Silicon Valley pastor decries hypocrisy of area's rich liberals

Re:Silicon Valley pastor decries hypocrisy of area's rich li... by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @11:33AM (#17126669)

These labels are all fuzzy, so self identification is the only reliable way of applying labels in any sense. For example, if the Chinese communist party says they are communist, why would you want to argue with them?

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Re:Silicon Valley pastor decries hypocrisy of area's rich li... by dragonwriter on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @05:46PM (#17129682)

> These labels are all fuzzy,

True

> so self identification is the only reliable way of applying labels in any sense

No, it's not. Self-identification is one of many ways of operationalizing a categorization, and it's useful for some purposes but not others. You can also operationalize by sets of concrete policies, which is useful for different purposes. And there are other options.

The relevant basis of categorization depends on the purpose of categorization.

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Re:Silicon Valley pastor decries hypocrisy of area's rich li... by called_it on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @01:30PM (#17127742)

If you claimed your comment was in French instead of English, even though I can clearly see it's in English, why wouldn't I disagree?

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Re:Silicon Valley pastor decries hypocrisy of area's rich li... by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @05:37PM (#17129625)

False equivalence. Language isn't a subjective language, ideology most definitely is.

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