A take I wish were true: 'The real, productive core of tech aren't down with the SJW party line.' ..
Yes. Institutions & incentives steer all but the most zealous. Unfortunately leftism currently the most potent meme for pwning institutions.
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that is the result of deliberate internal organization by a tight core of adherents, a good PR campaign, and attempts at mass appeal.
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You're not wrong. But but what's been the root of this motivational incongruity between right & left? Leftism is just a better rallying cry.
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The right pretty much never retaliates and never seizes the initiative, so why the hell wouldn't it be getting its ass kicked?
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The right has a bias toward social stability. It tries to preserve order. It tends to be more reactive than proactive.
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When pushed too hard, however, it tends to engage in crackdowns. Many fascist revolutions occurred after attempts at Communist ones.
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Yeah, feels like a Simpson's paradox kind of situation to me. Discrimination for example should be, to the right, a matter of epistemology +
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optimal control, that gets something closer to deductive which is much harder to destabilize and can pre-empt valid portions of left args.
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Instead they're stuck in the left's framing of things and arguing about empirical facts, which are too easy to prevaricate with.
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