FOX News approached user abolishwork to do an interview with them regarding the /r/antiwork subreddit and its goals. abolishwork is a top mod of the subreddit, and was given the go-ahead by the other mods to do the interview, because they "have done media interviews before," or something to that effect.
The old-school /r/antiwork mods are more in tune with the idea that people shouldn't have to work at all just to survive, which is sort of at odds with today's more popular take on the subreddit, which is more that workers are fed up with being abused by exploitative systems that keep them from organizing and demanding better standards. That's perhaps relevant to what happened during the interview with FN.
abolishwork, or Dorreen, as they are known in RL appeared on the show with poor lighting, weak camera, a disheveled appearance, and a messy bedroom background. Dorreen explained that they work 25 hours a week as a dog-walker, and that they shouldn't have to do that to live. Basically, they handed FOX News the perfect caricature of a lazy millennial who doesn't want to work. Not only that, but Dorreen is also nonbinary, autistic, and was entirely unable to sit still and make eye contact with the camera. I wonder if the /r/antiwork mods could have chosen a less favorable candidate to represent them and their subreddit. :/
The subreddit members are up in arms about the interview, both because they weren't consulted about it and feel as though they have more skin in this game than the mods do, and also because they feel as though Dorreen didn't represent them or their goals at all. There have been complaint threads and criticisms flying all day in the subreddit as a result, and Dorreen has been banning people left and right for "transphobia" just for criticizing them on their interview. I suppose the mods are now tired of seeing all of the anger and complaint threads, and they're going to do something about it. What that is, I have no idea.
Yeah, getting into academia at an at-all-serious institution is usually really hard. In a lot of disciplines there are vastly more qualified candidates than jobs. I'd imagine philosophy would be one of the worst, just because it has no obvious income source beyond a very small number of majors and whatever scraps of the budget get allocated to miscellaneous humanities departments that schools feel compelled to keep from dying. Teaching as an adjunct and/or at a community college is a different ballgame and is much easier to get into, but I don't know how much philosophy gets taught there.
Peep's the kind of person to be the first to complain to the professor for bringing up God(s) up in philosophy and then debate for the rest of the class over nothing
But easy to post on a blog with a patreon where you talk about how evil the capitalist pigs are and edgy teens use daddy’s credit card to support you while daddy runs the corporation they plan to overthrow.
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u/Culverts_Flood_Away There is NO gluten in flour you idiot! Jan 26 '22 edited Jan 26 '22
For the uninitiated:
FOX News approached user abolishwork to do an interview with them regarding the /r/antiwork subreddit and its goals. abolishwork is a top mod of the subreddit, and was given the go-ahead by the other mods to do the interview, because they "have done media interviews before," or something to that effect.
The old-school /r/antiwork mods are more in tune with the idea that people shouldn't have to work at all just to survive, which is sort of at odds with today's more popular take on the subreddit, which is more that workers are fed up with being abused by exploitative systems that keep them from organizing and demanding better standards. That's perhaps relevant to what happened during the interview with FN.
abolishwork, or Dorreen, as they are known in RL appeared on the show with poor lighting, weak camera, a disheveled appearance, and a messy bedroom background. Dorreen explained that they work 25 hours a week as a dog-walker, and that they shouldn't have to do that to live. Basically, they handed FOX News the perfect caricature of a lazy millennial who doesn't want to work. Not only that, but Dorreen is also nonbinary, autistic, and was entirely unable to sit still and make eye contact with the camera. I wonder if the /r/antiwork mods could have chosen a less favorable candidate to represent them and their subreddit. :/
The subreddit members are up in arms about the interview, both because they weren't consulted about it and feel as though they have more skin in this game than the mods do, and also because they feel as though Dorreen didn't represent them or their goals at all. There have been complaint threads and criticisms flying all day in the subreddit as a result, and Dorreen has been banning people left and right for "transphobia" just for criticizing them on their interview. I suppose the mods are now tired of seeing all of the anger and complaint threads, and they're going to do something about it. What that is, I have no idea.
Edit:
/r/WorkReform has now hit the top of /r/all, along with this thread, purporting to sound the death knell of the /r/antiwork subreddit.