Dismissing feminism and intersectionality (I.e. listening to people different from you) is a bridge too far too, though.
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I mean I'm a straight white cisgendered American male in tech. I get it. I also know that people like me talk OVER others too much.
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It gets hairy in "debates" esp online, but basically my perspective is already the default, assumed, understood. Gotta open our ears more.
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It's not the whites whose water will be poisoned in Dakota, it's not the men who will live in hell in Texas: justice means listening first.
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These demographics are finding and having a voice for the first time in decades if not centuries & now Dawkins thinks they're not objective
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It smacks of Darwin descending on a "savage" island and telling them what's best for them. He might be right scientifically but not socially
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It's like me telling a woman how to handle sexual harassment: I'm not *wrong* but my advice isn't *useful for her.*
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Yes it gets toxic if, say, we're arguing something neutral like the definition of "is" and men are told to shut up -- but usu we aren't.
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Usually it's a few, say, black women tweeting each other about racism in America, and a white man butts in to play grammar cop. It's dumb.
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Not usually, no. That's just annoying behaviour. That wasn't what I was talking about in the essay, was it? Why not address that?
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