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In context it seems kind of fair. You can use true facts to support hateful views. I'm not a fan of censorship, but the cat's always been out of the bag when it

In context it seems kind of fair. You can use true facts to support hateful views. I'm not a fan of censorship, but the cat's always been out of the bag when it comes to social media censoring things.

farmerstan 5y ago
The argument could be made that letting biological females compete for awards and cash prizes against biological males is misogynistic. But misogyny only exists if gender exists. If gender doesn’t exist then there is no such thing as misogyny or sexual discrimination.
defen 5y ago
If one's position is "we have to censor the truth because the truth is immoral" then it's worth considering having an "are we the baddies?" moment.
- Miner49er 5y ago
  You know it's not just a picture right? There's a description under the picture, that likely was the part that was being censored.
  - defen 5y ago
    Are you talking about the text from the paper itself ("The male performance advantage...") or something else?
- awb 5y ago
  "The truth" is such a vague term. You can say things that are true, but are also misleading, simply by omitting pertinent information. I think most people's position when they're offended by a "truth snippet" is "this is immoral because it's misleading / incomplete / biased, etc.". In this case, they omitted many sports where men and women are much more level competitors like curling, darts, bowling, equestrian, motor bike racing, marathon swimming, sailing, etc. And ignored marathon swimming where women routinely beat men. And they didn't pick a diverse cross-section of sports that focused on various attributes like upper body strength, lower body strength, accuracy, agility, dexterity, flexibility, endurance, efficiency, artistic movement, decision making, etc. They just published a chart of the more male dominated sports where strength is of outsized importance and said that the male advantage is "insurmountable" as justification for banning transgender athletes (based on testosterone levels) from all female sports. So, people aren't debating what's in the chart, they're debating what's not in the chart.

farmerstan 5y ago

The argument could be made that letting biological females compete for awards and cash prizes against biological males is misogynistic. But misogyny only exists if gender exists. If gender doesn’t exist then there is no such thing as misogyny or sexual discrimination.

defen 5y ago

If one's position is "we have to censor the truth because the truth is immoral" then it's worth considering having an "are we the baddies?" moment.

Miner49er 5y ago
You know it's not just a picture right? There's a description under the picture, that likely was the part that was being censored.
- defen 5y ago
  Are you talking about the text from the paper itself ("The male performance advantage...") or something else?
awb 5y ago
"The truth" is such a vague term. You can say things that are true, but are also misleading, simply by omitting pertinent information. I think most people's position when they're offended by a "truth snippet" is "this is immoral because it's misleading / incomplete / biased, etc.". In this case, they omitted many sports where men and women are much more level competitors like curling, darts, bowling, equestrian, motor bike racing, marathon swimming, sailing, etc. And ignored marathon swimming where women routinely beat men. And they didn't pick a diverse cross-section of sports that focused on various attributes like upper body strength, lower body strength, accuracy, agility, dexterity, flexibility, endurance, efficiency, artistic movement, decision making, etc. They just published a chart of the more male dominated sports where strength is of outsized importance and said that the male advantage is "insurmountable" as justification for banning transgender athletes (based on testosterone levels) from all female sports. So, people aren't debating what's in the chart, they're debating what's not in the chart.