Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

wsj.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

351–360 of 410 posts

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

#351

Post by thomasfedb »

dragonwriter wrote: post #308
rendall wrote: post #281

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, by this use of this word, it is discrimination to prevent (non trans) male athletes from competing in female sports.

Yes, absolutely. Any time you distinguish treatment between different categories it is discrimination. That's what the word means.

That is one usage of the word. But we should not pretend that the word has only one use.

Chuck "discriminate" into Google and you'll get two definitions:

> 1. recognize a distinction; differentiate.

> 2. make an unjust or prejudicial distinction in the treatment of different categories of people.

I was referring to the latter use.

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

#352

Post by heartbreak »

joemazerino wrote: post #261
heartbreak wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What agenda is being driven by The Mandalorian or Encanto? Disney puts out great content year after year.

The agenda clearly written on their website. https://insidethemagic.net/2022/03/disney-exec-commits-to-50...

Thanks for answering I guess.

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

#353

Post by weepit »

pseudalopex wrote: post #300
ryzvonusef wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

on trans issues: one thing that struck me is how different views on transgenderism are in the US, for example, than my country. In my country, transgender actually FOUGHT for the right to NOT be counted as a man or a women, and finally won the right to be counted as a third gender, with the rights that follow it. That mean that, the slogans here are NOT, for example, that "Transwomen are Women" but instead, "transwom…

Trans people in Pakistan fought for the state to recognize a traditional 3rd gender. Most European cultures and offshoots don't have an equivalent. 1 of the biggest issues now in the US is if trans youth should receive any affirming treatment. Even puberty blockers. Calling them a 3rd gender wouldn't change the sides.

No post body was provided.

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

#354

Post by weepit »

sdenton4 wrote: post #274
squintychino wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Clearly it's propaganda for the non-trans majority that are not comfortable with trans people. Just like trans people came up with their 'cis people' propaganda to deal with their uncomfortableness with non-trans people. An eye for an eye makes the world blind...

How would you feel about your first statement of the word 'trans' were replaced with Black, gay, Catholic or really any other protected class?

There's no real comparison to any of those categories.

It's more like: white people claiming to be black, straight people saying they're gay, or Muslims identifying as Catholics.

Transgender is just people desiring to be what they are not, and can never be. But we're all supposed to accept their wishful thinking as truth.

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

#355

Post by rendall »

thomasfedb wrote: post #351
dragonwriter wrote: post #308

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, absolutely. Any time you distinguish treatment between different categories it is discrimination. That's what the word means.

That is one usage of the word. But we should not pretend that the word has only one use. Chuck "discriminate" into Google and you'll get two definitions: > 1. recognize a distinction; differentiate. > 2. make an unjust or prejudicial distinction in the treatment of different categories of people. I was referring to the latter use.

Yeah, agreed. People conflating these two meanings of the word just confuse the discussion.

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

#357

Post by azth »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #63
cr__ wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are there people passing laws to fuck with people with bipolar disorder? Are there people telling you that you’re incorrect or even mentally ill because you identify as a recovering alcoholic?

is Alcoholism a mental illness - https://www.portstluciehospitalinc.com/ufaqs/is-alcoholism-a... Yes. According to the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), alcoholism, or alcohol use disorder (AUD), is a diagnosable mental illness.

Correlation is not causation.

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

#358

Post by grrraal »

resoluteteeth wrote: post #317
rendall wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

> 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 trans women in women's sports, questioning trans women in women's spaces, questioning the use of puberty blockers in young children, among…

No post body was provided.

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

#359

Post by rendall »

resoluteteeth wrote: post #317
rendall wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

> 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 trans women in women's sports, questioning trans women in women's spaces, questioning the use of puberty blockers in young children, among…

> rights that you, as a cis person, are willing to give them?

The problem with these particular "rights" is that they are not actually rights, but impositions on the rights of others.

It's disingenuous to compare being trans to race or being gay. Race and orientation is an immutable characteristic of the person.

As yet, gender dysmorphia is recognized as a mental illness, which requires therapy, hormones and surgery to accommodate or treat. Arguments about these particular trans rights can also apply to, for example, the rights of schizophrenics to have their delusions indulged by everyone else.

With self-identification, the problem of "rights" becomes even more intractable, because unlike race or orientation, one can just declare oneself "trans" and thereby gain access to, say, physically weaker athletic opponents. Or to more vulnerable sexual prey, in the case of prisons.

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

#360

Post by grrraal »

antifa wrote: post #348
nxm wrote: post #329

Earlier quoted context omitted.

See libs of tiktok - kids are already being groomed at young age

Anyone who spends more than 5 seconds investigating that would see they've exposed approximately zero groomers.

No post body was provided.
Post reply on HN