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    1. Jaycie‏ @thirdtruck 30 Oct 2016
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      Agreed it's not 1:1. Regardless, I wish the letter to the professor had been unflinching in its denunciation.

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    2. Jaycie‏ @thirdtruck 30 Oct 2016
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      A closer analogy might have been him insisting on calling his Japanese/Chinese/Indian students only "Asians."

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Oct 2016
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      in fact I think it would be assholish of me to insist others devote brain cycles to distinctions that matter to me at all times

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    4. Jaycie‏ @thirdtruck 30 Oct 2016
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      On the other hand, students of his are being made to devote cycles to fit themselves into his small boxes. Constant self-monitoring.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Oct 2016
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      and so are ALL the students with illegible identity dimensions that are subject to that kind of rough handling

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Oct 2016
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      every other time I order at a take-out or Starbucks I have to repeat/spell my name. So be it. I shave before flights. So be it.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Oct 2016
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      So long as people aren't being actively threatened with bodily harm or death for visible identity markers they can't control...

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Oct 2016
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      ...it's best left for people to work out situationally rather than being legislated into a cognitive tax for everybody

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    9. Jaycie‏ @thirdtruck 30 Oct 2016
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      I'd argue we need those laws as procedural/precedental defenses against laws that do the opposite.

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    10. Jaycie‏ @thirdtruck 30 Oct 2016
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      Looking at the recent bathroom laws that inspired men to follow women - already justifiably paranoid - into bathrooms.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Oct 2016
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      by acting like there's no marginal cost to piling issue after issue onto the SJ agenda, you ensure none get addressed

      8:46 PM - 30 Oct 2016
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        2. Jaycie‏ @thirdtruck 30 Oct 2016
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          I've seen progress on issue at every level get addressed, though, and the other side is constantly moving to roll back existing rights.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Oct 2016
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          I'll stop arguing now since I think we understand each other's positions in broad contours.

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