Unwritten, quickly changing social codes are technologies of social control that serve to elevate and maintain the power of elites. 2/
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Here the new elite is made of what we might call 'hyperneurotypicals'--people with unusual gifts at conforming. 3/pic.twitter.com/btUS9mYxWt
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('Hyperneurotypical' is perhaps a bad term; one expects this group to have an unusual concentration of dark triad types.) 4/
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But while destroying autists may be the most obvious outcome of this new aristocratic parasitism, the damage has a long tail too. 5/
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Truly 'typical' people may be able to navigate these structures, but not as well as the gifted, not without difficulty or pain. 6/
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And in ruthlessly biasing the attention of all parties toward courtly intrigues, it biases the attention of all away from the world. 7/
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eg: One who might have studied CS in a different social climate instead gets a degree in Gender Studies--a secular title of aristocracy. 8/
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In constructing this climate, this _systemic oppression_, intersectionalists perpetuate what they oppose: hierarchy, abuse, bigotry. 9/9
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Didn't take long for the Nazis to jump on the bandwagon (see comments). I think the idea of finding an universal set of rules is absurd, …
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… however a rule about the absence of rules is a rule by itself. Full "free speech for everyone" favors those who can stand up to having…
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… others denigrate them to their face, i.e. NTs with enough social acumen to build a large support network.
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But there's no safe spot to stand. Any formal authoritative system is going to get exploited by people with large support networks.
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You're also sweeping an awful lot of room for mischief under the rug with "others denigrate them to their face".
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Systems that incentivize expressions of injury are going to explode with false positives.
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The three options are a) incentivize expressions of injury, b) deny recourse for injury, and c) ad-hoc decisions by authority.
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Interesting point; nevertheless, I am cautious to acknowledge that social norms aren't per se bad. Bad or capricious norms are the problem.
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There's a dynamic here where transforming norms continuously at high speed is itself a process of power and oppression.
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It's related to fashion (being precisely 'in style' a day earlier than your acquaintances is a big deal) and to euphemistic treadmills.
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Sure, but since ND is genetic, it gives one a "campus speech codes are racist against ND" platform, which is delightful turnabout
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Yes, turning disparate impact against these fuckers is clever, if worrisome.
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