Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks

Re:Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks by RickJWag on Friday December 01, 2017 @03:59PM (#15827404)

The same argument could be made about liberals and BSC.

For instance, all the sex-and-ethnicity choosing going on. Totally without scientific merit, yet the left behaves as if it's science.

The pendulum swings both ways. Trump's election is a direct result of left-side hysteria and over-reach.

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Re:Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks by hsod on Friday December 01, 2017 @04:28PM (#15827676)

> ethnicity choosing going on. Totally without scientific merit, yet the left behaves as if it's science.

Are you suggesting that "transracialism" is treated as science or supported by anything approaching the mainstream left?

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Re:Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks by RickJWag on Friday December 01, 2017 @05:03PM (#15828039)

Yes. I haven't seen anyone on the left disputing or disparaging it.

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Re:Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks by SauciestGNU on Friday December 01, 2017 @06:11PM (#15828611)

And that could be an attitudinal thing. Why should I care about how someone else personally identifies? Why should I be disparaging about something that will have minimal or no effect on me?

I think this is part of why some conservatives find themselves unwelcome. Being outwardly disparaging toward people does not make you friends.

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Re:Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks by RickJWag on Friday December 01, 2017 @06:33PM (#15828757)

I'm offering an alternative view of "bat shit crazy".

It may be harmless (as you correctly point out), but it is not tethered to reality.

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Re:Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks by hsod on Friday December 01, 2017 @06:31PM (#15828727)

Fascinating. Have you seen the mainstream left be actively accepting of it?

Rachel Dolezal (by far the most famous case that I know of) was pilloried by the left for cultural appropriation:

https://www.google.com/search?ei=x-UhWuymEIyojwOc6Kz4Bw&q=ra...

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Re:Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks by RickJWag on Friday December 01, 2017 @08:26PM (#15829476)

Thanks for providing the search link. By my reading, a lot of those are sympathetic to Dolezal, not critical.

Shouldn't there be universal condemnation?

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Re:Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks by krapp on Friday December 01, 2017 @08:42PM (#15829556)

Why should there be universal condemnation or acceptance?

"The left" is not a spec or rigidly defined ideological canon that all "leftists" conform to. As with "the right", "capitalists", "socialists" or any other political or cultural generalization, actual "leftists" can comprise a spectrum of acceptance or disagreement.

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Re:Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks by r00fus on Friday December 01, 2017 @07:19PM (#15829059)

What, pray tell, is BSC?

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Re:Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks by RickJWag on Friday December 01, 2017 @08:27PM (#15829481)

"bat shit crazy".

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Re:Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks by owebmaster on Friday December 01, 2017 @04:21PM (#15827616)

And his road to impeachment looks like the next swing.

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Re:Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks by RickJWag on Friday December 01, 2017 @05:04PM (#15828053)

That may be. But I think the left will be even unhappier with Mr. Pence in office.

Remember, Trump was a Democrat for a long while before he was a Republican. (IMHO, he became a Republican solely because it was the easier party to hijack at the time.)

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Re:Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks by owebmaster on Friday December 01, 2017 @06:13PM (#15828618)

I agree with you, I just said the fact. I don't agree with it. I'm a communist so I don't think the liberal "left" in the US is really a left wing thing. It is more like a pendulum swinging right to right.

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