#Meritocracy

Samantha Greer

SamMGreer

If you're gonna do a song and dance about "how I broke into games" you better disclose some of the financial reality that allowed you to get there.Too many middle

Rebecca Shapiro

RebeccaJShapiro

There is no meritocracy in academia and if job candidates want one of the very few jobs, they most likely will not work in the field they did their work

Alex Kaschuta Reality Czar

kaschuta

Status is a zero sum game in every hierarchy. But if you have a lot of different hierachies, that problem is softened. There are many ways to play, many ways

Mike Harding #RejoinEU

HardingMike

1/ 4 yrs since the Ref and still the easiest deal the world has ever seen is no nearer. 4 yrs since they blew, not just the doors, but the

Shannon Foley Martinez🍍

_Shan_Martinez_

Since no one is asking, here's a starter set of ideas for parents to better innoculate their kids from radicalizing into hate- or violence-based worldviews: Making sure kids feel truly

Simon Wardley

swardley

Contextual blindness - the tendency for members of the privileged to think that something other than luck was responsible for their position and privilege ->https://twitter.com/indiyoung/status/1338623809939779584 X : Why random?Me :

sneha.

snehasanks

1. if you’re someone who is respected for your opinions, someone with a platform, especially with over 10K followers, it’s not your obligation to be right, but is your obligation

ashia monet 🌙🕯

AshiaMonet

Gonna be real here: I struggle to listen to most publishing advice because it is so often aimed at a cishet, white, Western, middle to upper middle class audience and

Chris Sonnex

ChrisSonnex

If one child is bullied then no child in the playground is safe.If you only actively do or campaign about YOUR thing, that’s not activism, that’s looking after your self

Lucas #JeSuisComplice

lucasgautheron

Deaths of Despair - évolution du taux de mortalité chez les blancs de 45 à 54 ans aux EU depuis 1990 Mortalité due aux suicides, overdoses, et maladies

Helen Pluckrose

HPluckrose

Caroline is speaking of colour-blindness and she is correct that this is how Social Justice critics of it see it. I really need to write an essay on the misconception

Wenyuan Wu, Ph.D.

wu_wenyuan

1) The underlying force behind the anti-meritocracy movement and the push to radicalize ethnic studies is illiberal social engineering that seeks to rearrange societal norms and reject proven practices of

Shaun Sellars

TheWholeT00th

Lots of chatter about #sexism in #dentistry on here at the moment.Here’s an unsolicited thread about my thoughts as a (white, de facto middle class) unashamedly liberal male. It’s

sneha.

snehasanks

i wasn’t going to weigh in on this ‘cos it’s truly exhausting. but there are some very troubling responses and non-points in the replies here. especially from young designers, so

Leonard C Suskin

Czhorat

*deep breath*I love @KevTalbot, but this whole thread is laced with a myth - the myth that meritocracy can exist and that "capabilities" are an objectively measurable trait.And yes, #AVinTheAM

Marc Swint

th3Engineer

*sigh* Okay. Casting in VO isn't about what makes YOU feel good. It's about who's best for the job.What some people never think of is the other side of diversity

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