a.k.a. Willing to sell your soul for a degree. Assholes absolutely deserve to be excluded from everything in society.
ai_critic•2mo ago
It is a very distressing formative experience to discover that the world contains a plurality--sometimes, even a majority!--of people who do not share your prejudices, perspectives, and often even axioms.
I envy the calm strata you must inhabit.
jfengel•2mo ago
Unfortunately, a plurality of people also seem not to share basic facts with me, either.
That does not put me on a calm strata, to say the least.
kgwxd•2mo ago
You think this article is talking about diversity? It's about telling people they're not allowed to be upset when they personally witness major injustice. It's about suppression of protests. It's about accepting fascism into your heart, and loving it, or else.
bediger4000•2mo ago
Seems good to me. Everyone whose ever taking a philosophy or history course has inwardly groaned when the self-righteous fundamentalist tries to force some weird viewpoint on everyone. Also good practice for business. You'll have to tolerate co-workers with differing views, and indeed, in some jobs, you must present your views to compete with those other viewpoints.
jfengel•2mo ago
I don't quite follow. The self-righteous fundamentalist also has a viewpoint. The fundamentalist presents their views, you present yours, and you compete.
Maybe it would be nice if the fundamentalist was more tolerant of other people's viewpoints, but they probably didn't go to an elite college so they never learned how.
bediger4000•2mo ago
Thank you for the opportunity to clarify! Certainly self-righteous fundamentalists have a viewpoint, and they should share it. But such folk could take a lesson in civility from HN, and listen to other viewpoints, consider them for validity, and learn and change, not merely reject alternate views and demand that others conform.
lyn03•2mo ago
I think the real skill is handling conflict in real life though， where we're constantly navigating and accommodating different viewpoints.
_77Bruyne•2mo ago
I'm not sure we should romanticize "handling conflict in real life" as the ultimate skill.
cratermoon•2mo ago
Conservatives don't seem to want to tolerate people who can't tolerate them.
I think some guy named Karl Popper wrote about this.
kgwxd•2mo ago
ai_critic•2mo ago
I envy the calm strata you must inhabit.
jfengel•2mo ago
That does not put me on a calm strata, to say the least.
kgwxd•2mo ago