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Comment #14817370
To get this straight She's a reporter and the guy is a VC. There is no business relationship between them. They were walking down the street with friends after having drinks, he gr…
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Comment #14573511
Or, a more real-life example, one might want to donate anonymously to a no side in the referendum about gay marriage in the US lest they want to lose their job.
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Comment #14368471
Long and pointlessly rambling SJW piece that's hard to take seriously, let alone criticize for complete lack of hard data or structure. She raises interesting questions: 1) Is risk…
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Comment #14320963
I started reading it but got bored with what seemed like a pointless rambling and gave up after a few pages. Happy if someone provides TLDR.
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Comment #14264309
Seems like a reasonable thing to do. Not sure what is deplorable about wanting only bright people to immigrate to your country.
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Comment #14255967
I guess that's the point of her article - that a man waking up and deciding to be a woman has as much legitimacy as a white guy deciding that he's black. Ie if you accept one, you …
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Comment #14209605
Why this reflex to mention gays no matter what context? Fyi they earn more than straight people: http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/06/pf/gay-money/
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Comment #14135868
"My mother gave birth to 12 children. I arrived in London at the age of nine, speaking practically no English. I attended some of the worst performing schools in inner-city London …
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Comment #14069847
I have no opinion on the content, but as a bilingual English - Russian speaker i concur that this is likely a text written by an English speaker who tries to sound like a foreigner…
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Comment #13958712
But you can same the same thing about pretty much every single stereotype. Ie that's why people use them - because they usually work.
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Comment #13898159
So do you call every one of the 60 odd million people who voted for Trump a monster?
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Comment #13736702
I think its 100% personal. Ie just how righteousness you feel about one side - others feel same on the other (plus they feel that the msm megaphone is used against them).
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Comment #13626752
Actually it make sense. Looking at the figures in this report https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm... - see for example chart 3.09 and 3.11, whites tend to …
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Comment #13626211
The author obliquely mentions that blacks are 5 times more likely to be imprisoned in the UK. I decided to look into why this might be happening and turns out that Population Popul…
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Comment #13431009
"Evolution, it should be remembered, predates gender by a long time." 1. Good point - gender is 50 years old (first used in 1963). 2. What about other, non-human organisms? If we l…
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Comment #13354179
People on the first list don't get to choose who they are. People on the second list make a conscious decision to use birth control. Thus the two are different. Same way hating men…
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Comment #13208740
Reading the comments below, I am guessing that most people simply don't understand the terminology you are using. Ie you have to define what are: 1. Public service 2. Lock in a pri…
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Comment #13077529
Right - but I don't think anybody took that seriously. Even the tea partiers saying it most likely only meant it as a 'Obama is a very bad guy and the worst name we can call him is…
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Comment #13075818
Fair enough. But people did experiments like http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/twitter-user-replaces-white-... that show how same speech applied from opposite angles produces differe…
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Comment #13075383
Citation please.
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Comment #13075375
How does this in any way negate the comment you are responding to? His point is that people go to Gab because they are thrown out of other venues. You're just going on about how th…
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Comment #13032295
You have every right to believe in whatever you want. I'd suggest you read this piece by a someone who you can relate to - a "member of a desperate and discombobulated coastal elit…
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Comment #13026950
You realize that the word 'racist' has lost all meaning by now? It simply means 'people I disagree with'. I think it's lost meaning starting with 2011 (thanks, Obama). See: http://…
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Comment #13026929
You're mostly right. The law actually says "the Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination by privately owned places of public accommodation on the basis of race, co…