So I’m hearing you say unions are bad because there promote anti-racism and bring up moral issues? And that’s bad because?
1. A union purports to represent the interests of a labor force to its management. Those interests are diverse, because the workplace is diverse, but the issues with largest intersection tend to be compensation, time off, and health benefits.
2. In the past several years, there has been an unambiguous inclination for the stultifying, puritanical, logocentric manner of leftist political spaces to also invade and supplant workplace norms and office culture. This goes as far back as Brandon Eich being ousted for making a donation that follows his conscience, but also includes a funded menstrual app startup that has to claim to serve not women, but "people with periods". It's an insane worldview that maybe 5% of Americans agree with, yet it's the dominant corporate culture.
3. These supposedly moral issues (I called them fashions) being broadly unpopular are nonetheless enforced norms. The way they are enforced is through the actions of HR departments, and particularly on the backs of legal theories such as disparate impact and workplace fairness.
4. Unions, i.e. labor relations, are exactly the type of concern that would fall under (3) and therefore susceptible to becoming another vector for propagating (2). That, along with the fact that most Google employees are extremely well compensated, make it reasonable that progress on (1) is not nearly the likely outcome of a union, while (2) is an easily foreseeable side effect, intended or otherwise.
5. Again, evidence of how unions in other knowledge work fields such as journalism, supports this. Journalists have been outed from their positions, without support from their unions, for expressing basic journalistic freedoms. Isn't the union supposed to protect you from being fired for doing your job? Education is another such field where we can see plainly what's happening.
Lastly, anti-racism is a moral abomination under its current critical theory construction popularized by e.g. Kendi, DiAngelo etc. Also, it's not the union's job to propagate morals or enforce them onto labor.
2. Lots of big words to justify being a bigot here imo. There is nothing cool about being against gay marriage. Also menstrual cups are exactly for people with periods and not women. Why would a post-menopausal woman need a menstrual cup? Your sexism is exclusionary and doesn’t benefit anyone while actively harming the people you are denying.
3. Citations please. Even a journalistic anecdote would mean more here than your opinion.
4. You might have to dumb this down for me, your mental gymnastics are getting hard to follow.
5. I don’t know what journalists you’re talking about but I would imagine it boils down to maintaining journalistic integrity being more important than the unconditional support from the union.
> anti-racism is a moral abomination
Looks like one small step to racism to me.
>Looks like one small step to racism to me.
This word is meaningless when uttered by true believers like you. In my life I've been called all sorts of racially-based slurs, or worse. I've earned the right to refuse the orthodoxy of arrogant white liberals, and follow my own conscience on this topic.
And how do you think you come off to me?
"You can't have an opinion about race matters that is different from the official, scientifically correct view as descended from, and endorsed by, all the big brain people and institutions with whom I already agree. We already know the permanent and unchanging answer for all of history, so why would you think your own experience would entitle you to an opinion on such an important question?"
I truly could not have caricatured your position worse than you've expressed it. Are you genuinely unfamiliar with the fact that this flavor of academic anti-racism is not incontrovertible, but deeply disputed by people across the spectrum?