maybe that's fine, maybe progressive thought just needs to pursue its strategy of alienating its way to utopia harder
i mean, that would be lovely, but the geek is not *asked to recognize differences*, he is publicly mocked, derided and shamed
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he is told that by using the wrong words for his experience he is appropriating the experience of people who actually suffered
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and if you're paying attention you know you never have to go far to find people who won't deny his suffering, but celebrate it
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That only happens because geeks (as a group) continue to inflict pain on marginalized groups. You know what you do when you
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use a word wrong? You apologize & try not to make that mistake in the future. You don't double-down on how you're the oppressed
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that's easy when it's, like, fucking up somebody's pronouns. bit harder when the word you used determines whether you matter.
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For treating other groups of people as badly as he himself is treated. If you're a chill dude geek we won't mock deride OR shame
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(We being marginalized people)
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i feel like you mean that and want it to be true, but it's not really how things go down
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I literally feel the exact same way about what you're saying. :)
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it seems bizarre to me to think of somebody *wanting* any of what i'm saying to be true
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I think it has to do with having an understanding of how culture works for whole groups as opposed to individual people?
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When we talk about this stuff, we don't specifically say, but to address large societal problems you have to make some groups.
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You literally can't describe what's happening otherwise. And realizing your relationship to your group and to other groups is
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