Or is it now even prohibited to discriminate against yourself?
Normal rules apply - if you're a protected class it will be wrong regardless of how much sense it makes and if you're a white male then you should be discriminated against as you personally are responsible or benefited from all evil ever.
Because it's not a normal job. An informed public is elemental to a healthy democracy.
You do realize the danger of the government controlling the media directly right? If they were serious about this they would take pains to ensure a level playing field and that the all viewpoints were represented by people that actually understand them. More akin to this:
https://heterodoxacademy.org/
What I, and probably many others, suspect we would get is a left leaning America hating "official news" organization that shuts out all cisgender white males while loudly accusing others of discrimination.
forcing journalism to find a money stream has directly lead to billionaires fighting over the news they can pay for
Actually the current problem of all news being controlled by a single digit number of owners has more to do with Clinton's sins of the 90s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The problem with journalism being profit driven, especially in an age where news is basically a commodity that everyone gets for free, is that it corrupts it into a toxic mixture of outrage and hyper-partisan opinion.
When you look at the least biased, most reliable source of news and analysis they tend to be the ones that are not dependent on getting views - the BBC, and agencies like Reuters and AFP.
The sources you cite have an agenda, it's just a bit more subtle:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...https://www.investors.com/poli...
It's not unlike colleges that chased out all of the conservatives. They may not even realize just how biased they and and certainly other viewpoints must be wrong because all their friends and colleagues think the same way. It's like the worst of small town close mindedness but at a professional level.
The word liberal with a lower case "L" is something all newspapers should strive for. In case you don't realize it, a "liberal arts education" has nothing to do with a Liberal political stance. Perhaps you need one?
OP makes a valid point. By being so left leaning NPR has poisoned the well on broad public support for government funded journalism. When I occasionally listen to NPR it tends to be 98% of the time is spent on a liberal point of view with only a sentence or two that some disagree and a shallow and completely unexplored reason cited. Lopsided reporting shouldn't be publicly funded.
so wait, we actually NEED socialized medicine, like the rest of the progressive nations in Europe already have? the ones where you can walk in and they diagnose you and then they give you what you need without trying to make sure you keep coming back and then taxes pays for it all?
wow! somebody better tell our President because one of his goals is to repeal the closest step our country has ever taking in the right direction.
You can have mass low skilled immigration or you can have nice things. The party of open borders has decided that we can't have nice things.
The Democrats learned this from the 1994 Republican landslide after they passed the Brady Bill. When Obama tried to close the "gunshow loophole" after Sandy Hook, many politicians in his own party refused to support him.
Is that why California ranks almost dead-bottom for education and bottom for poverty level?
As much as I hate Cali: educational results can usually be explained by demographics, and Cali is no exception. This is especially true of states with a sizable ESL population: you're never going to get the same statistical educational outcomes from native English speakers and those who enter the educational system not speaking English.
Clearly the solution to this is to expand that ESL population via open borders.
That's just wildly untrue. "Don't ask, don't tell" is exactly the opposite of what you're describing, and that was an improvement over what came before it.
If you've never heard of someone getting fired for being an uppity negro then you live in a fantasy land. That was a commonplace thing for a long time, and probably still is in some places.
Are you suggesting that a couple of percent being able to talk at work about their preferences is an improvement over tens of percent being silenced in all environments? That's a terrible trade, certainly not progress.
1. There is no concept in modern America of "did the time, paid for the crime" with regard to social attitudes and how ex-felons can be treated.
2. Say something "offensive" in public and watch a wild-eyed mob that makes a witch-burning look tame come after and try to make sure there is "no place in society" for you.
3. Now corporations are getting in on the act with Chase locking accounts because the person was a Badthinker(tm).
It's amazing how much it's changed. I recall as a kid people being able to say just about anything. It got thrown in the category of "say what you want it's a free country". People wouldn't agree, they might call you an idiot, but nobody would track you down and try and get you fired. Gotta love "progressive justice" as shown here: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/0...
America has a major fucking gun problem. China and every other country is astonished at the craziness. Are you willing to bend to peer pressure in that regard?
I wonder if you realize that the majority of gun violence is done by illegal guns. So more laws against that won't help. See drug trade for more details on how that works.
There's a huge difference between organizations enforcing their own rules and the government running a system to disenfranchise people.
However when no alternative exists in either system then the net result is the same - disenfranchised people. And disenfranchised people who have no outlet will get more extreme.
My sister was a big ebay user, both buying and selling, but has largely stopped both. The reason why was some "customers" would scam the sellers by taking the item, claiming some defect, and then threatening bad reviews if they didn't get a price reduction. It's shady and extortionist but there are people like that in the world. And Ebay backs them 100%. After a few cases of that she decided to stop selling anything there. That's a loss to both Ebay and it's legitimate customers. Multiply her experience by thousands and you get a declining platform.
Everything I've read and heard, the concern is that babies who can't be vaccinated and folks who have compromised immune systems are the ones being impacted by the anti-vaxxers. The most recent articles are the teenagers and young adults who have not been vaccinated are going behind their parents backs to get vaccinated. I've not read about any vaccinated people getting diseases from the non-vaccinated. Even a quick google search shows the same results. It's the folks who aren't vaccinated or who can't get vaccinated who are being impacted by the anti-vaxxers.
[John]
I guess that explains why it's such a topic for Hollywood
Foolish startups that have people throwing millions (or billions) of dollars at them while other good startups can't get the funding they need. I have a startup that has built a new kind of data management system. It is twice as fast as the big database management systems and does things thousands of times faster than file systems. It is the kind of thing that can radically change how data is managed on a global scale; yet I can't seem to attract even a few $100K from investors even though I have a working system with a few customers already. It's all 'who you know' instead of 'what you know'.
Perhaps it's because people are addicted to the phrase order of magnitude. 2x just isn't enough. If you had 10x then you'd be in.
Citation:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/g...
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Or is it now even prohibited to discriminate against yourself?
Normal rules apply - if you're a protected class it will be wrong regardless of how much sense it makes and if you're a white male then you should be discriminated against as you personally are responsible or benefited from all evil ever.
You've never heard of shareholders forcing a CEO out?
I would love to be 'forced out' with the type of golden parachute that CEOs get.
Nah, it's just used like the Bat-Signal, 'cept it only summons white knights.
Those most likely to engage in virtue signalling want nothing to do with anything white.
Who wants Amazon shampoo or whatever.
No one should buy any shampoo on Amazon. They are known to be rife with fakes on health and beauty type products.
Because it's not a normal job. An informed public is elemental to a healthy democracy.
You do realize the danger of the government controlling the media directly right? If they were serious about this they would take pains to ensure a level playing field and that the all viewpoints were represented by people that actually understand them. More akin to this: https://heterodoxacademy.org/ What I, and probably many others, suspect we would get is a left leaning America hating "official news" organization that shuts out all cisgender white males while loudly accusing others of discrimination.
forcing journalism to find a money stream has directly lead to billionaires fighting over the news they can pay for
Actually the current problem of all news being controlled by a single digit number of owners has more to do with Clinton's sins of the 90s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The problem with journalism being profit driven, especially in an age where news is basically a commodity that everyone gets for free, is that it corrupts it into a toxic mixture of outrage and hyper-partisan opinion.
When you look at the least biased, most reliable source of news and analysis they tend to be the ones that are not dependent on getting views - the BBC, and agencies like Reuters and AFP.
The sources you cite have an agenda, it's just a bit more subtle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://www.investors.com/poli... It's not unlike colleges that chased out all of the conservatives. They may not even realize just how biased they and and certainly other viewpoints must be wrong because all their friends and colleagues think the same way. It's like the worst of small town close mindedness but at a professional level.
The word liberal with a lower case "L" is something all newspapers should strive for. In case you don't realize it, a "liberal arts education" has nothing to do with a Liberal political stance. Perhaps you need one?
OP makes a valid point. By being so left leaning NPR has poisoned the well on broad public support for government funded journalism. When I occasionally listen to NPR it tends to be 98% of the time is spent on a liberal point of view with only a sentence or two that some disagree and a shallow and completely unexplored reason cited. Lopsided reporting shouldn't be publicly funded.
not one cent for voter ID.
The problem is that most social scientists do not understand mathematics, let alone statistics...
Let alone reality.
so wait, we actually NEED socialized medicine, like the rest of the progressive nations in Europe already have? the ones where you can walk in and they diagnose you and then they give you what you need without trying to make sure you keep coming back and then taxes pays for it all?
wow! somebody better tell our President because one of his goals is to repeal the closest step our country has ever taking in the right direction.
You can have mass low skilled immigration or you can have nice things. The party of open borders has decided that we can't have nice things.
So was Hillary a Russian troll when she declared a quarter of America a "basket of deplorables"?
The Democrats learned this from the 1994 Republican landslide after they passed the Brady Bill. When Obama tried to close the "gunshow loophole" after Sandy Hook, many politicians in his own party refused to support him.
Looks like they didn't learn that lesson. Citation: https://www.npr.org/2019/02/27...
"may" and "finds" don't belong together. You can't promote a 'maybe' to a 'definitely' in the same sentence.
That's standard practice in the humanities, especially the grievance majors. All things are explained by an "ism" in those circles.
"At this point, what does it matter?"
The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia likes your way of thinking and would like to hire you as a publicist.
Is that why California ranks almost dead-bottom for education and bottom for poverty level?
As much as I hate Cali: educational results can usually be explained by demographics, and Cali is no exception. This is especially true of states with a sizable ESL population: you're never going to get the same statistical educational outcomes from native English speakers and those who enter the educational system not speaking English.
Clearly the solution to this is to expand that ESL population via open borders.
That's just wildly untrue. "Don't ask, don't tell" is exactly the opposite of what you're describing, and that was an improvement over what came before it. If you've never heard of someone getting fired for being an uppity negro then you live in a fantasy land. That was a commonplace thing for a long time, and probably still is in some places.
Are you suggesting that a couple of percent being able to talk at work about their preferences is an improvement over tens of percent being silenced in all environments? That's a terrible trade, certainly not progress.
1. There is no concept in modern America of "did the time, paid for the crime" with regard to social attitudes and how ex-felons can be treated. 2. Say something "offensive" in public and watch a wild-eyed mob that makes a witch-burning look tame come after and try to make sure there is "no place in society" for you. 3. Now corporations are getting in on the act with Chase locking accounts because the person was a Badthinker(tm).
It's amazing how much it's changed. I recall as a kid people being able to say just about anything. It got thrown in the category of "say what you want it's a free country". People wouldn't agree, they might call you an idiot, but nobody would track you down and try and get you fired. Gotta love "progressive justice" as shown here: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/0...
America has a major fucking gun problem. China and every other country is astonished at the craziness. Are you willing to bend to peer pressure in that regard?
I wonder if you realize that the majority of gun violence is done by illegal guns. So more laws against that won't help. See drug trade for more details on how that works.
There's a huge difference between organizations enforcing their own rules and the government running a system to disenfranchise people.
However when no alternative exists in either system then the net result is the same - disenfranchised people. And disenfranchised people who have no outlet will get more extreme.
The Chinese have persecuted the falun gong with even more vengeance.
And both are wrong. Persecuting someone for their religion is wrong either way.
My sister was a big ebay user, both buying and selling, but has largely stopped both. The reason why was some "customers" would scam the sellers by taking the item, claiming some defect, and then threatening bad reviews if they didn't get a price reduction. It's shady and extortionist but there are people like that in the world. And Ebay backs them 100%. After a few cases of that she decided to stop selling anything there. That's a loss to both Ebay and it's legitimate customers. Multiply her experience by thousands and you get a declining platform.
Everything I've read and heard, the concern is that babies who can't be vaccinated and folks who have compromised immune systems are the ones being impacted by the anti-vaxxers. The most recent articles are the teenagers and young adults who have not been vaccinated are going behind their parents backs to get vaccinated. I've not read about any vaccinated people getting diseases from the non-vaccinated. Even a quick google search shows the same results. It's the folks who aren't vaccinated or who can't get vaccinated who are being impacted by the anti-vaxxers.
[John]
I guess that explains why it's such a topic for Hollywood
If we are going to incarcerate people for incompetence, we are going to need a lot more prisons.
Most incompetent people do not impact 150 million customers. The punishment should fit the crime, including in scale.
Foolish startups that have people throwing millions (or billions) of dollars at them while other good startups can't get the funding they need. I have a startup that has built a new kind of data management system. It is twice as fast as the big database management systems and does things thousands of times faster than file systems. It is the kind of thing that can radically change how data is managed on a global scale; yet I can't seem to attract even a few $100K from investors even though I have a working system with a few customers already. It's all 'who you know' instead of 'what you know'.
Perhaps it's because people are addicted to the phrase order of magnitude. 2x just isn't enough. If you had 10x then you'd be in. Citation: https://www.forbes.com/sites/g...