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by Veelox 9y ago
There are people who genuinely disagree with you and believe that same-sex marriage is not a fundamental right but a separate additional right requested by the LGBT community.
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> This is a newer one to me, off the top of my head I'm not aware of from where the marriage act would be considered the sin vs the homosexuality itself. Sin is normally considered at its core an offence to God because He is the onl
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by Veelox 9y ago
> This is one of those things where there is no compromise that satisfies both sides Agree completely on that point. As much as I don't like the outcome, I think you are right on what the legal outcome should be based on the cultura
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by Veelox 9y ago
> With those three out of sight, I'm really interested in what kind of discrimination people in SFBA tech that are religious or dislike welfare face. While I have not personally voiced the following opinion I have not because it cou
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by Veelox 9y ago
Being accused of being a racist on an internal company form happen to me.
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by Veelox 9y ago
> Why is being "complicit" in same sex marriage any worse than being "complicit" in a marriage for someone who has sinned, possibly grievously, in other ways? It isn't worse. I know pastors who would refuse to ma
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by Veelox 9y ago
I think that in general morality should reflect legality. That is to say, the things that are moral should be legal, then things that are immoral should illegal and vis versa. Is that a sufficient logic-based argument on why questions of mo
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by Veelox 9y ago
Fair question: if one identifies as liberal to the extent as regarding Trump voters as less capable than Hilary voters, is that still protected?
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by Veelox 9y ago
>I'm really curious what conservative viewpoints people espouse that they feel they've been discriminated against for. Advocating for enforcement of immigration laws has gotten me accused of being a racist/bigot.
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by Veelox 9y ago
I would not openly wear a "Make America Great Again" hat to my work place...
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by Veelox 9y ago
Here is a really good, really public example of how even the appearance of "diversity hires" can cause issues. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has ill will toward Yale, his alma mater because "I’d learned the hard way t
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by Veelox 9y ago
Glad to know that this helped clear things up. >in general men are much more capable then women in STEM and I asked for a theory supporting that claim in my original comment Short, inexact, unnuanced version: The same thing that causes a
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by Veelox 9y ago
> It would be helpful to understand how the culture came to accept women as lawyers and doctors, but why would that be necessary to identify cultural factors as a reason for the imbalance in CS? It is necessary because the question &quot
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by Veelox 9y ago
>Why is equality of outcome not a desirable goal, especially in science and technology? I am going to try and describe this in a math/programming way. Say we have two functions randM() and randF() the first returns a Male Person, th
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by Veelox 9y ago
While this theory makes sense, I find a rather large issue with it. The basis for this argument is that both boys and girls are equally likely at birth to go into a given field. As they grow society gives cues to them that X is for boys and
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At least at my workplace I tend to assume that the women are on average a little more competent than the men because they have to really want to be here to have stuck around.
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Agreed. But there also a bit of personal responsibility if you have two kids and cannot afford to house them.
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by Veelox 9y ago
They were okay with it. One was a heavy sleeper the others were far enough away that it was dampened.
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by Veelox 9y ago
When my wife and I first moved out here, we rented a master bath/master bed starting in January, we hard our son in July, and moved out in January. So it is an option, just not one a lot of people want to take. Then again, my wife and
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by Veelox 9y ago
>If you're pulling six figures in the bay area you could easily be spending 50% of your take home on rent. You also put up with a longer commute, less house, or a less nice neighborhood and keep your rent under 30% of take home pay.
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by Veelox 9y ago
Didn't mean to switch between household and individual, good catch. While part of my agrees with you that in some areas 50k/yr gets eaten up quickly we are looking at having $500 or $1000 on hand that is either 1% or 2% of annual
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by Veelox 9y ago
Using a kind of dubious site because it was the first one I found with the 63rd% of income [0]. That clocks in right at $79,954.00. I would say that a significant portion of that 63% is poor money management as opposed to lack of income. [0
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by Veelox 9y ago
>But as long as 70%+ of Americans are wallowing in economic depression there will be no lasting social progress. Just the way most rich people hope it stays. What definition are you using for economic depression?
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by Veelox 9y ago
>Gods, I hope this does not become the norm. "Everything can mean anything!" As a conservative it kind of feels like that is the case. The second named party in the Google suit got fired for an interpretation of his comments he
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by Veelox 9y ago
Would you be willing to provide an alternative statement that you view as analogous?
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But that isn't how tech currently operates. If I have a gay coworker on my team, we get along fine, I have never said an ill word or done an ill deed to them I can still get labeled homophobic for speaking in favor of traditional marri
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by Veelox 9y ago
To draw what I see as a parallel in my mind. What you are saying is equivalent to saying that the point of the #MeToo movement is something like >Because harassment against men is a sideshow, a minor issue. It is a joke to elevate it to
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by Veelox 9y ago
Okay, so what if the "bigots[0]" are not intolerant just a little loose with their language? How do we differentiate the two? [0] a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions. source: https://www.g
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by Veelox 9y ago
>I don't think it does allow bigotry against whites. I'm not worried much about bigotry against whites. Maybe I will be after white bigotry is reigned in a bit, but for now eyes on the ball. Ahh, this I think is where I find is
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by Veelox 9y ago
Doesn't the inclusion of race in both sentences cause problems? One of the typical examples of a micro aggression is the unnecessary inclusion of a description "I went to the women doctor today," "That was a very fine dr

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