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    1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 22 Jun 2020

      If you advocate principles like reason, due process, and free speech, you'll be attacked by extremists as if you were on the opposite side. In fact that would be a good definition of extremism: policy that can't survive exposure to reason, due process, or free speech.

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    2. Arvind Nedumaran‏ @arvindamirtaa 22 Jun 2020
      Replying to @paulg

      There was an idea being floated around. A 3 month cooling period before firing someone over ANY social media “scandal". The idea was if it wasn't important 3 months later, it probably wasn't all that important to begin with. If it was, it probably is. Your thoughts on this?

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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 22 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arvindamirtaa

      It's an interesting idea. The difficulty in practice is that when someone gets cancelled for heresy, the claim is always that they're actually being cancelled for something else.

      2:36 AM - 22 Jun 2020
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        1. DogBot‏ @DogIsABot 22 Jun 2020
          Replying to @paulg @arvindamirtaa

          I mean it's hard to prove that someone is hired not / hired or fired / not fired based on gender / race, but it still makes sense for that to be illegal.

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        1. .‏ @allan___thomas 22 Jun 2020
          Replying to @paulg @arvindamirtaa

          Cancelling people for the classical def. of racism is a necessity of wokeness because it's harder for people to be cancelled by woke def. of racism (everything is racist, the west, capitalism are racist social constructs). You can't cancel someone for being a capitalist. Yet

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        2. Ashwin‏ @omnishwin 22 Jun 2020
          Replying to @paulg @arvindamirtaa

          I think @ScottAdamsSays came up with this idea. His timeline was a bit different, but the same logic.

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        3. Arvind Nedumaran‏ @arvindamirtaa 22 Jun 2020
          Replying to @omnishwin @paulg @ScottAdamsSays

          Yes!! Thanks! Was looking but couldn't find the original tweet!

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        2. CornMiner  🌽 ⛓ ⛏‏ @CornMiner 22 Jun 2020
          Replying to @paulg @arvindamirtaa

          The main reason companies fold to the pressure is that they see reduced productivity due to internal and external conflict. That’s 3 months plus the likely second wave. Doesn’t solve the actual problem, imho.

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        3. CornMiner  🌽 ⛓ ⛏‏ @CornMiner 22 Jun 2020
          Replying to @CornMiner @paulg @arvindamirtaa

          It’s currently treated like a cancer that they can remove with a biopsy if they act quickly. The alternative is seen as slow painful chemotherapy. Though, I’ve never seen it this way. Refusal to fold to the mob builds immunity so long as a systemic problem doesn’t actually exist

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