The Yale Problem Begins in High School

Re:The Yale Problem Begins in High School by kafkaesq on Saturday November 28, 2015 @05:42PM (#10642821)

Nobody protested Eich for privately "holding" a particular point of view. Their concern was around his donating money (and implicitly, legitimacy) to groups they felt were engaged in various harmful activities (running TV ads with derogatory rhetoric, for example).

The two phenomena are very different. You understand this - yes?

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Re:The Yale Problem Begins in High School by ta0o0o0 on Saturday November 28, 2015 @07:55PM (#10643259)

Fine, but that's not what you wrote above.

And so then we're back to demanding that a defeated political opponent repent. "Here is our political issue, you advocated against it, you lost, so now you must beg our forgiveness or lose your job which is completely unrelated to the issue."

Like I said, that's not the world I want to live in. If others like it they are welcome to it, but then they shouldn't start complaining if abortion-rights advocates are fired from their jobs in the American South.

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Re:The Yale Problem Begins in High School by kafkaesq on Sunday November 29, 2015 @07:02PM (#10646766)

Fine, but that's not what you wrote above.

True, it wasn't the exact quote you cherry-picked. But it was the main point of what I was saying, if you look at my remarks collectively.

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