ElComradio

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by ElComradio 10y ago
I'm not sure what you are getting at with your school example. 20% of students from school B aren't graduating; 70% of students from school A aren't graduating. If you institute some program that leads to one new kid graduati
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by ElComradio 10y ago
Being smart makes it much easier to get some opportunities.
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by ElComradio 10y ago
It's simply intractable to add up everyone's advantages and disadvantages; it's the wrong path to focus on group attributes/trends when you start talking about individuals. I could clamor for tall rich sportsmen to &quo
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by ElComradio 10y ago
It is ridiculous for outsiders to stick their noses into consensual relationships engaged in by adults. If I were Lewinsky or any other woman you might theoretically be addressing, I'd be highly annoyed at your patronizing "Oh hon
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by ElComradio 10y ago
I understand; even in the case of "power imbalance" relationships, I'm still asking the question: What is the evidence these are primarily negative relationships for the participants? When you read about these, the authors al
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by ElComradio 10y ago
Are our only choices: 1) Violence against women never occurs, and 2) Most men are barely contained threats?
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by ElComradio 10y ago
It goes both ways. Numerous female pop stars, and in entertainment in general, angling and fishing to steal away the guy from his relationship because she KNOWS they are meant to be together... She doesn't hear "No thanks" an
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by ElComradio 10y ago
We are in a bad way when one's subjective "feelings" determine the order of the day. There is a POSSIBILITY that one might FEEL they owe something (regardless of the reality)... So therefore, we need to guard against what may
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by ElComradio 10y ago
All of these scenarios are possible but often they are presented as a certainty. This speaks more towards fears and feelings; I'd be interested to see studies that claim most office romances turn out badly. People are being trained to
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by ElComradio 10y ago
If this was your friends who worked out, would you feel happy for them or scold them for setting a bad example for everyone else?
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by ElComradio 10y ago
This is the unintended consequence of a lifetime of hearing that men are dangerous and might kill you. Threats are everywhere, says the media, constantly.
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by ElComradio 10y ago
Yet something like 30% of office workers have had office romances. Are you going to tell all of those people they should not have flirted?
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by ElComradio 10y ago
This is true for bathrooms but what about locker rooms?
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by ElComradio 10y ago
Having no law at all and all unisex bathrooms is certainly a possible solution. It would be consistent but it would require people to get over certain hangups they may have.
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by ElComradio 10y ago
What I haven't seen discussed is the real objection going on is that NC insists you use the bathroom as defined by your birth certificate, and you can change that post-op. So people think that's too onerous, so what _should_ the s
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by ElComradio 10y ago
In your thought experiment, you are presupposing many common factors; we can understand this better perhaps because you are positing "3+ dimensions" so we can think "the dimensions we see plus a couple more" which makes
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by ElComradio 11y ago
This article felt much like reading a pitch for a MLM scheme.
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by ElComradio 11y ago
It sounds like you are agreeing with me and not realizing it- We seem to agree that the ultimate goal of conversations about privilege is to guilt the privileged group members into supporting members of underprivileged groups, ignoring the
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by ElComradio 11y ago
What is the conversation about if not resource redistribution? Simple acknowledgment gets you what, exactly? Nothing.. There's obviously some desired action. That action is what, if not some kind of favoritism or balancing of scales? I
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by ElComradio 11y ago
I'm all for it. Let's have reciprocity though. I should be able to show my resume and get permanent residency complete with local healthcare benefits for any country with which we have the agreement.
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by ElComradio 11y ago
Acknowledgement is useless and not actionable. The end goal of people who bring up privilege is to engender a sense of guilt over undeserved advantages, which then leads to resources flowing out of the guilty group. So at our losers' t
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by ElComradio 11y ago
Now we get down to it- It's really a call to action. We are both losers, but you want the guys at the winners' tables to buy you a beer first, because you had a harder time, and disregard the fact that you and I are both equally l
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by ElComradio 11y ago
As a fellow loser at the bar, how is the knowledge that I am extra unlucky supposed to make me feel towards you? Am I supposed to consider myself fortunate that I had a greater chance at winning even as we both sit there with no chips? Am I
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by ElComradio 11y ago
If you lose all your chips at the "black table" and I lose mine at the "white table", as we cry over our beers it would be ridiculous for you to assert that I should feel privileged compared to you when our outcomes have
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by ElComradio 11y ago
You are comparing an individual to a group which is a mismatch. It would be absurd to tell someone to recognize their privilege that the odds were in their favor but nonetheless they rolled poorly. It's like telling some white guy on
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by ElComradio 11y ago
If GitHub is rejecting otherwise qualified white males for employment they are opening themselves up to legal liability. I cannot imagine some of their statements wouldn't serve to hurt them in a trial.
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by ElComradio 11y ago
Out with flat org structure based purely on meritocracy, in with supervisors and middle managers. This has ticked off many people in the old guard. This is almost certainly a mistake, from my experience. Our fairly small team's produ
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by ElComradio 11y ago
It doesn't matter how much value you create for your employer; it is how many other people around can create the same value for your employer.
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by ElComradio 11y ago
In what specific, concrete ways does it not work out the way you think it is intended? I think we are starting to go in circles, but: It has the effect of cancelling out free discourse which is important to a functioning "democracy&q
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by ElComradio 11y ago
Forget about whether it has blowback against the company- It's totally legal AFAIK to fire someone for their "off the clock" speech for any or no reason at all. In reality, though, I think a jury would be very skeptical of a

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