Yes to every word of that. We've got to move towards meritocracy, grace, and just treating people like people. Everything about intersectional/woke is counterproductive. Not least: I still find sweeping generalizations blaming whole groups of people jarring even as they become more common. As we have this arbitrary and flawed grievance h…
Yes to every word of that. We've got to move towards meritocracy, grace, and just treating people like people. Everything about intersectional/woke is counterproductive. Not least: I still find sweeping generalizations blaming whole groups of people jarring even as they become more common. As we have this arbitrary and flawed grievance hierarchy, one use has become to sneak in actual bigotry (not the modern use as a Tourette Syndrome-like epithet but in the literal meaning of cruel hatred of a group for immutable characteristics) behind devaluing people on a lower victim hierarchy characteristic so that you get to attack them. EG stereotyping "white women" lets real misogynists parade their hatred of women using a racial password. Ditto stereotyping "black men" for anti-black racists or "ci gay men/women" for anti-gay bigots as long as they add the degrading "lower" characteristic. It is all a nasty business that I hope collapses under the weight of its contradictions and absurdities. Sure it is evil but it is also... just dumb. It is a low quality way to understand the human condition. There is nothing in this whole DEI apparatus worth salvaging. We should simply start over and rebuild with a curious and generous effort to connect with each other as people with more in common than at odds with one another. We're just trying to think and write clearly, raise our families, improve our crafts, and build our businesses -- that is far more important and interesting than the immutable characteristics that nominally separate us. And for a particularly childlike closing observation: isn't it better that we don't all look the same way or are attracted to the same thing? Wouldn't that be worse?
Yes to every word of that. We've got to move towards meritocracy, grace, and just treating people like people. Everything about intersectional/woke is counterproductive. Not least: I still find sweeping generalizations blaming whole groups of people jarring even as they become more common. As we have this arbitrary and flawed grievance hierarchy, one use has become to sneak in actual bigotry (not the modern use as a Tourette Syndrome-like epithet but in the literal meaning of cruel hatred of a group for immutable characteristics) behind devaluing people on a lower victim hierarchy characteristic so that you get to attack them. EG stereotyping "white women" lets real misogynists parade their hatred of women using a racial password. Ditto stereotyping "black men" for anti-black racists or "ci gay men/women" for anti-gay bigots as long as they add the degrading "lower" characteristic. It is all a nasty business that I hope collapses under the weight of its contradictions and absurdities. Sure it is evil but it is also... just dumb. It is a low quality way to understand the human condition. There is nothing in this whole DEI apparatus worth salvaging. We should simply start over and rebuild with a curious and generous effort to connect with each other as people with more in common than at odds with one another. We're just trying to think and write clearly, raise our families, improve our crafts, and build our businesses -- that is far more important and interesting than the immutable characteristics that nominally separate us. And for a particularly childlike closing observation: isn't it better that we don't all look the same way or are attracted to the same thing? Wouldn't that be worse?