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Transexuals are not women, abortion is murder, the US and/or Ukraine provoked the war, average IQ of different races and how it explains their behaviour. There
by veave 3y ago
Transexuals are not women, abortion is murder, the US and/or Ukraine provoked the war, average IQ of different races and how it explains their behaviour. There you have four things that will earn you an instant flag (perhaps not in this thread for obvious reasons)
- maxbond 3y agoAnd yet I still see them debated regularly. They're not forbidden, they're unpopular. A consequence of having a system of voting and flagging is that you won't always agree with the way people vote and flag. > Transexuals are not women As an aside, I've noticed a pattern that people fret endlessly over trans women and don't really take notice of trans men. I don't know why that is, but there must be a reason why it's so remarkably consistent.
- assbuttbuttass 3y agoMisogyny
- veave 3y agoA consequence of having a system of flagging is that dang can avoid having to do any work by having users remove other users' comments, keeping the site in one side of the political spectrum. (Just to be clear, I don't think he particularly cares which side wins, as long as it allows him to avoid any responsibility)
- maxbond 3y agoI propose as an experiment, you go make an offensive left-wing comment on a relevant thread (maybe "ACAB" or "eat the rich"), and see if it gets flagged and downvoted. I read a bunch of right-wing comments on HN (including ones making good arguments), the reports of left bias on HN are greatly overstated.
- defrost 3y agoThey're effectively contentless comments of no merit. Any slogan yelling should get downvoted by HN standards regardless of partisan bias. An Eat the Rich comment that includes a quality recipe, however, should be rewarded with tolerance if not upvotes.
- DonHopkins 3y agoIf God didn't mean for poor people to eat rich people, he wouldn't have made them of meat. [1] The Cannibal Cookbook: Human meat recipes from around the world https://www.amazon.nl/-/en/Nico-Claux/dp/B08SGR2W6M https://www.amazon.nl/-/en/Nico-Claux/dp/B08SGR2W6M [1] Paraphrased from The Reluctant Cannibal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjAHw2DEBgw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjAHw2DEBgw
- maxbond 3y agoI can't say I agree, if someone made a high effort post arguing for eating the rich, I personally would still flag it because I flag all calls to violence, whether they are low effort or not. (Some people say "eat the rich" to mean "redistribute wealth through taxation," if I could tell that's what they meant I probably wouldn't flag it, other people uh, don't. Maybe the recipe you referenced is a policy proposal, let me know if I've misread you.)
- defrost 3y agoHow is advocating for eating the rich a call for violence though? Are you assuming it's a call to kill them rather than a plea to not waste the protein? The thing many people fail to realise about the Fore people in PNG was that their cannibalism was a mortuary rite of reverance for highly valued in group members that weren't killed for sustenance. I can quote a paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2581657/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2581657/ or simply say I learnt that first hand 40+ years back as child tagging along on supply runs with Mike Alpers (see Author list). Now .. given you might have gained a snippet of new infomation, how do you feel about upvoting this comment about eating high value members of society?
- Dylan16807 3y agoPeople still talk about these things all the fucking time. They're debated on worldwide TV broadcasts.
- quickthrower2 3y agoIs it just statistical? Maybe there are more trans women? Or they are more obvious/apparent online. But it any case it is almost a simple true scotsman fallacy. They are a woman iff that is your definition. Accessibility tip: Hit the “X minutes days ago” link if this has gone too grey to read.
- gadders 3y ago[flagged]
- maxbond 3y agoNo one is coercing you to sleep in trans women. If this is your attitude, I doubt they will be interested in you.