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JuniperMesosyesterday at 8:18 PM1 replyview on HN

> The attacks on and hate of trans people are on the rise. There seem to be literal strategy of preventing blacks and women from career rise in military and government. And all of these are enabled and helped by tech.

Attacks on trans people are on the rise because the poltical demands trans people make in the explicit name of trans rights necessarily entail enlisting the state to help destroy gender distinctions most people care about; and a lot of people have now realized this and are explicitly fighting back against trans demands.

Blacks and women have historically benefitted from explicit racial and gender preferences in government and military careers which usually entailed having explicitly lower standards for these demographic groups, because poltical activists for these groups fought against any standards-based advancement process that resulted in noticeably few women or blacks coming out the end of it. This has made enough people mad that they were willing to elect high level polticians who promised to destroy the gender and race-based affirmative action systems in government careers, which looks like "preventing blacks and women from career rise" from the perspective of a pro-affirmative-action person.

Both of these phenomena are contemporary American poltical currents, and don't have much to do with the tech industry in and of itself.


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simianwordsyesterday at 8:21 PM

> Both of these phenomena are contemporary American poltical currents, and don't have much to do with the tech industry in and of itself.

The mode of opposition against culture change to benefit these groups is the same mode of opposition against technology. Both exist to preserve status quo - to keep the same hierarchies.