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The sheer amount of content-less booing of political outgroups throughout the thread (overwhelmingly in one direction, unsurprisingly given the article content) has really disappointed me.

Nobody alleged a conspiracy.

The claim is simple: using words to mock a group, hurts that group.

This is still true when the group is one that you consider to "hold almost all the power".

Holding power is irrelevant to the harm caused by actions like insulting people or discriminating against them.


"What you can't say" (https://www.paulgraham.com/say.html) is 21 years old now.

"Heresy" (https://www.paulgraham.com/heresy.html) was during Biden's tenure.

"Orthodox Privilege" (https://www.paulgraham.com/orth.html) was during the height of lockdown-era BLM.

"Keep your Identity Small" (https://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html) is from the beginning of Obama's tenure.

Criticizing "wokeness" today is not at all inconsistent with PG's historically stated opinions and beliefs.


Can you cite a case where this happened and the consequences were unreasonably light?

There's stuff all the time:

https://eji.org/news/alabama-attorney-general-releases-white...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unarmed_African_Americ...

Or here's a case where 6 officers collude to torture 2 black people to death (https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-deputies-guilty-pleas...). Surely they'll get a real sentence now that it's news, but it makes you wonder how many cases never get identified as racially-based when the investigators are the perpetrators.

And boy it sure does seem odd that further south you go the more of a problem it is... I wonder what could explain that phenomenon....


>"Non-woke" Spanish speakers think the -x suffix is dumb in their own language. But they don't represent all Spanish speakers.

Active users of the suffix are a small minority: https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2024/09/12/ho...


From the perspective of someone who was not raised in the culture in question, this is a distinction without a difference.

>So that momentary pause you feel when you almost say "Indian" and then correct it to "Native American"

Here in Canada it's "Indigenous peoples", sorry, I mean "First Nations", unless they've come up with something else now. Never mind that the people in question don't necessarily feel any kind of solidarity with other indigenous groups beyond their own.

(Also, "missing and murdered indigenous women (and children)" is a set phrase, and people will yell at you if you point out the statistics showing that something like 70% of missing and murdered indigenous people in Canada are men.)


When I went to school in Canada, the term I received in year 2000 was "aboriginals". The terminology has indeed been changing.

>The authors of that paper surveyed Latinos, found that those who disliked the term 'latinx' had moved toward voting for Trump between 2020 and 2024

It's strange for the author to distinguish "those who dislike the term" from those who don't, considering that the term is overwhelmingly unpopular (https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2024/09/12/ho...).


Just because "you know it when you see it" doesn't mean you don't understand it or don't have something coherent in mind.

>It's an extremely accurate definition of what we genuinely believe.

Then why do "you" constantly call me racist, despite me believing it?


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