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All I want is equality; either block both, or block neither. As a user, I can guarantee I hate all ads equally, but also put up with all equally, because I'm to

All I want is equality; either block both, or block neither. As a user, I can guarantee I hate all ads equally, but also put up with all equally, because I'm too cheap to pay.

MereInterest 6y ago
"White power" is a phrase used to enshrine social inequality and promote violence against minorities. "Black power" is a phrase used to stand against social inequality and to resist that violence. These are not equivalent terms. One is the rallying call of violent aggression and pogroms, while the other is a defense against that. Painting the two phrases as equivalent ignores the social context behind each of them.
- frob 6y ago
  It's times like these that remind me of my very favorite Bill Buckley quote: "That is like saying that the man who pushes a little old lady into the path of a bus is morally equivalent to the man who pushes her out of its path, because they both push little old ladies around." I may disagree with the guy in many ways, but that's a fine quote.
tekromancr 6y ago
This is a bad take. "White power" is a call for supremacy. "Black power" is a call for equity and solidarity. Conflating the two by saying that blocking both or allowing both would be "equality" is.. Mind you, I've only been awake for half an hour; but it's definitely the worst take I have read so far today.
- MereInterest 6y ago
  For a while there was an internet game going around where you would give a deliberately vague and ambiguous description, then use it to imply similarity for the sake of invoking cognitive dissonance in the reader. For example, "A small group of rag-tag rebels strike at the empire that brought war to them, bringing down a mighty symbol of that empire. Am I describing Star Wars Episode 4, or the 9/11 attacks?". When done for humor sake, these can be rather amusing. abstractbarista's comment is a political attack along the same lines. By drawing an equivalence between the phrases "white power" and "black power", there is the implicit statement that the two are morally equivalent, which is by no means the case. They then follow-up by saying that since the two are equivalent, they should be treated the same. It's a bait and switch, where the syntactic similarity is used to imply semantic similarity where no such semantic similarity exists.

All I want is equality; either block both, or block neither. As a user, I can guarantee I hate all ads equally, but also put up with all equally, because I'm too cheap to pay.

MereInterest 6y ago

"White power" is a phrase used to enshrine social inequality and promote violence against minorities. "Black power" is a phrase used to stand against social inequality and to resist that violence. These are not equivalent terms. One is the rallying call of violent aggression and pogroms, while the other is a defense against that. Painting the two phrases as equivalent ignores the social context behind each of them.

frob 6y ago
It's times like these that remind me of my very favorite Bill Buckley quote: "That is like saying that the man who pushes a little old lady into the path of a bus is morally equivalent to the man who pushes her out of its path, because they both push little old ladies around." I may disagree with the guy in many ways, but that's a fine quote.

tekromancr 6y ago

This is a bad take. "White power" is a call for supremacy. "Black power" is a call for equity and solidarity. Conflating the two by saying that blocking both or allowing both would be "equality" is.. Mind you, I've only been awake for half an hour; but it's definitely the worst take I have read so far today.

MereInterest 6y ago
For a while there was an internet game going around where you would give a deliberately vague and ambiguous description, then use it to imply similarity for the sake of invoking cognitive dissonance in the reader. For example, "A small group of rag-tag rebels strike at the empire that brought war to them, bringing down a mighty symbol of that empire. Am I describing Star Wars Episode 4, or the 9/11 attacks?". When done for humor sake, these can be rather amusing. abstractbarista's comment is a political attack along the same lines. By drawing an equivalence between the phrases "white power" and "black power", there is the implicit statement that the two are morally equivalent, which is by no means the case. They then follow-up by saying that since the two are equivalent, they should be treated the same. It's a bait and switch, where the syntactic similarity is used to imply semantic similarity where no such semantic similarity exists.