Anil DashOne thing I think about sometimes is the time a decade or so ago when the editor of the MIT Tech Review scolded me for being critical of Milo Yiannopolis because Milo “went to a good school” (some British shit that probably means a lot to them but I can’t even remember what it was) and therefore couldn’t actually be awful. That was one of those turning points where I realized I would never actually get elevated to a certain level of culture or visibility, and I was quite content with that.
Brian Hawthorne@anildash
“He went to a good school.”
“He comes from a good family.”
These and many other similar approbations really come down to the same racist and classist dog whistles. They are socially acceptable ways to say:
“This person is male, white, Anglo, Christian, from the wealthy social classes, and therefore beyond reproach. How dare you, you uppity….”
Let’s make this socially unacceptable. If you hear these phrases, push back with, “Isn’t that what they usually say about serial killers?”
Matthew Nadler