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I find it funny that some self-hating SJW came up with the acronym WEIRD to describe the population of the first world. Ie it's pretty clear they started out w
by omonra 10y ago
I find it funny that some self-hating SJW came up with the acronym WEIRD to describe the population of the first world.
Ie it's pretty clear they started out with the acronym and then searched for the letters to finish it off. Would this sht pass if someone wanted to come up with an acronym for the illiterate population of the world that subsist on less than $1 a day and ended up with UGLY (for the sake of example)?
I find it equally unpleasant when people denigrate groups - whether they perceive them as 'underprivileged' or 'privileged'.
- tashi 10y ago1. Calling someone "weird" seems a lot more playful than insulting to me. 2. Do you find it equally unpleasant when people make insulting remarks about their own group than about a group they don't belong to? I think the latter is usually considered worse. 3. Speaking of which, "self-hating SJW" is a term used to denigrate a group--in this case, a group you don't belong to--and to dismiss them as people without considering the validity of their ideas. That's a cognitive shortcut that could be harmful.
- omonra 10y agoYes - it may be more 'playful' than insulting. But I definitely sense a general tone that it's ok to insult white / straight people while prostrating oneself in front of any kind of ethnic or sexual minority. This is a perfect example of this. Is there any purpose to calling members of the developed world 'weird'? To me it's pure propagation of 'victimhood' culture - where being not white or not straight gives one 'victim points'. I consider this racist and I'm calling it out.
- dang 10y agoPlease don't take HN threads on generic ideological/indignant tangents. They lower the signal/noise ratio and usually provoke worse.