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Yeah, although factually correct & morally right, striving for social justice for those struggling in society can be politically damaging. Especially so in a highly tribalistic post-Trump two party system America.
But to pretend there's some pragmatic middle ground where you can tread carefully, dumb things down & not upset the masses is rubbish. What the author is really saying is that progressives shouldn't advocate for transgender rights because most Americans don't give a shit about them. It happens to a lesser degree here when parties advocate for policies around distributive justice and affirmative action for example.
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15th July 2022, 21:36 | #1522 |
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16th July 2022, 15:01 | #1524 |
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Ah, now I understand. You've found religion. Will yours have genitalia festivals? There's a distinct lack of those in contemporary society, don't you think?
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16th July 2022, 16:33 | #1525 |
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Science twitter is blowing up over this today, and one researcher has pointed out that the paper Novella cites as evidence when he refers to "intersex individuals with ovotestes" is a paper about the reproductive systems of crustaceans. There's no such thing as a human with functioning ovotestes, and there's no such thing as an intersex crab.
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Ab, you are doing violence to those who identify as crustacean.
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17th July 2022, 04:40 | #1528 |
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I apologise for erasing the identities of all those who identify as non-binary and whose lived experience lies instead on a spectrum between human and crustacean.
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17th July 2022, 12:10 | #1530 |
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Honestly, I feel all this nonsense with pedantic squabbling over word definitions comes down to this:
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17th July 2022, 13:00 | #1531 |
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One of the greatest scenes in movie and music history.
One of my big objections to GenderWooWoo like this Steven Novella article at Science Based Medicine is that Novella is a podcast host, and SBM is the sort of site, that also publish about topics like COVID and vaccine hesitancy and autism. How can I know which articles to trust? If the host of the Skeptics Guide to the Universe and the site Science-Based Medicine post obviously false GenderWooWoo because religion, then one has to assume a non-zero possibility that the info they publish on other topics is also false. This is how mistrust in science happens. |
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I remember as a pre-teen playing with the other kids, we were messing around with outfits and costumes. Someone had used hair ties on my to create a kind of mohawk. I recall some adults in my community taking that as an opportunity to shame me for being a girl, cause only girls wear hair ties, etc., etc, and who would want to be a girl, etc., etc.
That's the kind of GenderWooWoo I see no place for in our society. But I get it, you've got your justified beliefs. And like many whose beliefs ascend to the realm of religion you feel those beliefs need to be imposed on everyone.
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17th July 2022, 13:53 | #1533 |
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The amount of transgender demonizing and scaremongering with that #genderwoowoo is scary.
Religious right got people fighting a culture war to distract them from starting a class war.
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17th July 2022, 14:42 | #1534 |
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Yeah, that's my point. One used to have confidence that in a clash between the religious right and the progressive left that the progressives would eventually win because theirs was the side of science and reason and that stuff, you know, works. But GenderWoowoo is now a conflict between conservative religious nuts and progressive religious nuts. There's no voice of reason any more.
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17th July 2022, 14:54 | #1535 |
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Wait, what?
There was a voice of reason at some point? When did I miss that? Are you sure you're not just missing the days when you believed the lie?
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17th July 2022, 19:15 | #1541 |
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Pretty sure employers can't force you to make expressions of religious faith.
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17th July 2022, 21:02 | #1542 | |
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Don't worry you can still believe whatever you want and not care what others think. Freedom etc
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18th July 2022, 00:53 | #1544 | |
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18th July 2022, 13:43 | #1545 | |
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More from the world of woo-woo, horoscopes are real and government policy based on them will receive 100 million dollars taxpayer funding:
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18th July 2022, 14:33 | #1546 |
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You can get government funding for acupuncture and chiropractic care too.
Placebos work. Altho, it's not really a placebo when using mysticism to address mental health concerns.
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19th July 2022, 13:20 | #1547 |
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Norwegian feminist faces 3 years in jail for claiming 'trans' males aren't women
You know your ideas aren't very good when you have to put someone in jail who points out that you're wrong.
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19th July 2022, 15:13 | #1549 |
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If not already, eventually.
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19th July 2022, 15:51 | #1550 |
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That there’s evidently an infinite number of dollars available to be printed when the government of the day wants to virtue-signal might explain the current rate of inflation.
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19th July 2022, 16:08 | #1551 |
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Yeah, governments the world over are busy virtue signalling, that's why we're all experiencing inflation. It's nothing to do with a period of globally reduced productivity while consumption levels remain largely the same.
Money for mental health is a waste. Money for Maori is obviously a waste. Money for Maori mental health? You've got to be fucking kidding me, amirite?! Totally virtue signalling.
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But I get it. Plenty of people out there willing to buy that line and sure as hell plenty willing to sell it. This is the primary hurdle many effective strategies to mental health practice, trauma service, child protection services face: how often the most effective approaches won't work because they'll be disingenuously framed or misunderstood for the sake of scoring easy political points. It's why we end up with so many managers in clinical settings. We wouldn't be facing a climate crisis if more people took the time to wonder at the stars. It comes with a much lower carbon footprint than chasing what we can have, what we can know.
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19th July 2022, 16:56 | #1560 | |
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He invited children on the Internet to seek him out for hugs, because he identifies as a lesbian and can be their mother. But a woman who tweeted that this state of affairs is bonkers is the one facing three years in jail after the man in the photo above laid a complaint. |
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