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It's been removed from the front page too. Yep, it's messed up.
I'm a bit of an HN neophyte, having recently left FB for a place where thoughtful discussion was still welcome. I'm not being rhetorical when I ask, what is going on? Are some highly-rated users just abusing their power to flag, or is this something else? Is HN on its way to being more concerned with virtue signaling than open discussion?
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I'm a bit of an HN neophyte, having recently left FB for a place where thoughtful discussion was still welcome. I'm not being rhetorical when I ask, what is going on? Are some highly-rated users just abusing their power to flag, or is this something else? Is HN on its way to being more concerned with virtue signaling than open discussion?
"If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it."[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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non-ants would get outraged on behalf of the ants.
Who cares. If someone misappropriated my culture for an entire movie I'll be pretty mad, who cares if someone else also took offence. I feel like this kind of argument only serves as distraction (not implying that's your intent). Do you not think ant culture would be absolutely offended by someone doing this?
You people make mountains out of molehills.
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Guessing right most of the time isn't knowing. And people not knowing how sex and gender differ doesn't change the fact that they rely on gender markers lots and chromosomes never. People who menstruate is much shorter than your suggestion.
>Guessing right most of the time isn't knowing. And people not knowing how sex and gender differ doesn't change the fact that they rely on gender markers lots and chromosomes never. "gender markers" and "chromosomes" are the same thing for 99% of the population. So guessing really is knowing. > People who menstruate is much shorter than your suggestion. Women is even shorter and everybody in the whole world understan…
People who menstruate is more accurate.
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Excluding someone from a domestic violence shelter isn't just a way of thinking about something. Imprisoning people more likely to be raped with people more likely to rape them isn't just a way of thinking about something. Cis and trans are opposites by definition. They existed long before they were applied to gender.
> Excluding someone from a domestic violence shelter isn't just a way of thinking about something. Imprisoning people more likely to be raped with people more likely to rape them isn't just a way of thinking about something. True, but the relevance is not obvious because these aren’t problems caused by so called TERFs. It’s also not true that censoring JK Rowling is required as part of solving them, either. > Cis and…
Rowling hasn't been censored.
Cis women and trans women are in the category of women.
> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/10/not-suitable-c... This extends beyond the contents of the book. Here a "white" (but really Catalan) man was fired from translating a poem because his identity didn't mirror the poet's.
When will the insanity end?
I want to stress that honest and open communication about opinions and a commitment to truth and the long process of fact-checking seems to be the best way forward, if not necessarily the easiest.
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> Excluding someone from a domestic violence shelter isn't just a way of thinking about something. Imprisoning people more likely to be raped with people more likely to rape them isn't just a way of thinking about something. True, but the relevance is not obvious because these aren’t problems caused by so called TERFs. It’s also not true that censoring JK Rowling is required as part of solving them, either. > Cis and…
TE people advocate policies that create those outcomes. I've seen none support creation of separate but equal facilities for trans people. It's too costly for such a small minority they say. Rowling hasn't been censored. Cis women and trans women are in the category of women.
This just isn’t true.
> I've seen none support creation of separate but equal facilities for trans people. It's too costly for such a small minority they say.
TERFs don’t say this. People controlling budgets do. They are are the ones withholding services from trans people. Not TERFs.
> Cis women and trans women are in the category of women.
Only according to certain trans perspectives.
You have clearly agreed there are two kinds of women. It is reasonable for them to not see one another as members of the same category.
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As a WASP man myself, I think you need to put the computer down. Or do you want to pretend that computers weren’t invented by my people?
Who cares who invented it? Do you think babbage designed the fabs TSMC uses now?
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This also applies to art in general. Marcel Duchamps Fountain was one of my favorite pieces of art because it called out the art world for judging art based on the fact that it was made by a member of the accepted 'art world' but it was a frickin urinal.
I didn't think that was the point. I thought that the point was that, within certain flavors of philosophy, there is no such thing as beauty (that is, beauty has no objective reality), and therefore that anything could be regarded as being art. Duchamps' point was that this urinal was as good as the Mona Lisa; that is, Duchamps really agreed with this viewpoint (if I understand correctly). He got upset when critics c…
What actually MADE that urinal art was that it was made by a member of the artistic ingroup.
If I go hang a urinal in a museum as a web developer I will get arrested and it will be thrown out.