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My thoughts: Linus's conduct isn't great, people who make a huge fuss about it often need to touch grass. I pay actual money every month to organizations that
by mhh__ 5y ago
My thoughts: Linus's conduct isn't great, people who make a huge fuss about it often need to touch grass.
I pay actual money every month to organizations that could be described as part of the woke-conspiracy, I believe in them, but some parts of this culture are simply ridiculous. They mean well but all this analyzing/micro-aggression crap is a coping mechanism that I can only feel leads to a weak mind.
I remember asking someone, from a position of genuine curiousity (albeit slightly morbid because I was surprised and felt it was subtly quite misandrist), why they felt having any men in an event for women to write code in made her feel threatened, and I got insta-talked-down-to by a moderator. This was at a university, they build these environments to try and help, but they end up separating people from arguments/other culture which I think just makes people lazy, dumb, and arrogant. I'm not in the "burn the whole rotten system down" camp, but it was eye-opening.
- mxmilkiib 5y agoTo understand women (and often also non-binary) only spaces, I guess one'd need to learn about trauma. Imo the phrase "subconscious bullying" I think about covers "micro-aggressions" and was available before, but, idk, using that probably makes those accused of it less likely to engage.
- belorn 5y agoThere used to be a saying that left voters were simply right voters that has yet to be the victim of a crime, commonly with the subtext that people who are victim of crime by low social economic demographics are only acting rational based on that trauma.
- johnny22 5y agoI wonder how true that really is. My only personal experience is being held up at gunpoint by some dude tryin to steal my only computing device that i couldn't afford to replace. My politics haven't changed though.
- belorn 5y agoHow much a person is going to be effected by a trauma is individual and also in part culturally. Have you ever felt a need for a safe space against the demographic that held that gun? Do you feel unsafe when near people who look like them? Do you expect others around you to respect your view if you did feel unsafe, and do you feel a social support for the need for a safe space against that demographic?
- mxmilkiib 5y agoInteresting but I think that logic is reversible, e.g. the left being more happy to regulate corporations that enable, amplify or cause trauma.