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by yedava 10y ago
Being smart in one area doesn't mean you are smart in other areas. People compartmentalize all the time.
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by yedava 11y ago
I think you are wildly overstating the value of a comments section. As a counter example, take Breitbart. Purely one sided posts with thousands of comments. And yet all those comments do nothing to change the one sided nature of Breitbart.
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by yedava 11y ago
I checked out Jessica Valenti's posts[1] on The Guardian. All of them have comments. [1] http://www.theguardian.com/profile/jessicavalenti
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by yedava 11y ago
How is exposing security flaws "rebelliousness"? If an University forgets to lock the doors of its offices and some "troll" walks in and drops racist fliers, which specific hegemonic structure is being fought against?
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by yedava 11y ago
Being a white supremacist, bullying people online (weev stalked and bullied Kathy Sierra off the Internet) and getting people worked up are not necessarily mutually exclusive. They can all be done at the same time.
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by yedava 11y ago
Why are you excusing his actions based on his intent? If someone goes stomping on people's feet, do we tell those people to loosen up because the stomping was unintentional?
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Google, Oracle setting up jurors to fail in API copyright retrial, judge says(arstechnica.com)
2 points by yedava 11y ago|0 comments
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by yedava 11y ago
The fact that Mozilla seems to rile opponents of social justice makes me think of donating to them.
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by yedava 11y ago
Well, it appears you are prejudiced rather than unsympathetic. You don't know enough about the case to make that kind of a judgement call.
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by yedava 11y ago
What an ignorant comment. Feminism is directly responsible for women getting their rights, like abortion. Saying it is "just as bad as..." is a clueless claim. What wrongs has Masculinism ever corrected?
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by yedava 12y ago
I suppose then English is an 'unknown' language and Americans as a rule burn incense?
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by yedava 12y ago
Whenever I hear complaints about Political Correctness, I'm reminded of this: > Disdain for "political correctness" is often positioned as a concern that some important truth is not being spoken for fear of offending someo
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by yedava 12y ago
If what you say as the "REAL" story is indeed what happened, what do you think is the reason why thousands of people took to the street to protest, braving rubber bullets and tear gas?
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by yedava 12y ago
Isn't the actual origin a cop murdering an unarmed black kid? If that didn't happen, none of everything else wouldn't have happened. So what is that one side "reporting" again?