THE GENTRIFIED EA ORGS DOWNVOTED ME, seriosly tho, have you seen someone that is not top 10 attendee in an EA organization? Or someone really heavy on the volunteering experiences?
Also if you disagree with me, and downvote me, come in the comments, call me a dumbass, I don’t bite, I just like being provocative, I get the people going.
I didn’t downvote you (and actually agree with you), but I’m assuming that the people who did justify it by the combative tone of your writing.
Personally I think the forums are way too policing of overall tone. It punishes newcomers for not “learning” the dominant way of speaking (with the side-effect of punishing non native english speakers), and also deters things like humour that make a place actually pleasant to spend time around.
Thank you for the clarification, first off you pegged me as a bilingual, I guess it’s a good wild guess when I hate on westerners and diversity or lack there of.
I’ll make a post about my combative tone, I guess our backgrounds are different, for me being combative is good, it’s similar to passionate, it’s simply who I am at this point. Maybe not the best for casual conversations and civil discussions.
Although I would speculate that it would be harder for a Bryn Mawr graduate to successfully break into EA now than it would have been when EA was very, very young. So founding-era evidence may not be much evidence relating to OP’s claim that “EA organizations have become a gentrified refined versions of what they wanted to be.” (emphasis mine).
Of course I mean that, great that is one example, but most of the bigger EA organizations are packed with western talent, I will let go off of the 10 top schools point. Have you seen anyone that graduated at Addis Ababa or Trinidad or Cluj, I have not, I have interacted with primarily EU-western oriented people, the closest to diversity is that one random Ethiopian intern.
My point was, easterners are either discriminated against or EA is such an echo-chamber that you unconsciously discriminate against easterners.
THE GENTRIFIED EA ORGS DOWNVOTED ME, seriosly tho, have you seen someone that is not top 10 attendee in an EA organization? Or someone really heavy on the volunteering experiences?
Also if you disagree with me, and downvote me, come in the comments, call me a dumbass, I don’t bite, I just like being provocative, I get the people going.
I didn’t downvote you (and actually agree with you), but I’m assuming that the people who did justify it by the combative tone of your writing.
Personally I think the forums are way too policing of overall tone. It punishes newcomers for not “learning” the dominant way of speaking (with the side-effect of punishing non native english speakers), and also deters things like humour that make a place actually pleasant to spend time around.
Thank you for the clarification, first off you pegged me as a bilingual, I guess it’s a good wild guess when I hate on westerners and diversity or lack there of.
I’ll make a post about my combative tone, I guess our backgrounds are different, for me being combative is good, it’s similar to passionate, it’s simply who I am at this point. Maybe not the best for casual conversations and civil discussions.
Julia Wise, who works at CEA, studied at Bryn Mawr College.
(Another comment of yours makes me think by “top 10 attendee” you mean “has attended a top 10 university”.)
Although I would speculate that it would be harder for a Bryn Mawr graduate to successfully break into EA now than it would have been when EA was very, very young. So founding-era evidence may not be much evidence relating to OP’s claim that “EA organizations have become a gentrified refined versions of what they wanted to be.” (emphasis mine).