drovo9 | 8 years ago | on: Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon Valley ‘Echo Chamber’
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drovo9 | 8 years ago | on: Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon Valley ‘Echo Chamber’
<blockquote>For example, look at the US right's decades-long pursuit of anti-GLBTQ policies. Gay people mostly just want to be left alone to live their lives.</blockquote>
Being left alone is all I ever wanted as a gay man. But the gay rights activists are demanding all sorts of positive rights and privileges from the government, and worse yet, they are trying to do it in my name.
drovo9 | 8 years ago | on: Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon Valley ‘Echo Chamber’
I'm an immigrant. After 20 years in the Bay Area, I'm calling it quits. There are practical reasons, like the high taxes, high cost of living, and widespread social dysfunction and conflicts. But the biggest problem with the Bay Area isn't a left-right issue, it's that it is filled with techies who went from college to being very well off without the usual decades of struggle, without a lot of life experience, and without much knowledge beyond technology. These people will never grow up, because they have enough wealth and power that nothing will ever force them to grow up. Quite apart from running the Bay Area into the ground, those are simply not the kind of people I want to work with or socialize with.
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The "paradox of tolerance" is only a paradox if you assume that society can determine objectively for its citizens what constitutes "tolerant" and "intolerant" behavior; such societies are by necessity totalitarian.
In a free society, there is no paradox of tolerance; in free societies, individuals make their own choices and judgments about each other, and there are many different, conflicting views about which choices are tolerant and which are intolerant.