They're too focused on their petty bigotries and hated of "Libburuls" to mount any effective response.
The Tech Bros, who see themselves as Global Techno-Libertarians bringing the technology paradise Fifties written SF promised them, would argue that race and country of origin matter less to them than "merit". It all sounds very fair-mind…
They're too focused on their petty bigotries and hated of "Libburuls" to mount any effective response.
The Tech Bros, who see themselves as Global Techno-Libertarians bringing the technology paradise Fifties written SF promised them, would argue that race and country of origin matter less to them than "merit". It all sounds very fair-minded—only problem with that approach is (as Hollywood's repeated faceplants when it comes to "diversity" prove) that people in positions of power tend to hire people who....are just like them. (While I'm sure Matt Damon doesn't think of himself as bigoted in the least, he's so used to swimming with Straight White Scots-Irish people just like him and the Afflecks that he's always going to trust THEM over Black Women or Gay Men—and Damon at least has been forced to face his unexamined prejudices head-on thanks to the last season of PROJECT GREENLIGHT! )
Vivek Ramaswamy clearly thinks he got to where he is by "merit" alone, ignoring that most of us don't have parents who are Brahmin-caste doctors and lawyers who came here on whatever a H-1B visa was called back when they first emigrated, like his are. He has The Best Education Money Can Buy, going to a parochial high school and Harvard—if his parents had lived in a trailer park in Ohio with assembly-line jobs, he wouldn't have had those advantages (not being born in 1985, he wouldn't have!).
That's what the MAGAts fail to see in their leadership—all these guys think they're John Galt and Delos D. Harriman, and have nothing but contempt for "regular people". Of course, we're contemptuous of them, too, because they're IDIOTS!—but that's different.
They're too focused on their petty bigotries and hated of "Libburuls" to mount any effective response.
The Tech Bros, who see themselves as Global Techno-Libertarians bringing the technology paradise Fifties written SF promised them, would argue that race and country of origin matter less to them than "merit". It all sounds very fair-minded—only problem with that approach is (as Hollywood's repeated faceplants when it comes to "diversity" prove) that people in positions of power tend to hire people who....are just like them. (While I'm sure Matt Damon doesn't think of himself as bigoted in the least, he's so used to swimming with Straight White Scots-Irish people just like him and the Afflecks that he's always going to trust THEM over Black Women or Gay Men—and Damon at least has been forced to face his unexamined prejudices head-on thanks to the last season of PROJECT GREENLIGHT! )
Vivek Ramaswamy clearly thinks he got to where he is by "merit" alone, ignoring that most of us don't have parents who are Brahmin-caste doctors and lawyers who came here on whatever a H-1B visa was called back when they first emigrated, like his are. He has The Best Education Money Can Buy, going to a parochial high school and Harvard—if his parents had lived in a trailer park in Ohio with assembly-line jobs, he wouldn't have had those advantages (not being born in 1985, he wouldn't have!).
That's what the MAGAts fail to see in their leadership—all these guys think they're John Galt and Delos D. Harriman, and have nothing but contempt for "regular people". Of course, we're contemptuous of them, too, because they're IDIOTS!—but that's different.
It just is.... 😇