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by whitemale 9y ago
Maybe you didn't do it on purpose, but what you are doing is called nitpicking. > nouninformal > fussy or pedantic fault-finding. > "nitpicking over tiny details" > As far as I understand, it claims that it is t
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by whitemale 9y ago
> In a statement to the Guardian, Tesla confirmed the company had fired Vandermeyden, saying it had thoroughly investigated the employee’s allegations with the help of a “a neutral, third-party expert” and concluded her complaints were
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by whitemale 9y ago
> Logically speaking, it would also be a mistake to dismiss every report of poor employee treatment where those selection biases apply. Remarkable claims require remarkable evidence, claims that are made without evidence, can be dismiss
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by whitemale 9y ago
> the courtesy of possibly being mistaken and instead cast my position as a strawman prepared to burn for being wrong. I thought you intentionally used 'systematic', the word 'systemic' actually makes your argument w
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by whitemale 9y ago
> Systemic doesn't imply directed, it can also be used to mean it is deeply embedded in the system. The original comment used the wrong word. So what does this mean? are all white males part of this system that is designed to keep
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by whitemale 9y ago
> Systematic sexism systematic Done or acting according to a fixed plan or system; methodical. Source: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/systematic If this is systematic, then I guess you can tell me who
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by whitemale 9y ago
> most adults are able to be disagreeable without using a slur, such as us The whole point of an insult is to get the other side angry, not necessarily for it to have roots in reality. I do agree that it's not a good way to have an
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by whitemale 9y ago
Is making fun of a group of people and having no hatred towards them the same thing as actually hating that group? If I tell a joke about black/asian/latino/<insert your favourite race or ethnicity here> then I'm a
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by whitemale 9y ago
What is your definition of racism?
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by whitemale 9y ago
> Racism and systemic oppression didn't get solved just because you can cherrypick examples well. And then you just cherry picked an example: > ...and when he was reelected president, the Free Expression tunnel at NC State was s
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by whitemale 9y ago
How does society treat people as whole? can you explain what advantage do non-white-males have over everyone else? > Citing individual examples doesn't discount macro trends Sorry mate, if you look at statistics, Asians earn more in
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by whitemale 9y ago
> privileged white men like myself The former president of the US was a black man, he was arguably in one of the most privileged positions in the US / World. The current Chancellor of Germany happens to be a women, which is the mos
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by whitemale 9y ago
Your stream of consciousness is interrupted when you sleep, so with that logic you technically die every night. > But most people don't have that sort of objectivity. Where did you get that idea from? > If you're comfortable
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by whitemale 9y ago
> As an European? Yes. > Things were evolving fine in Europe; from our POV, Uber isn't doing anything innovative - they're just a personal transportation company (we have those) with a cute app (we have those) that tries t
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by whitemale 9y ago
> Why does everyone lack imagination on this topic? You are right, I imagine that we should just have teleporting gates! > if you drive to the subway How about not driving to the subway? how about having local buses or that can take
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by whitemale 10y ago
> I immediately took screenshots of these chat messages and reported him to HR. Instead of just telling the guy never to make such a proposal again. > this was clearly sexual harassment and he was propositioning me You might as well
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by whitemale 10y ago
> In my opinion. If anything is destroying journalism, it's the fact that half this country does not care for fact vs fiction. Too bad we don't know which half and which news is fiction. > If some guy with a catchy domain n
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by whitemale 10y ago
http://www.chicksontheright.com/audi-accidentally-disproves-... > @Audi You pay your female employees less than males? You know that's against the law, right? > @TueborFrog When we account for all the various fac
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by whitemale 10y ago
Trump was bragging, it's something men do under circumstances. If you would be a famous rockstar and women(or men) would be all over you, would taking advantage of it be a "nasty deed"?
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by whitemale 10y ago
> I think it's shameful to have an open Trump supporter as part of the upper echelons of YCombinator (Thiel). I think it's shameful to bring politics into tech, it also goes against all that inclusivity talks that people give.
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by whitemale 10y ago
The word you are looking for is concerned not affected. As you yourself pointed out, so far he hasn't done anything that actually affects you. If you want people to take you seriously, you need to not play the victim card and instead m
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by whitemale 10y ago
> This false equivalence convinced people to vote for Trump. "false equivalence" is a non-argument used by Hilary supporters to sidestep proving that she is objectively better than Trump, after it is correctly pointed out that
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by whitemale 10y ago
> I would believe the govt in this case, mostly because openly blaming another country for this is polically somewhat dangerous. Not if the other country is being painted as the devil by the media. > Blaming anyone and publicly admit
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by whitemale 10y ago
> So claiming all of this was about propaganda really makes no sense given the facts on the ground. Where are those facts? please show hard evidence. So far I haven't seen any hard evidence that proves it was the state of Russia wh
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by whitemale 10y ago
When the US does it to other countries it's good, when it happens to the US, it's tampering with democracy. Also, it's not like Russia created the corruption inside the democratic party. If the democrats would have been as in