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by newnewnew 14y ago
It looks like those that say the goals of feminism are to create a privileged class of women have some evidence. Women can now rule men by right of whether or not they are "offended" (note, that only the offense of protected classes are hol
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For a diverse, pluralistic civil society to work people need to have thick skins. Especially at remarks not directed at them. Otherwise we have an overclass who has the power to police the conduct of an underclass.
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Every closed society needs its secret police. In the PC world, you stay in line or you are fired, shunned, silenced and ostracized.
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Standing up to a PC lynch mob is incredibly risky. I don't blame the boss, I blame the person who sent the mob. From a recent wired article: "The court of public opinion is an alternative system of justice. It’s very different from the trad
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The thing about PC is that even if you disagree with it, you'll still be vilified. The smart thing for an employer to do is the PC thing, even if they think it is wrong. Why risk being singled out and made an example of?
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We should also remember that Asians are Asian. A few of the high-profile genes that we know influence diet occur at far different levels in Asian and other populations, such as lactose and alcohol tolerance. To believe that there is one bes
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Down with the sexists who believe that humans exhibit sexual dimorphism!
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hmmm, so would you suppose that children of African immigrants (the Obamas of the world) run into the negative stereotypes of our society and start to fall in socioeconomic standing towards the level of African Americans?
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Japanese and Chinese Americans have faced lots of historical obstacles, from anti-miscegenation laws to internment camps. Ever hear of the Chinese Exclusion Act? They still face a lot of stereotypes. There's a big culture and language divid
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Do what cultural dissidents have been doing for decades - home school.
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Beginning guys who find themselves in classrooms full of people that started programming in their teens do what they always do - suck it up or fail. Such is the life of a member of the majority.
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Is racism just about white privilege, though? In America, ethnic Indians and east Asians outperform all other ethnic groups on a host of metrics - income, criminality, education, and etc. Isn't there a huge Asian privilege in America that n
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The strength of hobbits is their innocence, simpleness, and their lack of desire for power. Only a halfling could carry the ring. Dwarves on the other hand are known for hoarding treasures!
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Absolutely. You can always come up with some post hoc justification for a regulation, no matter how ill-conceived.
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That statement is easy to make from a position of privilege. His point is that a very different dance of the same name from black culture has now been replaced in the public consciousness by a parody of itself on YouTube.
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The Harlem Shake is not just harmless fun: http://soulfoodandtea.tumblr.com/post/43116034487/reclaiming...
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Bitcoin is not replacing credit card companies. It is replacing the electronic transfer of cash between banks which currently takes several days. A credit card company built upon bitcoin could offer instant transactions with a vastly superi
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Does anybody know which regulation they are running into on alcohol delivery?
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I'm a man that started to code in my mid 20s, and it is hard to shake the feeling that I'm a decade behind the curve.
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There's so much braggadocio in programming that it's easy to develop feelings of inadequacy for everyone. It' just not a "social problem" if you're a male victim.
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A similar spirit grips every art form as it becomes enveloped by the academy. See poetry that consists of unrelated overheard conversation snippets. Old-fashioned values like theme, meaning, metaphor, rhyme, meter, and plain pleasant-soundi
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How much of this risk aversion is due to aging demographics and a shrinking population? You could argue that the west has lost its appetite for risk since the early days of the baby boom as well.