Progressive/liberal "solidarity"

Just a note, before going to today's theme.

I wrote this a couple of days ago, about good ole Milo:

Every time you protest him, every time you keep him from speaking, you do him a favor. He gets to keep his mouth shut about his "ideas" (...) and gets to appropriate a credible cause - freedom of speech. So, as far as stupidity goes, you, dear progressive/liberal, are remarkable.

Usually, all I have to do is wait and time will align reality with what I wrote. This time, it happened pretty quickly. Even his book was cancelled, because good ole Milo's views about Greece are a bit ancient.

So, as I've stated, the secret was to let him speak. Let this intellectually empty creature spout his trollish nonsense and he'll inevitably shoot himself, not in the foot, but in the head.

I'll now repeat it, this time knowing I'm right: It was you, dear progressive/liberal, that did most of the work to let Milo ride his wave of success. You, with your moronic protests and your fascist "non-platforming", and your brain-dead "safe spaces", and all the other bullsh*t you've been ramming down everyone else's throat for the last few years. Congrats!

Anyway... Solidarity

Once again, the stupidity is beyond belief. This time, I'll break the rule about no links to brain-dead articles, here it is.

According to this person, the most serious problem with the "sharing economy" isn't the way it breaks laws and regulations and treats those that perform the service (you know, those that are actually working, being productive) as contractors, denying them the rights they're entitled to under those laws and regulations.

No. The problem is RACISM!!!111!

At a time when racial tensions have exploded and racist hate crime is on the rise in the UK and US, discrimination has reared its head in another, more unexpected place: the sharing economy, bastion of feelgood values, sustainability, social responsibility and trust.

I wonder in what bubble has this person been living to associate "sharing economy" with "sustainability, social responsibility and trust". As for "unexpected"... well, who could've predicted that, hey...?

The article has 27 paragraphs. Only one of these mentions the problem of treating employees as contractors. All the others, even the ones where these companies' blatant disregard for the Law is mentioned, approach the issue from the angle of discrimination against anyone who is not white - cue "white privilege".

The article even manages to stick Prez Duck in the issue, because... racism.

Reading this article, I see once again the current liberal/progressive mantra that some lives are more important than others. In this case, the lives of some of the non-exploited are worth more than the lives of some of the exploited (I'm excluding Airbnb from this, as the relation between the company and the hosts follows a different dynamic - I don't consider the hosts to be exploited). Are these "some of the exploited" racist? Yes, indeed they are. Is this the first problem that needs to be solved? No, it isn't.

The first problem that needs to be solved is making sure all these bulls*it "sharing economy" companies play by the same rules as everyone else, and those who work for them are guaranteed the rights they deserve. Then, we go after those who discriminate.

By going at it backwards, the message this remarkable genius at the Guardian is passing is "We don't care if you're being discriminated against, because you're not on our list of 'protected species', and we're going after you for discriminating against those that are on that list".

So, the Guardian (in fact, all the liberal/progressive media) is saying that people with enough money to hire/pay for Uber drives and for someone to go "do the chores" at their homes are more important than the "privileged" people who earn below the minimal wage for performing those services, based on nothing more than skin color and gender. I suppose this is an example of those "speaking truth to power/punching up/equality" thingies they keep bringing up.

And then they get all incensed triggered when someone says they share a significant part of the responsibility for all this lovely, wonderful populism gracing our lives these days.