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At this point everybody's made up their minds, assigned heros and villains and victims, and now flood every comment board on the internet to repeat their own existing beliefs.

Has anybody's mind been changed at all through this whole ordeal? Or are we just going to sail through another historic moment of cultural reckoning with our comfortable beliefs firmly intact and affirmed the whole way through?

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This is a very good point. Nobody is going to educate themselves on this matter, we're divided and sitting in our echo chamber listening to what we want to hear until one of these threads pops up and we open the floodgates and start attacking each other.

it's unhealthy, but I suspect we're going to keep doing it.

did you read the document? Did you think it was an appropriate workplace share?

> Did you think it was an appropriate workplace share

Depends on the workplace, doesn't it?

This answer is a dodge.

Why would that matter? Every workplace has an expectation for you to get along with your colleagues.

Some places actively encourage it, and provide forums for discussing such topics. Google, for example..

I read all 3000 words. Of course it was an appropriate work place share--he was complaining about the working conditions of his company. He said that he had previously complained to the labor board as well. How are you supposed to complain about your company and discriminating work conditions if you never tell your company?

Yes and absolutely not. He should have stuck with the problems of ideological rigidity and shame-silencing and said absolutely nothing about differences between any groups of people.

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