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- Comment on Nicole Kidman Has Now Worked With 27 Women Directors in 8 Years; She Urges ‘Financial Mentors’ to Invest in Unknown Female Filmmakers and ‘Take a Risk’ 1 week ago:
Which people, motherfucker??
Again, no shit. Everyone thinks we should be hiring on merit alone.
We can’t just wave a magic wand and say “don’t discriminate.” We need to identify WHO is not being hired based on merit and then take real actions to make sure that they’re hired fairly.
The subtext of anti-DEI is that white men are being discriminated against. The evidence for that is that many white men are struggling financially. And I agree, white men are struggling!
To fix that problem, we need to understand the cause of it.
White men are not struggling because of DEI. They are not struggling because of programs designed to fix discrimination. There are plenty of cases where folks overcorrected, and they shouldn’t have, but those programs do not cause the systemic problems that white men are dealing with. Ending those programs will not help white men, because they are not the cause.
White men are struggling because they live in a system where their bosses want them to work longer hours for less pay. Every product they buy is designed to maximize shareholder ROI, so prices are jacked up. You no longer own things, you subscribe to them, even houses. White men, along with everyone else, are being squeezed on all sides by corporations seeking maximum profits.
Ending DEI is the wrong solution to a real problem. It is a distraction.
The corporations that run this country don’t want you to think they’re the real cause. They need you to believe that maximizing profits is good, actually. They’ve built up a mythology that keeps you from seeing them as the cause of your suffering.
If they’re fucking people over, “it’s just business” and we stop asking questions.
They need you to believe that your suffering is caused by something else, ANYTHING else, because people WILL fix their problem.
DEI. Woke. Immigration. Nobody wants to work anymore. Feminism. Welfare queens. Trans folks. Abortion. Please, dear god, anything but capitalism.
Bernie Sanders got the closest. His campaign resonated with millions of people because he was accurately identifying some of the worst symptoms of capitalism. And Democrats killed his campaign to run Hilary, because they would rather lose than help people.
The two parties work together to advance capitalism. Republicans are the party of throwing wrong ideas at the wall and seeing which ones stick with people. Democrats act outraged at the ideas that don’t catch on, and quietly concede the ones that do (e.g. immigration). It’s the ratchet effect, and the result is that political news is inundated with arguments about things that don’t matter.
Capitalism is the cause of the problems that people have. There are many solutions, but labor unions are easy to recommend to almost everyone.
- Comment on Nicole Kidman Has Now Worked With 27 Women Directors in 8 Years; She Urges ‘Financial Mentors’ to Invest in Unknown Female Filmmakers and ‘Take a Risk’ 1 week ago:
This is not “past” discrimination. This is happening today.
We are CURRENTLY in a situation where women are discriminated against, and that’s a problem. Men who are less qualified are being hired over women who are more qualified. Denying that is either ignorance or bad faith.
The solution to that problem is to hire more women.
- Comment on Nicole Kidman Has Now Worked With 27 Women Directors in 8 Years; She Urges ‘Financial Mentors’ to Invest in Unknown Female Filmmakers and ‘Take a Risk’ 1 week ago:
Honestly, “gender shouldn’t be relevant when it’s not relevant” is in the same vein as “all lives matter.”
Yeah. No shit.
Is it weird
Implying those statements are contentious is either ignorant or in bad faith.
Nepotism is a problem, sure, but racism and misogyny are also problems.
We should fix all the problems, and that’s a fight on many fronts. We should support anyone fighting for equal treatment.
- Comment on Viva la Revolucion (becomes cancer) 1 week ago:
This might be the bit already, but I unironically think the body is a great metaphor for how society should run!
E.g. different cells have different specializations, but every cell gets the nutrients it needs.
- Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail 4 weeks ago:
There are plenty of people that things that each of those things are morally wrong, and some who would say that they’re much worse than a bomb threat.
Those people are writing the laws.
Legality and morality are two completely different things. It’s a comfortable lie to think they’re the same.
Having an email provider that will not comply with law enforcement is important because any of us could be next on the target list.
- Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail 4 weeks ago:
I’m not saying “yay, it’s morally good to send bomb threats.”
Folks who care about privacy don’t want their email provider engaging with local authorities.
when tyranny becomes law rebellion becomes duty
“Illegal” is NOT immoral, and when laws are increasingly being passed by right-wing nutjobs folks doing the right thing will be doing illegal things.
- women get access to an abortion
- undocumented folks avoiding being sent to El Salvador
- trans folks getting healthcare
Any platform has three options:
- Always comply with law enforcement, and give up vulnerable populations that are targeted by the government
- Never comply with law enforcement, and make law enforcement track down bomb threats some other way
- Sometimes comply with law enforcement, based on… what criteria? where’s the line?
3 is obviously the thing we’d like, but a) no company is going to open itself up to legal threats by doing it.
This article shows that Proton Mail is falling into category 2. I think that category should exist to protect vulnerable populations.
- Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail 4 weeks ago:
its employees had received emails containing obscene and vulgar content sent via Proton Mail.
the email service reportedly refused to share details about the sender of the allegedly offensive emails, despite a police complaint.
Last year, the police department of the southern state of Tamil Nadu had sought to block Proton Mail after the email service was found to have been used for sending hoax bomb threats to local schools.
Honestly, pretty glowing review of Proton Mail
- Comment on Pens in Space 1 month ago:
They’re also great to bust open when scared, to make a quick getaway. Making zoidberg noises as you scuttle away is optional, but recommended.
