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by kalkin 14y ago
A bunch of sexist loons attack somebody, and the right thing to do is fire her because it proves she isn't a good evangelist anymore? Seems to me that's awarding a really dangerous amount of power to sexist loons on the Internet. ... I supp
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by kalkin 14y ago
I see a download link, bright green, upper left. E.g: http://www.academia.edu/1741963/Formal_Specification_and_Doc... You do have to be registered to download, but it's better than paying $20.
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by kalkin 14y ago
Do you really think that people are biased with respect to names, but then forget that bias as soon as the person enters the room? Also, it's unclear to me why it might be better to be prejudiced against African-American names than against
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by kalkin 14y ago
I don't think "here's the dictionary definition" is usually a useful argument, but in any case it's hard for me to see affirmative action as "excluding" white people, since it's generally practiced in fields where they remain dominant. I ag
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by kalkin 14y ago
attempting to mislead You've moved the goalposts from explaining a metaphor to "quantify[ing] all such traits and trends." I can Google to find sources for statistics, but so can you. Here's a starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by kalkin 14y ago
It is a good article, but it's sad that even in a good article like this, which talks explicitly about the realities of sexism, the author feels the need to distance herself from "the feminists."
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by kalkin 14y ago
Many people ... who don't know what institutional racism looks like. (One requirement would probably be that the discriminated-against group actually ends up with worse outcomes. Compare to say, Black people in the criminal justice system
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by kalkin 14y ago
I'm not going to spend too much time on this because I'm getting the sense that your request for an explanation was disingenuous. But: actually misleading There's a difference between "imperfect metaphor" and "misleading". higher proport
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by kalkin 14y ago
You don't mean minority/majority, but yes.
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by kalkin 14y ago
Jeez, as far as I can tell the person you're replying to is just defending affirmative action.
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by kalkin 14y ago
Can you explain this in concrete terms? Women still make 77 cents to the male dollar. Women have much higher incidences of anxiety and depression disorders. Women are substantially more likely to be the victims of domestic violence, and 1
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by kalkin 14y ago
You don't think an image of Muhammad where he's wearing a bomb for a turban is derogatory? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptions_of_the_Jyllands-Po...
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by kalkin 14y ago
> You need to be careful going around labelling people like that just because they made an assumption. 1) Actually, I think you want to be a lot more careful about labelling people as "must be X" because of their gender than about label