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However, if it's the oppressed's responsibility to educate every person they interact with, it becomes trivial to DoS them through willful ignorance. There can
by tangent128 9y ago
However, if it's the oppressed's responsibility to educate every person they interact with, it becomes trivial to DoS them through willful ignorance.
There can't be a social expectation that the privileged are entitled to cognitive labor from already-oppressed individuals, because that can and has been abused.
(That said, people are more likely to be open to a person that they can sense has already done the basic research.)
- naravara 9y agoThis isn't a question of ought, it's just a matter of is. People with power will act in their own interests always. The only way to make them act in your interests is to make their interests align with yours. If nobody is willing to do that, they will appeal to your interests only in the most perfunctory way that never threatens their privileged position. Thus, you get a lot of "diversity panels" that are full of old White men speculating as to what makes you tick. Fairness and "problematicness" don't enter into it. That's just how the world works. It's easy enough to differentiate ignorance born out of good faith from malicious sea-lioning without having to assume bad faith on everyone's parts simply because of how they present to the world.
- haltingthoughts 9y agoOP was expressing frustration at having to deal with explaining third rail topics and the lack of awareness of the asker of how annoying it can be. It doesn't need to be in bad faith to be annoying. To illustrate the problem, I had a visible medical problem that didn't resolve quickly and had to deal with constant questions about how it was going. While I appreciated the sympathy, it was a bit annoying after answering the same question to tens of people.