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Something along those lines, sure. I'm actually fine with people civilly criticizing religion, though. It's the stereotyping that really sticks out to me. It w
by humanrebar 10y ago
Something along those lines, sure. I'm actually fine with people civilly criticizing religion, though.
It's the stereotyping that really sticks out to me. It would be flagged or downvoted (justifiably!) if someone called women irrational or told homosexuals that their lifestyles should be kept private.
I'm convinced that the double standard here just doesn't register for most of the HN community, and almost all the English speaking world besides. I said something to raise awareness of the problem.
- nitrogen 10y agoIt's the stereotyping that really sticks out to me. It would be flagged or downvoted (justifiably!) if someone called women irrational or told homosexuals that their lifestyles should be kept private. I think the difference here is that in one case one would be inferring a belief system from membership in a non-belief-related group, while the other would be inferring a belief system from membership in a belief system. I don't think it's a double standard to treat those things differently (though there are corners of HN that get wildly out of control in either of the aforementioned cases).
- humanrebar 10y agoI don't follow you. Neither calling people groups irrational nor encouraging them to live closeted lifestyles is 'inferring a belief system'.
- nitrogen 10y agoI meant that calling a gender irrational is different from calling a belief system irrational, regardless of whether either claim is true.