify year over year because the community is locked in a purity spiral of particular ideologies that don't seem to have a limit.
They're also extremely exposed to regulation right now. Moreso than any other platform (including TikTok) you can easily find content on Reddit encouraging children to engage in harmful behaviors and adopt extreme and bizarre ideas. And Reddit communities are more often than not led and controlled by people who are completely unknown, but somehow are able to spend career-level amounts of time maintaining their fiefdoms.
It's not great. Reddit was really good in the late 2000's when it was constrained to young nerds. Now it's something gross and weird.
If it's not for children, why is it in school libraries? The problem is not that it exists. The problem is that it is being put in school libraries. If you read it you will likely see why. It literally has graphical depictions of children engaging in what would be considered hardcore pornography in any other context.
I can self-describe liquor as a "natural sleep aid for young adults", that doesn't change the fact that it is liquor and has no place in a high school vending machine.
There's a difference between teaching about Jim Crow laws - which we absolutely should - and teaching ideological notions that cast white people as categorical racists and black people as categorical victims. Or teaching that white conquest of the North America is somehow an egregious reflection on white people, while omitting or downplaying Native Americans' tendencies for brutal tribalism amongst themselves. Human history is one of violence and conquest, between individuals, tribes, and nations.
That's the cutting line here - teaching historical narratives is what we should do. Teaching ideological narratives derived from CRT are not appropriate for K-12.
I have no idea if criminal tendency is innate. And frankly I think such a discussion has no place in K-12 education, even if it were just a plain fact that black people were somehow inherently predisposed to criminality. They're Americans, they're part of our mix.
But 12 year olds do not have the reasoning capacity to handle that issue. It's not "age-appropriate" for 12 year olds to be introduced to such topics in elementary school. Just like gender theory.