Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[garbon]

I don't think that's a problem either.

[Martinus]

Imagine the same post made by an employee of a mayor publication but with the whole room being just men (mostly white men), and with smileys referring to some sort of "male power".

[garbon]

Well I don't need to imagine that meeting as that's mostly what happens. No one would even do what you are suggesting because it is so typical. But yes, that would be sexist given the history and current state of affairs around the genders in the workplace.

[DGuller]

I'm with Marti on this one.  Confusing equality of opportunity with equality of outcomes is bad enough, but passing off gross inequality in both as equality is Orwellian.  I swear, it's like the universe is conspiring to shake my liberal beliefs by constantly throwing such nonsense at me.

[garbon]

If your beliefs can be shaken by such, perhaps they aren't all that deeply held to begin with.

[Martinus]

Thanks to people like garbon I can't wait for Trump to win the elections.

[garbon]

Thanks to people like garbon I can't wait for Trump to win the elections.

Childish poster is childish. News at 11.

[DGuller]

If your beliefs can be shaken by such, perhaps they aren't all that deeply held to begin with.

No, I think Orwellian doublespeak, or blatant double standards, are pretty big issues.  I'm a liberal mainly because I like to think for myself, and because I think society functions best when it permits and encourages people to think for themselves. 

That reason goes away if liberal thought becomes permeated just different kinds of groupthinks.  One of the most effective ways to control how people think is to control the language;  "diversity' is a good word, so let's define "diversity" as "percentage of people that are not white and male".  It's disgusting and alarming.

[garbon]

It's disgusting and alarming.

OK, Tim.

[Martinus]

If your beliefs can be shaken by such, perhaps they aren't all that deeply held to begin with.

No, I think Orwellian doublespeak, or blatant double standards, are pretty big issues.  I'm a liberal mainly because I like to think for myself, and because I think society functions best when it permits and encourages people to think for themselves. 

That reason goes away if liberal thought becomes permeated just different kinds of groupthinks.  One of the most effective ways to control how people think is to control the language;  "diversity' is a good word, so let's define "diversity" as "percentage of people that are not white and male".  It's disgusting and alarming.

Like Humpty Dumpty said, it's about who is the master - if you redefine the language, you redefine reality. This has been the "regressive left's" tactics for decades, with everything from rape to diversity to fascism.

[DGuller]

When it comes to 'fascism", it's a whole lot simpler.  Usually when people say "fascist" they mean "authoritarian", but "authoritarian" neither rolls off the tongue well, nor is it even easy to type.  So there is temptation to go with a much easier word, even though it is technically not very applicable.

[Razgovory]

No, I think Orwellian doublespeak, or blatant double standards, are pretty big issues.  I'm a liberal mainly because I like to think for myself, and because I think society functions best when it permits and encourages people to think for themselves. 

I imagine Berkut disagrees.

[Capetan Mihali]

Luckily, there's real leftism, which holds as little truck with self-congratulatory identity politics as the right does.  We want to put the majority -- workers -- into power, not this minority or that, especially not when that group is an extraordinarily privileged one like the one pictured.

[grumbler]

If your beliefs can be shaken by such, perhaps they aren't all that deeply held to begin with.

So, what you are saying is that we have always been at war with EastAsia?

It is always fascinating to watch the hypocritical at work.

[garbon]

If your beliefs can be shaken by such, perhaps they aren't all that deeply held to begin with.

So, what you are saying is that we have always been at war with EastAsia?

It is always fascinating to watch the hypocritical at work.

I'm sorry but I don't follow you at all.

I do think there is something wrong with having one's beliefs shaken by a tweet.