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Sep 25, 2020

Almost nobody seems very interested in concepts like oppression and privilege in the areas where they most obviously occur: e.g. for children, or on the basis of IQ, physical attractiveness or social adaptability

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

· Sep 25, 2020

I don't really find oppression to be a compelling concept for categories I'm supposedly oppressed in, and so I don't find it a compelling concept for categories I'm not oppressed in either.

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@QiaochuYuan

Sep 25, 2020

hard to form compelling social groups on the basis of being dumb, ugly, or awkward :/ the children face a unique challenge which is that everyone ages out of being a child. codename: kids next door was legitimately an interesting meditation on this

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oh, and being poor, that's another one. a thought i had once was that it's easier to self-select on the basis of some kind of visible identity the more discrete that identity is. intelligence, beauty, wealth, and social skill are all very continuous, unclear where the cutoffs are

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‘neuroatypical‘ maybe makes visible what was invisible too?

@robinhanson

’s ”Pretty Smart Healthy Privilege” , Kahneman’s coverage of Halo Effects, and Ted Chiang’s “Liking What You See, a Documentary” tuned me in to some of these other variables in the privilege calculus