spamuel
"No one could have predicted the outcome of the instruction set we put in - which was followed precisely and in predictable fashion."
This isn't an exaggeration.
Yeah, managers often damn with faint praise. If your evaluation is full of soft language about how great you are instead of specific metrics on what you've accomplished, you're not doing well.
A person I worked with was featured in an interview at one point about workplace discrimination. He showed the interviewer one of his old evals intended to evidence his value as an employee. It featured a lot of flowery language like "works well with others" and praising him for being on time.
Meanwhile the dude was a useless narcissist. If you looked closely at the eval sitting on the table in the interview, you could see that the "lacks competence" block was checked. There's no way the interviewer didn't notice it.
They're the most rabidly exclusive platform on the internet, and that seems to intensify year over year because the community is locked in a purity spiral of particular ideologies that don't seem to have a limit.
They're also extremely exposed to regulation right now. Moreso than any other platform (including TikTok) you can easily find content on Reddit encouraging children to engage in harmful behaviors and adopt extreme and bizarre ideas. And Reddit communities are more often than not led and controlled by people who are completely unknown, but somehow are able to spend career-level amounts of time maintaining their fiefdoms.
It's not great. Reddit was really good in the late 2000's when it was constrained to young nerds. Now it's something gross and weird.
If it's not for children, why is it in school libraries? The problem is not that it exists. The problem is that it is being put in school libraries. If you read it you will likely see why. It literally has graphical depictions of children engaging in what would be considered hardcore pornography in any other context.
I can self-describe liquor as a "natural sleep aid for young adults", that doesn't change the fact that it is liquor and has no place in a high school vending machine.
That's the cutting line here - teaching historical narratives is what we should do. Teaching ideological narratives derived from CRT are not appropriate for K-12.
"It's a good thing it's happening."
I have no idea if criminal tendency is innate. And frankly I think such a discussion has no place in K-12 education, even if it were just a plain fact that black people were somehow inherently predisposed to criminality. They're Americans, they're part of our mix.
But 12 year olds do not have the reasoning capacity to handle that issue. It's not "age-appropriate" for 12 year olds to be introduced to such topics in elementary school. Just like gender theory.
Oh, you meant on sexual dimorphism and crime statistics? None. It's not even clear that Florida now criminalizes those discussions. But you would certainly be fired in California if you dared to biologically define human beings, or discuss incarceration rates as a product of criminal tendency.
This isn't about Romeo and Juliet. Do you have a better way to describe those kinds of books? Or do you support having "Genderqueer" in elementary school libraries?
Right now it's commonplace to erase the notion of biological sex in favor of dubious social ideas like gender theory. Individual equality has given way to the notion of inter-generational, categorical racial guilt. Democrats are not holding back, they're forcing pretty extreme ideology on society. Stuff that was just the blithering non-sense of Tumblr blogs a decade ago is now mandatory for your children.
People who want to be left alone will be trounced by people who want to win. If you're content to just not make a fuss, you are going to find yourself being subjected to people who do not hold that view.
James Comey said a true thing - Hillary Clinton was under investigation for using a personally owned and possessed BES for official state department communications, which she destroyed when the FBI wanted to review its contents because what she was doing was illegal and a huge security problem. She was never charged.
And then the FBI went on to pretend well after they knew otherwise that the Clinton-fabricated Steele dossier might be legitimate.
For three years they used the FBI to threaten his family and jail his friends under an investigation into what we now know was a political campaign weapon falsified by the Clinton campaign. And the FBI knew that immediately as well. With Adam Schiff out there every day swearing that behind closed doors with the intelligence community he knew of big things that were going to come to light any day now.
But it worked. The political weapon did exactly what it was supposed to do.
Moreso than the right, it broke the left into the hyper-defensive ideological mess that it is right now. Fully embracing things that were mere crackpot ideas of their most wild-eyed constituents in the Obama years.