You don't get Norway's insights. You get an irritated internet lefty's. Mine. But I do find value in reminding people about the relevance of politics ...
Tomorrow is nearly yesterday and everything is stupid. But out of that mindset, part of it is figuring out wtf to do, wtf we can do. The anglophone in...
On one level you're right: part of the cultural problems surrounding race is to do with how we form inappropriate social expectations - how we stereot...
You've not established that the evolution of sex is relevant to gender at all. You've left it in the background as a framing device. We're not arguing...
If you press these guys enough, you'll find that it's never about the language issue, it's about something more fundamental. This is a major part of w...
Do you even care if anything you write is true? I mean, if you're going to appeal to biology, at least know something about it. Why any particular bab...
... Black people are poorer in America because some guy who lives in Norway highlights racial disparities in America? What even is this. You can't tac...
For those of you who struggle with this: there are laws and policies. Law: the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as r...
But the reality (historical effects of policies, different treatment, entangling of poverty and race) that creates that racial disparity is racist too...
"The median wealth of black families in America is a lot less than the median wealth of white families in America" Is this racist because it highlight...
Say there's a school in a poor area. The local council spends some of its funding to put in a school lunch scheme. So the poorest can eat at least one...
Slavery = apartheid = affirmative action, insofar as they are all racist. When I say this: Note: individuals or groups acting differently based on or ...
"Affirmative action is equivalent to slavery" - what kind of batshit mental contortions do you need to do to make this make sense. This is supposed to...
(Everyone should get slavery reparations or no slavery reparations should be made). (Slavery is just like slavery reparations in all relevant respects...
"Reparations for slavery discriminate based on race - therefore they're just as bad as slavery" - this is the level they'll stoop to to maintain their...
I wish that they were just trolls. Trolls are nihilistic, just doing what they can to get a rise. This is a performance that's been picked up because ...
The "upload files" thing in the response box, on the top right. Think you need to be a mod or a subscriber to embed images in posts. If not, a work ar...
Emergent statistical effects like this. In terms of race, these largely come from past geopolitical strategy (genocide, slavery--colonialism/imperiali...
One key strategy that internet reactionaries use to argue their points is presumption smuggling; controlling the conversation. In terms of colour blin...
The major disconnect is between: (1) People who think of racism as only an attitude; agent-agent racial prejudice based on sentiment. (2) People who t...
"Marx's systemic critique of the long term behaviour of capitalism is wrong, except for its central predictions, and how they assert themselves" "lawl...
The social acceptance of new pronouns has never just been about the feelings of people involved. That's part of it, though. Enough of a part of it to ...
Baseless assertion. Calm down. From age 3. This happens. If you were interested in finding out anything about what you're criticising, you'd probably ...
It's a noble gesture to hold everyone to the same standards. It matters what the standards are and where they come from, though. They're usually not d...
Yes. Why do you think people want to have their voices amplified then? Say someone who's been skeptical of their gender from birth, but doesn't identi...
Amplifying someone's voice != championing free speech. Free speech is already why they can say what they say, it's why we can have this discussion to ...
Then it is strange that you are not on the side of the normalisation of language that recognises flaws in how we think about gender that undermine the...
I'm very happy that you've come round to seeing the importance of amplifying the voices of marginalised people and allowing them to (1) state their ex...
Ah, sorry, I didn't read your posts in thread. I just saw the same old shit from @"NOS4A2" (also shit I used to say in this context) and wanted to chi...
That I can use what you've written, with word substitutions and minor edits to preserve grammar, to defend calling people racial slurs if you feel lik...
Besides being ugly, the hubbub over the (censorship of the) n-word is not the use of it, but the demand for it, that people must conform to your langu...
Which is part of why it's frustrating that people find it "so obvious". There's a whole theory of perception required just to look at what the "featur...
Yeah! I don't think perceptual features (motion detection, colour sensitivity) are generated as a unified whole. What I want is for people to pay more...
I never wanted to deny that there is a phenomenal character of experience. What I picked a bone with, to my reckoning, was the way people split up exp...
I think it's very easy to forget that modelling is relational. It's a two term thing. The model might be embedded or represented in some fashion; inst...
Probably! Aye! Glad. Sometimes it's hard to distinguish whether someone's making epistemological or ontological claims in cases like this. I was defin...
It's also strongly correlated with the floor's physical structure. So there's no necessary connection between the somatic component of our self model ...
I guess one way to get at the distinction I'm driving at is through the relationship of a perceptual feature to an environmental stimulus. How an envi...
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