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by gonehome 1811 days ago
You should have some perspective.

If your complaint is “what? Sushi again?!” then you should shut up (imo).

That’s just a subset, others take an overly adversarial stance to drive attention to themselves as activists - rather than have in-good-faith discussions about stuff.
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pydry 1811 days ago
>If your complaint is “what? Sushi again?!”

None of the cartoons were saying that though, were they?

>You should have some perspective.

Should my perspective expand to include straw men?

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CRConrad 1811 days ago
In comic #6, from 2010-07-27 ( https://goomics.net/6/ ) two street demonstrations -- one of Google employees -- run into each other, and the following conversation takes place:

> Hi there. Why are you demonstrating?

> They're laying off one in four workers in the hospital. You?

> They're taking away our M&Ms from building 42's microkitchen.

> Wow, that's harsh.

So apparently the author of TFA didn't think a scenario like this was all that much of a strawman... Either.

Honestly, you're really bending over backwards in defense of privilege here. Why?

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pydry 1810 days ago
You inadvertently stumbled on precisely the point. TFA isnt exhibiting a sense of entitlement the OP complained he was. TFA is instead making fun of it.

OP thinks complaining about the company's terrible behavior and complaining about the lack of M&Ms are more or less the same thing and that if you are bothered about the former you should quietly quit coz hey, not everybody gets sushi twice a week.

I'm not defending privilege. I'm attacking the notion that you should STFU and fuck off when you see injustice because YOU personally happen to be comfortable.

To port it to another context, for instance, Oscar Schindler could have given up his privilege (he was quite privileged!), quit his job and begged on the street for scraps of food and many would have honestly argued that if he was that bothered by what he saw that he should have.

Should he though?

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CRConrad 1810 days ago
Huh? At no point did I read OP as claiming the comic "exhibits" privilege; of fucking course it exposes (by ridiculing) it.

You now appear to be in violent agreement with them, and the misunderstanding seems to be mainly on your side.

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gonehome 1811 days ago
It was a direct quote from the article I linked: https://paygo.ghost.io/why-did-i-leave-google-or-why-did-i-s... - not a straw man I made up [0].

The 'You' wasn't you personally, but the general 'you' (similar to what you used in "you should... shut up?")

I'm sensing snark, but I'm genuinely not being snarky and I'm not really interested in fighting over this.

[0]: "After being acquired by Google, we had a “fun day” at the Google campus where we were shown around, wide eyed, to see the facilities. We had lunch in the cafeteria and while on line, a Googler ahead of us was overheard saying “What? Sushi again???” which became our inside joke around entitlement."

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