Wealthy, out-of-touch conservatives pretending to be "friend to the common man" to get/stay in power. Why do people keep falling for it?
Partly because large segments of the left are even more out of touch.
I mean there are legal protections in the UK for religious and political beliefs (as long as they're not illegal). A guy the other year won an unfair dismissal case claiming he was fired unfairly for being a staunch environmentalist, and they proved he was that to such a degree that it was deemed protected belief.
I don't recall that. I do recall a case about veganism being a protected belief though.
Me personally though, I figure that if your beliefs are coming into conflict with your job, then don't do your job? Or at least reconcile it. I mean, I have to reconcile working at a library in the knowledge that a lot of material that's worn out can't be given away either due to copyright (e.g. DVDs) or health (we no longer give out or sell books because of Covid), so it ends up getting wasted. I hate this, but, well, life's a compromise I guess.
Yeah, I get wary of the term ‘staunch environmentalist‘ after that guy in El Paso last year. If I remember who you’re talking about, they weren’t like that. But now we have to be worried about environmentalist and racist getting together
There's a strain of environmentalism that's always had a shared bed with racism, TBH. How do you think Yellowstone became a national park for instance? And if you think that's ancient history, the WWF has come under investigation for working with militias in Africa, driving people off their land.
That said, being something of a greenie myself, there's definitely elements of environmentalism that are problematic without racism. Take "deep green" for example.
But it gets to my point in the OP about this new stuff. It sounds like most things haven’t change, but the anti-woke rhetoric has. That dismal case was under the old rules and it past. Also, I really don’t like calling Science a belief like this. I think it’s going to lead to bad things like turning science into a religion
Except strains of wokeism put science as a belief, or at least, disregard the idea of objective truth, so...
I agree that people should be able to preach wokeism, and that their speech shouldn't be curtailed. Problem is, wokeism doesn't really think the same.
No but he's got the fucking ego to crown himself the Science Pope, qualifications be damned.
The actual pope gets to be pope because a bunch of cardinals decide based on a 2000 year old religion, whose foundation is, like practically every other religion, incompatible with science.
Even if Elon Musk is the "Science Pope," even if he's got an ego the size of Bolivia's lithium deposits, even if I don't agree with him on everything, I'd still take a "Science Pope" over a "Pope Pope."