It got a lot worse for Shor, btw, beyond just losing his job. But I continue to maintain: anything you lose over something like this was never worth having in the first place.https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/white-fragility-racism-racism-progressive-progressphiles-david-shor.html …
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Replying to @vgr
like having people treat you nicely and having a good reputation seem worth having, even they can be destroyed by this kind of thing
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Replying to @literalbanana
I think "having people treat you nicely and having a good reputation" is now just a 50% harder skill. Social presence is simply another class of institutions to which the principle applies. I see more people who manage to thread that needle well today than 3-4 years ago.
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Replying to @vgr @literalbanana
I feel like part of the problem is that you need to build a social presence that is (pardon my Taleb) antifragile: It's very easy to have people treat you nicely and have a good reputation by people pleasing and that works great until it suddenly very majorly doesn't.
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Someone who people like only as long as they never say anything wrong is doomed and doesn't know it yet.
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Replying to @DRMacIver @vgr
people have different tolerances for overt conflict and self-sort into appropriate cultures/roles to the extent they can, I think that’s good
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Replying to @literalbanana @vgr
I agree! It is good. But it only works as a survival strategy if those other cultures respect the boundaries of your culture. Sadly this is not the case, as we're currently seeing.
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Replying to @DRMacIver @vgr
yeah a world where you’re required to be tough is a bad world
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Tough is kinda doable if only because the non-tough soon perish. It's a world that requires too many people to be saints that's the really bad world.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1276566722326061056 …
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