I'm very glad you could synthesize some thoughts; all I have swirling in my head these days are the connections between all these things. Ironically, even though I believe in collective action, it was seeing myself as an individual with motivations and control of my life that led me to make changes to stop self-victimizing. I definitely …
I'm very glad you could synthesize some thoughts; all I have swirling in my head these days are the connections between all these things. Ironically, even though I believe in collective action, it was seeing myself as an individual with motivations and control of my life that led me to make changes to stop self-victimizing. I definitely got social clout from white people in the woke decade for self-victimizing, and I shouldn't have done it. And the point of that is if someone can accrue social advantage by playing up their victimhood, many will (and I see this a lot), because it's almost impossible to refute them and the left has made the victim sacred, above reproach. I've realized also like you that may past situations were not victimizing me and it was a question of how I saw the situation. Other times, it's hard to tell if I indeed am being victimized legitimately and prevent overcorrection.
Having also participated extensively in the DEI industrial complex, I can confirm that no one cares about class in the least, even though it involves a tremendous amount of code switching to live among the PMC (at least for me).
“…even though it involves a tremendous amount of code switching to live among the PMC (at least for me).”
Yup. I’ve noticed that while I certainly have external battles with people and the way they see me, my biggest battles are within myself, having to select which voices to amplify and figuring out how to get comfortable in a new role when I haven’t had a guidebook.
I'm very glad you could synthesize some thoughts; all I have swirling in my head these days are the connections between all these things. Ironically, even though I believe in collective action, it was seeing myself as an individual with motivations and control of my life that led me to make changes to stop self-victimizing. I definitely got social clout from white people in the woke decade for self-victimizing, and I shouldn't have done it. And the point of that is if someone can accrue social advantage by playing up their victimhood, many will (and I see this a lot), because it's almost impossible to refute them and the left has made the victim sacred, above reproach. I've realized also like you that may past situations were not victimizing me and it was a question of how I saw the situation. Other times, it's hard to tell if I indeed am being victimized legitimately and prevent overcorrection.
Having also participated extensively in the DEI industrial complex, I can confirm that no one cares about class in the least, even though it involves a tremendous amount of code switching to live among the PMC (at least for me).
“…even though it involves a tremendous amount of code switching to live among the PMC (at least for me).”
Yup. I’ve noticed that while I certainly have external battles with people and the way they see me, my biggest battles are within myself, having to select which voices to amplify and figuring out how to get comfortable in a new role when I haven’t had a guidebook.