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  • andioop@programming.devtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•Was not able to find programming_horrorEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Oh yeah, you are absolutely right, that is another thing that bothers me. (Obviously I still believe listening to minority voices is important.) Me bringing that up is specifically directed at the type of person who might dismiss opinions from people because they are white males, especially if the opinion is about not liking the way majority demographics sometimes get spoken about. It is me saying to that type of person that they cannot dismiss my position of disliking punching up at demographics by going “of course you’d say that, you are the demographic being punched up at!” I am from the non-male, non-white demographics that they are trying to empower with this “lol white man bad” stuff.

    And yes, fully aware speaking ≠ the many harms that went way past speaking done to minorities in the past. But also this kind of stuff is what I think contributes to some more people being funneled towards alt right perspectives. “Yes, white men bad is a hypocritical stance” video -> more “silly stupid liberals” videos (whether they do actually point out legit problems with social justice or not) down into “The world is actually completely stacked against white men, who are just better than the other demographics which is why women are only good for breeding and men of color are too stupid for anything besides manual labor. Structural/systemic oppression, biases, and other genders don’t exist, that’s woke DEI nonsense. Also, the stupid liberals telling you otherwise are also telling you lies that vaccines work and climate change is happening.”

  • andioop@programming.devtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•Was not able to find programming_horrorEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I’d rather focus more on the people pushing AI or consuming it uncritically (which does include Baby Boomers, yes, but also people all over the age spectrum), and less on age groups we are unable to get out of.

    me being upset about generation warring

    a bit disheartening that people are doing the generation wars, most of the Baby Boomers I talk to give a shit about the looming climate apocalypse and are concerned about AI; god I hope that if people in my generation do bad things people aren’t inclined to dismiss me on sight as “stupid [andioop’s generational cohort]” especially since there is nothing I can do to change when I was born and thus what generational group I’m placed in. Wasn’t there a whole thing about not making assumptions of people based on demographics we cannot choose? Blame people for choosing the Nazi party, but not for their skin color or gender or sexuality. Why doesn’t that extend to age? Why are all elderly people lumped in with the bad ones at the top? Or is it just “a demographic you choose is okay to bash if positions of power are primarily composed of its members, no matter how many decent people who do not have that level of power share that demographic”? I think a lot of people are doing that and it rubs me super wrong, as a person whose demographics are not traditionally empowered so my perspective cannot just be dismissed as “fragile white male tears” because I am not a white male