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White Women Need Not Apply

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Re: White Women Need Not Apply

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Post by ta1602267597 »

ed25519FUUU wrote: post #10

> “Not here to play” was an understatement: 48 hours and more than 7,000 retweets later, Roost’s career was toast. In hindsight, this was probably inevitable. Nobody gets canceled quite so enthusiastically as a middle-aged white woman accused of racism Here's a Perry Bible Fellowship comic that first was funny, but now I realize is prescient[1]. We're beginning to see something akin to Newton's Third law of social ju…

this comic in a way is backed by science

https://www.tidalequality.com/blog/dont-do-unconscious-bias-...

Re: White Women Need Not Apply

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Post by _y5hn »

t-writescode wrote: post #33
reaperducer wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

intersectionalist This is a new word for me. I Googled a bit, but didn't find anything helpful to fit it into the context of your comment. Can you explain it a bit?

From my understanding, intersectional feminism believes this: Not all women experience the world the same, or have the same struggles. You can subdivide people's struggles further. For example, women and men experience the world differently. Black people and white people experience the world differently with what sort of things they can take for granted and things that other people will assume about them. And it goes…

It's almost as if we're all individuals, generalizations be damned.

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Post by [deleted] »

BryceOnRice wrote: post #67
oyouareatubeo wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not possible to be racist to white people. It's not racist by definition.

It's not possible to be racist to black people. It's not racist by definition. (For context, this is a response to the now-removed parent that said this of Whites.)

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Post by Animats »

8f2ab37a-ed6c wrote: post #17

A few thoughts here: 1. Who are all of these people? I've never heard of them. Is this a storm in a teacup, or is the implication of the article that this incident is a taste of what's to come? 2. The story seems almost too conveniently negative towards Sojwal. As someone who's well on the opposite side of radical intersectionality and radical feminism, this article feels written for people like me who will get outra…

Is this a storm in a teacup?"

It's a storm within the academic liberal arts community. See [1].

That community has big problems. Once they ran education. Now they're not very influential. Many small liberal arts colleges are going out of business.[1] This sort of thing is a cry for attention.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-08/colleges-...

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Post by nacs »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #52
notsuoh wrote: post #11

A lot of drama here that seems to spill out into real life. Two opposing sides. But, they're largely on the same side it seems like. One seems to have made a mistake in submitting her article unknowingly to a blog that doesn't accept articles from white women, and the other wasn't happy about this or the tone from the first person.

> made a mistake in submitting her article unknowingly to a blog that doesn't accept articles from white women I am still pretty aghast that the liberal side thinks that is acceptable without irony.

Because the "doesn't accept articles from white women" is just a clickbait statement -- the group she posted to is "Asian American Writers Workshop".

It's not "anti-white" -- its just an Asian targetted group.

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Post by BryceOnRice »

nacs wrote: post #76
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> made a mistake in submitting her article unknowingly to a blog that doesn't accept articles from white women I am still pretty aghast that the liberal side thinks that is acceptable without irony.

Because the "doesn't accept articles from white women" is just a clickbait statement -- the group she posted to is "Asian American Writers Workshop". It's not "anti-white" -- its just an Asian targetted group.

Now make a "White Writers Workshop" and see how long that lasts.

The issue isn't this workshop being anti-White, it's the entirety of Western culture.

Re: White Women Need Not Apply

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Post by [deleted] »

matwood wrote: post #58
nooyurrsdey wrote: post #4

I feel like I'm so burnt out from reading about conflict. I can't even comment on who is right or wrong...it feels like such an overinflated digital age argument.

> digital age argument There is something about the lack of personal connection that leads to extremes in the digital environment. I have a feeling that if these people had met over coffee to discuss her story it would have been a non-issue. Instead, disagreements and mistakes blow up, because once an audience is involved it's very hard for either side to back down. Sometimes it's a challenge, but I always think 'is…

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