Reply #467: misrepresentation

[Two Americas]

Hi timeforarevolution. Glad to see you weigh in here.

Please, disagree with me if you choose, but get what I say right. Google is free to do charitable work and I am not opposed to charitable work. I do much charitable work myself.

I am opposed to privatization. I have explained that again and again, yet I continue to be accused of being against helping people, or against Google, or against people who help people and on and on.

It makes no sense to discuss specific actions when we have so much confusion about the context. Anything done to solve social problems in the public sphere is better than anything in the private sphere.

This is not about the damned voicemail, nor whether Google is or is not a nice company or any of the rest of the crap here. It is not about rejecting charity. People either are not reading carefully, or they are intentionally being argumentative.

To answer your question - "OK if you don't like what Google did, what are your concrete alternatives?" is to slip in the misrepresentation of the position people are taking here and hiding it in a question. And the attacks and smears that any hint of criticism of a private corporation picking up the slack for what should be managed by public agencies, and the gushing praise and defense of that private corporation are therefore "against helping poor people" - I mean come on, timeforarevolution, you must know that this is just disingenuous, unfair and malicious.

No specific solutions offered to people are ever given consideration anyway. The whole thing is a game of dominance and suppression and it is getting old. Why should any of us be called upon to "educate" people who are intentionally misrepresenting what we say and relentlessly attacking us? Why should the fault for the miscommunication be placed on us? You can't seriously believe that the people on this thread have any interest in being "educated" - can you imagine what the response to that suggestion would be?

I HAVE given you concrete suggestions. I have offered to spend hours with you talking about concrete suggestions. I have no idea what would be seen by you as a legitimate alternative that would meet your criteria. If Yahoo gave socks to homeless people? Can you imagine NO alternatives to privatizing the solving of social problems? And what does privatization have to do with specific concrete actions? If the concrete suggestion seems good to you, then it is OK if it is privatized?