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adamserwer.bsky.social • 48 days ago

This is also why midwits love race science https://bsky.app/profile/jamellebouie.net/post/3lfubgdg5q22q

this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

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nuggetsfan1.bsky.social•48 days ago

The most privileged people on earth, white, Christian men constantly complain about being under assault. It’s ridiculous.

maninthebooth.bsky.social•48 days ago

Democrats aren't afraid to compete with a field that includes everyone. Republicans always want to make the field smaller and that includes work force competition and voter competition. Republicans want the past when they had less competition.

opus17.bsky.social•48 days ago

The historic discrimination against the white man would have a better case once America elects a Black man with 34 felony convictions, 3 baby mamas and a record of failure as their president.

claudialamb.bsky.social•48 days ago

Three of my brothers were convinced they would have gone much further in life if women and minorities hadn't been given all of the opportunities. They were stunningly mediocre students, and never bothered with college.

One claimed grape pickers made so much in 1 season they could buy a new truck.

ckarion.bsky.social•48 days ago

And let me guess - he never bothered to pick grapes despite this stunning profitability?

claudialamb.bsky.social•47 days ago

Oh, heavens, NO!

bstaples.bsky.social•48 days ago

A longtime workplace strategy

pcrritesgood.bsky.social•48 days ago

Midwit! What a great word.

What is the WIT scale anyway?

Halfwit
Fuckwit
Witless
Midwit
Nitwit

derfelif.bsky.social•48 days ago

In the land of the witless the halfwit is king.

wabakker.bsky.social•48 days ago

Sparkling wit
Quick wit
Wry wit
Acerbic wit
Dry wit
Mid wit
Nit wit
Half wit
Fuck wit
Witless (at wit’s end)

pcrritesgood.bsky.social•48 days ago

This is a solid scale. Nicely done.

kentropic.bsky.social•48 days ago

This and the insistence that US society without DEI initiatives is a pure “meritocracy” are coping mechanisms that dominant caste members use to soothe cognitive dissonance about their own mediocrity. This book from @isabelwilkerson.bsky.social is an essential Rosetta Stone to US culture & politics.

magnificentskinbag.bsky.social•48 days ago

going to keep "midwits" and thank you for the perfectly appropriate term of our time

readingcabbage.bsky.social•48 days ago

People with no accomplishments love taking credit for the accomplishments of people they happen to share a race or gender with.

drzemologist.bsky.social•48 days ago

Inept and/or dumb people in the US usually aren’t successful for those reasons. But for them to admit that, especially if they are white men, is impossible. So they look for someone to blame. POC and even smart white people (hence their distrust of science, etc)

astrobot101.bsky.social•48 days ago

I owe you for introducing me to "midwit"; I've met a lot of them, but didn't know what they were called. It's perfect 😆

astrobot101.bsky.social•48 days ago

They need a code, so all the other inferior people know who to "like" and agree with.

vonhonkington.bsky.social•48 days ago

These people also love the websites that assign an IQ number to every country, then they reference this like it means something. Sure the 1.4 billion people in India can be represented by this one made up number

grungehamster.bsky.social•48 days ago

And at the end of the day, people are STILL posting outrage that little Timmy didn't get into UCLA because of "those people" given preferences.

National ban will still be seen as insufficiently enforced if it doesn't result in resegregation.

sharkman1963.bsky.social•48 days ago

We need to get over this idea that your career or job title identifies you as a successful or not

tomlevenson.bsky.social•48 days ago

Exactly. It’s the necessary adjuvant to enable the belief that excluding others from the competition isn’t what it clearly is.

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