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Not necessarily. Calling attention to divisions may reinforce the behavior -- like telling children only what not to do. By removing that reinforcement the be
by clavalle 12y ago
Not necessarily.
Calling attention to divisions may reinforce the behavior -- like telling children only what not to do.
By removing that reinforcement the behavior would be extinguished.
Of course that assumes we can trust everyone to do the right thing...not a great assumption, I'll admit.
Then again, I am not great at inter-personal psychology which is probably a big part of why I got into tech to begin with.
- makomk 12y agoHow would this argument apply to, for example, the issue of women being sexually assaulted at tech events?
- clavalle 12y agoThe same way it would apply, in general, to people assaulting other people physically at a tech conference. It generally wouldn't. It would assume that, in general, people are going to do the right thing and those that don't will bear the brunt of society's punishment for that behavior if they show they are willing to violate the enlightened norm -- be it criminal prosecution or negative social consequences or all of the above. And that bad behavior will be drawn in that much more stark relief because everyone will be acting under the assumption that everyone else will do the right thing.
- makomk 12y agoUnfortunately people don't seem to work that way. Instead you get stuff like men concluding that it's not a big deal because it never happened to them or any of the other guys they know, and failing to take action.
- mrbenjihao 12y agoExactly this. People are not going to suddenly change their behavior if they don't even see that there are issues right in front of them. Keeping quiet, pretending as though nothing is wrong, hinders progress immensely.
- clavalle 12y agoI am not advocating pretending nothing is wrong. We've all (for reasonable approximations of 'all') acknowledged what is wrong. What I'm advocating is moving from the 'raise awareness' stage to the 'implementation and experimentation' stage.