Re:Heresy
by seaourfreed on Sunday April 10, 2022 @06:16PM
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Paul posted this because people are getting fired from their jobs now (directly or indirectly).
See his words: "Nowadays, in civilized countries, heretics only get fired in the metaphorical sense, by losing their jobs. ... You could have spent the last ten years saving children's lives, but if you express certain opinions, you're automatically fired."
People on the political right have moderate discussions and they are banded aggressively. Here are two examples:
* James Woods had 137,000 subscribers removed in two days, by twitter admins
* Ron Pauls' entire YouTube channel was censored and removed.
This is the "Heretic hunting" point Paul Graham is making.
Re:Heresy
by tomnipotent on Sunday April 10, 2022 @09:47PM
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The political left using this "heretic" tactic is relatively new, and if it's effective it's because the political right honed it for decades against women, LGBT, foreigners, non-Christians, and any other group they didn't want buying property next to them.
What could help solve this? Real reconciliation of the different perspectives. There’s a common overlap: we all want to live, and we all have nonzero ignorance.
The tragedy is that the inordinately rich like paulg continue to divide with these self-serving essays instead of helping other to grapple with the K-shaped recovery we’re in now. The place to innovate now is not in blue-sky futurism but to innovate the recovery of those who COVID hit the hardest.