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[alestar]

1. So we all did the I Write Like meme, and it was funny and already inaccurate, and I'm not going to shit on it, so just be patient.

I want to take a look at a frequently misunderstood argument about color-blindness and gender-blindness. It was pointed out by zia_narratora that of all 40 possible returns for the writer meme, only three were women and all

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[alestar]

Certainly-- my point isn't that people who are color-blind/gender-blind intentionally exclude women or poc; it's that they fail to notice in their own passivity in accepting the polychromatic, homosocial canon they've been handed by patrimony. Hence the "blindness."

It could be an indication of his blindness to his own prejudices, or just an attempt to grab the moral high ground against the charges of sexism and racism that are coming.

Yeah, and I gestured toward that when I said that the original email might've elicited an email from Chestnykh that's all bluster, and we don't know what changes he might actually make to his software-- but Dmitry Chestnykh and his software aren't my concern, only the speciousness of his argument. It's not just his argument; it's an argument I hear a lot, which is why I wanted to talk about it.

My examples were meant to illustrate ways in which, as I said, under-representation and prejudice are part of the same cycle. In relation to my point-- when you perpetuate a polychromatic canon out of fidelity to supposed color-blindness, you're part of the problem.