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| Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: paulca on July 21, 2020, 02:02:53 pm --- --- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on July 21, 2020, 01:01:56 pm ---Jesus Christ. --- End quote --- Yes Dad? --- End quote --- I am your Farter. |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: daqq on July 21, 2020, 11:59:33 am --- --- Quote from: julianhigginson on July 21, 2020, 10:26:40 am ---I love how reactionary Conservatives virtue signal by crying about how other people are virtue signalling. It's hilarious. Anyway, point of my two links I posted on this topic today is it looks like despite the collective tantrum and echo chambering we are seeing in here from a handful of dedicated reactionaries and a couple of impressionable followers, it's gaining momentum in the real world. --- End quote --- First of all, I am not a conservative. I have a mix of views, some of which would be considered very liberal, some of which would be considered somewhat conservative. To summarize your post: A bunch of rabid SJW screaming their heads off and calling everyone around an insensitive racist because the world does not immediately bend to their whims, whilst they desperately try to find racism in terms like blacklist/whitelist: Not a tantrum. Concerned engineers that would prefer to avoid the mess that can arise from changing a century's worth of documentation, terms etc. who do not see the inherit value in appealing to the hypersensitive fringe: A tantrum. --- End quote --- Oof, nailed the executive summary there. And the only place it's "gaining momentum" is within a small echo chamber, and a couple of manufacturers who sniffed the woke points on offer. And that novelty will die off if it hasn't already. The rest of the industry carries on totally oblivious to any of this happening, or just rolling their eyes and carrying on. I see Adafruit still have 14 pages worth of products and articles containing "slave", and they push social justice harder than anyone. It's plastered on every page header, and as a gigantic banner on every blog page. |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Simon on July 21, 2020, 12:57:36 pm ---It's a question of where you stand, if your on the extreme left you just call everyone right wing because we have lost a sense of diversity and nuance. People on the one hand think I am left wing when I defends peoples rights and right wing when I want to see accountability in the general population and law enforcement. I am neither but it's all gone black/white these days - oops who did I just offend there...... --- End quote --- I always thought about doing a video going through that political compass test. It wouldn't have battered an eyelid 5 years ago, but now people are so hyper sensitive the response would either be rabid outrage, or shear disbelief that I'm not *insert -ist term here*. The hyper sensitive rabid outrage would be multiplied by several orders of magnitude if posted on twitter. And that's not an exaggeration. And I have always considered myself quite far left, until the Overton window shifted so far left it fell off a communist cliff. I'm still standing where I always have, but I need binoculars to see the new age crazy town. |
| SerieZ:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on July 21, 2020, 02:32:52 pm --- --- Quote from: Simon on July 21, 2020, 12:57:36 pm ---It's a question of where you stand, if your on the extreme left you just call everyone right wing because we have lost a sense of diversity and nuance. People on the one hand think I am left wing when I defends peoples rights and right wing when I want to see accountability in the general population and law enforcement. I am neither but it's all gone black/white these days - oops who did I just offend there...... --- End quote --- I always thought about doing a video going through that political compass test. It wouldn't have battered an eyelid 5 years ago, but now people are so hyper sensitive the response would either be rabid outrage, or shear disbelief that I'm not *insert -ist term here*. The hyper sensitive rabid outrage would be multiplied by several orders of magnitude if posted on twitter. And that's not an exaggeration. And I have always considered myself quite far left, until the Overton window shifted so far left it fell off a communist cliff. I'm still standing where I always have, but I need binoculars to see the new age crazy town. --- End quote --- I think most quite everyone considers themselves a leftist because it sounds quite right... until it gets to your own Pockets and Property. :-// The Test could be a fun Gag, maybe do it on Aprils Fools - because that what Western Politics has evolved into. |
| SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: Simon on July 21, 2020, 12:57:36 pm ---It's a question of where you stand, if your on the extreme left you just call everyone right wing because we have lost a sense of diversity and nuance. People on the one hand think I am left wing when I defends peoples rights and right wing when I want to see accountability in the general population and law enforcement. I am neither but it's all gone black/white these days - oops who did I just offend there...... --- End quote --- Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher |
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