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Phobic has more than 1 meaning. Photophobia and hydrophobia aren't mental illnesses.
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NPC is a propaganda term.
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You're bringing the law into this but I'm not. That's a different issue. I support laws for trans people to have equal rights. The world won't stop saying negative things about people like me and I accept that. Just last night I was watching Amazon's Bosch and the lead character called someone a "worthless alcoholic." As Vonnegut used to write, "so it goes."
I mean, fair enough, we can set the law aside. Again, my point is that trans people are not complaining about "people saying negative things" in a vacuum. They are complaining about a specific situation that is happening which goes beyond just the context of the Chapelle special. I don't believe you are actually responding to the most common trans critique of Chapelle and, in not doing that, you dismiss the actual cr…
> If that were the case (which again, is not exactly my belief tho things are pretty bad out there)
The point is, this is a very big if.
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I solidly mean #1. I hate that Facebook and others started advertising hard liquor. If I worked at Facebook, I could start a movement among employees to get the ads banned. Another example would be Google employee refusing to work on defense contracts. Netflix management is saying "you can quit if you don't like it" which seems like a reasonable response to me. As for #2, I wish them all the luck. I'm like most peopl…
Trans woman and transvestite are different.
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> if you’re not trans you may not understand transphobia very well but it’s similar to white people saying they don’t think something is racist This is just a terrible, terrible argument, that leads to a continual ratcheting up and broadening of the definition of "transphobia". Transphobia should mean only "fear or hatred of trans people". What it comes to mean, however: questioning self-identification, questioning t…
Would be reasonable to expand that to "prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism against trans people". Hate is a pretty high bar perhaps? The etymology of the -isms and the -phobias is unfortunate. But the -phobias are not really about fear.
Discrimination is a fuzzy word..
Is-it discrimination to forbid trans-women to participate in the same sports category as bio-women?
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The series overthrows a lie, but supplants it and feeds another one. Screenwriting is complicated, but if you want to know more details focus on the "midpoint", where the truth/thesis is stated. Essentially movies or series are sort of discovery tools to reveal an audience a certain truth - there is no point on being consistently lied to... https://trendguardian.medium.com/anatomy-of-great-movies-bd9...
Snowpiercer (the TV show) was made by TNT, and is available on Netflix and HBO (at the very least). Why focus on popular content they recently purchased as an example? It's really weak.
This doesn't disprove the original argument
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What labor shortage? In software engineering or other organizations? It's certainly not the former, at least not for companies of any notability (e.g. Netflix). I work for a well-known company, not as big as FAANG but well on its way and at least as big as any other major tech company in the news. Our engineering shortage is due to the artificial bar we set for hiring. Our recruiters each have dozens of resumes and a…
> There's a shortage of engineers that don't meet some incredibly stupid, ego-driven arbitrary gate-keeping policies. I suggest you hire people who don’t meet the bar and see what happens. The reason your recruiters have dozens of resumes to sift through is because software engineers make bank and that’s not a secret. Most of those resumes will be people who don’t even understand what software engineering really enta…
My goodness, I’ve been in this industry for 15 years, have been an EM and am currently a TL on my team. I’ve seen what you’re referring to, but you are grossly exaggerating the issue. In my current role we have had candidates we really want rejected at the second pass review for “fit”, “culture” and “ambition/greatness/accomplishments” reasons which are entirely arbitrary (“he dropped out of a PhD program”, “his undergrad school isn’t that great”, “her ‘proudest accomplishment’ didn’t impress me”, etc.)
There absolutely isn’t an engineering talent shortage, in spite of the horde of people looking for a paycheck.
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#248I can't help but feel this is aimed at trans activists who protested the Chappelle special. I think he went too far at a couple places, but that's what comedians do. I don't think it's transphobic to push back on trans activists. I have problematic issues (bipolar, recovering alcoholic) but I don't go around demanding the world accommodate me and calling people who won't listen to me haters.
> but I don't go around demanding the world accommodate me
I think you'd feel very different about what this sentence really means if people maliciously assumed you were drunk driving or a pedofile just because you wore a budweiser shirt.
Or if there were plans for laws making bipolar specialists illegal, or outlawing non-christian addiction programs.
Or if there were laws forbidding teachers from mentioning that psychological disorders in general (but especially bipolar) exist and required them to snitch on you to your parents and the state if it were suspected that you were bipolar.
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You're bringing the law into this but I'm not. That's a different issue. I support laws for trans people to have equal rights. The world won't stop saying negative things about people like me and I accept that. Just last night I was watching Amazon's Bosch and the lead character called someone a "worthless alcoholic." As Vonnegut used to write, "so it goes."
I mean, fair enough, we can set the law aside. Again, my point is that trans people are not complaining about "people saying negative things" in a vacuum. They are complaining about a specific situation that is happening which goes beyond just the context of the Chapelle special. I don't believe you are actually responding to the most common trans critique of Chapelle and, in not doing that, you dismiss the actual cr…
Separately from my other reply, I'm curious whether you'd agree with the statement that the solution to bad speech is more speech. Because along with the most extreme views tend to come the most extreme solutions, most commonly suppressing undesirable speech. Boycotts are the most widely accepted ways of achieving this, but they don't usually work when the public doesn't agree with the boycotters.
And it's clear (to me anyway) that if one believes speech leads to violence, and if less extreme measures don't achieve the results you want, one will eventually attempt to have speech such as Chapelle's comedy routine legally defined as incitement of violence.
It is decidedly not incitement, according to the current legal definition, which I endorse. What do you think?
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You clearly don’t have mental illness or a drug addiction. Yes, absolutely, you are severely discriminated against with either of those. People see you as utterly unreliable, weak, and unworthy of the kinds of respect afforded to able minded people.
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ADHD and other related mental illnesses aren't even allowed to get pilots licenses. People who are nuerodivergent have to be very careful who they tell about their minds.
I don't know what trans people go through, but neurodivergents are definitely targeted, and have been sentenced to death in the past.