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by mkr-hn 5y ago
"If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you s
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
Not if you understand what they mean by violence. I assume they mean the kind of violence that goes with stochastic terrorism. Dave Chapelle doesn't have to intend for his words to cause harm to cause harm. Netflix doesn't have to
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
Not dang, but... There are two paths you can take when you think someone is off-base: 1: ask questions to try and understand where they're coming from. A lot of times they're entirely on-base and can provide additional context to
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
Sex work is still work. It's not enough or even necessary to be conventionally attractive. If you have to put in the work anyway, it might as well be something you want to do, and not everyone wants to do sex work.
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
This might be a relative of pluralistic ignorance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralistic_ignorance Everyone knows it's overkill, but nobody wants to be the exception that proves the rule.
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
There's probably a healthy balance between "believe the victim, or else" and "go back to how things were."
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code are completely different things. VSC can do a subset of what VS can do, but some people really need the full power of a traditional IDE. VS vs VSC is like the difference between a smartphone camera and a
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
Banks (in the US) pay fees to the FDIC to insure deposits well past what most people have and are subject to reserve requirements.
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
I am not discussing or interested in this hypothetical person who hasn't watched it but is still commenting as though they did. To reiterate: >> "You'll understand if I weigh the accounts of trans people who watched it
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
I've been excited to see a growing movement by indigenous people to reclaim their ancient understandings of identity in general, and gender in particular now that colonizers have lost the energy they had for suppression in past decades
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
I've seen cissplaining used to good effect.
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
I promise more cis women have attacked trans women than the reverse. Sometimes they even go after women they assume are trans! A weird side-effect of the new wave of transphobia is that even people who consider themselves cis but present in
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
I have but one vouch to give for harmless comments unfairly obliterated.
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
My feminists can beat up your feminists. Seriously, what is this, third grade? Yes, some people latch on to movements without really understanding them. Not everyone reads theory. It's inevitable with movements that try to be inclusive
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
The same people will claim bi people are damaging the pro-gay movement, so I don't put much stock in their views. Gatekeeping is absurd when the people it keeps out just want to live their lives. Also? There are trans women who say I&#
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
Transphobia is contradictory to any definition of feminism rooted in the actual history of feminism. TERF ideology depends on the belief that trans women are confused men, trans men are confused lesbians, and nonbinary people are just confu
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
I seem to be in net positive point territory being critical of Netflix in numerous comments. I used to get flag killed and rate limited for that kind of thing! A too small improvement, but an improvement nonetheless.
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
This is, I think, the key detail. Everything else is subjective enough that it's easy for people inclined to dismiss the whole thing to make a reason up. There's really no way to misunderstand those things. He's declared an a
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
Yes, things would be different in a completely different culture other than the one we're discussing. That's why I weigh claims of oppression from Copts higher than I do from Baptists.
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
A black woman came up with and wrote the foundational paper on intersectionality. Your comment is based on incorrect assumptions. A person can be both black and gay and experience a different kind of life based on that intersection. Black a
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
You'll understand if I weigh the accounts of trans people who watched it over what you, Dave Chapelle, and the family of a trans person who can't speak for herself said.
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
My trust is based on cancelling Netflix long ago after a string of stand-up shows full of bigoted jokes. I don't need another data point.
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
A good angle I read (but can't cite, unfortunately) is that some comedians punch up until the only people left to punch are the ones paying their salary, so they punch down at whoever it's still socially acceptable to make fun of.
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
They wouldn't be my favorite comedian if they dumped on critics, doubled down on the subject of the criticism, and didn't speak out on the firing of people who took issue with it after complaining about "cancel culture."
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
This is more like someone being fired because they leaked that one of their coworkers was farting on every burger for laughs.
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
I have sufficient resolution on it from people who did watch it and had a wide range of takes on it from "it's not transphobic, don't be a dumbass" to "it wasn't exactly transphobic, but it wasn't good and
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
So we should distrust whoever in Netflix's C-suite keeps firing trans people who criticize it. If you want to be consistent.
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
You might want to look into ways to identify cases where people are used to something but not happy about it in your research process. So many things that shouldn't be normal are considered so and tolerated by people who don't do
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
I made an account and moved some things over. Completely painless. I've seen it suggested a lot but I always assumed there was a monthly fee, so I never bothered. The 12 new cards a month on the free plan is already far more than I cou
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
I will admit I was extrapolating from a single experience of helping finish a room. It sounds like that experience might not stretch as far as I thought.

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