Anuradha Pandey
@radha
Anuradha Pandey
Psychologists love your trauma (and they don’t want you to know what comes next)
Emma Kearneyopen.substack.com
Being a woman and Intellectual Project
Trauma sells
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
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The ubiquitous accusation of racism and sexism is covering up for the very obvious favoritism educated white people show for others based on their demographic categories. For the most politically inclined Democrats (also the whitest and richest) to question whether the person of color is actually the most qualified is tantamount to sin. I have play
... See moreThe first morning in SF, I got accosted by a white dude for speaking to my Indian female friend about women needing single sex restrooms. So-called liberals stifle dissenting opinions of even strangers in public places with such religious zeal it’s no wonder most people feel oppressed under this ideological regime and self-censor. In berating me, t
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Affluent liberals may have forgotten the financial crisis, but I haven’t. My family was destitute for over seven years, and I struggled to get a footing in the middle class until 2014, when I was given a golden ticket in getting a job at Google. My parents do not have degrees. I bristle so much about the focus on race and gender at the expense of m
... See moreWhenever 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
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Four facile and unconvincing argument types which usually indicate that the person commenting missed the point:
But what about x? (classic deflection)
Accusing the person of painting with a broad brush (they’re usually observing patterns)
Accusations of cherry picking (a too easy way to avoid making your own argument, because this asks the writer to p