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by jlawson 6y ago
Blocking traffic is not speech, it's physical harassment whose only outcome and whose intended mechanism of effect is to inject suffering into random innocent peoples' lives. You have no right to do that any more than you have a r
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You have a vote. Use it. You also have a voice. Use it. You have no right to undemocratically wield power over others by physical force. You have no right to force others to suffer to compel them to your will which they did not choose.
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Very interesting. How did you develop the name lists for each language?
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Since we have a social safety net, nobody needs to do such to 'avoid starvation' so the question makes no sense.
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Only possible thanks to government policy wielded through regulatory capture. Not a free market outcome.
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Capitalism inherently resists corruption more than other systems because nobody is expected to work for anyone's interest but their own. Systems like socialism and communism require some central economic decision authority which contro
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It must have been the original "time only moves when you do".
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In fairness, this does apply to natural language too. "Let's eat, grandma!" "Let's eat grandma!" The diffference is that we have no notion of getting people to blindly and literally follow instructions generate
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Prevalence of intersex conditions are nowhere near 1.7%. More like one in a thousand or one in ten thousand.
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It has nothing to do with the size of the group. It's about whether a member of the group will ever have to encounter or understand views that are unorthodox in that group. If not, they assume they can't be wrong. It's the &q
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No, they're pushing for free trans surgeries and puberty blockers for kids instead. It doesn't literally have to be the exact same issue over and over.
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Not psychic pain. Expressions of psychic pain. And yes, they do correlate very strongly. How often do you hear expressions of psychic pain actually coming from America's vast poor white population why are dying daily from opioid ov
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He didn't say it was 'easier to fly under the radar'. He made a vastly more hurtful claim - that everyone else was 'barred'. You're simply not responding to the charge that's been made, you've chosen
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"That I'm a white cis male who dresses in dress shirts and dress slacks(and have done so since I was 19)has given me a passport into conferences,events and more.I crashed conferences without paying during high school that I would
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Whether some word 'evokes' a 'racist past' is really up to the person hearing it. Unfortunately we've created a system where power flows to those who express the most psychic pain. Well, if you reward something you
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>When pressed the elites say that the reporting isn't wrong but that they should still be portrayed in a positive light. God I would love to see what you'd come up with as an example of this. Media does terrible things on a con
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Chapo Trap House episode about the White Fragility book.
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>users on certain subreddits were exposed to users and their views from other subreddits thanks to brigading. Brigading has been rightly against the rules of Reddit forever, that's a hostile action, rare, quickly punished and not si
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>are there any bad reasons for wanting such? -to signal virtue for PR purposes -to expand hiring pools and thus drive down wages -to get more sexual partners -to create leverage points for internal politics (e.g. opportunities to accuse
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You're forming a motte and bailey argument here... inside another motte and bailey argument. Motte #1: doxxing, calls to murder specific individuals Bailey #1: 'hate speech'. And your bailey itself is a motte and bailey! Mott
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>people get radicalized slowly - you start with the softer sound bites, the ones where they have a lot more wiggle room to claim you don't mean this other thing. And as people start to agree with that idea, you move in with one that
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'Far-left content' and 'hateful content' are not mutually exclusive. Quite the opposite, really. It is amazing how people will redefine hating Trump supporters, men, white people, "the 1%", western civilization
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For structural reasons this comparison makes no sense. HN has one homepage; one sub-community. Reddit has an infinite number of subreddits. Similar for facebook. Even with no moderation, in no case would anyone be exposed to content that
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>Racism is a system, a set of rules, rites, privileges and laws that puts 100% of POC at a disadvantage, and 100% of white people at an advantage, regardless of the rest of their social status. Can you give any specific examples of these
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The diversity industry is worth $8 billion per year these days. So... yeah. (Also FYI, it's not about opposing institutional bias, it's about signaling and corporate power games.)
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Not a higher count of authoritatian states. A higher fraction. Far-left: 100% Far-right: 100%
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It's always amazing how you (and all others parroting this line) can freely switch back and forth between "he who has the gold makes the rules and that's okay" and "corporations need to support this cause I support&
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What is North Korea? Cuba? Soviet Union? Doesn't sound like equality and dignity to me. What you're not getting is that equality and dignity aren't even compatible if you try to push equality to extremes. Dignity means giving
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Same with Canadian PM Trudeau. Out came multiple videos of him in blackface. The media dropped it in a few weeks. Unfortunately, the media only drops these things when it's a politician they like. Anyone right of Obama gets hounded wit
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Make a list of philosophers, writers, thinkers, playwrights, storytellers, and inventors from western civilization. Chart them out according to their date of writing. See that big gap between the end of the Roman Empire and the middle ages?

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