alt Hacker NewsIt's not odd. If the institution of it is political, the removal of it is therefore also political.
It is not, however, based on who can claim to be the biggest victim. It is based on a simple statistical analysis of demographics.
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_heimdall • today at 6:36 PM
The statistical analysis is step one, but those stats are (or were?) used as proxies for quantifying a persons victimhood. I dont actually think "victim" is quite the right word here, but the OP used it and it fits well enough.
In a previous project I ended up talking with a scientist who couldn't shut up about how she was 1/4th Indigenous and how many grants that could open for our collaboration.
If I wanted racial purity in my collaborators it get a time machine to 1930s Germany. That someone was doing this in 2022 was extremely off-putting. That they were getting government support because of it makes the me not care much about the fact the system is being burned down today.