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I'm not so sure it does cause people to entrench their positions. As an example within tech, sneering and contempt have enabled social justice to spread wildly
by yummyfajitas 10y ago
I'm not so sure it does cause people to entrench their positions.
As an example within tech, sneering and contempt have enabled social justice to spread wildly. Look at how many projects/conferences have codes of conduct now, compared to a few years ago, and at how many technology companies are throwing money at diversity efforts.
I don't know if it's the right strategy, but it's definitively not a strategy I can immediately dismiss.
- sevensor 10y agoI see your point about social justice, but I think it isn't a great example. While there were and are some committed racist and misogynist individuals in the world, by and large people as well as organizations were indifferent. They didn't have any position to speak of, and so they were blindsided and easily swayed when the shaming and contempt came around. They said "hey, that's not us, we're not like that!" and fell in line with the social justice position. Programming language communities, on the other hand, have a real investment in their language of choice. It's not that they're indifferent to the issue of whether PHP is a terrible language; they actively choose PHP, so when they're attacked they move to defend.