The Grace Hopper Celebration is meant to unite women in tech. This year droves of men came looking for jobs.

  • sudneo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is pure rhetoric, I can flip the argument:

    “You care more about the gender than about my material condition.”

    Also, the moment I need to let prevail abstract concepts over my material condition (i.e., caring about “my group” being over represented while I am out of a job) is the moment in which the class unity is broken. Me and those women who are out of a job have so much in common that there is no reason for me to consider us part of two separate groups. That’s the whole point of my argument, I advocate for worker solidarity and I absolutely feel that this attitude is overall harmful for it.

    • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I don’t agree. I can be at a disadvantage and still accept that another group has even greater disadvantages that I would continue or make worse by stepping into something they built. Its freeloading in a pretty assholish way. I’m not just some animal trying to get a nut with narrow focus that says fuck everything else. I can job search and find my own opportunities without freeloading