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Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon Valley ‘Echo Chamber’

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370 points sillypuddy | 3 comments | 18 Feb 18 16:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.685s | source
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jstewartmobile ◴[18 Feb 18 17:04 UTC] No.16406941[source]▶
I hate to have sympathy for the devil here, but I see their point.

Hackernews is living proof. Pre-election, you could voice a contrary opinion here and have a discussion. Post-election, even the faintest wrongthink shibboleth gets silently downvoted into oblivion.

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chappi42 ◴[18 Feb 18 18:58 UTC] No.16407529[source]▶
It's the same in Germany. You voice that the many refugees (with often very conservative religious and patriarchal views) pose problems and, päng, you are a nazi.

A balanced discourse is (was) no longer possible. (It's getting a bit better again after some ramnifications became plain to see in some every-day situations).

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1. didibus ◴[18 Feb 18 19:09 UTC] No.16407608[source]▶
Aren't there prerequisite to a discourse? Like all parties coming together with open minds. Having the intent to seek the truth, not an agenda to win. Using reason and rational thinking over your emotions.

I think lately we're not meeting those qualifications, so maybe it is best not to engage, since discourse would not be productive.

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2. muninn_ ◴[18 Feb 18 19:13 UTC] No.16407639[source]▶
Which could be a fine solution, except one or more groups still are making rules which affect the lives of all of the other groups. So disengaging means letting other groups you may disagree with dictate parts of your life.
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3. XorNot ◴[18 Feb 18 22:04 UTC] No.16409019[source]▶
Welcome to civil society. Learn to play ball and compromise since the alternative is from what those refugees are escaping.