The thing about woke oppression theories is that they have to ignore and try to embargo realities that don't fit. For example, the fact that white men are exponentially more likely to be killed by the police than black women.
I thought Anderson sidestepped Yascha's very good point when he asked about unionized workplaces that are inefficient or detrimental to business. I have to say that my experience both in working in a unionized workplace and encountering unionized service has been that excessive rules and various worker guarantees often produce gross inefficiencies and deteriorated service. This seemed like news to Anderson who had been exalting unionism as a solution to insufficient egalitarian workplaces. Perhaps she is too much of academic and hasn't experienced real work situations. Unions have certainly played some roles in creating better work conditions (I'm not suggesting we return to children working in coal mines). But there are considerable downsides which were only touched upon after Yascha abandoned this line of questioning. There are good reasons company management resist unionization. Though their motives are usually depicted as simple greed, in fact there are many more nuanced arguments that would merit serious discussion. The decline of unions everywhere have multiple causes, not just an attack on egalitarianism.
The thing about woke oppression theories is that they have to ignore and try to embargo realities that don't fit. For example, the fact that white men are exponentially more likely to be killed by the police than black women.
I thought Anderson sidestepped Yascha's very good point when he asked about unionized workplaces that are inefficient or detrimental to business. I have to say that my experience both in working in a unionized workplace and encountering unionized service has been that excessive rules and various worker guarantees often produce gross inefficiencies and deteriorated service. This seemed like news to Anderson who had been exalting unionism as a solution to insufficient egalitarian workplaces. Perhaps she is too much of academic and hasn't experienced real work situations. Unions have certainly played some roles in creating better work conditions (I'm not suggesting we return to children working in coal mines). But there are considerable downsides which were only touched upon after Yascha abandoned this line of questioning. There are good reasons company management resist unionization. Though their motives are usually depicted as simple greed, in fact there are many more nuanced arguments that would merit serious discussion. The decline of unions everywhere have multiple causes, not just an attack on egalitarianism.