charliesharding

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by charliesharding 7y ago
> Dictionaries are descriptive of majority usage, Charles. So to put it bluntly, that's the average white person's definition of racism. I didn't realize you were qualified to assess every non-white person's definitio
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by charliesharding 7y ago
> That, and white people can't experience racism. They may at some point in their lives be discriminated against based on their race, unlikely though it is and extremely unlikely it'll be in some massively detrimental way. But,
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by charliesharding 7y ago
Go ahead and quote me in context. I'm not going to go back and read through all my comments like you have but I'm sure it's defensible
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by charliesharding 7y ago
What makes you think it's ok to make wide, sweeping generalizations about how people of a certain race and gender think and how do you think that doesn't constitute racism?
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by charliesharding 7y ago
Right, as in I'm arguing that it's a bad way to view the world... Total non sequitur. No, not everyone engages in identity politics. Only people who are looking for an easy out and not individually assessing ideas and their ramifi
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by charliesharding 7y ago
Good intentions do not absolve people of objectively bad ideas. I drew that comparison because they are playing opposite sides of the same game of identity politics, which I'm saying is inherently flawed
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by charliesharding 7y ago
> The conclusion is that there are many axes of oppression and one does not invalidate the other Yet this is the inevitable consequence of intersectional analysis.. It describes a way to calculate value discrepancy of opinions based off
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by charliesharding 7y ago
> Disabled white men certainly have their own struggles; disabled black men would have even more struggles. This is a bizarre take. It sounds like you're saying that no matter what the individual circumstances are, race is the ultim
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by charliesharding 7y ago
The ironic song about how she doesn't understand the meaning of irony?
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by charliesharding 7y ago
Group membership is not the cause.. that's exactly the kind of reasoning that leads to racism. The cause is you believing your identity comes first from being a member of a group rather than being an individual first. No group dictates
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by charliesharding 7y ago
> Just having a 'racist' feeling doesn't make someone racist. I would argue that that is exactly what racism is. It's having an irrational feeling towards someone and assuming they have characteristics based solely on
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by charliesharding 7y ago
That isn't at all the logical conclusion. You're projecting your dislike of religion and ironically being just as dogmatic in your dismissal. They were responding to the TLC poster saying they threw away a piece of machinery just
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by charliesharding 7y ago
Without moral judgement? Jump to conclusions? The favicon and main graphic shows a bomb with a cross through it. The actual domain is a pointed question designed to assign blame. The graphic is intentionally misleading (as others pointed ou
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by charliesharding 7y ago
> When you trespass, you are striking a blow against hierarchy and capitalism and uptight motherfuckers everywhere. I think the controversy comes from the authors overall tone. Quotes like this make them sound like an edgy teenager
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by charliesharding 7y ago
This is a sensational story based off of a shallow if not deliberate misreading of statistics. They point to an increase in raw number of deaths and say that the rate is increasing - completely leaving out population adjustments like densit
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List of companies who kowtow to Chinese censorship requests(github.com)
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by charliesharding 7y ago
World's top lenders help finance the industry that powers the world? I know we're supposed to grab our pitchforks but come on now.. 1.9T into wind and solar would produce a fraction of the power output and they have obligations to
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by charliesharding 7y ago
Of course it is - the action is to stop discrimination of any kind. And yes, yes it has been effective. Hate crimes have dropped off precipitously and minority unemployment is at an all time low. Continuing to play this reverse-discriminati
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by charliesharding 7y ago
Which wealth statistics? From this article, 90% of family wealth is lost by the third generation. http://money.com/money/3925308/rich-families-lose-wealth/
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by charliesharding 7y ago
I think it's because Jews are also an ethnic group
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by charliesharding 7y ago
It doesn't feel helpful to be viewed as an individual as opposed to simply a member of a group? Not every person with x skin color has the same experiences... You're taking racism and running the other way with it instead of just
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by charliesharding 7y ago
Really sad to see and feels like it's becoming more common (maybe just because I'm paying closer attention). If it fits the narrative, accept first, retract later. It would be interesting to see view statistics on the original art
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by charliesharding 7y ago
Accelerationism does not necessarily have to be specific to capitalism. There are those on the right who see the rise of identity politics and socialist thought; to them, the idea of accelerationism is to let socialism spread so that it too
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by charliesharding 7y ago
> the left have lost touch with the lower classes How do you define "lower classes"? If you mean household income then quite the opposite is true: https://www.people-press.org/2016/09/13/2016-part
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by charliesharding 7y ago
Great article. I wonder if different people respond to this kind of a message differently though.. I firmly believe in taking personal responsibility for my behaviors and my actions - however I think that is because I'm inherently wire
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by charliesharding 7y ago
In higher level competitive scenarios, yeah voice is predominant. However, that is by no means the majority. They only seem like a bigger segment of gamers because they're loud and make themselves known. All they said was that most is
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by charliesharding 7y ago
"No tragic yet convenient event will allow us to discard our complex, messy, and ever-changing social reality and live out our rugged individualistic fantasy." "...it will be empathy, generosity, and courage that we need to s
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by charliesharding 7y ago
It was mainly intended as a joke but I agree that I didn't make that clear. It's just a minor inconvenience for a massive quality of life improvement
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by charliesharding 7y ago
Sad news for custom emoji users. So many look bad now. In all seriousness though - I don't see why all apps/sites don't develop in a "dark mode" first mindset. With all the studies showing eye strain related health
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by charliesharding 7y ago
I'm a little confused - can someone knowledgable in the area help out? In the introduction they assert: "Once inhaled, ultrafine particles and the oxidant species located on their surface can translocate into the vascular space (1

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