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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
"Half the stuff you called "bullshit" on have been scientifically tested (and proved) in reputable journals." I called two claims bullshit, so I presume you believe that one of them has been proven. Which one? Citation?
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
No one is on "one or none" "axis of disadvantage". Everyone is born with many advantages and many disadvantages. Intersectionality is concerned exclusively with the the advantages held by white men in Western democracies
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
Any ideology which hinges on the "blank slate" hypothesis is extreme, insofar as that hypothesis is very obviously false. Furthermore, intersectionalism is essentially a conspiracy theory.
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
The ideology is not especially deserving of anything but ridicule, but I went through the slides and excerpted some particularly goofy stuff. "Marginalized person: Any woman who wants to work for pay for an employer" "Oppress
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
Uh, all of it?
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
I should have been more specific: I was referring to elections for head of state. Regardless, your post is high on rhetoric and low on content. You provide no citation for your strongest claim (that in many part of the US white supremacists
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
What part of the world do you live in, where there’s a real risk of a white supremacist politician receiving even 1% of 1% of the popular vote?
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
Yes, but...actually try to put yourself in an employer’s shoes.
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
The slide set is a big can of crazy.
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
You didn’t find the slides so bad? Really? Those slides present a rather extreme ideology, which is not based on (and is often flatly contradicted by) evidence.
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
Right, and what we’re seeing is that men and women enjoy different things.
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
That women have less interest in or capacity for STEM work is the most parsimonious explanation.
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
But again: why is it bad if white people are in power? What’s wrong with white people?
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
Anonymous accusations should be treated as worthless for obvious reasons.
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
Actually, his claim was that it shouldn’t be called assault if no force or coercion was used by the older man, and the older man couldn’t be expected to know that his partner was being coerced by someone else.
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
“Including workers in ownership and governance is necessary to lessen the hold on corporate wealth by affluent white families.” Why should this be a goal? Is there something wrong with affluent people, or white people, or affluent white peo
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
If it’s not a binary, it’s still a very much bimodal distribution. Ironically, the notion that gender is either a binary or a spectrum is a false dichotomy. It’s obviously a bimodal distribution with most, but not all, people clustered ar
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
I’m not a solo business owner, but if I had to guess, I’d say that the ones who are successful turn their weakness into a strength by using some obscure tech stack that they’re a wizard with but that no one else uses. It’s a trite thought h
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
I disagree, but I want to be clear that I disagree on practical, not ideological, grounds. As others have pointed out, handing out prison sentences for security breaches would be counterproductive. If we make it financially ruinous, compani
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
If the other “incidents” are like this one, then the problem isn’t him, it’s the community’s puritanical streak.
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
I just read an interview with him in which he renounced his belief that adult-child sexual relationships aren’t necessarily harmful. As for the concept of coercive consent, his point was that if you have sex with someone who’s being coerced
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
It wasn’t, and it’s absurd that people still insist on calling it a sexual assault. Stallman’s logic was spot-on.
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
This is the sort of thing that millennials should focus our energy on. We may be politically polarized, but I think we can all agree that this is bullshit and needs to be fought.
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
This is a travesty.
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
“The economists John Schmitt and Heather Boushey found that among 24-to-35-year-olds, almost 20 percent of college graduates “actually do no better than their counterparts who left school after high school,” even before taking college debt
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
Soderlund is going about this all wrong. First you just do it, then Charleton Heston blows the lid off your operation.
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
The position presented in the essay is mathematical nihilism. I make no comment on him or on his general philosophy, which I thought was obvious from context.
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
The irony is that it never occurs to our elites that perhaps they are incompetent. No, the narrative is always that the ignorant masses are going to burn the house down, despite the heroic efforts of the educated, level-headed elite. Newsfl
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
Yes, and that’s precisely what makes the nihilist position so silly. (I’m sure the author wouldn’t describe himself as a nihilist, but if the position presented in his essay isn’t nihilism, then what—other than a waste of the reader’s time—
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
The conclusion of this essay is deeply stupid. The author uses formalism in the same way that he accuses Hilbert of doing, except that where Hilbert presumably remained a closet Platonist, the author is apparently some sort of nihilist. The

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