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I just think culture war crazies overreacted to this. a lot of people in a position of privilege are so blind to the situation of people who are not, & so scare
by make3 3y ago
I just think culture war crazies overreacted to this. a lot of people in a position of privilege are so blind to the situation of people who are not, & so scared of losing their privilege. the thing needs a bit of tuning, that's all. it's not such a huge deal.
- renegat0x0 3y agoOne of the biggest companies puts out a program that does not work. The stock reflects that. And yet this comment is about privilege? Are you serious?
- freedomben 3y agoI don't know about GP specifically, but I know many people who would agree with them, and those people don't believe that it was anywhere near as bad as what people were saying. They say the same thing about it being overblown by culture warriors, even though there were plenty of people reporting it that have a pretty good history of not being culture warriors (like Nate Silver). To me it feels like a "I reject your reality, and substitute my own" type of response, but I don't see any way to break through that. Even on HN, the vast majority of people didn't even see this story because the first 7 to 10 submissions that started gaining traction got flagged into obscurity, even when it was a highly sympathetic publication mostly writing a defense.
- renegat0x0 3y agoI am not sold on that. There are way too many articles about it just to dismiss it just like that. For me it looks more like that privilege culture warriors would like to deny reality.
- mancerayder 3y agoHow can you be simultaneously blind to privilege and 'scared' of losing it? Are you alluding to a psychoanalytic perspective of unconscious bias and attitudes?
- make3 3y agoThey just see things that help disadvantaged people as taking away from their conditions, without understanding that their condition is a privileged one