myers-briggs creator is a white supremacist, love languages creator is a christian homophobe, turns out trying to reduce the world to easily labellable boxes is a regressive, conservative idea. who knew.
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this is why my team mentality gets so toxic because you start to form ideas about who's on your team.
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conservatives look at the universe and the species on this planet and all the infinite complexity and variation and beauty and scream THERE ARE ONLY TWO GENDERS. no imagination. no self reflection. a tribe of tiny, evil people who pour hate into the tank and spew toxic fumes out
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to address a trend emerging in my notifications: Yes, you can find labelling and categorizing helpful to you personally. No, that doesn't mean you can apply it to everyone else as The One Truth. Conservative minds love One Truth. That's not how it works.
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To address another trend: if you don't want me to call conservatives evil, get them to stop being evil.
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Reductionist thinking is harming all of us constantly and it's so damn endemic
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Moreover... Big Tech puts people in identity boxes on a massive scale. And guess what, Pearson “founder of statistics” used his ideas to justify eugenics ideas. That’s the legacy that machine learning on personal data is built upon...
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I applied for an ushering job at
@PublicTheaterNY and Shakespeare in the Park like six years ago. You immediately had to take a Myers-Briggs test. I didn’t even get to talk to anyone, just an immediate rejection.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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But labels do work. They help us to describe ourselves not only to others but to ourselves and allow for better introspection. The idea of love languages is fine, you don't have to limit yourself to one. Instead of my love language is... , say my love languages include...
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sure, it's the labeling of other people that i'm not into
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