@tomieinlove i don’t think before i speak so this doesn’t apply to me 😌
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avi
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avi
@thotsminning
amateur low level sociologist, amateur linguist {insert social construct here}-abolitionist zoomer i studied statistics and i will appeal to my authority, sir
San Francisco, CA Beigetreten Şubat 2020
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@samswoora i like the idea but we should avoid the light=good, dark=bad semantic, not sure abt an alternative tho, also should avoid smaller=bad, e.g. lesser-human
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This has nothing to do with race. Stop trying to make this about that.
All of this is about strivers being insufferable and not knowing that they are.
Amina@Amina_io
The original post about the SF dating event was cringe (yet innocent!). The reactions to it, though, are becoming a pattern. See the attached image. I think we’re facing a cultural assimilation problem that remains largely invisible because these groups do well financially and are otherwise prosocial. Because of this, I worry that East and South Asians have become the face of misplaced anger toward “coastal elites.” If you live in these circles you might not see it, but a lot of Americans will have a hard time accepting 2nd-gen East/South Asian immigrants as the new professional class. Merit doesn’t matter to many of these people because they read much of "striver" culture as crass therefore undeserving status. And on top of that, they’re seen as “stealing” a birthright from downwardly mobile heritage Americans.
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@nomanautomata i think i like this but only if the rich young ppl fuck with the disgusting duplexes and triplexes (i don’t)
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Neighborhoods in San Francisco can be broadly categorized as "threatening" or "playground for rich young people"
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@nobodyatallbros @centristpeater i’m not oblivious to the nerd-stinky connection, but it seems like even a valid case of the “group of brown ppl”-stinky connection can never warrant my outrage, simply lead to my ridicule, i’ve learned and accepted that now, i won’t do it again, y’all win
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@thotsminning @centristpeater His position was that it's funny that you're so oblivious to the fact people see nerds as smelly because you're too busy getting offended by immediately assuming others are making ethnic jokes. The fact that this continues to anger you means the jokes will continue.
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either the violence is overt and not worth responding to, or it’s veiled in an ambiguous poetry that can be uno-reversed on demand to ridicule the critic, the result is the latent fear of calling out any potential bigotry, it could just be a prank, what if your feelings get hurt?
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maybe twitter violence isn’t for me because there’s no sublimation, it’s not even a conversation, just an infinite chain of empirical meta-analysis, like no one actually cares that dog whistles are intention-agnostic, but like why would they, it’s infinite plausible deniability
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@Torment_6 ya it probably won’t work but it feels good to say my piece i suppose, just felt like someone has to do some written violence in response to their bigotry ya know
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this is like vc adjacent and therefore cringe or whatever but the anti asian/indian bigotry in response is wretched and disgusting, rest assured i will loudly and violently socially shame anyone who reveals these thoughts in public in SF
Mehul Agarwal@meh_agarwal
We hosted SF's only co-ed mixer with more women than men. 45 women, 35 men, and 4 relationships I personally know came out of it. And I'm the guy who went viral for staying "single until series B." Here's the storytime: One random Sunday I tweeted that there should be a singles mixer for YC and a16z speedrun founders. The shitpost hit top news on X. Consensus: "no women will sign up." Instead, dozens of women DMed me: "please make it happen, just keep the ratio right." @dianeemccormack from Fondo offered to run it. @peggy_wang from SparkChat & @parthma said they're single and in. While we planned, I went viral again with my bro @contextconor for joking I'd stay "single until series B." @gregisenberg called it the single worst trend to come out of silicon valley. People called me "everything wrong with SF," said incels were killing the city's dating culture (fun fact: it doesn't exist). So now I was the "single until series B" guy throwing SF's biggest singles mixer. The irony was not lost on me. But a million views, thousands of DMs, and hundreds on the waitlist were counting on me. @pulley signed on to sponsor. So I leaned in. I asked @peggy_wang to be the face of it, dunking on the techbros: sign up so you don't end up like me, single until series B. I was guiding people to a treasure I couldn't possess. And it worked. Best event I've ever hosted. Curated people from every walk of life, not just YC founders, actually hit it off. The girls' group chat is still popping lol. Moral: you can have your cake and eat it too. It's just harder. You can stay "single until series B" and still help everyone else find their person. As @gregisenberg put it in his tweet calling us out: you can have it all. (all love, I like his work) This is independent of my startup @KoyalAI, which helps people make films with AI. Yes, also controversial. I can't help it.
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@Rianstone @centristpeater how is it a self own? that i learned that someone was fired for doing a racist dog whistle? was it ok because they were ignorant of the bigotry?
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@thotsminning @centristpeater Man, your self own has been funny.
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@centristpeater your ilk: right wingers, also u didn’t make the post but your quote tweet of my response obviously reveals your position on it all no? also by what metric are they unattractive and unkempt? do u really think “stinky” was an appropriate and non dog whistle response?
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@thotsminning I didn’t make the post and I have no idea who you think my “ilk” is. Being brown doesn’t grant you immunity from being made fun of. I think a photo of an equally unattractive and unkempt 100% non-brown group would elicit the same response.
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@centristpeater this is actually helpful lore to me, but do u think this grants your ilk infinite leeway to reply “stinky” to any picture with brown ppl in it and then retreat to “stinky nerds* actually” when called out for openly being racist chuds? honestly, why did u think they were stinky?
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@thotsminning Didn’t think so. Obviously both tech nerds and South Asians are stereotyped as having bad hygiene.
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@centristpeater nope, does it reveal why this isn’t just way to avoid being honest about the underlying bigotry? like i see your other posts and replies, why does the violence have to be so abstract? do u genuinely believe these jokes are about nerds being stinky? kirkenuinely curious
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@thotsminning Do you even know what that’s a reference to
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@EigenGender i’m good at this because i’m a great listener and also reject most “empiricism”, allows me to pretty reliably add fuel to the flames in conversations
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there’s a magic trick that some old school rats have where they’re really good at inducing better thinking in the people around them. is there anything good written about this? this seems like a super critical skill for so many things
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lol I love how hateful ppl always reveal themselves. sad to see you crash out like this. You do realize ppl make smell joke about "nerds"? it is by no means necessarily about race or ethnicity, if you took it that way that is on you. But if you do a min of research into popular culture in the US/the West you will find out that for years/decades ppl have used jokes about smell when talking about "nerds"
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@EndorsiVal @mil000 i can’t tell if ur fucking w me, r u not a buff brown guy? i never even mentioned religion??
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