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Earlier this year, I noticed something in China that really surprised me. I realized I felt more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Beijing than in San Francisco. I didn’t feel completely comfortable—this was China, after all—just more comfortable than at home.
That showed me just how bad things have become, and how much things have changed since I first got started here in 2005.
It seems easier to accidentally speak heresies in San Francisco every year. Debating a controversial idea, even if you 95% agree with the consensus side, seems ill-advised.
This will be very bad for startups in the Bay Area.
Political correctness is bad for America. This is an idiotic point of view, often put forth by idiots
Even the Galileo reference is misplaced. As we now know, Galileo’s ideas started the scientific revolution. He was hardly silenced.
One of the best ways to kill an idea from someone who rarely if ever offers an input is for one of the loud mouths in a group setting to state "that is the stupidest thing I've ever heard" without taking the time to even consider the merits that may lie within regardless of how absurd the idea may seem at first glance.
If you doubt what I have written concerning killing ideas, you have not spent enough time in meetings only to see those "stupid ideas" surface again down the road with someone else's name attached.
Losing your job because you can't or won't control the stupid coming out of your mouth is overdue.
Diversity is more than sex and skin color
I am however enlightened to learn that only leftist regimes across the globe are the primary movers and shakers when is comes to shutting down dissent in any of it's many forms.
Exactly and that is classic leftism. You have ideas set in stone and anyone who opposes is a hateful bigot who has to be destroyed.No logic, debate can enter the leftoid mindset.
I find it more prevalent with conservatives, but there are definitely folks on both sides.
As far as China being a freer environment...Surveillance cams, face scans help China make thousands vanish
Nope, conservatives ar enot the one rioting on the streets to shut down speech they don't like. Conservatives are not the ones violently suppressing free speech when people try to attend the rally of a Presidential candidate. Conservatives are not the one bruising and bloodying people on the streets because they attend a Presidential rally.
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