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Just because the Mexican woman is in a worse situation compared to the Stanford grad, it doesn't make the Stanford grad's situation any less worse. If you were
by intev 12y ago
Just because the Mexican woman is in a worse situation compared to the Stanford grad, it doesn't make the Stanford grad's situation any less worse. If you were not allowed to eat any food once a week, and I told you "there's starving children in Africa with NO food 3 times a week" does that make you feel better about your situation?
You also happen to be posting on a tech website, so that would explain why we talk about the former and not the latter. Outside silicon valley no one cares about the former but there are many organizations trying their best to help with the latter.
- 8_hours_ago 12y agoIn case you were wondering, that argument is known as the fallacy of relative privation: "an opponent's arguments should be dismissed or ignored, on the grounds of there existing more important problems, despite these issues being often completely unrelated to the subject at hand." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_relative_privation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_relative_privation
- dominotw 12y agoI knew someone would post this. I am talking about two people who work in the same office but one is treated like a princesses and another like invisible. This whole gender gap thing is used by profiteers like "diversity consultants", media outlets like the original post for page views.
- dominotw 12y agoI am talking about women from the same society,I am not comparing women living under ISIS and the Standford grad. Why twist my words?
- dominotw 12y ago> Outside silicon valley no one cares about the former Are you kidding me?