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Jun 14 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
That's just not true man. The progressive agenda offers significant change and has for a while. It just isn't taken seriously as an offering in the way that authoritarian conservatism is. Even by you.
Also not correct.
This is understandable. And it's a conversation worth having. But it's not what you actually said. The context was very muddy. And ultimately it speaks to how you and other political analysts contribute to exactly the atmosphere that you're describing.
*Everyone* is allowed to talk about progressive ideas as though they are unserious. Meanwhile folks continue to whine about how there doesn't seem to be any way out of this and nobody is working on it.
"Progressive" as a term is used as though it's radical when it's really not. #DefundThePolice is actually an extremely practical proposal. Because they are grossly overfunded while being ineffectual. It's actually a fiscally conservative stance.
The radical stance was "burn this mofo down". That is not and has never been the progressive platform. But nobody actually cares.

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Jun 15
Get into this thread.
Karla was one of the first people who helped me understand this. The idea that corporate culture was designed for a homogenous workforce with roughly similar culture and societal privilege. And what it means when those assumptions change.
I see this play out in a myriad of ways. We frequently assume we all want and need similar things out of work when we really do not. Most recently I see this play out in things like the remote work discourse.
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Jun 15
This is when we thought people learned syntax by staring at esoteric flowchart diagrams. (a lot of people still think that)
Honestly, I don't think I have anything insightful to say about how best to teach people technical topics. I talk about mental models a lot. I think if there's one skill I would like to impart, it would be teaching people how to deliberately build mental models as a way to learn.
I don't know what "normal dispositions" means. But I think you have to rewire your brain to understand complex systems. The deeper you go, the less intuitive things are. So being constrained by human intuition isn't gonna serve you well.
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Jun 14
One of the fundamental problems in American culture is that we require people to prove their worthiness. It's something I've talked about in many different contexts, both political and social. All of our systems are designed around it.
In order to get anything out of American institutions, you opt-in to a never-ending dance of jumping through hoops to prove you deserve it. All of our conversations, political and societal, are about identifying who *doesn't* deserve things and making sure they can't get it.
The default is "fuck you".
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Jun 10
Sssh. They don't wanna talk about it.
We watch people run smack into this dissonance when they have to make decisions that impact their own money and career. And they get confused when their "community" fucks them up for it.
I see a lot of us struggling with what "community" means. As I talk to @operaqueenie and @karlitaliliana, I'm also realizing that the meaning is shifting as our society and our industry gets more complicated. It doesn't even mean what it used to mean to me. I need to learn too.
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Jun 10
"We shouldn't be judged for acting only in our own self-interest" is just not the argument people think it is.
I understand the argument that says "you don't know what a person's situation is". But it doesn't actually serve to address the issue at hand. If your situation means you feel you didn't have a choice, that's fine. Saying people shouldn't feel a way about it is another thing.
If we're saying that people shouldn't be held accountable for whatever decision they made, and they don't even have to explain why, then I'm not sure what the fuck we're even doing here. Either our choices matter in this system, or they don't.
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Jun 9
Whew. This is some tortured logic. Especially considering this person came looking for me when I had no idea they even existed.

More interesting than that is how this dude is defining what "racism" is. It barely makes any sense. But I think it does illustrate the mentality.
Wow. Hilarious.
Anyway, I tried to get this dude to talk about why some white people understood what I said and why they don't count. Unfortunately he just launched into Fox News talking points.
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