2 ms·

So let it happen quickly without complaining about it so that tomorrow we can be arguing about something else, instead of arguing about the same thing for ten s

So let it happen quickly without complaining about it so that tomorrow we can be arguing about something else, instead of arguing about the same thing for ten straight years. "People get pissed off even by small changes" is a MUCH bigger impediment towards real progress than "people are making small changes that won't fix the whole world" is. I don't believe most of the people who say they're only problem is that the change is "too small." I think that's just an excuse of convenience to resist any change or challenge to the status quo. If your problem is that the change isn't big enough, the solution is to push for bigger ones yourself! But that's not usually what we see those people doing...

nullserver 6y ago
Small changes? My daughters now have to complete against males in sports. They will be punished severely if they complain. The woman’s movement is being taken over by men.
refenestrator 6y ago
The problem with that is we never graduate to the real problems. People who are after a quick, delusional dopamine hit from changing harmless terminology will just go after sillier and sillier stuff instead. It's not "too small", it's irrelevant and selfish.
rmrfrmrf 6y ago
It's not the size of the change that's a problem, it's that the change doesn't address the problem at all, and that the only metric for success for these changes is how angry they make people (which, in the circles of the people proposing these changes, means the change is "working"). It's entirely possible to hire more engineers of color and pay them fairly, but it turns out that pitting workers against each other by introducing a handful of inconsequential process and standards changes is much cheaper and hinders the solidarity that enables coordinated advocacy for better working conditions.

2 ms·

So let it happen quickly without complaining about it so that tomorrow we can be arguing about something else, instead of arguing about the same thing for ten s

by majormajor 6y ago

nullserver 6y ago
Small changes? My daughters now have to complete against males in sports. They will be punished severely if they complain. The woman’s movement is being taken over by men.
refenestrator 6y ago
The problem with that is we never graduate to the real problems. People who are after a quick, delusional dopamine hit from changing harmless terminology will just go after sillier and sillier stuff instead. It's not "too small", it's irrelevant and selfish.
rmrfrmrf 6y ago
It's not the size of the change that's a problem, it's that the change doesn't address the problem at all, and that the only metric for success for these changes is how angry they make people (which, in the circles of the people proposing these changes, means the change is "working"). It's entirely possible to hire more engineers of color and pay them fairly, but it turns out that pitting workers against each other by introducing a handful of inconsequential process and standards changes is much cheaper and hinders the solidarity that enables coordinated advocacy for better working conditions.