Gregory's ServerSuppose you’re generally progressive/left-ish (like me) and are a hyperoverprivileged white male techbro boomer (like me). Your social-media stream is going to be full of angry people attacking various aspects of what you are. So I wrote a piece about owning your privilege and sucking it up: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/10/07/Suck-it-up
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@timbray I agree with so much of this, and a fair amount resonates as well. But I will also say that there is a strange split In The actual technologists I have known… many are tremendously proactive and progressive and choose to fight for equity, while some others are some of the most regressive and toxic folks I’ve met, and have the opportunity and education and youth to be otherwise… they use “logic” to defend the indefensible, and it’s always so shocking to me.  @timbray good piece. I think the one thing we do have to accept as Boomers, or for me Gen X, is that we got a lot of support from institutions before neoliberalism hollowed them out. We shouldn't stand for the ageism, but we should understand that we got lucky with our timing*. Especially wrt climate change. - this applies more to cishet white middle class men etc  @otfrom @timbray yep, nobody cares about the *age* of the self-entitled boomers, it's the *attitude* by those who believe they are self-made bootstrappers but who actually received massive government benefits. My dad's a boomer, he's lovely! And he's well aware he got advantages by being born decades earlier than me. :)   @timbray 51.8% Socialist? 22.4% Anarchist? I strongly suspect that many who claim such identities don't really know what they mean. Liking things that socialists like doesn't make you a socialist. The reality is that many of the things that socialists demand, such as universal health insurance and many other social programs, are completely compatible with capitalism. |
@timbray Nice essay. I fit in all but one of those privileged boxes, and I am also aware of the advantages that I have as a result. I try to spend some of my money around usefully.