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man it's interesting how many points of my personal philosophy may not be so common as i assume they are. i think i should articulate my vision of the world at some point, not because i'm a great thinker or whatever, just because i want people to be able to compare against me
a key principle i think i have at this point is that the world is pluricentric in many different ways, that this is a beautiful thing, and that there is no ideology (for example) i think to be so worthy as to risk throwing that pluricentricity away
this has many implications but one of them is that i am a bit suspicious of revolutionaries even if i can understand the dream and agree with them that a better world is possible
it also means: yes, i genuinely do not want to live in a world where i am surrounded purely by like-minded people, even though we are obviously right about everything and i might like it if we had more power
this is also my response to people who ask “but isn't your being queer incompatible with thinking the [xxx]s shouldn't bomb the shit out of the [yyy]s”
@hikari honestly this has a lot of overlap with the common gotcha I get when I talk about electoral reform in Canada
“but if we do what you’re saying we should do, a lot of the time your guys will have less power, and the guys you hate will have more power!” yes, random person I wish I was making up, that is in fact the point. I don’t have to agree with, like, or want your viewpoint for it to be valuable, because there is value inherent to it being different and incompatible with mine
@hikari I think of it like with stereotypes. We all use stereotypes to create mental models in the absence of further information. But what happens when further information arrives, especially if it conflicts with the stereotypes? Well, then we have a choice: we can either accommodate (change our mental model to fit the new information) or assimilate (change the new information to fit our mental model).
And the same applies to society. I would rather call myself pro-accommodationist than anti-assimilationist, even if in a lot of cases that's the same thing. I think if people don't fit, it's far more often our (society's) job to make space for them to fit than it is to demand they fit.