@M.A.R. Oh that was one of my previous mentors - I was telling him how I don't meet many of these "minimum requirements". And he said "hell with that, apply to everything you like, if they call you, tell them how you have those skills that they need even if you don't have a 'relevant position' mentioned in the requirements." So he told me to be more assertive ... like don't wait for people to write out a job requirement that fits you, go convince them that they need you ...
That is great motivational talk - would definitely work for me in basketball or martial arts - but I don't really have good enough skills at the professional level ...
oh shit here I go again with that negative self-appraisal ...
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@EddieKal That's morally authoritarian. To affect someone's livelihood because of their beliefs goes against the essence of freedom.
@GWarner three dashes, not two
@AIQ I think job hunting looks like that in Canada and the US, yes. Go watch Nightcrawler.
You need to be more of a capitalist.
@EddieKal heh, things like Trump are the result of an exploitably weak morale in the society. Those things appear often a generation after a gruelling war when people have started to wonder if being a self-centered arsehole is a happier life than working for the collective good. The only thing most people agree Trump has and might come up as the only enviable trait in some discussions with some people is his blind confidence.
You gotta pick your fights, there are people who you do NOT want to praise you. It'd be really depressing for me if Trump praises me.
My point is, there should be clear lines in the law of exhibiting discriminatory behavior. A cancer drug would have been developed faster and safer if it were not for the sexist culture of the company? There should be repercussions.
But to punish someone for what's in their head is exactly what democracies at least pretend to care about.
People were being persecuted for their supposed beliefs in Germany at 1930s. It wasn't what they did. That's the red line for me. You don't punish someone because they made a sexist joke.
Just like you shouldn't punish someone just because you suspect they might harbor anti-Islamic sentiment. And given Islamic history, I highly doubt being a nonbeliever used to be a capital offense.
If people just said terrible things, they'd be the drama bombs we see in the society today. Mostly useless people that cannot accept their responsibility for their failure.
In a lot of situations if you insist "It is just a joke!" and you forcefully make it possible that people who say terrible things can get away with them
Then it is always some people, people who are victimized, hurt, or otherwise affected by those things, that will be "punished"
Even in today's society, even when there are consequences for saying terrible things, those people still get hurt, they still get the short end of the stick
@EddieKal As another example, if incels were just angsty basement dwellers on the internet nobody would have given a flying f. And most people didn't. But then there was outright violence, shootings . . .
The internet is unhinged, and some sort of control seems very necessary at this point. But that issue is orthogonal to this one.
@EddieKal And once that effect is demonstrated, tangible harm is detected and the society has come to harm.
There's a difference between kicking me out of the internet because I blurted out "women can't cook" and the so-called comedians out there that'd make a career out of making fun of women, or men.
If someone growled at someone else at work that happened to be a woman they shouldn't fear consequences.
That's not what I'm seeing. I'm seeing Aziz Ansari's career impacted because a random self-proclaimed female on the internet said there was sex she didn't enjoy but didn't say anything about.
@M.A.R. The things comedians are able to say are amazing. I like more than half of them. Even the one that have said terrible things are still doing fine. Like that German comedian who hinted at a connection between Muslims and goat-fucking. That was racist AF. And he got a lot of support
So . . . I'm no governor of anything, and it's either this set of beliefs that I think sound reasonable. That, or most of the criticism of human rights is hypocritical BS except for a few instances in Saudi Arabia or China.
Because what's exactly happened and is happening in Iran, for example, is Baha'i people are discriminated against but it's not because of what they did.
It's because of some sort of conjured up moral setting, of course. And if we punish people who do not share our values it'd be the same "violation of human rights".
Say, by modern standards, imposing Christianity on children is abhorrent. Why is imposing political correctness any different? It's still a set of moral values. Punishing people for not upholding those values as a means of social control only makes sense if their belief has caused tangible harm, just like, say, vandalism of public property would.
@EddieKal Charlie Hebdo mocked the prophet and some core Islamic beliefs after the attack. They offended one and a half billion people and people cheered them for it because they were victims.
I mostly don't have any skin in the game, I just think these things shift progressivism from being a simple act of kindness to a political stance or a soon-to-fade zeitgeist, both of which can easily be argued against, unlike being nice. So it ultimately hurts those minorities
Coincidentally, I was ranting about the overrepresentation of the underrepresented there as well.
@M.A.R. My point was Trump has said terrible things and should've faced consequences long ago. A better solution (almost any solution is better than status quo) is fire his ass and put a new person in the WH (I am not too enthusiastic about Trump's prospective successor either)
@EddieKal AFAIK (I have never truly tried to figure him or his history out) he was always just an overly confident clown that everyone sneered at but this seems to have given him an aura of confidence.
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