The phrase ‘confidence of mediocre white man’ seems to generalize to any identity. It is always the most mediocre examples of an identity who bring the most confidence to performing/asserting the privileges and entitlements of that identity. Regression to the intersectional mean.
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I think there is something about The Thing We Call The Patriarchy which supports White male mediocrity OVER WM brilliance
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bertrand russell, fools are cocksure while the wise are full of doubt, etc etc
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Described that way, it sounds like the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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Been thinking about the Pareto principle but for shittiness. A small percentage having an outsize impact on general perception of a class of things. But as far as the white patriarchy goes, it's got a near monopoly on shittiness.




