The Intersection of SpaceEx, Coinbase and Identitarianism
Happy Father’s Day out there to the dads who are teaching their kids that you earn what you get, and you get what you earn.
A few thoughts I cannot share on Facebook this Father’s Day morning.
Not because I am afraid to share them, because FB put me on a 24-hour psych hold because I posted that lockdowns, mask mandates, social distancing and vaccines didn’t really work. Given that we have had more Covid deaths in the past year AFTER all of this was done, multiple studies have shown that the lockdowns had a worse effect than the virus, masking and social distancing did nothing to change the trajectory of infections, and everyday we are seeing people who are fully vaccinated and double and triple “boosted” still get infected, I think I was on pretty solid ground to make that statement.
And yet the algorithm sent the Facebook SWAT team to remove my post and shut me down because my post didn’t “post didn't follow our Community Standards” because it might cause harm.
In a way, I was “red flagged”.
So, would now be a good time to talk about how “red flag” laws are unconstitutional and are most certainly going to be abused if they are implemented nationwide?
OK, I expect this kind of anonymized, heavy-handed, out of context from Facebook, but it also illustrates how different it is to be on the inside of these “woke” platforms versus how it is on the outside.
Just over the past week we have been treated to a few very relevant examples of people who are pushing back. A couple of them have been the “issues” at Elon Musk’s SpaceEx and Coinbase.
Employees at SpaceEx posted a letter on the internal email system claiming its authors were “[e]mployees across the spectra of gender, ethnicity, seniority, and technical roles,” (i.e., “woketeers”) calling for SpaceX leadership to “[P]ublicly address and condem[n] Elon’s harmful Twitter behavior” in order to “explicitly separate itself from Elon’s personal brand.”
Musk fired the authors.
Disgruntled employees at Coinbase, after hearing about hiring freezes and layoffs, created an online petition stating it was a “vote of no confidence” and that CEO Brian Armstrong should immediately remove top executives, including chief operating officer Emilie Choi, chief product officer Surojit Chatterjee and chief people officer LJ Brock.
Armstrong tweeted back to those employees:
“If you have no confidence in the execs or CEO of a company, then why are you working at that company? Quit and find a company to work at that you believe in!”
Of course, the leftists in the punditry class claimed that even though corporations had the ability to override constitutional rights to force you do take a jab, they didn’t have the right to combat petty little employee insurrections.
It’s all about the culture based on “identity” that has been created over the past decade and the erroneous idea held by the identitarians that they hold some unassailable sway and power simply because they are who they are.
“Diversity, Inclusion and Equity” is just legalized discrimination. It is a way to ostracize the majority and cow them into submission by fabricating and fraudulently characterizing normal behaviors as “wrong” and “offensive so they can be called racists and bigots.
Snowflakes demanding their bosses bow to DIE is tyranny. This is the fallacious idea that in a capitalist society, every worker has the same power as their bosses.
Demanding special treatment isn’t individuality, it is hubris and arrogance. At one time in society, people understood propriety – when to speak and when to act. That propriety was based on the capital of respect or expertise that was earned over time. No more. Now the least accomplished or the ignorant assume everybody is on the same level and that emboldens them to claim special victimhood within societies, businesses, and the economy.
Probably a good time to mention that this is primarily a disease of young, white, and often female, leftists who see themselves as the messiahs of the minority.
The bubbling over of delusion at SpaceEx and Coinbase are examples of how effective the “diversity is our strength” indoctrination had been. It is identitarianism – socioeconomic status is no longer a matter of performance and achievement; it is a matter of identity. In the mind of the employees of both SpaceEx and Coinbase who took the airing their grievances and demanding action from their bosses into the public sphere rather than working it out internally, identitarianism has become the mission of these companies.
They did this because they have no capital to use within their organizations. If they did, there would have been no need or purpose to take their gripes outside the company in an effort to create pressure from the social media mob.
Look at how well that is working out for the Biden cabinet.
These are people who were selected for two reasons.
Their identity – these people fulfilled the Democrat’s pledge to make the cabinet “look like America” by selecting people base on skin color and self-identified gender rather than any particular competence or knowledge of the areas for which they would be responsible.
Their potential for sycophancy – Biden needed people who would be so appreciative they were selected for roles for which they could never attain through demonstrated competence, they would literally say or do anything the regime dictated they should do.
And they are, unsurprisingly, failing across the board.
It is time for American voters to show all of them the door.
Maybe they should have their career options freed up so that they can go and find a country to work at that they believe in.
Oh, yeah – and a Happy Father’s Day out there to the dads who are teaching their kids that power and respect are earned and you earn what you get, and you get what you earn.
Happy Fathers' Day to you, Michael.
I always enjoy your posts & today's made me especially happy - reporting Elon Musk's Reagonesque response to the troublemakers at SpaceEx.
As alway a good thoughtful insight into todays helter skelter. A big thankyou and as one father to another, Happy Fathers day.