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I'm confused by a few of your reactions. > Bad - this sentence is telling part of population should just kill themself since they don’t exist. Which part of t
by pjscott 5y ago
I'm confused by a few of your reactions.
> Bad - this sentence is telling part of population should just kill themself since they don’t exist.
Which part of the population are you referring to? People with intersex conditions like Klinefelter syndrome? They definitely exist, but I wouldn't say that "there are two biological genders" implies that they should kill themselves (wtf?) -- it's just omitting some edge cases. And it's a descriptive claim rather than a normative one.
> Bad. This sentence implicitly claims that girls are stupid.
How so? Saying "math is not racist" makes no mention of gender. This seems like a leap in logic, unsupported by any good-faith reading of the original text.
- tlogan 5y agoI misread: “math is not racists” - I read “math is not sexist” (implying that girls are naturally not good at math). I’m not aware of ”math is not racist” so I do not know what it means.
- pjscott 5y agoAh, that makes more sense. (And "math is not racist" is usually said by people who are claiming that racial differences in average math test scores are caused by something other than racism in the subject matter or teaching style, such as disparate rates of poverty, quality of school districts, etc.)