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"It's only useful if it's an initiative I agree with" is a dangerous mindset
by hanniabu 3y ago
"It's only useful if it's an initiative I agree with" is a dangerous mindset
- mutant_glofish 3y agoNo, it's not. It's a useful mindset for driving social change.
- Dalewyn 3y ago[flagged]
- johannes1234321 3y ago[flagged]
- zuminator 3y ago> but the way the movement was carried out made women in general a liability to interact with. That statement only begins to make sense from the POV that the default human being is a man and that whatever benefits women received from the heightened scrutiny of sexual offenses in the workplace aren't even worthy of enumeration.
- cto_of_antifa 3y ago[dead]
- bloopernova 3y agoAs a thought experiment, how do you think the women you know would react to your characterization of the #metoo movement? Would you feel comfortable showing them your comment?
- kmeisthax 3y agoBack during OWS the main point of outrage was large banks using government money to subsidize their bad bets. Nobody liked this, not even the people giving the banks that government money. But we did it anyway, and the resulting moral hazards of over a decade of 0% interest rates and no antitrust enforcement gave us something even more insane than capitalism: techno-feudalism[0]. I question your read of MeToo's effects, mostly because it does not jive with my experience. What line of work are you in where women are a liability to work with? Twitter causing the Arab Spring was largely marketing to westerners and not truth. The Arab Spring happened because the price of food spiked, not because Twitter was magically easier to access than the hundreds of other forms of communication people had access to. [0] As coined by Cory Doctorow. Some other left-wingers call it "late-stage capitalism".