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I have personally witnessed more outright discrimination against white men than any other group. (Not talking about online hate, where I do see a lot of racism against non-whites. I'm talking about personal, offline experiences.)
I have a guess -- academic hiring stuff and University bureaucracy -- but I'd be curious if you'd share any details. Or even: broad strokes.
Yes - context was academic hiring. But it wasn't some soft institutional stuff like bonus points for being diverse. It was literally an individual person vocalizing out loud for everyone to hear, "I took this guy off the list because he's a white male."
(This is also despite us already having implemented, at the behest of administrators worried about diversity in hiring, a points-based system for hiring that supposedly takes subjectivity out of the mix, and this guy was on the list and qualified based on the points system.)
They said something about how all members of X and Y race have superiority complexes that made them insufferable. On a relative basis, it was pretty mild.
But they went for the broad brush immediately and were seemingly adept at using it. This was also the second time I witnessed them use it. When I instigated reflection, they insisted that they were owed the broad brush, and that was the scary part.
I have personally witnessed more outright discrimination against white men than any other group.
They felt maligned and I couldn't disagree with them. That's the shape of war though, two wrongs making a right, two sides merely "defending" themselves, over and over again.
I am very cognizant of the potential need to escape, and escape quickly.
I'm not, preferring aloofness in all things, but I've thought about it enough to act just-in-time. Hopefully.
they insisted that they were owed the broad brush, and that was the scary part. [...] That's the shape of war though, two wrongs making a right, two sides merely "defending" themselves, over and over again.
This is the heart of it, I think.
There's a right-wing Substack I subscribe to because I hate the fucker, hate him, I hate-read his newsletter, and yet in the course of reading it I am instructed by the framing, I see how he has assembled pieces {D,E,F} and combined them with pieces {P,Q,R} to make a certain kind of story. And the story holds together! It is, when one adopts the frame, and the evidence he has assembled, and follows his narrative flow, attending to this and not that, perfectly rational. (I don't read any left-wing Substackers because I'm already familiar with their version of the same.)
It's easy to see how if you have a burning need for X to be the story, that you can walk away confirmed that X is, in fact, the story, for pretty much any X. Pick a fucking position and if you're not a total imbecile you can chart a defensible argument for it, and go on TV or on Twitter, or start your own newsletter, and find your legions, getting more and more right the whole time, more right and more convinced of your rightness.
This isn't to say that everyone is as bad as everyone, or that all arguments are equally true and thus equally worthless. I don't believe that. But man, it's instructive. I have a much better sense of how a person could make an ideological journey, filled with reasonable-seeming logic and plausible facts along the way, and emerge a Nazi at the end of it.
Nobody sees himself turning into the villain.
What's the substack?
I can't bear to say. The thought of giving the fucker readership makes me want to vomit.
Haha, I kinda just want to see for myself. I don't really hate-read or hate-watch anyone, but my media bubble is right-leaning so I tend to see more of the left loons get picked out. I do need to be more aware of the right loons out there.
That's the shape of war though, two wrongs making a right, two sides merely "defending" themselves, over and over again.
If two sides are exclusively defending, there won't be war. So I guess that's the shape of the fairy tale, whereas the reality is shaped by escalation, in the form of aggression (of any kind.)
Do you have a location picked out? Is it another country, or just another area? I'm very curious if there's anything you're willing to share.
Haha, I said I'm cognizant, not that I'm ready.
Where to flee to kinda depends on what's happening. If it's US domestic civil war, I'd probably flee to Taiwan, where I have family. If it's some US-China thing, they'll probably flee to me
I wish @davidw would come back and tell us how Uruguay is going, if he's still there.
How bad / of what nature was the racism being spouted?
I'm not even white, but I can understand if white men feel that they've been pushed into a corner. I have personally witnessed more outright discrimination against white men than any other group. (Not talking about online hate, where I do see a lot of racism against non-whites. I'm talking about personal, offline experiences.)
I am very cognizant of the potential need to escape, and escape quickly. Bitcoin is part of that plan.