Oneshotted my very liberal choir director in undergrad by making four seasons landscaping my zoom background at the officer’s meeting the following week
We didn’t have the time to wait for the great minority books to be written, so the mediocre to bad minority books had to do
Ultimately, most books aren’t very good! There’s plenty of black works that are good but yeah it does seem like anything written for the explicit purpose of correcting the imbalance is probably bad (because again, most things written are bad so whatever came about had to work)
There’s probably an incompatibility between western courtship, dating, and marriage norms and open sexuality in the way that we have it and that tension plus social media has caused people to go insane?
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
I am amenable to the idea that there have been generational consequences but following that line is just going to have us revolting against Adam himself and that’s probably not going to work, you have to be an individual who accepts his circumstances eventually.
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.
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
Very notably not actually correcting the injustice done to women and minorities who actually were discriminated against. This is all connected. I do not think that it’s some kind of coordinated conspiracy but it certainly IS occurring.
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
The incentives online are to be insane and beyond that I think it’s actually rather difficult to have an optimistic (by which I mean seeking positive change) ideological vision while managing to actually separate the oughts from ises and posturing accordingly
I think that the sentiment here is INCREDIBLY correct and expands to basically every single identity politic. Grounded in a utopian idealism as opposed to conditions as they actually exist, creating a generally unhelpful set of activists
The problem that persists is always going to be telling parents that their kids are dumb, poorly behaved, and going to go nowhere in life