This is a good piece but if anything it soft-pedals the problem. It's not just NDs who get abused and oppressed. http://quillette.com/2017/07/18/neurodiversity-case-free-speech/ … 1/
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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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I think this is a clever story but the most verbally talented people I know hate gender/identity politics.
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I don't think verbal intelligence is a perfect fit to 'unusual gifts at conforming', but it's a component. Duckspeak is a talent all its own
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Right. People who actually good at verbal things, the top 0.01 percent versus the 1 percent tends to dislike vagueness like autistic folks
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They are too good at this type of word play and frankly they end up as bitterly divided and confused as people who probably suck.
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It is easy to see other people intepretation as motivated by ideological reasons versus just exploring the possibility space for cool shit
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Well, there's definitely a lot of ideological input at the administrative level--the diversity industry is a real thing--but
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...power structures don't need central planning to emerge, either. Just people pursuing their skills at social maneuvering.
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and career anxiety. haven't checked it but intensifying obedience & intensifying constriction of academic job market seem to run together
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I disagree with the basic premise: the intentional vagueness has nothing to do with assumptions about interpretive abilities. 1/
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