Oneshotted my very liberal choir director in undergrad by making four seasons landscaping my zoom background at the officer’s meeting the following week
I would delete this because it’s poorly phrased but it’s the most amount of likes I’ve ever received not quoting something or about game of fucking thrones so I’m forced to let it ride
This isn’t a novel observation but this dynamic I think pretty clearly draws out the core contradiction of identity politics and the collapsing of the individual down to systems and identities, it’s entirely unsustainable in a system that treats people as individuals
I feel as if also I hold a pretty measured liberal view in the sense that those who meaningfully experienced discrimination ought to be helped and those who did the discriminating ought to be on the hook but correcting this by punishing those who did nothing is a travesty.
Affirmative Act. and admissions also:
White men who benefitted from inequality have given undue benefit to women/minorities who have not been injured at the expense of white men who have not benefitted to correct the unjust treatment of older women and minorities who were injured
I don’t really think the problem is the feminization of schooling or whatever either, I think it’s a joint issue of weak willed admins and ignorant parents that allow their boys to just Not Read in favor of tomfoolery and Phone.
Turn off the internet and empower schools to maintain discipline in the classroom and make sure there are pipelines to career opportunities for the losers and everything’ll work out.
I think too many people see and hear “social construct” and conclude that means “not real” when it’s actually something significantly more powerful than stuff we might consider “real” and it leads to sloppy thinking
The worst thing about Philosophy and anything downstream of it is the desire/expectation to define some terms. There are things that are incoherent when put into words or defined through inclusion of X characteristics and exclusion of Y. 1/
