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by bsanr2 6y ago
Repeating unsubstantiated statements, as if that makes them any less unsubstantiated, is a favorite exercise of some famously fragile white people, but is ultimately fallacious and futile.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
It's indeed a rhetorical trick (many of the most illuminating arguments lead you unknowingly to their point), but it's not pointless. One key aspect of white fragility is that it engenders an overwhelming compulsion to counter any
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by bsanr2 6y ago
It is possible - in text, probable - to present a hostile front in a civil manner. What is objectionable about hostility is the bald-faced rejection of a premise. To accuse someone of not "caring about the standards of intellectual arg
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by bsanr2 6y ago
My point was not necessarily that white fragility exists, but that the mere suggestion of it existing provokes hostility. Thanks for proving said point.
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I feel I should provide an example: White fragility.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Contrary to popular belief, HN's demographic is not immune to knee-jerk hostility triggered by the notion of a concept merely existing, wherever one might come down when discussing it.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
They said the same thing about Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden's leaks. Apparently, everything sensitive was so secret that if anyone was hurt or killed as a direct result of the leaks blowing their cover, we never heard about it. S
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by bsanr2 6y ago
AR is going to have severely limited consumer appeal until the FOV issue is solved, which is much, much harder for AR than it is for VR. Combined AR/VR is because the only way to get a decent FOV is to essentially pass a camera through
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by bsanr2 6y ago
For the reality-clingers, this is also the perfect set-up. No more closing your laptop and having your TV staring back at you. Your screen is your screen is your screen, and you can turn it off and not have to deal with any of them.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
People on a snorkel tour are sports people.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Let's go wilder: it's a little bit of both. There wasn't anything in the crack/cocaine epidemic that suggested white fear of the same thing happening to them; drug addiction was seen as a moral failure which white societ
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by bsanr2 6y ago
>One of my new grand theories is that America lags 5-7 years behind emerging markets when it comes to the impact of American companies on society. And now, whatever heaven and hell tech companies have wrought upon the emerging markets is
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by bsanr2 6y ago
>As an immigrant that landed in US post 2000 with $1000 to my name and a tenuous F1 situation, all this sounds like ancient history. Well, it's not. In living memory: >The wealth of black Americans was halved by the 2008 financia
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Perhaps if the funding is used on alleviating the sources of petty crime - poverty, mental illness or social disaffection, joblessness or purposelessness or apathy - the only people who would need protection would be the rich. And you can
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by bsanr2 6y ago
The backbone of the rule of law is its legitimacy in the eyes of the people. Police brutalizing journalists on camera in clear violation of the law (and presumably with no rectification in court to come) probably does more to dismantle that
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Baldwin said that the only way for a black American to know the racist or anti-racist stance of white America is by the state of their institutions. There is something to be said, from our perspective, for people simply exemplifying anti-ra
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Civilization has survived countless examples of upheaval, preserving scientific advancement all the while. The only way to stop it is to wipe out both the species and our records, at which point religion loses meaning and carrier.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Yeah, I was thinking of making a climate change comparison. Maybe civilization is at a scale that wouldn't allow its own survival should the environment change "instantaneously" (50 years, for a global civ that's endured
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Google already does this, bolstered by their monopoly. You used to be able to listen to Youtube videos with the screen off without paying them.
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That's an assumption. Severing the financial tie might not necessarily fully sever the operational relationship. Obviously Google would be pushing that narrative hard, but it would be relatively easy to push back and say, "Separat
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by bsanr2 6y ago
>General consumers But are they pushing against it? Would they, if asked?
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by bsanr2 6y ago
That's because continuity is an important part of predictability, right? When temperatures change, they do so continuously in whichever direction. A truly unpredictable environment would see temperatures change effectively instantaneou
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Someone who believes this has to necessarily be bearish on the continued march of technological progress, which is in opposition to the fairly well-regarded notion that human technological development has been consistent and continuous wrt
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by bsanr2 6y ago
>Read books published before 1900 This is going to bias a reader, who is ill-prepared to approach their reading on a socially-critical level, towards patterns of thought that are socially archaic. Cutting out pre-20th century work is goi
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Some people have never had to make a long-term social sacrifice, because society is made to cater to their interests. They feel entitled to "the way things were." I'm sure being told no was a shock.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
I would be wondering why I live in a country where my only transportation options were walking or begging a wealthy car owner to let me borrow their vehicle for 150% of their car note.
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I do indeed have a couch. Take your shoes off when you enter. We're renting, I want my deposit back.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
...Locke's social contract. This is its basic premise. People consent to performing labor not directly related to their survival, and in exchange, the state resolves to provide the necessities that are not guaranteed by that specialize
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I wanna say, "There we go," but this is slightly different. Not so much that one failure unexpectedly causes total collapse down the line, more so that a catastrophic failure of important components (which obviously are going to c
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by bsanr2 6y ago
It should be noted that none of the men involved in the shomrim beating of the black man (he also happened to be gay and an artist, and lost one of his eyes in the attack), mentioned in the article, ultimately served out any sort of prison

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