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 Title: Link: "See Color"
 Date: 2021-02-28
 Category: other
 Title: Link: "See Color"
 Date: 2021-02-28
 Category: other

-Tags: linkpost, video, ideology, Steven Universe
+Tags: linkpost, video, ideology, Steven Universe, race

 Status: draft
 
 Whether or not you _support_ the ideological transition from late-20th-century individualist "content of their character" liberalism to the [successor ideology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Successor_ideology), as a student of the arts, you've got to admit that [the new _Steven Universe_ anti-racism public service announcement](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJkVgGYm4xo) is a _masterfully well-executed_ piece of propaganda. It's _actually persuasive_. I've _never seen anything like it_.
 Status: draft
 
 Whether or not you _support_ the ideological transition from late-20th-century individualist "content of their character" liberalism to the [successor ideology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Successor_ideology), as a student of the arts, you've got to admit that [the new _Steven Universe_ anti-racism public service announcement](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJkVgGYm4xo) is a _masterfully well-executed_ piece of propaganda. It's _actually persuasive_. I've _never seen anything like it_.


@@ -13,19 +13,19 @@ There's some sense in which I think the creators "got lucky" with this short—I
 In contrast, "See Color"'s attacks on old-school liberalism _land_. We open to a '90s-alike PSA invoking the "doesn't matter if you're black, white, or purple" trope (which has been cringe for as long as I (born 1987) can remember, but which I imagine sounded progressive the _first_ time someone said it), until Amethyst breaks character to object to the script—
 
 > AMETHYST: Woah, woah, woah. Hold up a minute here. Ugh, who wrote this? I think it kind of does matter that I'm purple? I mean, I'm purple because I'm literally an alien.
 In contrast, "See Color"'s attacks on old-school liberalism _land_. We open to a '90s-alike PSA invoking the "doesn't matter if you're black, white, or purple" trope (which has been cringe for as long as I (born 1987) can remember, but which I imagine sounded progressive the _first_ time someone said it), until Amethyst breaks character to object to the script—
 
 > AMETHYST: Woah, woah, woah. Hold up a minute here. Ugh, who wrote this? I think it kind of does matter that I'm purple? I mean, I'm purple because I'm literally an alien.

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+>

 > BLACK KID: Well I'm not an alien, but it definitely matters to me that I'm black.
 > BLACK KID: Well I'm not an alien, but it definitely matters to me that I'm black.

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+>

 > WHITE KID: Yeah, it makes a difference that I'm white. [to BLACK KID] I know the two of us get treated, very differently.
 > WHITE KID: Yeah, it makes a difference that I'm white. [to BLACK KID] I know the two of us get treated, very differently.

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+>

 > AMETHYST: I just think it's messed up to compare me being an alien, to you two being different races. You're both human; you're totally biologically the same. Adding purple people into a lesson about human racism makes no sense. 
 > AMETHYST: I just think it's messed up to compare me being an alien, to you two being different races. You're both human; you're totally biologically the same. Adding purple people into a lesson about human racism makes no sense. 

-
+>

 > BLACK KID and WHITE KID: [in unison] Yeah, that is pretty weird.
 > BLACK KID and WHITE KID: [in unison] Yeah, that is pretty weird.

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+>

 > WHITE KID: I think people with the 'black, white, or purple' thing because adding a fantasy race in there helps distract from the actual racism black people have to deal with.
 > WHITE KID: I think people with the 'black, white, or purple' thing because adding a fantasy race in there helps distract from the actual racism black people have to deal with.

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+>

 > BLACK KID: Right. My experience with anti-black racism is really specific. Other people of color experience other forms of racism, too. But you won't see any of that if you don't see color.
 > BLACK KID: Right. My experience with anti-black racism is really specific. Other people of color experience other forms of racism, too. But you won't see any of that if you don't see color.

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+>

 > AMETHYST: Dude, so this entire public service announcement could be a ploy to avoid talking about racism altogether! Hey, ah, could we get a rewrite where we appreciate each other without erasing what makes each of us different?
 
 [TODO: the function of saying "or purple" is to appeal to a principle of equality: if there were purple people, they would get covered by the universal rule. But, Amethyst really is an alien, which would be a different cluster]
 > AMETHYST: Dude, so this entire public service announcement could be a ploy to avoid talking about racism altogether! Hey, ah, could we get a rewrite where we appreciate each other without erasing what makes each of us different?
 
 [TODO: the function of saying "or purple" is to appeal to a principle of equality: if there were purple people, they would get covered by the universal rule. But, Amethyst really is an alien, which would be a different cluster]

diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt
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@@ -2409,3 +2409,8 @@ https://wepon.tumblr.com/post/620926931352862720/my-current-top-10-favorite-post
 I've frequently argued against the social practice of people being expected to declare (in their social media profile, or on badges at conferences) what third-person pronouns others should use to refer to oneself. The end goal of transitioning—one would think—is to be organically perceived as the sex other than one's [developmental sex](/2019/Sep/terminology-proposal-developmental-sex/).
 
 What pronoun other people _naturally_ use to refer to you when they're _not_ trying to be polite, but just trying to _talk about the world they see_ in the language that comes naturally to them, is a test of whether your transition is actually _succeeding_ at the goal of changing your (perceived) sex.
 I've frequently argued against the social practice of people being expected to declare (in their social media profile, or on badges at conferences) what third-person pronouns others should use to refer to oneself. The end goal of transitioning—one would think—is to be organically perceived as the sex other than one's [developmental sex](/2019/Sep/terminology-proposal-developmental-sex/).
 
 What pronoun other people _naturally_ use to refer to you when they're _not_ trying to be polite, but just trying to _talk about the world they see_ in the language that comes naturally to them, is a test of whether your transition is actually _succeeding_ at the goal of changing your (perceived) sex.

+
+https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/statement-on-new-york-times-article#comment-1263382
+> like a screed complaining about Jewish bankers, being read by someone whose only opinion of bankers is that they provide a safe place for him to store his money
+
+https://avoiceformen.com/featured/my-son-doesnt-want-to-be-a-man/

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
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@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ _ Comment on "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" https://www.reddit.com/r/Mac
  - Amy Wax linkpost
 - The Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes Is an Open
 
  - Amy Wax linkpost
 - The Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes Is an Open
 

+strict scrutiny

 
 This is the same mechanism as "Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception"!!
 > journalism is usually trustworthy because trustworthiness is the carrier vehicle. It's occasionally corrupt, because corruption is the payload.
 
 This is the same mechanism as "Unnatural Categories Are Optimized for Deception"!!
 > journalism is usually trustworthy because trustworthiness is the carrier vehicle. It's occasionally corrupt, because corruption is the payload.