[sokoloff]

Close the tiring tabs.

Seriously, the amount of “this” that I see online is 100x what I see in real-life (per interaction). Outrage engagement drives it and if you have found yourself tired of arguing with people you’ve never shared a meal with, just close the tab. Let them be outraged without you.

As often happens, Randall has nailed it: https://xkcd.com/386/

[HarryHirsch]

Have you seen the recent article in the NY Times about labour relations at Smith College, where a black woman who graduated from an elite Connecticut prep school managed to get four local employees fired over allegations of racism and sicced her Twitter army on them? There was an external investigation that found no fault with the fired employees and no systemic racism, yet the solution was to implement sensitivity training for the staff.

Me? I was told by a genderqueer woman at a sister college of Smith during a job interview that she does not get along with older men.

My wife? She is a faculty member at another Amherst area college and was told by a colleague that she is held in high regard because she is BIPOC. That is shit so tasteless that you can't make it up, so it must be true.

The atmosphere at colleges in the Northeast is fucked up beyond description, and playing ostrich is just that, hiding from reality. Unfortunately, reality won't change anytime soon.

[sokoloff]

That article was probably in a tab that I closed.

[HarryHirsch]

Good for you that you can close tabs, unfortunately that article is an account of daily life for many academics and university staff. Read it, you cannot discuss labour relations at colleges in the Northeast (and I guess many Silicon Valley companies) without taking this article into account.

[nitrogen]

Close the tiring tabs.

Unfortunately it bleeds into real life, work, and family/friend connections. You can't close work, or your siblings.

[rayiner]

Move to a red or at least purple county. Where I live now I only know how my precinct voted because I looked it up. It’s amazing.

[dane-pgp]

There might be some interesting macro-scale effects if Cancel Culture causes conservative Democrat voters to move to purple counties/states and turns them slightly but consistently blue.

[aksss]

Isn’t that the story of OR and WA? I mean prior to cancel culture.

[xyzzyz]

Or California? California used to be solid red state.