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For issues such as this, results in either direction will make some people uncomfortable or even angry. Some people will be enraged by the suggestion there is s
by goto11 7y ago
For issues such as this, results in either direction will make some people uncomfortable or even angry. Some people will be enraged by the suggestion there is systemic bias against women, while other people will be enraged by the suggestion that there isn't. This is what makes the issue a "hot button" or flame bait issue.
- brenden2 7y agoRegardless of which side of the fence you're on, what's considered acceptable is just a matter of cultural norms within a given context or group of people at a specific time. If you don't agree with that cultural norm, then you're "the bad guy".
- chatmasta 7y agoThe real issue is people becoming “enraged” in response to reading something on the internet. We can hardly control what comes to our attention. By responding emotionally to anything that rises to our attention, we cede control of our emotions to outside actors.
- goto11 7y agoOnly if you don't consider bias an actual problem. If it is an actual problem then surely that would be the "the real issue", not the secondary effect of people getting angry about it?
- jlawson 7y agoResults in either direction will make some people angry, but the power differential in terms of who will actually punish dissenters is obvious. One of those sides gets you fired for arguing it respectfully in good faith (e.g. Damore) and the other doesn't. More evidence is the asymmetry in your own statement: >Some people will be enraged by the suggesting that there is systemic bias against women, while other people will be enraged by the suggestion that there isn't. You never even acknowledge the possibility that someone could think there's a systemic bias against men.