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The principle has been almost entirely flipped — a handful of (admittedly very socially salient) surface features are assumed to have simple enough multiplicative effects on one another that a person's difficulties in life can be more or less checklisted
It's honestly just making me a bit sad this morning. I really think this social humility is a bit of the salve we need to heal whatever it is that's going on with us politically — and leeching into relationships that *should be* hardier than this
It’s difficult when good ideas mutate into toxic ones... pointing this out is often misunderstood as an attack on the original good idea. Plus: jerks who hated the good idea are also opposed to the toxic version, and now you share an opinion with them, which makes you suspect.
I was under the exact same misconception as you for a while. Sadly, it's hard to find any usage of the term that adds more light than heat. I think it's entirely shibboleth at this point. I look at it and just see epicycles or dark matter - retrofitting metaphysics to bad math.
I think this applies to virtually every idea in that whole genre of campus leftist SJW sociology - ideas with a kernel of truth that are perverted or exaggerated beyond recognition. (Hell, this could describe literally every human idea ever, but these seem noteworthy).
So yes, 1) everyone is multifaceted 2) you only ever see one or two sides of them 3) they only ever know 3/4 sides of themselves 4) but we classify them by dominant dimension, why? 1/n
The answer is evolution. Is the tiger going to eat me? We put people into boxes quickly and move on because that’s what our brain is good at. Empathy takes work.
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