Kind of an asshole, wasn’t he?
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Absolutely esp when it's those that challenge stereotypes. Representations matter.
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“There’s this body of research and a term known as ‘symbolic annihilation,’ which is the idea that if you don’t see people like you in the media you consume, you must somehow be unimportant.”http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/why-on-screen-representation-matters_us_58aeae96e4b01406012fe49d …
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I honestly think representation, or lack of it, is part of the reason for lack of women esp black women in tech and stem
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BTW [TW: Nazis, Holocaust] did you see this thread/blog post?https://twitter.com/o_guest/status/944945775494254592 …
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I didn't. It sounds disgusting but let me read...
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It is but we were speaking about tech being unwelcoming and bad so I thought of it...
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Nobody is that smart. Some people think they are that smart, but everyone is wrong about almost everything. I think we should all make ourselves the idols. If I keep randomly interjecting into this convo I'll eventually bring up Stanford, Binet, and eugenics so...
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Yeah, these "genius" are "geniuses" because they're standing on others shoulders but most narratives miss this fact and treat these men as discrete individuals that exist in a vacuum
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That was the narrative of IQ right? That the world would be saved by white male geniuses in lab coats?
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There were whole movements around "saving" the genius from obscurity by identifying them young and "nurturing" them. It's very North Korea when you think about it.
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Those are the men who are now finding out they aren't minor deities.
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