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Re: Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year?

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Post by FireBeyond »

dispin wrote: post #90
aaomidi wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The author of this book is against trans people being able to exist in this world. No thanks tbh. This isn’t identity politics. It’s just live and let live.

No he isn't, here's a recent tweet of his that explains his position: "This also highlights the huge difference between the "LGB" and the "T''. The gay rights movement just asked society to leave them alone and let them get married. No impositions on my life. The trans movement demands that I adopt their new dialect (or I'm a bigot) and allow males to play in girls sports (or I'm a bigot). Big impositions." https://x…

> The trans movement demands that I adopt their new dialect (or I'm a bigot)

I'm sure he similarly complained when women asked to be called Ms, not just Miss or Mrs, too.

Re: Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year?

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Post by berbec »

k__ wrote: post #48

My reads this year with my personal ratings: Greg Egan, Diaspora (7/10) Dan Simmons, Hyperion 1-4 (9/10) James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes (6/10) Scott Alexander, Unsong (7/10) Qtmn, Ra (7/10) Qtmn, Fine Structure (6/10) Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (6/10) Wildbow, Worm (8/10)

The Hyperion series is spectacular and a must-read for any scifi enjoyer.

Re: Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year?

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Post by dispin »

aaomidi wrote: post #110
dispin wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No he isn't, here's a recent tweet of his that explains his position: "This also highlights the huge difference between the "LGB" and the "T''. The gay rights movement just asked society to leave them alone and let them get married. No impositions on my life. The trans movement demands that I adopt their new dialect (or I'm a bigot) and allow males to play in girls sports (or I'm a bigot). Big impositions." https://x…

This is extremely similar what anti LGB people were also saying in how they were contrasting it to the civil rights movement. Also similar to what the anti-civil rights movement were saying when contrasting it to the end of slavery. Here, let me show it: "This also highlights the huge difference between the "Abolitionist Movement" and "Civil Rights". The abolitionist movement just asked society to leave them alone. N…

Please could you explain in more detail why you think this is analogous? I'm not seeing it.

All you've done is slot some different words into his tweet and asserted that the meaning is similar. How, exactly?

Also, your original claim was that Hughes is "against trans people being able to exist in this world" which you haven't provided any proof of. That tweet I quoted shows his actual expressed views, which refutes this.

Re: Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year?

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Post by _hdki »

A few of this year's highlights for me and my notes on the books, where available.

Fiction -

Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky - https://papertrail.biblish.com/books/2ab29d16-0cb1-4ef8-8cde...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - https://papertrail.biblish.com/books/65214629-29ac-45a6-b474...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy - https://papertrail.biblish.com/books/bd090cb4-bc9a-41cb-9833...

Nonfiction -

The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine (my luckiest find of the year)

Stalin: The Court of The Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore - https://papertrail.biblish.com/books/13ebec0d-0859-4858-864a...

Vienna by Richard Cockett - https://papertrail.biblish.com/books/c0e1d1fb-dea7-456b-a95e...

The House That Madigan Built by Ray Long (an interesting history of a legendary figure in Illinois state politics)

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe

Re: Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year?

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Post by dispin »

FireBeyond wrote: post #111
dispin wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No he isn't, here's a recent tweet of his that explains his position: "This also highlights the huge difference between the "LGB" and the "T''. The gay rights movement just asked society to leave them alone and let them get married. No impositions on my life. The trans movement demands that I adopt their new dialect (or I'm a bigot) and allow males to play in girls sports (or I'm a bigot). Big impositions." https://x…

> The trans movement demands that I adopt their new dialect (or I'm a bigot) I'm sure he similarly complained when women asked to be called Ms, not just Miss or Mrs, too.

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Re: Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year?

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Post by [deleted] »

aaomidi wrote: post #79
whacko_quacko wrote: post #14

The End of Race Politics by Coleman Hughes. Pretty good book. I used to be a bleeding heart liberal with pro social justice (read: pro affirmative action) sentiments, but he makes a compelling case against it. Also, it's very well written and fun to read

The author of this book is against trans people being able to exist in this world. No thanks tbh. This isn’t identity politics. It’s just live and let live.

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Re: Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year?

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Post by slater »

dispin wrote: post #90
aaomidi wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The author of this book is against trans people being able to exist in this world. No thanks tbh. This isn’t identity politics. It’s just live and let live.

No he isn't, here's a recent tweet of his that explains his position: "This also highlights the huge difference between the "LGB" and the "T''. The gay rights movement just asked society to leave them alone and let them get married. No impositions on my life. The trans movement demands that I adopt their new dialect (or I'm a bigot) and allow males to play in girls sports (or I'm a bigot). Big impositions." https://x…

Seems every day, HN gets a new green account that just so happens to be TERF or TERF-adjacent.

I doubt you just chanced upon HN and made a new account, so why not just post with your regular account?

Re: Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year?

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Post by FireBeyond »

dispin wrote: post #116
FireBeyond wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The trans movement demands that I adopt their new dialect (or I'm a bigot) I'm sure he similarly complained when women asked to be called Ms, not just Miss or Mrs, too.

[flagged]

No, it's not. "Ms" was absolutely a new dialect, and was similarly scorned by many as it gained popularity, and those who chose to use it where often derided as lesbian, feminist, or otherwise.

Re: Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year?

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Post by y33t »

aaomidi wrote: post #79
whacko_quacko wrote: post #14

The End of Race Politics by Coleman Hughes. Pretty good book. I used to be a bleeding heart liberal with pro social justice (read: pro affirmative action) sentiments, but he makes a compelling case against it. Also, it's very well written and fun to read

The author of this book is against trans people being able to exist in this world. No thanks tbh. This isn’t identity politics. It’s just live and let live.

Sounds more like he disagreed with trans ideology and it's literally killing all of them again.
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