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by ebfe 11y ago
I wish I was oppressed enough to have the power to get people fired for saying things I disagree with.
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by ebfe 11y ago
The analogy is to show how knowledge of the mean of a population group does not preclude impartial treatment of any individual in that group. Or to pick an example with with similar moral connotations: "It's my opinion that black
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by ebfe 11y ago
Could you provide an example of a country with a >10% black population that has a social system we should emulate?
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by ebfe 11y ago
"It's my opinion that white people as not as fast as black people on average, but I will treat everyone in the race fairly." Would this be an unacceptable opinion for an Olympic track referee to hold?
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by ebfe 11y ago
>That's not daring to present a viewpoint at which the show's white bread audience might bristle? Did you bristle at it? >What about the show that was generously interpreted as positing that perhaps certain individuals were
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by ebfe 11y ago
That's actually not true. Compared to men, women: * Live longer * Are less likely to kill themselves * Are less likely to be the victim of violence * Are better protected under the law if they are victimized * Are less likely to be hom
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by ebfe 11y ago
The average IQ of African-Americans is a standard deviation below that of whites, which in turn is a bit below that of Asians and Ashkenazi Jews [1]. Under the assumption that the tech industry has a higher average IQ than the population as
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by ebfe 12y ago
The word "matriarchy" is an accurate characterization of our society to the same extent that "patriarchy" is. The former conveys how men are overrepresented at the bottom of society while failing to address their overre
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by ebfe 12y ago
If a guy told you that he detected an undertone of anti-male sexism by anyone who brought up the lack of female CEOs, that all discussion of female issues carries an implied "See! Men are fine, let's ignore suicide, homelessness,
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by ebfe 12y ago
>Pretend for a second that science discovered convincing/rigorous evidence that white people were less intelligent genetically than other races. That isn't justification for intolerance against white people. We would, however,
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by ebfe 12y ago
The word "feminist" is more commonly understood to mean a supporter of the modern women's advocacy movement, rather than anyone who believes in equality of the sexes. Imagine a Republican telling you that "Republican&quo
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by ebfe 12y ago
>I think having the first few layers filled with terrible content and hive-minded, often racist/sexist discussion. Relative to what? Are YouTube and Yahoo bastions of intellectualism and racial tolerance? If you really think that R
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by ebfe 12y ago
"The belief that there are biological differences between ethnic populations is wrong because the belief that there are biological differences between ethnic populations is wrong." I apologize if I'm misinterpreting you, but
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by ebfe 12y ago
I have no doubt that he's a racist, but I'm not sure what that has to do with the accuracy of this particular paper. What do you see as the error that invalidates its conclusions?
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by ebfe 12y ago
What exactly are you trying to say? The fact that the average black IQ in America is 85 is an empirically proven fact. [1] You can certainly argue that IQ is a flawed measurement of intelligence, or that the IQ gap stems solely from enviro
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by ebfe 12y ago
You could restate my viewpoint as the claim that poverty and education levels are entirely meaningless as an explanation for anything without correcting for hereditary intelligence, testosterone levels, etc., both in terms of crime itself a
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by ebfe 12y ago
The average IQ among black Americans is 85, and the average testosterone level among black males is 20% higher than it is among whites. Both of these traits are strong predictors of violent behavior.
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by ebfe 12y ago
>As it stands most companies do not do research directly for drugs targetting MPB because past drugs have been market failures. Can you elaborate on how that is possible? Surely a cure for MPB would be a guaranteed billion dollar produc
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by ebfe 12y ago
Quite a few people go to art school to make money, and these people are generally happy to have investors talk to them. Investors will continue to target these sort of events for as along as this continues to be the case.
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by ebfe 13y ago
If a scientist discovered a cure for cancer tomorrow, inequality would increase drastically. Millions of people would each be tens of thousands of dollars poorer, and one man/corporation would be billions of dollars richer. Surely you
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by ebfe 13y ago
The poor don't get poorer, though. The poor today are the richest they've been at any point in recorded history- they live longer, are more likely to own a home and cars, and are more likely to go to college than the kings of 100
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by ebfe 13y ago
Title: Scientists have conclusively proven that abortion is murder! <Insert article proclaiming the evils of abortion> Footer in tiny text: *If we define murder to mean the death of a living organism This article would be technically
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by ebfe 13y ago
Again, if gay people are not more likely to act in a stereotypically gay manner, and you've said that they're not, then there is no reason to believe that gays are more likely than their straight peers to be abused for behaving in
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by ebfe 13y ago
Here's a study on the topic. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11501300
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by ebfe 13y ago
Right. So if gays aren't more likely to deviate from standard gender roles, there's no reason to think that they would be more likely to be abused, if deviation from gender roles is what leads to abuse.
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by ebfe 13y ago
But you believe that most kids who deviate from standard gender roles are gay? If not, there's no reason to believe that gays would be overrepresented in abuse statistics if this deviation was the cause of the abuse.
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by ebfe 13y ago
Your link contains nothing to refute the fact that gays are more likely to have been abused (which is true), just the idea that abuse is the singular, causal factor of homosexuality (which nobody is suggesting).
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by ebfe 13y ago
What would create the perception that a pre-pubescent child is gay? And do you believe that this perception is an accurate predictor of actual homosexuality?
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by ebfe 13y ago
Gay folks are significantly more likely to have been abused as children. That means one of two things- either there are social factors that influence homosexuality, or there are biological factors that can cause a child to be abused. Most
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by ebfe 13y ago
Low taxes?! You want to cut funding for the social programs that are the only thing giving LGBT folks a shot at surviving in this oppressive, heteronormative world?!? That's not a political belief, that's saying that people shoul

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