We Love Working at Home,
But is it Good For Us?
This article (paywalled, pirate
article here) argues that while people
say they enjoy working at home, in fact their social
life suffers because they don't replace all the
face-to-face interaction that work offers.
There are many disadvantages with socializing at work:
- If you're doing badly at work, your
co-workers are less likely to include you in
anything.
- If you're a heterosexual working in
a profession dominated by your own gender
(engineering, law enforcement, or firefighting
dominated by males; fashion design, social work,
nursing, or elementary school teaching dominated by
females) romantic opportunities are few.
- The #metoo movement criminalized any
romantic advance made in the workplace.
- If you're not 100% woke and you make
observations about basic realities that are staring
you in the face, woke co-workers, particularly young
ones, will report you to HR, threatening your job.
- Some engineering workplaces are
dominated by H-1B immigrants from cultures with a
strong tradition of arranged marriage, so these
immigrants are often unwilling to make the effort to
assimilate to the English language and American
culture well enough to socialize with native-born
Americans, since acquiring a spouse is just a matter
of a phone call to their parents.
At work, I prefer to just eat lunch
alone at my desk, and make friends through groups that
have nothing to do with work, like events organized on
Meetup,
Eventbrite,
Luma,
or Craigslist Activities.
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Pakistani "Grooming Gangs"
in Great Britain
Cancel culture is very powerful and feared in the
US. If someone is accused of "bigotry" in the
workplace, however frivolously, a compelling case
can be made to fire them, since if a discrimination
lawsuit occurs and the plaintiff can make a case
that the company tolerates "bigots", particularly in
management, it strengthens their case. And American
companies are petrified of lawsuits.
This leads to a climate of terror among all
professionals with any ambition, of doing anything
that can be perceived as the least bit "bigoted".
It turns out cancel culture has gotten even more
absurd in England, where they lock people up
for criticizing Islamic culture.
A British mother went to the police complaining
that her young teenage daughter was missing and had
a history of being sexually abused by Middle Eastern
adults, and the cops told her she was a bigot
and should go away.
It turns out that gangs of Muslim men, particularly
Pakistanis, had figured out how to traffic
lower-class British white girls into prostitution,
this was happening to hundreds of thousands
of such girls, and the police kept turning a blind
eye to the whole thing, terrified of having their
own careers destroyed by accusations of
"bigotry". Word was reaching British
politicians, who avoided discussing it, fearing
alienating Muslim voters.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali makes an interesting point here --
British feminists should have been
alert to this problem (paywalled, pirate
version here),
but they were asleep at the wheel. Feminism,
rather than being focused on protecting the
interests of females, has been co-opted by the
broader Social Justice movement, which views Western
Civilization and white people as the sole source of
evil in the world, and immigrants and Muslims as
"victims" who can do no wrong.
To be clear, it is not just Pakistani gangs who do
this -- the movie "Very Young
Girls" is about prostitution of girls by native-born
American pimps in New York City, and the norm is that
the pimps romantically befriend very young girls, then
manipulate them into prostitution. The twist
where the gang will have someone close to the girl's
age make the first contact, then hand her over to
much older men, is something I hadn't heard of
before. But what's really unique about these
British cases is the cowardice of British law
enforcement, and their failure to accept that being
called rude names by Social Justice Warriors every
once in awhile is part of their job.
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Most Politicians Don't
Like
Enforcing Borders
A Huge Fraction of Voters
Disagree With Them
German Public opinion on
immigration and political party stances,
2013 (before immigrating a million Syrian
military-aged males)
German Public
opinion on immigration and political party
stances,
2017 (after immigrating a million Syrian
military-aged males),
and the formation of the nutty far-right AfD party
Nutty far right political parties
have been making a lot of gains in Europe, and we
have Trump here.
All that the opponents of these
nutty parties have to do to prevent this
ascendancy is enforce the borders. That's
it. That's all it would take. But
they won't.
If MAGA is any guide, these nutty far-right
parties don't bring with them merely a
sensible package of policies combined with border
enforcement,
they bring all sorts of nuttiness and
destructiveness with them:
- A complete disrespect for expertise, which
opens the door to rampant stupidity.
- A love for conspiracy theories.
- A "gangster" model of international relations
where militarily powerful countries can abuse
weaker ones at their whim, without any
ideological justification.
- A disrespect for constitutional norms.
- Blatant corruption.
- For reasons I don't understand, a widespread
belief that Putin is a swell guy, once you get
to know him.
- At least in the case of Trump, politicians who
lie constantly about everything.
In the US, Democrats lie through their teeth
claiming that their border enforcement is
adequate, citing high numbers of "deportions",
where they count "turning someone back at the
border to try again the next day" as a
"deportation". But when Trump began
deporting settled residents in large numbers,
Democrats threw hysterical
fits in Minneapolis resisting it.
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