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The academics write books for the lay people and don’t make these points and are perfectly fine letting the layman think what they mean is the bad vernacular racism. I feel like Feynman would have a field day with an academic writing in ways that no one understands what their meaning and consider these academics you are referring to as idiots. We are also NOT talking about how physicists talk about physics amongst themselves but how sociologists talk to the general public.
This system just doesn’t work. It just means people need to find a way to redefine themsleves as the oppressed group. Which for the way you’re talking about this we do see the results you would expect from this theory. We do in fact have lgbtqihdtv++ or whatever it is now. And fake native Americans. And we of course could never just have BIPOC (or whatever it is now) but would need to have 100 flavors of Asian and white etc. Which for equal representation would never work having 100 Supreme Court Justices so no sub group of sub group is left out.
Even thinking about these things makes my hard hurt and it just feels simpler to remove these people from society. They really do turn me into a dictator supporting right-winger and the easiest solution seems to be just to put them all in jail. Then the normies and the meritocracy and everything that made America great can keep doing it’s thing.
As I keep saying to the Tumblr mutual who prompted the original thread, "work" is a goal-dependent term. Does it work to hold together the left's "coalition of the fringes"? Does it work to keep these people in power? Does it work to carve out employment niches and sinecures for the people who promote and parrot these narratives? Does it work in allowing the young up-and-comers of our overproduced elites to "eliminate" their rivals in the competition for the limited number of PMC jobs? Does it work as a bludgeon with which to beat the enemy party, tribe, or class?
I hear you.
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