If you think that going to Mars, increasing human lifespan or dealing with existential risk is stupid and evil, but curly hair is important and good, you have what it takes to be a great tech journalist https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/14/lus-brands-backed-by-y-combinator-wants-you-to-love-your-curls/ …
I understand that most humans are vitally interested in whether a particular product, thought, concept is currently a totem of the ingroup (= good) or of the outgroup (= evil) than what it actually changes. Human reality seems to be a social construct. I don't relate much to that
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Identity politics is the wrong lens to view this issue through, and your continual insistance on seeing it as identity politics betrays an important insensitivity. The issue is acceptance. Black hair is not accepted in most professional environments.
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I am very sympathetic to your plight, but I don’t think it is about class markers or identity of members of a class, but about class itself.
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An issue that fits your framework more naturally is guns: people see anything that signals for their side as good. But neither side of the gun debate had been enslaved for 400 years and subsequently failed to achieve broad acceptance for who they are.
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There are 100s of trivial articles in tech journalism. Singling out one on black hair products betrays an ignorance of black struggle. We're all socratics of one sort or another, though. It's okay to admit ignorance.
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