door3

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by door3 8y ago
>these societies were some of the most disturbing and violent ever They weren't the ones who committed genocide on the entire continent.
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by door3 8y ago
Raising a child is not just "being alive". It requires a tremendous amount of uncompensated labor.
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by door3 8y ago
I guess "people that aren't rich have the right to comfortably raise a family" is an axiom that I had that I didn't really expect to have to defend.
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by door3 8y ago
unplanned pregnancies exist, and abortion access is spotty at best, especially for poor people
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by door3 8y ago
Because unless you’re an antinatalist, some people having children is socially necessary. If the next generation had no children, society would collapse. Also, many women have unplanned pregnancies.
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by door3 8y ago
Well yea, healthcare should be a right of all people and not contingent upon employment but that wasn’t really my point
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by door3 8y ago
Some, but not enough. Men and women should be absolutely equal in terms of economic power, they currently are not.
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by door3 8y ago
There’s a lot of things that are irrational to an employer, ie providing health insurance or limiting the hours their employees work. Fortunately labor laws exist and are enforced. And just to emphasize, I said the primary caregiver, who is
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by door3 8y ago
I’m speaking on the level of principle, not implementation. There are a variety of ways you could implement this, but I think that is a secondary question to the basic principle that donestic labor exists, is socially necessary, and is, unj
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by door3 8y ago
Women are paid less not because their jobs are worth less, but because employers can get away with paying them leas. There are values other than market value. Society needs both nurses and engineers. Women and men should be equal not just i
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by door3 9y ago
The problem with this kind of "gene-centered" social thinking is that the implication, almost always, is some sort of regressive or conservative politics about social problems and inequalities being a result of natural forces. A h
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by door3 9y ago
Every person under capitalism has to sell their labor in order to survive. This means that the employee and employer are not on equal footing - I cannot reasonably refuse to work and live a comfortable lifestyle, which means I have to make
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by door3 9y ago
> Why would I want my salary to be the same as everyone else? If I am better than the next person and I am a better negotiator, why should my salary be identical to the lazy fuck that has the same number of years of experience? Why do yo
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by door3 9y ago
>If a correlation is completely explained by controlling for a third factor, that doesn't make the original correlation a lie. The implication of "black people commit more crimes" is that there is something about being bla
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by door3 9y ago
>blacks disproportionately commit crimes, especially violent crimes. This is a racist lie. If you control for socioeconomic factors, the difference totally vanishes.
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by door3 9y ago
The united states prison system is designed to systematically incarcerate and disempower black americans. It has nothing to do with "breaking laws". Incarceration is not correlated with crime rate, and nearly everyone breaks laws,
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by door3 9y ago
I agree -- I think that right wing economics falls apart under debate and scrutiny (ie, it reveals itself to be based on the interests of the wealthy and powerful and to the disadvantage of the poor and middle class) and discussion is a goo
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by door3 9y ago
>But how much of politics is economic theory? A tremendous amount. In fact, there's a pretty famous book about it: https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Critique-Political-Economy-Vo... >It's unfair to the socially
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by door3 9y ago
>...and men with similar stories of being on the receiving end are ignored or told to shut up and sit down. That is not true at all. It's just that these events are much rarer (women rarely occupy positions of power and abuse that
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by door3 9y ago
>I have no support for trump, but the level of identity politics was nowhere near comparable. This is when the phrase "check your privilege" became a meme - because it was being used to shut down the conversation. Progressives
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by door3 9y ago
Maybe it has something to do with the systematic impoverishment of black communities and the destruction of black families through mass incarceration, and "innovative teaching" will do little to fix these inequalities, which requi
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by door3 9y ago
If you think that neck width hair and eye color are traits which have as much historical social and political significance as gender we aren’t really having the same conversation. Women should have money and power they shouldn’t have to mar
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by door3 9y ago
What does conservatism mean to you? When you say 'conservative', what beliefs are you describing?
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by door3 9y ago
Thanks!
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by door3 9y ago
I recall several articles defending the “women are biologically inferior at tech, it’s science” position on the front page.
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by door3 9y ago
I appreciate your comment and I think that you make a lot of valid points. Anyway my original account was certainly shadowbanned without warning (logging out and viewing my page made recent comments invisible), I assume bc I had -70 net com
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by door3 9y ago
Well there’s more than 2 genders but that’s another issue. The point is we live in a male-dominated society where men have controlled a majority of political and economic power since this country’s inception. In terms of gender, here’s a fe
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by door3 9y ago
My values aren't "everyone should be able to say everything in every space everywhere without any consequence!", and I don't think even the most radical free speech libertarian would believe that. In either hackernews or
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by door3 9y ago
Maybe, but really the point isn't about me. The point is the dominant opinion on Hackernews is "James Damore was right!" or at least "James Damore made some good points", which, whether you believe it or not, is abs
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by door3 9y ago
I was shadowbanned for getting downvoted too much for saying James Damore had terrible sexist opinions and should have been fired. Hackernews is predominantly right wing & conservative.

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