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> It is very hard to be different in the wrong ways in the Bay Area, and the social sanctions against being different affect all aspects of your life including
by cwzwarich 8y ago
> It is very hard to be different in the wrong ways in the Bay Area, and the social sanctions against being different affect all aspects of your life including loosing friends and jobs.
Is there actually a uniform definition of the "wrong way"? I doubt circumstances are the same for someone in SV who is originally from the Midwest and someone who is from Andhra Pradesh.
- asabjorn 8y agoThere have for a few decades been a progressive activist sub-culture in the bay area, mostly springing out of berkeley social science departments, and they seem through brute force and bullying tactics to define what is "rightspeak" as what furthers their activist agenda. Their agenda is to fight for their in-group. If you look you'll notice what is defined as the in-group not changing much, while what is defined as the target for change does change and expand over time. The goal seems to be to have their in-group win at whatever cost necessary. https://quillette.com/2018/10/11/do-advocacy-groups-belong-in-academia/ https://quillette.com/2018/10/11/do-advocacy-groups-belong-i...