asabjorn

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by asabjorn 5y ago
I asked you a simple question about your position, since you claimed I was in error about it. This is not a complex logical argument: Do you believe or not believe that "people are not defined by group identity" and that "red
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Exactly. A great thing about cash is that dissenters can use it anonymously in a way that no institution can legislate unmasking the transactors. Crypto should gain that capability To expand upon your point about the greater political momen
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> It's not radical any longer, and it's nowhere near a revolution that is being asked for. How is the DEI agenda not radial? What has turned it from radical to non-radical? For context what I mean by DEI is: Diversity (hiring a
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> Work, including who you work for, is an inherently political act. Are you arguing that for instance working for a machine tooling company such as MAG is an inherently political act? If so, how? What about working on a farm. How is that
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>> USA has this strange notion where they group people by skin color and call that race >No, we don’t. (There's two races where one of the common, not-generally-offensive names for each refers to a color, but people identified
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by asabjorn 5y ago
Because I was communicating with someone I believe is a critical social justice (CSJ) adherent I was trying to use the language from that faith. However, I changed it as it may overall be confusing. What I meant was classical liberal cultur
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You are still free to speak up about anything relating to work responsibilities. However, if your goal was to do activism to institutionalize and enforce critical social justice (CSJ) dogma into the company you are correct that is not allow
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Do you by complicity [1] mean the critical social justice concept that all white (or people that believe in classical liberal culture) people are complicit in the maintenance and harms of systemic racism (stopping a perfect equity utopia) a
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The way to show I am in error with you (or the parent) agreeing with the radical Bailey of critical social justice, such as the DEI initiatives true position in its Bailey, would be to say "I do not believe that people are defined by g
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I am in full agreement with you on the problems with the Nobel Peace Prize. They awarded the price many times for purely political purposes to warmongerers that went on to commit war-atrocities at scale, like Carter with his track record o
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We seem to have an inherent disagreement on how critical social justice (CSJ) activists use the Motte-and-Bailey tactic. I think we need to resolve that first, so that we are standing on solid ground. I'll restate what I believe is you
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Full quote: > Also, dissent is being amplified with software, which itself is not conscious. Being more conscious of your points will help matters. Not being more conscious of your points will help accelerate the madness. The parent is c
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> Also, dissent is being amplified with software, which itself is not conscious. I find it hilarious that you accuse me of using a strawman by arguing that because I don't have a critical consciousness [1] I am not conscious of what
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That you agree with critical social justice (CSJ) doctrines such as DEI should have been declared upfront instead of using the Motte-and-Bailey[1] tactic of defending her using a more moderate position than what she actually proposed. >
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My point was exactly relevant because it sought to contextualize your claim specifically to the argument I made that you claimed to explain. If your points explanatory power is too poor to contextualize to what it criticize its honestly jus
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Let's make it concrete. She proposes a ministry for regulating tech which means there will be a permanent line between Washington and large social media companies. This is a horrible approach by any objective meassure and it would obvi
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A lot of people trafficking this site work in the bay area tech scene and is subject to critical social justice DEI initiatives in the workplace. The DEI doctrine is quite consistently applied across tech. How would you classify DEI initiat
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Illegality is dangerous to define and enforce when it comes to speech. Especially if Glenn Greenwald[1] is right that this is not an attempt to weaken facebook, but to commandeer its power to censor. Directory of Policy Communications for F
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Why do you think it is important where the facts are published when links to the source evidence used in my claim is linked to in the articles? How do you differentiate "far-right" from just conservative?
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I am confused with what you mean. Can you please explain why you said part of the argument was a strawman, which part and why?
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No, the primary argument I made was around the ideology with which she to my estimation seek to apply censorship. If she and whom she ally with succeed there will be further asymmetry in what viewpoints are censored. That is also Glenn&#x27
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Many dissenters including investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald agree with my assessment [1] that this is not an attempt to weaken facebook, but to commandeer its power to censor. In addition to how I've shown her call to censor &qu
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The people involved also cause me pause, and indicate she is not a moderate seeking measured change good for all viewpoints. Her lawyer is Andrew P. Bakaj, an attorney and former intelligence officer with the Central Intelligence Agency. He
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How is my argument a strawman?
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For all I know Haugen is not trans. But even if she was that doesn't preclude her from not being a critical social justice (CRT) activist, so that is not the most significant fact. What she is aiming for by censorship of "hate spe
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Her testimony seem designed to provide cover for increased viewpoint censorship on the facebook platform. Her explicit examples are "hate speech" by conservative dissenters that cause people to disagree with narratives she agrees
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The consequences of this is not neutral because false positives were treated for Covid. No one knows what the consequences of that medical misapplication of treatment was.
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If you go into the wayback machine WHO says in plain wording that the PCR false positive rate was higher than desired: https://web.archive.org/web/20210120083427/https://www.who.i...
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Considering that we are here talking about one of the biggest and most famous anti-racist critical social justice projects, you are again not arguing in good faith. Are you are a critical social justice adherent and subscribe to its anti-ra
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> I think the burden to support your claims is on you. Readers can't check the evidence for every comment. It's more efficient too - you already know your argument and what you've seen, and you do it once rather than every

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