[go13]

I'm surprised to see how many people can not think for themselves but follow what media is telling them. I hope I don't do that myself but try to understand the matter and follow principles rather than sides.

What I'm surprised the most is that with these complex and not obvious questions (at least to me) people without any shadow of a doubt are certain that it is right for big tech to censor Trump, shut down parler and take political sides like it happened.

Maybe Trump is bad but at least i want to see his stupidity or his wrongdoing rather than other people to chew the news and feed me like im an infant.

To me these questions require philosophical debates and dialogue (even with myself) to understand f it is right for a company to impose their political worldview on their clients - I don't feel it is right.

But if others take these positions very easily, to me that is an indication that they got these ideas from somebody else rather than thought them through.

[ceilingcorner]

You are currently witnessing the result of defunding humanities in favor of technical education.

[MattGaiser]

The humanities departments are where the cheering of this is the loudest.

[A4ET8a8uTh0]

I think "citation needed" is appropriate here. If we are bringing US education system into this conversation, the sheer number of humanities ( and the people they apparently teach ) suggests the opposite of what your post suggests.

Dare I say, if more technical education was required, some of the issues in US could be, at least, ameliorated.

[BitwiseFool]

I have a feeling most of the professors in the Humanities departments would be not at all sympathetic to Parler or all the deplatforming happening around Donald Trump and his supporters. If anything they'd be broadcasting the Karl Popper "Paradox of Tolerance" as justification for everything that's been happening this week.

[ceilingcorner]

Humanities students do not and should not merely repeat their professors’ opinions. To do so almost entirely misses the point of being educated.