Here are some "SJW" concepts I think can be pretty useful (if often misused): 1. Check your privilege ("remember your background gives you biases") 2. Trigger warnings ("this content may be distressing")
Show this thread
-
Here are some "SJW" concepts I think are almost always more dumb than they are useful: 1. Cultural appropriation 2. Mansplaining 3. Internalised oppression (when used to discredit women or minorities who disagree with a particular orthodoxy as being "brainwashed")
Show this thread
#3 can be really useful if divorced from toxic identity politics. The handy version might be something like "internalized constraints," where punished behaviors (or even low benefit:cost behaviors) die off & stay dead even after the incentives change -- sometimes very visibly.
-
-
That's true. I've exclusively encountered it in its toxic form, but that is a useful way of applying it.
-
How it's used now (as an instance of "you only believe/feel differently from me because x") is *definitely* a social defection. Broadly speaking, any justification for "mind-reading as rebuttal" is toxic & the very worst justifications are both plausible & irrefutable by design
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.