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  • While I am sure there are many people for whom it’s not true for, but making a point out of ‘look, even jews are protesting against themselves, surely I’m not antisemitic for wanting the same thing’ seems to be a phrase you need to publish if you are unsure if you are a racist.

    I sometimes fish around these posts and check for good faith dialogue, but it’s usually just seething and steam release. I can’t really be angry with anyone seeing red, as it is a truly atrocious situation. It’s just hard to see racism spill through and being upvoted.







  • their family’s entire biological blueprint

    I don’t believe this part holds up. The type of sequencing you’re talking about is an incredibly labor- and time-intensive task. The good folk at these fastfood laboratories are just comparing historical markers and shooting off a list of what those markers tell about you.

    It still remains to be seen if insurance companies will eat this data up or not, but they will have trouble providing any justification for dismissing claims without sounding pretty racist.





  • I still feel that if they are doing a good job and not harrassing people at work, they deserve the money. The way you put it makes me feel like I am talking about funding the third reich.

    Even if they are chanelling all the funds into an active genocidal army, I stand to argue the problem is not with me paying the developer. There are definitely nuances we can get into, like the ‘enabler’ character from the 12 steps lore. I am very much not dying on this hill, I might be wrong.

    I see the thin line I am dancing on in this argument. Having bigot opinions go unchallenged on large platforms leads to problems.

    I wouldn’t want to work with someone who can barely wait to kill me and take over the company because of something I was born with as soon he gets the green light from society. But is this what we are talking about?

    We can’t let the hate take over, but I don’t see the solution in cutting off blood circulation to an uncooperating limb. One can argue that nazism is a gangrenous infection, but I personally think it’s a symptom of great discontent and a narrow perspective. Maybe I’m just slow to draw the same conclusions everyone else has from the paradox of tolerance.


  • Hey, I’m coming from a heavily utilitarian view, so please allow for that in my question.

    Let’s say there is a pro coder who is amazing at debugging, but is incredibly antisemitic. They have little to no interactions with colleagues and are keeping the hate to the appropriate boards (X, I believe it’s called nowadays). Should we contract his work and apply it where applicable?