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To paraphrase, It is difficult to get someone to understand something when their livelihood depends on not understanding it, which is exactly how colonist states, from UK to USA to Israel (and non-English speaking colonisers too) maintain their population.

How do you argue against the actions of your country without whom you have to give up some identity, address your own beliefs and education, and reconcile your vision of yourself with the idea that your lifestyle only exists thanks to the blood of innocent people?

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It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It

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Bob Thomson
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i think the same thing applies to many cishet folks when contemplating any other state: some folks just have a desperate insecurity that means they cannot tolerate that any other way than their way exists as they deep down are likely to question themselves and it makes then very, very uncomfortable indeed.
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Craig Nicol
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@bobthomson70 absolutely. I've heard objections phrased in those terms - the "marriage is between a man and a woman" crowd or the "I've missed a man but I'm not gay". It's interesting to see how attacked some people feel about their own identity because other people are finally allowed to express theirs
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Craig Nicol
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@bobthomson70 it's why the intersection of queer and feminist theory is so important, teaching people the language they need to ask why are things the way they are, who decided marriage was one man and one women, who decided that women should be seen and not heard, and what drove the people who justified slavery by creating a hierarchy of races.

The majority of modern society was constructed that way, which means that if we ask the right questions, we can construct it a different way, so long as we can get enough people to accept it

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Craig Nicol
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@bobthomson70 btw I'm having a similar discussion around dei here

https://octodon.social/@craignicol/112819371200364688

Craig Nicol

2024-07-20 14:49:47


even the fact this is a "one line" failure misrepresents the problem. There were expectations in that file that were violated elsewhere - which is why the fix wasn't to that file, it was to the files that had the nulls that line was reading.

Is it an issue with that file, or the expectations that the programmer coded to?

Equally, DEI is a response within certain organisations to address the fact that the expectations of a meritocracy are violated by a number of systemic issues outside those organisations. DEI is only a problem in that we need to validate inputs from an environment hostile to minorities, which violates basic expectations that "the best" will always follow "the true path" to this career.


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