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From what I see in my feed, it seems 100% of "progressives" have doubled down on their hyperbolic, established, in-group rhetoric. I followed everyone that I fo
by psyc 10y ago
From what I see in my feed, it seems 100% of "progressives" have doubled down on their hyperbolic, established, in-group rhetoric. I followed everyone that I follow because they are programmers, not because they are "progressives". But from looking at my feed, one would think that I deliberately set out to create a radical SJW echo chamber for myself.
- lotsoflumens 10y agoExactly the same here. You wrote my thoughts perfectly. It's sad actually.
- dictum 10y agoI looked at a list of OSS project leaders and other programmers recently and was surprised at the popularity of the hammer and sickle symbol in their bios. Upside is that I now know who not to listen to when the next tech drama pops up.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> From what I see in my feed, it seems 100% of "progressives" have doubled down on their hyperbolic, established, in-group rhetoric Then that's a problem with your filter bubble. > I followed everyone that I follow because they are programmers, not because they are "progressives". Which is why your view of progressives produced by that is distorted. Programmers who happen to be progressives aren't representative of progressives as a whole (they aren't representative of the broader group along class/income, education, race/ethnicity, or gender lines, among others, and several of those do correlate with preferred approaches.)
- throwanem 10y agoWho is representative of progressives as a whole?
- dragonwriter 10y agoOther than a sufficiently large randomly-selected sample, no such group is particularly likely to be.