Re:Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks
by RickJWag on Friday December 01, 2017 @05:03PM
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Yes. I haven't seen anyone on the left disputing or disparaging it.
Re:Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks
by SauciestGNU on Friday December 01, 2017 @06:11PM
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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.
Re:Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks
by RickJWag on Friday December 01, 2017 @06:33PM
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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.
Re:Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks
by hsod on Friday December 01, 2017 @06:31PM
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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...
Re:Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks
by RickJWag on Friday December 01, 2017 @08:26PM
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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?
Re:Silicon Valley Struggles to Add Conservatives to Its Ranks
by krapp on Friday December 01, 2017 @08:42PM
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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.
Are you suggesting that "transracialism" is treated as science or supported by anything approaching the mainstream left?