Hacker Cinema
Think Like a Man
2012 · Film · 122 min
Part of Think Like a Man Collection
Directed by Tim Story
The balance of power in four couples’ relationships is upset when the women start using the advice in Steve Harvey’s book, Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man, to get more of what they want from their men. When the men realize that the women have gotten a hold of their relationship “playbook,” they decide that the best defense is a good offense and come up with a plan to use this information to their advantage.
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> But if it merely programmed to show ads for "Think Like a Man Too" to people who watched "Think Like a Man" based on a rule about sequels, there is no agenda there beyond profit.
But that's not the dynamics. It's like, there's this whole universe out there with its own forces and dynamics, but you're saying -- nah, I don't care about that, I just care about the current snapshot. Suppose for a second that every school taught blacks to like that movie you referred to. You just created a (causal!!) proxy for race. So now if decisions pertaining to your future income are based on you having watched the movie, then all of a sudden they become pure of ideology? First, we create a proxy, then we discriminate based on the proxy, and finally we claim no political agenda because we're "only" discriminating on that proxy.
> but in the latter case it's only a composition effect.
Why does that make a difference? Why do you think targeting correlations is somehow less political than targeting race directly? Your direct intentions are not what matters here. What matters here is what future your actions serve. Any directed (i.e. non-noise) changes (or lack thereof) to human society caused by humans are politics[1].
> I gather that you want statistical equality rather than equal treatment
Quite the opposite. If there's a society with built in mistreatment of certain races, then that mistreatment must first be addressed. You see equal treatment only because you don't try to learn how society works. Politics changes society all the time. What society looks like now is a result of yesterday's politics, and what it will look like tomorrow is a result of today's. You're simply suggesting implementing conservative politics that don't try to change society today. But there's absolutely no objective advantage to the current situation over a previous or a future one. That's what's known as the naturist, or is-ought, fallacy.
What I find quite interesting is that as a a scientist, you take absolutely no interest in learning how things work and how we can change them. You want to hack computers but not society. How is that not a political agenda?
P.S.
I tried finding a good starting point to learning the topic (of politics), or at least understanding what issues researchers are looking into and what they've found. I think a good introduction is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_(social_and_political)
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics and in particular http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics#Politics_as_an_academic_discipline