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Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o... by hef19898 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @04:18AM (#23549082)
And for some strange reason, for equal-rights activists it is abad thing to make a living and earn money fighting for these rights. The usual argument is always "they are paid to further an agenda", indirectly undermining the message, the messanger and the issue at hand.

This doesn't seem to aplly for the otherside. People like Alex Jones make a load of money representing the opposite opinion. For him, making money all of a sudden isn#t a problem anymore.

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Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o... by the_omegist on Thursday June 18, 2020 @11:32AM (#23564009)
No. It's perfectly fine (and even amazing) to make a living from a cause that is important to you.

But it's disingenuous to believe that activists 1) will not see what "obsess" them everywhere (that's a common psychological bias) and 2) will not try to make their cause as important as they can by inflating the numbers.

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