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My problem with politics at work isn’t so much that it’s politics but more that it’s always idiotic performative horseshit. Like please stop pretending you want
by jrsj 5y ago
My problem with politics at work isn’t so much that it’s politics but more that it’s always idiotic performative horseshit. Like please stop pretending you want to “help” a group of people who disproportionately hold the jobs you are automating out of existence etc. More often than not it has more to do with a small number of individuals trying to get more power for themselves than a genuine desire to help anyone.
- pydry 5y agoA lot of the time the performative bullshit is the company itself trying to make changes that garner approval and attention but that don't cost it anything significant. One example would be GitHub keeping its contract with ICE but changing the master branch to main.
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- permo-w 5y agothis kind of captures my problem with the current progressive politics. It’s all about signalling that you’re in a support of all manner of identities, unless that identity is working class, or unemployed It’s extremely convenient for the neo-liberal elite. They get to sit back and continually rip us all off economically, while the generation that would normally be fighting it is busy fighting an invisible “institutional racism”. The people in power are not racist. Not specifically anyway. They’re just greedy. Often, because of past racism, or just coincidence, that greed disproportionately affects minorities. But the issue is greed and corruption and an improperly regulated society. It is not the invisible racist man, or microaggressions. These issues still matter, and there’s absolutely a place for social justice politics, but it’s much much less important than economic justice
- banannaise 5y agoThere are a lot of racial justice advocates who agree with you pretty much entirely. Racial justice is economic justice, and economic justice has very little to do with who has what jobs. Class reductionism and race reductionism are both enemies of progress; we have to understand the intersection of such things if we're going to get anywhere.