Pitiables: their violence is justified because it's an expression of the lack of power

Deplorables: their violence is unjustifiable, because it's an attempt to hold onto power

Pitiables: their violation of social norms widens society to include them

Deplorables: their violation of social norms is a threat to society's inclusiveness

Pitiables: programs will solve their economic status

Deplorables: they should learn to program if they want better economic status

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Benjamin🪂Boyce

@BenjaminABoyce

31 Jan

Evergreen State College (whose enrollment has tanked to 50% pre-protest) has hired someone to run a “Office of Spirituality & Meaning Making.” Their job includes a daily Tarot reading.

I don’t know how further they can degrade my degree—but I’m sure they’ve more up their sleeve.

Evergreen: Achieve Your Dreams—Through Napping

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Benjamin🪂Boyce

@BenjaminABoyce

21 Jan

This online battle is about to spill over into the public consciousness in a major way. #BidenErasedWomen

I can't help but notice that "transphobia" isn't hedged by scare-quotes

Twitter then LITERALLY ERASES BIOLOGICAL WOMEN 🤣😂

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Benjamin🪂Boyce

@BenjaminABoyce

20 Jan

My social media intention with this administration:

Call out the gender bullshit—which will be ramping up exponentially now.

Trying to artfully critique the increased shift in power from individual & state to collective & fed.

Resisting the urge to mock Kamala being fake af.

The problem with mocking Kamala and Biden is that, like Trump, there will be too many people doing it, it'll soon be worn out and too well-trodden, and become purely a tribal signal—therefore stifling personally, and interpersonally detrimental.

Shift in power from local to global is difficult because of how complex the issues are. I will therefore be forced to root myself in first principles.

As it is with Wokeness: we need to work out the roots and the fruits, as the evident tree is secondary to those.

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Benjamin🪂Boyce

@BenjaminABoyce

11 Jan

Washington State is requiring all school materials to be evaluated for bias. The score card puts “different genders/gender identities” first in many categories. Yet, in “Multicultural Representation” it states “no one belief system is positioned above others.”

Elsewhere, gender identity is defined as “a deeply felt internal sense of being female, or male, or both, or neither—regardless of their gender assigned at birth.”

In other words, a belief system.

This belief system is set above others in that sports and locker rooms “should correspond to a student’s gender identity”—insofar as a female does not wish to be naked around a male, or forced to compete physically against a male, the male’s belief trumps the female’s concerns.

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