Re:I Was Google’s Head of International Relations
by at_a_remove on Thursday January 02, 2020 @10:40AM
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I register on more than one of those axes. You likely did not consider that, or if it did, you didn't factor in.
It isn't about sympathy, it is about looking at a person as more than the just the fill-in-the-blanks set of labels. People aren't just some combination of tick marks in the privileged-or-not checklist. Saying that someone who who chooses to view the world as more than that necessarily lacks sympathy is ... kind of crappy.
And yet here we see people (in the article, which is what we are discussing) reduced to just "homos" or "Brown people." People are more than that.
It isn't about sympathy, it is about looking at a person as more than the just the fill-in-the-blanks set of labels. People aren't just some combination of tick marks in the privileged-or-not checklist. Saying that someone who who chooses to view the world as more than that necessarily lacks sympathy is ... kind of crappy.
And yet here we see people (in the article, which is what we are discussing) reduced to just "homos" or "Brown people." People are more than that.