Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intolerant’ Liberal Culture

Re:Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intoleran... by mwfunk on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @09:23PM (#17864498)

Nothing has changed with regard to reasonable people reasonably disagreeing over reasonable differences. The Overton Window has changed for sure, but that's what it does. I struggle to think of any perspective that has moved out of the Overton Window over the past 10 years that I regret losing. If anything the Overton Window has moved backwards in recent years to better accommodate the Alex Joneses of the world, but I don't see how that's a good thing.

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Re:Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intoleran... by eli_gottlieb on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @10:13PM (#17864863)

>The Overton Window has changed for sure, but that's what it does. I struggle to think of any perspective that has moved out of the Overton Window over the past 10 years that I regret losing.

Honestly, I want the Overton Window to be consistent with what people actually do in real life. I've begun to grow uncomfortable with a political environment in which we all need to hash-tag #AbolishICE, when we all know that the actual abolition of the American border is outside the Overton Window for the solid reasons that nobody has come up with a plan to do it, including the people leading the hash-tag campaigns.

If we are to have an Overton Window, I want it to be the same one for rhetoric, actions, and policies. I don't want this world we're getting where we all mouth extremist rhetoric and then pass mild reformist touch-ups to the status quo.

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Re:Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intoleran... by damnyou on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @03:22PM (#17870954)

* Abolishing ICE doesn't require abolishing the border entirely, just abolishing a police force that gets as much funding as the FBI even though it is dedicated to one small subset of violations.

* It is OK to have ideals that you work towards while knowing that you won't necessarily reach them.

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Re:Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intoleran... by taneq on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @09:54PM (#17864711)

Peoples' definition of 'reasonable' has absolutely changed. That's essentially what the Overton Window describes: The set of viewpoints which are considered 'reasonable'.

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