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by twofornone 4y ago
>The government forced Native children to attend boarding school and subjected adults to dehumanizing reëducation projects. This isn't morally right by the standards of modern western neo-liberal culture, but with the alternative it
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by twofornone 4y ago
>Cultures change constantly. They’re never in a sort of stasis. Culture is just the expressions of a group of humans, how they think, and how they interact. That doesn't obligate a people to quietly accept a culture imposed onto the
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by twofornone 4y ago
>Trump's election had made him adopt a policy of no longer engaging in any business travel to anywhere in the USA except major metropolitan areas So not because of any negative experience with these areas, just because of some bigot
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by twofornone 4y ago
>And, to keep stoking the fires of the culture wars. It's slimy and dishonest to pretend that only republicans are fighting a culture war when the bulk of the progressive platform is explicitly about changing US culture. It's l
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by twofornone 4y ago
My reading is that VC backed jobs/salaries are going to become somewhat less secure if this trend continues/accelerates, but it's probably a little early for devs to feel the impact. Might influence job searching as startups
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by twofornone 4y ago
>Why do you think we have regulatory agencies, like the FDA I mentioned. Do you know what regulatory capture is and why I specifically brought it up? The FDA is staffed with former pfizer employees. Their chairman is a former Pfizer CEO.
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by twofornone 4y ago
Why are you so eager to take Pfizer's own statements at face value? Don't you think there's a bit of a conflict of interest here? And suddenly regulatory capture doesn't exist either? The clinical data is effectively a s
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by twofornone 4y ago
Does that factor in the effects of lockdowns?
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by twofornone 4y ago
Parents and peers/communities. If the US is any indication, teachers are incapable of instilling appreciation for learning once scholastic achievement is branded "uncool".
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by twofornone 4y ago
>If over twelve years of math instruction you can't figure out how to teach the average child algebra, trigonometry, logarithms, and the very basics of calculus, I would advise the educators to look into why their peers in other cou
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by twofornone 4y ago
>You are right that this is a lot of nonsense. Specifically, 'you aren't good at math/math is hard' is the nonsense meme that gets hammered into student heads so frequently during school that most of them actually sta
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by twofornone 4y ago
What I'm alleging is that the condition is overdiagnosed because the symptoms mimic other disorders and people absolutely seek out victimhood for clout given 1. The state of the progressive movement, where underprivilege is used to jus
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by twofornone 4y ago
>You didn’t answer my question, which suggests your argument is not in good faith. Well isn't that ironic, considering you didn't answer mine in the GP. I'll tell you what is bad faith though, your shallow accusation as a
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by twofornone 4y ago
What separates a cis child from a trans child? How could you reliably detect/diagnose such a condition? Timmy doesn't like having a boy's name? Timmy doesn't like playing with male toys or prefers wearing dresses to pant
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by twofornone 4y ago
>Both of my children have or had classmates in their second grade classrooms that are openly transgender. What does that even mean? That a boy prefers to play with dolls? How can a prepubescent second grade child be trans!?
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by twofornone 4y ago
>sure, people may give you crap, but there’s nothing structural working against you Except rapidly creeping D&I policies which explicitly discriminate against white men? >Ah yes, white moderate men, the historically oppressed popu
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by twofornone 4y ago
Novamin is not available for sale in the US (though you can get it off ebay) and supposedly it is a toothpaste additive which can directly deposit onto teeth.
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by twofornone 4y ago
>we can obliterate language we can obliterate an idea. This is effectively one of the tenets of postmodernist thought. That language shapes reality. There is truth in the idea that language can influence perception but that doesn'
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by twofornone 4y ago
Then how are we supposed to argue against the false claim that discrimination is the primary driver of demographic underrepresentation if this is the true cause?
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by twofornone 4y ago
This isn't about my personal feelings, it's about the insistence that the demographics are not a reflection of the distribution of competence and personal choice, but discrimination. The entire foundation of discrimination against
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by twofornone 4y ago
>If you’d like to actually defend a position against D&I and how it is actually net harmful Because it's racist and sexist? Because it reduces people to their skin color and gender? Because it implicitly reinforces the notion th
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by twofornone 4y ago
>But white Christian's negatively portraying the rest of the world for the better part of a century is not political? Dr. Fu Manchu, Breakfast at Tiffany's This is dishonest. Minorities were also portrayed positively in legacy
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by twofornone 4y ago
>computer science? Unless you believe they are somehow biologically wired to enjoy tech less Millions of years of sexually dimorphic evolution has predisposed women to be more interested in people and males to be more interested in thing
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by twofornone 4y ago
>Women used to be dominant in computing. Literally were the computers This is pathetic cope and completely misleading. The "programming" of that time had almost nothing to do with the modern practice. These "computer"
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by twofornone 4y ago
Except in virtually all of this woke programming white male christians are deliberately and exclusively portrayed negatively, if their characters aren't outright replace with race and gender swaps. It's petty revenge racism.
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by twofornone 4y ago
>In March 2021, the 6th Circuit Court ruled in Meriwether’s favor, noting that if “professors lacked free speech protections when teaching, a university would wield alarming power to compel ideological conformity. We're way past tha
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by twofornone 4y ago
>Thanks for the pointer, but I am still confused about the categorization of "analysis" and now also "competitive". Let me try to abate some of your confusion: you are approaching this with the assumption that the res
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Black people on average are better than basketball. Probably a combination of genes and a culture where they're more likely to practice. You know, the same way that white guys are, on average, more likely to pick up and practice progra
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by twofornone 4y ago
>The consequences of diversity hiring are going to catch up to us eventually, assuming they haven't already. Especially when one takes two seconds to actually consider the implications of these policies: if you are going to far as t
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by twofornone 4y ago
Is 40% a problem that needs correcting with overt, forced discrimination? Especially when the actual issue, that of the pipeline, is totally ignored when these hiring policies are dictated by activists and the investor class? And of course

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