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I don't quite parse your intent here.

But if I'm understanding the 2nd sentence, this is so true in that these extremists feel that unless we are forced to listen to & give them a platform that they are somehow being censored.

No one is taping someone's mouth shut.

In fact those voices are louder now than they have been in my entire life.

But I'm not going to listen to it.

and yeah young people are generally more open minded and yes they are peer pressuring (subject of this complains about peer pressure). Maybe that says something..

One can change ones behavior and beliefs and maybe they'll be more accepted into the group they want to to be in.

Or not!

it's their choice that they are free to make.

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>unless we are forced to listen to & give them a platform

No, actually if you just don't explicitly engage in hiring practices on the basis of ideology.

https://unherd.com/thepost/political-discrimination-is-fuell...

>Several studies find that between 18 and 55% of academics would discriminate against a Right-wing applicant for a job or grant. I found that 40-45% of North American academics would not hire a Trump supporter and 1 in 3 in Britain would not hire a Leave supporter.

I of course don't expect the fact to lead to any form of reflection. After all, it's obvious you can't even grasp the fact that ideological diversity is beneficial and matters while ethnic diversity doesn't matter and is often harmful.

Jesus christ. these threads on hn have become so toxic this is pointless to engage.

how tf is ethnic diversity harmful?

also my comment had nothing to do with hiring.

but to respond anyways:

ideological diversity !== making room for racist, homophobic, christian nationalist or otherwise hateful people.

and people have every right not to want to have to work and sit next to someone who is actively working to make their life worse, take away their rights, and or who are simply diametrically opposed to their very existence and often overtly bring this with them into said workplace. e.g. see all the other threads on hn that have to do with race and gender.

> or otherwise hateful people

> someone who is actively working to make their life worse, take away their rights, and or who are simply diametrically opposed to their very existence and often overtly bring this with them into said workplace

Isn't it amusing that these descriptions fit DEI advocates perfectly?

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