I’m rarely shocked by much these days. Aliens, floods, abuses of power, emo Jimmy Butler. But once in a while, I’ll get broadsided by a comment that jars me awake and reminds me of how much of an echo chamber I live in. I’m a second-generation, Asian-American person in Los Angeles, am probably best described as liberal, and am largely surrounded by young people from different backgrounds. Last year, I was on a surf trip with a group of people I didn’t know. We were sitting outside at picnic tables drinking beers and eating dinner out of to-go boxes when a white woman plopped down in front of me and interrupted my conversation.
The strong pull towards monoculture for people seems to almost always be accompanied by the unshakeable belief that *their* monoculture is the superior one. This is how white people are reframing "separate but equal", with buckets full of pseudoscience claiming that diversity causes problems and division and blah blah blah. It's self-soothing pap that allows people to build a comfortable bubble around their inherent belief in their own superiority.
Working in tech I hear people say shit like this all the time, because for some reason being kinda smart with computers seems to breed people who think of the entire world in purely theoretical terms and can easily compartmentalize and ignore real-world harm caused by their theorizing.
The strong pull towards monoculture for people seems to almost always be accompanied by the unshakeable belief that *their* monoculture is the superior one. This is how white people are reframing "separate but equal", with buckets full of pseudoscience claiming that diversity causes problems and division and blah blah blah. It's self-soothing pap that allows people to build a comfortable bubble around their inherent belief in their own superiority.
Working in tech I hear people say shit like this all the time, because for some reason being kinda smart with computers seems to breed people who think of the entire world in purely theoretical terms and can easily compartmentalize and ignore real-world harm caused by their theorizing.
We're so fucking lost as a species.