I think these things can be both semi-well intentioned but also self-aggrandizing. Basically, I think certain groups of people are in competition with each other to discover new offenses and eliminate them. This is a way to show off their superior intellectual skills and emotional perception and social awareness, hunting out undiscovered…
I think these things can be both semi-well intentioned but also self-aggrandizing. Basically, I think certain groups of people are in competition with each other to discover new offenses and eliminate them. This is a way to show off their superior intellectual skills and emotional perception and social awareness, hunting out undiscovered cases of racism/sexism and pointing them out. Whoever can find more of these ‘offenses’ and come up with credible intellectual reasons (within their social group) why they are offenses is the best at detecting and eliminating injustice, or so they think. It’s a competition and a way of showing off who is the smartest but I think they think of it as doing something good for the world.
Therefore, in this narrative, in order for this activity to be good it must be needful. For it be needful, these words must be harmful. For them to be harmful, they must be hurting minorities. I don’t think these people are really thinking through the psychological consequences of the narrative they are constructing, that black people are going to get traumatized left and right by hearing the world field.
I think that is what gets me most about this mentality, no matter how much the people doing these things claim they are about other people it is always about them. Making themselves look good, making themselves feel better. Somehow even ‘centering’ everything around the newest flavor of oppression always comes back around to elevate the status of the person claiming to center others inside their work within their social group.
And I do think these people both don’t understand that and are also incapable of stopping themselves. They don’t know how to turn off the social competition button or how to stop making everything about themselves. They can’t understand the feelings of other people outside their bubble no matter how much they bang on about empathy, because they only understand that word in the academic way it’s used inside their social circle. They only understand it to mean what it is supposed to mean in their peer group, it must only lead to the results and thoughts that are approved of.
Basically tl;dr, it’s not about black fragility but elite fragility. They can’t step outside their comfort zone. This is how they were raised. This is what they are going to do. They can’t step outside themselves to see what they are doing. They were probably raised from birth to be hyper-competitive and also to network compulsively, to be in good social standing with their peers. To always be trying to sharpen their intellect. Classic rich people/elite things. Though I’m sure some of the people doing this weren’t raised rich, they are the academically gifted and ambitious who grew up mimicking the social norms of the other good students, who probably did come from better off families.
If they step out of their social lane they know they will be swiftly and intensely punished, so they don’t dare. Maybe at a certain level they know that but they think it’s for the greater good, I don’t know. People are complicated and sometimes things happen for many conflicting reasons at once. I think in this case it’s a mixed bag that probably varies from person to person.
"Basically, I think certain groups of people are in competition with each other to discover new offenses and eliminate them."
Yep, this is exactly what I think is going on. That's why it's all become so abstract. It's not intended to make anything better, it's intended to win a game. Or at least to score points. This is what I meant when I said that I can't see it as anything but self-serving.
I really wish it was this dumb, but it is a very carefully calculated systemic process created by Marxists to undermine all English speaking societies as there are no Marxist English speaking society yet, though Canada and Australia seem in a race to be first.
I think these things can be both semi-well intentioned but also self-aggrandizing. Basically, I think certain groups of people are in competition with each other to discover new offenses and eliminate them. This is a way to show off their superior intellectual skills and emotional perception and social awareness, hunting out undiscovered cases of racism/sexism and pointing them out. Whoever can find more of these ‘offenses’ and come up with credible intellectual reasons (within their social group) why they are offenses is the best at detecting and eliminating injustice, or so they think. It’s a competition and a way of showing off who is the smartest but I think they think of it as doing something good for the world.
Therefore, in this narrative, in order for this activity to be good it must be needful. For it be needful, these words must be harmful. For them to be harmful, they must be hurting minorities. I don’t think these people are really thinking through the psychological consequences of the narrative they are constructing, that black people are going to get traumatized left and right by hearing the world field.
I think that is what gets me most about this mentality, no matter how much the people doing these things claim they are about other people it is always about them. Making themselves look good, making themselves feel better. Somehow even ‘centering’ everything around the newest flavor of oppression always comes back around to elevate the status of the person claiming to center others inside their work within their social group.
And I do think these people both don’t understand that and are also incapable of stopping themselves. They don’t know how to turn off the social competition button or how to stop making everything about themselves. They can’t understand the feelings of other people outside their bubble no matter how much they bang on about empathy, because they only understand that word in the academic way it’s used inside their social circle. They only understand it to mean what it is supposed to mean in their peer group, it must only lead to the results and thoughts that are approved of.
Basically tl;dr, it’s not about black fragility but elite fragility. They can’t step outside their comfort zone. This is how they were raised. This is what they are going to do. They can’t step outside themselves to see what they are doing. They were probably raised from birth to be hyper-competitive and also to network compulsively, to be in good social standing with their peers. To always be trying to sharpen their intellect. Classic rich people/elite things. Though I’m sure some of the people doing this weren’t raised rich, they are the academically gifted and ambitious who grew up mimicking the social norms of the other good students, who probably did come from better off families.
If they step out of their social lane they know they will be swiftly and intensely punished, so they don’t dare. Maybe at a certain level they know that but they think it’s for the greater good, I don’t know. People are complicated and sometimes things happen for many conflicting reasons at once. I think in this case it’s a mixed bag that probably varies from person to person.
"Basically, I think certain groups of people are in competition with each other to discover new offenses and eliminate them."
Yep, this is exactly what I think is going on. That's why it's all become so abstract. It's not intended to make anything better, it's intended to win a game. Or at least to score points. This is what I meant when I said that I can't see it as anything but self-serving.
I really wish it was this dumb, but it is a very carefully calculated systemic process created by Marxists to undermine all English speaking societies as there are no Marxist English speaking society yet, though Canada and Australia seem in a race to be first.