Right, obviously, I should have thought of this. The skeptic movement tends to be alternative, and socially liberal, and Vancouver city is full of skeptics who are also activists. ‘Vancouver Rationalists’ overlaps with the ‘Vancouver Skeptics’, and sometimes we talk to them without always being humble enough. Among these people are a few friends.
Let’s put ourselves in their shoes
We’re a bunch of people who feel (society is) threatened by others’ abuse of social privilege. Not always, and not by most of them, but we notice much of this type of abuse is at the hands of white males. Now we notice a bunch of one type of white male showing up at our safe spaces, often talking about this online community of (mostly) the one same type of white males. This community of (mostly) white males seems to disdain political activism and seem like they might be the same type of male jerks at college who say women can’t do math and science. And this online community believes they’re so good at science they can figure out even what Ph.D’s can, which doesn’t line up with skepticism. And the most popular white male blogger in this community should be allowed a safe space where anyone can say triggering things without using trigger warnings, they think we’re too politically correct, and they think there’s not enough evidence behind our activism.
...and back in our own shoes
Imagining the above, which even if it’s oversimplifying, makes it seems how some poor communication begetting tension seem obvious for Vancouver, if not other places.
*(a better, in a sensitive way, word than ‘warrior’)
Right, obviously, I should have thought of this. The skeptic movement tends to be alternative, and socially liberal, and Vancouver city is full of skeptics who are also activists. ‘Vancouver Rationalists’ overlaps with the ‘Vancouver Skeptics’, and sometimes we talk to them without always being humble enough. Among these people are a few friends.
Let’s put ourselves in their shoes
We’re a bunch of people who feel (society is) threatened by others’ abuse of social privilege. Not always, and not by most of them, but we notice much of this type of abuse is at the hands of white males. Now we notice a bunch of one type of white male showing up at our safe spaces, often talking about this online community of (mostly) the one same type of white males. This community of (mostly) white males seems to disdain political activism and seem like they might be the same type of male jerks at college who say women can’t do math and science. And this online community believes they’re so good at science they can figure out even what Ph.D’s can, which doesn’t line up with skepticism. And the most popular white male blogger in this community should be allowed a safe space where anyone can say triggering things without using trigger warnings, they think we’re too politically correct, and they think there’s not enough evidence behind our activism.
...and back in our own shoes
Imagining the above, which even if it’s oversimplifying, makes it seems how some poor communication begetting tension seem obvious for Vancouver, if not other places.
*(a better, in a sensitive way, word than ‘warrior’)