From the article. How odd that a partisan issue would occur at the exact same rates on both sides.
I am actually starting to see a backlash against the politicization of the workplace and think Coinbase got it right, personally. At the end of the day, companies are not college campuses. Trying to turn it into one makes the company uncomfortable, less productive and just... weird. See the recent flare ups at Google, which is hardly a bastion of conservative thought, as an example.
I edited my post.
I'd like to think conservative doesn't necessarily come with the persecution complex and lack of coherence on display in your comment. I can think of a few counterexamples.
A few.
(Mind you, I'm skeptical; in general I find a lot of $POLITICAL_DESIGNATION thought falls short, and `conservative` thought more than average. But there are exceptions and they often turn out to be really illuminating, so I try to keep an eye out.)
Realize that this cuts both ways. This sentiment, and the various more extreme versions of it, are why I don't typically say things that sound left/liberal in real life.
I think that's fundamentally a side-effect of the "regulate decency by voting with your wallet and advocating others do the same" mantra of neoliberalism and libertarianism.
People's attitude towards this has always bugged me - "if you really believed that, you'd put your money where your mouth is", and yet somehow e.g. vegans (no, I'm not vegan) are the butt of jokes instead of held up as people who are morally responsible with their spending.
Like, which is it? It seems to me like people adore the concept, but love to hate on any actual people who meet that concept.
I have not noticed as much militant veganism in the last few years, perhaps because the people I associate with are older and wiser, or maybe I am just going deaf.
Eg: “if one of your dinner guests is a vegan crossfitter, which do they tell you about first?”
But thank you for your efforts in attempting to mock my argument rather than address it.
Virtue signaling is like tryinf to help people see in the dark by shining the flashlight you're carrying in their eyes.
It's no longer safe to have an opinion that's not mainstream.
It's held against you.
If a company is trawling your private opinions on social media, then they're not just opinions, they're public statements. Maybe they ought not to be, but they are.
Of course, your main point stands that companies generally shouldn't hire based on an employee's political opinions (unless it's a PR/representative position or such), outspoken or not, but let's use the correct terminology here:
publicly stating political stuff under your real name is more than just "having an opinion".
You're reasoning as if only "political" speech is relevant, but everything can be made "political stuff". Saying the words "master bedroom" is considered racist now. What will be racist tomorrow? No one knows. What is racist today that I don't yet know is racist? What is considered racist by one group if I say it but racist by others if I don't say it (Silence is violence and all that)?
Of course anyone can get fired for saying "master bedroom" or absolutely anything else if it's said to be racist. I could agree with your take if the dialogue around those terms was that they were merely harmless. But that is not the dialogue. They are being labeled racist, and being racist naturally implies that they must be stamped out along with the people that say "racist" things. The entire point of labeling things "racist" rather than "tactless" is so that the dogma of the week can be enforced with actual consequences. You can't get a Twitter mob together for someone being tactless, but you can absolutely do it to someone that's "racist".
One problem is that the conservatives in national politics or state politics who are not Trump fans have to a large extent gone silent on any issues in which they disagree with Trump, at least publicly, for the last four years. That tends to give people the impression that being a conservative does mean you're a Trump fan.
Sounds like it’s more of a range than black and white. Some conservatives and progressives have always been quiet.
People from both sides of the political divide have lost their job.
Do we need to run the list of political positions that the GOP holds that would hardly be called conservative? Drill baby drill?
Incongruity between rhetoric and behavior is pretty obvious.
Perhaps that the national party you support has kids in cages, suspended Habeus corpus under GW, and is at least in part carrying on about overturning an election plays into the view?
Barr is the one who said whoever wins gets to write the rules. I wonder if politicians are simply using words as a political tool.
Just to be clear… I don't like Trump, and didn't vote for him. Being a conservative does NOT mean you're a Trump fan.
But here's the real issue… if you're not someone progressive (or on the hard left) the VAST majority of people will not even converse with you. Game over. Discourse is dead, if you don't fall between the lines.
You don't have an acceptable thought, your viewpoints are not welcome here.
Every conservative I've talked to has been willing to discuss and differ and disagree, and peacefully coexist with those with whom they have differences with.
The left? My experience has been that they will scream in your face. Your opinion does not matter unless you agree with them completely.
You get shouted down.
You get fired from your job.
You get branded as a racist.
JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE CONSERVATIVE.
It's no wonder people are afraid to express themselves.
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