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> Last time it was opposing LGBTQ and racial discrimination and now it is technology. The attacks on and hate of trans people are on the rise. There seem to b
by watwut 4mo ago
> Last time it was opposing LGBTQ and racial discrimination and now it is technology.
The attacks on and hate of trans people are on the rise. There seem to be literal strategy of preventing blacks and women from career rise in military and government. And all of these are enabled and helped by tech. The radicalization and hate grows due to our algorithms.
> tech industry keeps threatening the status quo again and again
Tech industry is the status quo, it represents people with good jobs and high status looking down on everyone else. It was like that for decades now. Tech industry is all about creating monopolies, consolidating and killing the competition.
> when the historical trend points to optimism instead
It does not. We failed to manage climate change. The world is moving from stability to chaos, toward more wars. The politics of several countries is turning toward openly fascists. The powerful are less and less accountable, amassing more and more power. Corruption is at unprecedented levels.
Good times already were. We are going toward bad times and things will start improving only after they will get really bad first.
- JuniperMesos 4mo ago[flagged]
- simianwords 4mo ago> Both of these phenomena are contemporary American poltical currents, and don't have much to do with the tech industry in and of itself. The mode of opposition against culture change to benefit these groups is the same mode of opposition against technology. Both exist to preserve status quo - to keep the same hierarchies.
- SideburnsOfDoom 4mo ago> the poltical demands trans people make in the explicit name of trans rights necessarily entail enlisting the state to help destroy gender distinctions This is hysterical in both senses of the word, and also nonensical.
- watwut 4mo ago> a lot of people have now realized this and are explicitly fighting back against trans demands. They are literally actively trying to create the world where trans people are hurt as much as possible. They are not on the defense, they are the assholes. >Blacks and women have historically benefitted from explicit racial and gender preferences Man, no one got more historical benefits from explicit racial and gender preferences as white men. > which looks like "preventing blacks and women from career rise" from the perspective of a pro-affirmative-action person. They are literally prevented from progress solely due to their race and gender. As was historical norm for a long time.