well hm you’re probably underrating the degree to which people don’t like possibility of being held to a lower standard, feeling like it’s condescending, etc. when there’s stated adjustments for demographic representation. (perhaps polgar sisters is the example that’s close to my fingertips recently, but if you go to enough professional conferences or talk to enough people it doesn’t take long to run into some minority rolling their eyes at the inclusion effort).
who fear competition and refuse diversity for selfish reasons
I mean people have been telling me that my immutable characteristics put me on thin ice cuz everyone’s bored by cringefail whitemales for as long as I can remember, and it pretty much always makes me go “fine I’ll just be more clever or work harder”, which is probably a habit that’s been good for me if you think about it cuz it leads to me cultivating a higher standard for myself, lmao!
So you don’t even question the assumption that you are supposed to work harder because of your immutable characteristics, and that you find it normal to be pinned down twice harder because of them than any mediocre white male? Doesn’t seem very constructive to me, and again, it’s this ‘Ill get better myself and won’t care to challenge the norms for others’ mindset that is the reason why minorities keep being treated the way they are.
well hm you’re probably underrating the degree to which people don’t like possibility of being held to a lower standard, feeling like it’s condescending, etc. when there’s stated adjustments for demographic representation. (perhaps polgar sisters is the example that’s close to my fingertips recently, but if you go to enough professional conferences or talk to enough people it doesn’t take long to run into some minority rolling their eyes at the inclusion effort).
I mean people have been telling me that my immutable characteristics put me on thin ice cuz everyone’s bored by cringefail whitemales for as long as I can remember, and it pretty much always makes me go “fine I’ll just be more clever or work harder”, which is probably a habit that’s been good for me if you think about it cuz it leads to me cultivating a higher standard for myself, lmao!
So you don’t even question the assumption that you are supposed to work harder because of your immutable characteristics, and that you find it normal to be pinned down twice harder because of them than any mediocre white male? Doesn’t seem very constructive to me, and again, it’s this ‘Ill get better myself and won’t care to challenge the norms for others’ mindset that is the reason why minorities keep being treated the way they are.