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>” then after college, people will finally start the growing up process at age 22.” I used to think like this, but then I realize that a good portion of the st
by BuyMyBitcoins 4y ago
>” then after college, people will finally start the growing up process at age 22.”
I used to think like this, but then I realize that a good portion of the students who are used to this kind of institutionalized infantilizing internalize that it is proper and necessary.
Then they go on to agitate for similar structures “in the real world”. Something to be especially mindful of is the fact that these students are going to “elite” schools and are therefore likely to end up in management or decision making positions.
- pram 4y agoAh, so this is how we ended up with SBF and his “oopsie I made a fucky wucky” act.
- chrisco255 4y agoHe's almost 30 though.
- elcritch 4y agoExactly, they’re saying that SBF and cadre expect to be treated as “kids” with the government/institutions playing nanny. It’s become their worldview coming from elite universities.
- b112 4y agoThis isn't Seinfeld, and everything doesn't come back to Lloyd Braun.
- andrepd 4y agoSBF?
- ibeckermayer 4y ago[flagged]
- mrtksn 4y agoI think you are giving too much credit to Twitter and an ex manager from it. Shaping the civilization? Oh come on, the whole saga is just a part of a billionaire’s clash in the culture war. Could have played out entirely differently had he bought it for cheaper.
- ibeckermayer 4y agoYes, Twitter is a key platform where political ideas are exchanged, particularly for politically active / elite, and Roth was responsible for censoring it on the basis of his own political bias and on behalf of the FBI, CIA, and other federal government agencies
- fortuna86 4y agoThere's no evidence he acted on personal bias, and the US government never asked or told Twitter to do anything. Other than that, your knowledge of current events is spot on.
- fourthark 4y agoHuh? This is not asking or telling? Is it suggesting at least? https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/12/22/how-twitter-hid-us-military-info-ops-from-the-public/ https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/12/22/how-twitter-hid...
- fortuna86 4y agoOf all the "revelations" of the Twitter Files (mostly recapping the interactions that were already publicly known), preventing DoD run accounts from being marked as spam is the closest thing to an actual scandal. But 1. These accounts weren't promoted, they were just protected from being "deranked". 2. Twitter and Meta suspended most of these accounts, and made public that they had done so. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/us/politics/pentagon-social-media.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/us/politics/pentagon-soci... So the entirely of this "scandal" is that Twitter agreed to shield these accounts from being attacked themselves (mass labeled as spam) - which as it turns out wasn't needed because according to their own records, these accounts received 1-2 impressions per post. In other words, no one even saw them. Then Twitter banned them and pubicaly fingered them. Should Twitter have done this? No. Is it proof of an engine of Twitter/US Gov cooperation to promote certain things and silence others? No.
- quadrifoliate 4y ago> Something to be especially mindful of is the fact that these students are going to “elite” schools and are therefore likely to end up in management or decision making positions. Well, they only do because people, probably including yourself recruit them preferentially. They don't magically end up in these positions. Disagree? Make sure you exclude graduates from the top 20 universities in the US in your next recruiting event.
- beardedwizard 4y agoWhy does everyone blame the administrators as if students play no part? Inclusion, diversity, and psychological safety are strong values with the current generation of college students (gen z) and are building upon ideas from previous generations (millennials). The parents of millennials (boomers) have been lamenting their creation for years already. America created and raised these children and now seems to have some remorse about it, and history continues to repeat itself. Maybe the dominant culture is leaving some folks behind.
- shkkmo 4y agoThe problem is not valuing inclusion, diversity and psychological safety. Those are just the excuses used by bureaucrats to justify removing autonomy. You can promote those values without requiring people to preregister attendees for every party.
- slowmovintarget 4y agoLeftist faculty educated students this way. America created these children, but leftist activists raised them, because parents were too busy working through their own self-fulfillment woes. It's a cultural shift that seems crafted: Self-fulfillment -> follow your heart -> feelings first -> feelings only. We have a whole generation of people who excuse bad behavior and failure with "I was having a hard time, I have to have my support peacock on the plane." None of these people heard "No" enough as a child. There's value in teaching children to ignore name-calling. "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me." This is what we used to teach. People can be mean, don't let it affect you. Show grit, find it in yourself to continue anyway, and you'll succeed. Now? Achieve power by exploring your victim-hood and collapse in shaking outrage because someone disagreed with you. We need to start fixing this, and clearing these piles of frivolous administrators from the staff at universities would be a great start.
- beardedwizard 4y agoIsn't that largely because the most marginalized groups started speaking up, and started being heard? Hasn't it progressed from there? I think it's fair to say LGBTQ, women and brown folks are being hurt in tangible ways by dominant language (words can in fact hurt when they influence generations of behavior), and like most progress there seem to be some who are experiencing downsides now that things are changing. Who decides who has sour grapes? Were these bureaucrats just waiting in the wings for an excuse to pounce with regressive policy? Blaming the staff without examining the broader cultural shift seems as bad as an emotional support peacock.