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Comment on Where I live, no one cares about COVID in ~health
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Comment on Twitter has started researching whether white supremacists belong on Twitter in ~tech
I_Tichy Link ParentIs this true? Is it okay in the west today to be intolerant of non-radicalized Islam? I've had a hard time having this discussion with a number of people who want "tolerance at all costs". The...In any event, tolerance is generally for accidents of birth and circumstance, not belief systems.
Is this true? Is it okay in the west today to be intolerant of non-radicalized Islam? I've had a hard time having this discussion with a number of people who want "tolerance at all costs". The problem is that most of us have difficulty deciding who's worthy of tolerance. I can say "I feel all Christianity is ultimately toxic" but if I switch that statement to be about Islam, the same people that agreed with me previously have a hard time agreeing again because it feels hateful to their sensibilities. I don't think it's as cut and dry as you're making it out to be. There is a large contingent of Twitter that is overly willing to label all conservative views as hate or intolerance regardless of nuance, and I think that's where the problem lies for Twitter. Are neo-nazis shit stains? Yes, of course. But unless we can clearly explain what makes them different than the marginal case of expression that doesn't get banned, a lot of personal assumptions about tolerance get coded into algorithms that essentially dictate the global public discourse. Violence is obviously a clear line, but "hateful" speech that doesn't solicit it feels more complicated to me.
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Comment on Survey: 83% of US teens have an iPhone, Android 9% in ~tech
I_Tichy Link Parentlike you say, isn't this issue entirely avoidable using something like whatsapp or signal? my friends and I use signal across android/ios and it's encrypted/doesn't use SMS/MMS when talking to...like you say, isn't this issue entirely avoidable using something like whatsapp or signal? my friends and I use signal across android/ios and it's encrypted/doesn't use SMS/MMS when talking to other people using signal. it's also opensource, so you can be completely sure it's actually doing what it claims to. why would someone spend 2x as much on a phone just to avoid SMS when it's entirely possible to do it on android? it seems like defaulting to iMessage is definitely an upper-class attitude when it's entirely unnecessary.
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Comment on Survey: 83% of US teens have an iPhone, Android 9% in ~tech
I_Tichy Link Parentthanks for clarifying. the numbers here immediately seemed insane. commuting on the train or bus everyday, 83% of poor/working class teenagers definitely don't have iphones.thanks for clarifying. the numbers here immediately seemed insane. commuting on the train or bus everyday, 83% of poor/working class teenagers definitely don't have iphones.
I care about COVID, but it's not like it's morally incorrect for a society not to. They're not idiots. They've collectively decided it doesn't cross their risk tolerance threshold. Many of the people engage in a number of other risky behaviors as well (owning large numbers of guns, living far from hospitals, eating poorly, smoking, etc.), this isn't an aberration.
That being said, they are also living much happier lives on a daily basis than people like me in cities where so much is still remote or locked down. They're trading a potential covid case (which nowadays is not nearly as deadly as it was at the beginning of the pandemic) for more happiness on a daily basis. That's a value judgement every society should be able to make. Statistics don't even suggest they're having much a different experience with covid than more liberal areas, so I'm not sure what the argument to be made is from a public health stand point.
You can't expect every culture to approach problems the same way you want to, that flies completely in the face of multi-culturalism, and the US as an idea. It's a federation of states that all get to decide for themselves how they want to exist socially and culturally, so long as they don't trend on the small number of rights guaranteed by the federal government.