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It's not. It's the worst of both worlds.

which is completely fair and reasonable. I expect HN to disagree, because cars are a blight on the world or something.

I didn't. I created an account for discussion.

But I'm not asking for a comprehensive list, I'm asking what people are afraid to say. I think it's incredibly disingenuous to claim oppression, but also be unwilling to discuss it…

Well, I was on his side until now.

> This used to be uncontroversial Lots of things used to be uncontroversial. Get with the times.

Delegation, sign he deserves a promotion. Have you really never worked on a project where the golden boy was the face of everything and everyone else was ignored?

For some reason Indians aren't Asian enough to be called Asian.

Except they grew up their and the flora, fauna, etc... feels more like home. People who move from California to Seattle complain constantly about how horrible the weather is, for e…

> I think that's a little unfair to characterize the Chinese government as uniquely nefarious It's not at all. We can still criticize the US government for their actions. You actua…

I'm not. I want no part of living under totalitarianism.

Huh, it is kind of hard to make an argument for the self evidence of our inalienable rights. Especially int he context of talking to someone who lives with tyranny and doesn't real…

> a lot of younger Americans have adopted a sort of dark, distorted view of history that casts the US as a villainous entity Or they have adopted a realistic view of history. The U…

> It's really confounding to me that the younger generations seems to have such a hard time with this. Oh look, more ageism on hacker news.

> Disagreement shouldn't lead to downvote Actually PG said the opposite. I used to have the comment saved, but lost it in a format. Anyway, people also downvote because they are si…

Yeah, amazing what can happen when you make an argument poorly and without thought to how your audience will react. Oh but citations. Good for you, that's a good bit of research. S…

Equally qualified is generally taken to mean they have comparable skills accross a broad spectrum of criteria. Maybe Al knows a bit more about vue.js but Marcy knows react. If I'm …

> social sciences You aren't allowed to reference social science studies because their aren't enough conservatives to make those fields "fair".

> Women want children earlier (because menopause) women need to have children earlier. I don't see 70 year old men eagerly having kids all that often. Most people want to live to s…

Conservatives: "fair" is more important than factual or correctness. > As an aside I feel much less comfortable arguing this point after checking out your personal site and seeing …

> especially when you consider that 95% of the professors in that field of study lean left. But they do research that should be repeatable and thus it doesn't matter. Unless you th…

Because women's lives revolve around maximizing their value to husbands. Yup, sounds completely reasonable. Hey, how come so many more women become doctors now? High stress job, ta…

> China is far more unwelcoming to hard-working immigrants I'm sorry, I thought we based policy on what we thought was right and not what totalitarian regimes in other countries do…

Actually it's pretty easily provable, you just need diversity numbers. Doesn't explain the "why" though.

> But immigration should be a two way street Why? > if people decide to stay in the US they should try to assimilate oh I see. Apparently hte people who come to the US for school a…