The March of Dimes Syndrome
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The March of Dimes Syndrome
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#2I work in the not for profit internet governance space, and we frequently discuss the "shirky principle" -Because we see signs of it all the time.
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#3The thesis more or less works for any institution. It doesn't work outside of those bounds, like for MeToo and BLM. It's interesting how it's somehow a progressive issue. "Why have reports of “hate groups” risen during the same decades that racial prejudice has been plummeting?" Perhaps because expectations have risen, and perhaps because there was no one to report to earlier that would listen. Anyone who thinks racism isn't still widespread hasn't listened to raw thinking of many Americans, and didn't watch Charlottesville in 2017.
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#4“and the whole LGBTQIA+ alphabet was a protected class”
Blatantly false.
Given the huge number of recent anti LGBTQ+ laws that have been created in the last few years, it is quite apparent that the exact opposite is true.
There are some parts which have been hard won, but one just has to look at how many people feel they have the right to not deal with LGBTQ+ people, even when it’s their public duty to do so (e.g. the Kim Davis debacle).
So even when protection is finally achieved there will still be large numbers of people who’ll ignore it - which is why we still have widespread racism here in the USA.
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#5The thesis more or less works for any institution. It doesn't work outside of those bounds, like for MeToo and BLM. It's interesting how it's somehow a progressive issue. "Why have reports of “hate groups” risen during the same decades that racial prejudice has been plummeting?" Perhaps because expectations have risen, and perhaps because there was no one to report to earlier that would listen. Anyone who thinks raci…
> Perhaps because expectations have risen, and perhaps because there was no one to report to earlier that would listen.
There's also backlash, especially as the formerly-oppressed become much more visible.
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#6Isn’t this a variant of Parkinson’s law: agendas expand to occupy the activists available?
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#7Weird to post an article decrying the concept of pivoting on a news site for tech startups, but sure, it's the leftists' fault.
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#8This explains a lot about America today. There's a related quote:
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
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#9“and the whole LGBTQIA+ alphabet was a protected class” Blatantly false. Given the huge number of recent anti LGBTQ+ laws that have been created in the last few years, it is quite apparent that the exact opposite is true. There are some parts which have been hard won, but one just has to look at how many people feel they have the right to not deal with LGBTQ+ people, even when it’s their public duty to do so (e.g. th…
> Kim Davis debacle
One Kentucky county clerk refused same sex marriages to people ten years ago, was then jailed for it, forced to do it anyway and this is evidence that many people feel they have the right not to deal with LGBTQ+ people in all the years since?
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#10The thesis more or less works for any institution. It doesn't work outside of those bounds, like for MeToo and BLM. It's interesting how it's somehow a progressive issue. "Why have reports of “hate groups” risen during the same decades that racial prejudice has been plummeting?" Perhaps because expectations have risen, and perhaps because there was no one to report to earlier that would listen. Anyone who thinks raci…
I mean its a conservative one too - look at the moving goalposts to the right on Abortion, the right keeps demanding more and more stringent controls, gun rights too.
Its an activist problem more than anything else.