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Every year i think these people found now the greatest level of stuipid, then they create a new level in the next one... i am wondering with trepidation what they are deciding next. Always it start in the university then filter out to other places, makes me very scared for the next some years when this comes to real life.

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Not sure why you're downvoted. The comment is obviously angry. But, at this point you can write a book about the "greatest levels of stupid that started in university".

Across all movements and institutions, a small minority of radicals ruin it for the entire community. For some reason, Academia loves to act as if their radicals are not representative of the institution, while using the same guilt-by-association to criticize and often ostracize every other group that crosses them the wrong way.

The exasperation in the tone of the above poster, is IMO, fully justified. Alarmism is always looked at badly, but alarms exist for a reason. Sometimes things are that bad and an alarmist response is commensurate. I think it is one of those times. Ofc, like every other precursor to disaster, these alarmists will be ignored. Then in a few decades time, someone will say, "How did we not see it coming?", and a few of us will roll in graves rather vigorously.

> makes me very scared for the next some years when this comes to real life

Me too mate. Me too.

It wont come to real life though. If one company fires tons of great engineers for SJW reasons then other companies will thank them and hire all of them instantly. And if the SJW types would infiltrate all the big companies at once those Engineers would just create a new company where they make the rules.

I think the SJWs have already infiltrated all the big software companies, if the trend in quality of the latters' output is any indication. Inconsistent UI? Bugs (sometimes catastrophic) everywhere? They're just being diverse and inclusive! </s>

> Inconsistent UI? Bugs (sometimes catastrophic) everywhere?

Can you name a time when big companies didn't have those problems? To me the problem seems to be related to being big, not SJW.

Around 2011-2013 is when the quality of a lot of stuff took a major nosedive, and roughly correlates with the rise of D&I ideology. I'm not saying it's a definitive causation, but it seems if you start hiring based on who people are instead of what they can do, the effects become visible pretty quickly.

Do you have any data on things taking a major nosedive 2011-2013? I didn't notice it so I'd be happy to understand why you think so.

> those Engineers would just create a new company where they make the rules

And if the law changes? Or the culture becomes hostile? This libertarian fantasy that you can just leave is nice, but not always possible.

I'm assuming you're talking broadly about social justice types. I don't want to put words on anyone's mouth, but it seems to me there is some extreme group that is basically pranking everyone, intentionally escalating how silly their demands are, and people are to scared to push back, so they keep trying more outrageous things.

There was a South Park about it over 20 years ago (you may remember Lemmywinks)

I don't know what to do about it, but at the personal level you can just ignore it.

> at the personal level you can just ignore it

But ignoring it gets you canceled.

Imagine caring, and keeping a link to your real life and online personas enough to cause real life consequences.

you should listen to this song by John Lennon called "Imagine":

> Imagine all the people

> Living life in peace...

That is what they want to believe, but it is mostly not true. Even at Google they made it look like it was the case, I worked there during the Damore debacle. But tons of Engineers went against the grain and weren't cancelled, instead after that I noticed that Google started cracking down on the worst SJW types at Google and firing them. It didn't benefit Google to have these SJW types running the show when by far the most common view at the company was pro meritocracy, SJW makes a lot of noise making it seem like they have a lot of power but they only have that power if leaders believe SJW have power. When leaders calls the bluff nothing happens, the company doesn't get attacked etc, things just peter out.

Unacceptable. Once you've run a highly public witch-burning and realized that was a Rather Bad Idea, you need to do better than quietly sweep up the ashes afterwards.

You see articles about Google firing SJW people them now and then, but people forget those since few cares. Each time a heated discussion is created here at HN, with lots of posters condemning Google for it, but those posters doesn't seem to represent the wider views of engineers or even HN.

“you need to do better”

that’s kind of the motto of the SJW, my interpretation of the parent is that they actually don’t have to do better, there are no consequences for ignoring such demands

That got modded down fast. I agree completely with this comment. Trying to direct internet rage against anyone is a losing formula, it only creates the fear and race to the bottom that we're seeing. Live and let live, if you dont like something, say so, or ignore it, but dont try to whip the world into a frenzy about it.

(Lol and my comment was modded down as quickly as I could submit it, keep refreshing buddy you dont want to miss anything)

It's a good motto. As is "do the work".

In a tiny handful of high-profile cases yes. Realistically it's a lot less likely than e.g. getting randomly hit by a car, and so we shouldn't let it change our behaviour.

Pronoun battle forces you to participate. Source, lost a job because I tried to stay out of it.

I am so sorry on your behalf, this is terrible that you lose a job for it. Yes, and you are correct, if somebody tell you to use a plural pronoun it if forcing everybody to take a side. It is putting everybody in some position to either endorse or reject woke post-gender ideas.

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