Notes

I was working in DEI and diversity recruiting for tech before it took off, or the corporate equal of affirmative action. In theory, one is the beneficiary of affirmative action if one is put over the top due to race or gender, all other things being equal. I’ve also seen people get hired for their race or gender over their abilities, and it turned

Women are not impelled to agree with each other on abortion. Many women voted for restrictions in red states as did others who voted for Trump while also voting in favor of abortion rights. First, people, especially women are allowed to deviate from the professional class woman’s opinion about abortion. In fact, Democrats themselves ran away from a

What I thought feminism was about as a youth:

1. Liberation from feminine behavioral and sexual norms

2. The freedom to self determine

3. Thinking for myself

4. Exercising agency over my life

5. Being resilient when others doubt me

6. Support from other women

Then I entered the real world and found life was exactly as depicted in Mean Girls.

I keep hearing casual references to how difficult it is to be a woman in America today, but no one really explains why. I also know I’m not supposed to ask why because that’s just not how women talk. They consider debate to be an offensive logic bro activity. In the clearest of terms: this is not a patriarchy as it is imagined when women casually s

Whenever I mention women’s cruelty toward each other to women socially, I hear a reflexive blaming of patriarchy, an abstract, immeasurable, and unfalsifiable concept. This is concerning because we do have control over our own behavior toward others, and it seems leftist ideology wants to studiously ignore it. You can choose not to be a bully. We d

Seeing two Trump administration Indian-Americans (one American-born, one Indian-born) be dragged by actual MAGA racists creates tension vis-a-vis Indians as racial beings. Indians are largely well off and educated and so are less affected by racism materially than people of color who don’t have degrees or white collar jobs.

We exist uncomfortably on

DEI programs can and do alienate people of color

Among what I picked up from

Musa al-Gharbi

‘sWe Have Never Been Wokeis that DEI programs actually function as exclusionary mechanisms for the people of color they claim to empower. This is because they’re based on language and ideas that people of color who actually climbed into the professional class a

Concepts aren’t tainted by their misuse.

A major thought error I see among my compatriots: you can’t just throw out every concept that was ever used to justify immoral actions or hierarchy. The claim that we need a more just society that honors inalienable rights is a universalist moral claim. The people who claim this also dismiss the following con

My refusal to participate in the moralizing linguistic games of the people I’m surrounded by immediately marks me for those people as nothing more than a rube. Further, women particularly use these language games as a social sorting mechanism. Despite being generally non religious, women in this class tend to enforce linguistic piety with religious