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Jun. 13th, 2025 07:36 am“Humanities degrees prevent you from becoming a fascist” is classist against people who can’t afford humanities degrees.
Less pithily, it feels like an individual-level variant of the idea that “barbarian” societies commit atrocities and “cultured” societies don’t. That died an ugly death when a “cultured” country elected Hitler.
Less pithily, it feels like an individual-level variant of the idea that “barbarian” societies commit atrocities and “cultured” societies don’t. That died an ugly death when a “cultured” country elected Hitler.
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Dec. 7th, 2024 08:10 amExtremely hot take inspired by @evilsoup: I don’t believe there exist such a thing as class interests. It’s like when people assume countries or racial groups have interests. You, as an individual, are not an entire country or racial group, so things that are good or bad for them may have nothing to do with you.
On the other hand, I think the division larger than the individual that actually matters is religious interests.
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Dec. 2nd, 2024 02:05 pmI don’t like when people talk about artists or historical experts or whatnot deserving better than a menial job, because I wouldn’t say a menial job is something you can deserve or not deserve. The problem with the division of the world into high and low isn’t that you were wrongly placed in the low instead of the high. The problem is that people who do “menial” jobs are underpaid and mistreated.
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Jan. 16th, 2024 06:34 pmThe idea of predators and prey unintentionally benefiting each other for selfish reasons is a lot like the idea of customers and corporations benefiting each other for selfish reasons.
People who come across this idea usually use it as an argument for why this model of economics is right. Personally, I think this is an argument for why this model of nature is wrong. Indirect benefit to other prey doesn’t matter to the prey who get eaten, and indirect benefit to wealthier customers doesn’t matter to poor people.
People who come across this idea usually use it as an argument for why this model of economics is right. Personally, I think this is an argument for why this model of nature is wrong. Indirect benefit to other prey doesn’t matter to the prey who get eaten, and indirect benefit to wealthier customers doesn’t matter to poor people.
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Jun. 3rd, 2023 01:32 amA memory from Cub Scouts: some scouts performed a skit making fun of homeless people. Another scout modified it to make fun of gay people instead, but was interrupted and told that was inappropriate. As a kid, I didn’t understand why either was inappropriate. As an adult, they both seem bigoted.
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Nov. 15th, 2022 09:21 amWhen bad analogies are outlawed, only outlaws will have bad analogies.
You talk about “welfare queens” who leech from your money and contribute nothing, but the folks I’ve talked to aren’t “leeching” and aren’t the source of your problems. They’re in as much shit as you are.
You talk about “landlords” who leech from your money and contribute nothing . . .
You talk about “welfare queens” who leech from your money and contribute nothing, but the folks I’ve talked to aren’t “leeching” and aren’t the source of your problems. They’re in as much shit as you are.
You talk about “landlords” who leech from your money and contribute nothing . . .
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Oct. 8th, 2022 06:13 amThere were these interviews with the scriptwriter for 12 Years a Slave where he talked about how horrifying it was that this intelligent, accomplished person could be enslaved. I saw one person react by saying he was putting a weird amount of emphasis on social status, as if it would be less messed-up to enslave a lower-class person.
I don’t expect people to know that several years prior, he argued that poor black people were only poor out of laziness. He never wrote anything like that again after the backlash. But it felt frustrating to see someone groping for the reasons why his other statements felt odd, knowing there was a missing piece that put it all together.
Sometimes people talked about how a certain rationalist blogger’s political statements seemed questionable at best and heartless at worst, and I remembered the time he told me genocide was a good thing. Or . . . I know some of you won’t be as offended by this as I was, but there was this one rationalist blogger who told me disabled people should be paid less for the same jobs as abled people, and in my worldview, that was the unforgivable statement that made all his other questionable statements make sense. I can’t have any reasonable expectation for people to know they said those things. It’s just frustrating sometimes.
I don’t expect people to know that several years prior, he argued that poor black people were only poor out of laziness. He never wrote anything like that again after the backlash. But it felt frustrating to see someone groping for the reasons why his other statements felt odd, knowing there was a missing piece that put it all together.
Sometimes people talked about how a certain rationalist blogger’s political statements seemed questionable at best and heartless at worst, and I remembered the time he told me genocide was a good thing. Or . . . I know some of you won’t be as offended by this as I was, but there was this one rationalist blogger who told me disabled people should be paid less for the same jobs as abled people, and in my worldview, that was the unforgivable statement that made all his other questionable statements make sense. I can’t have any reasonable expectation for people to know they said those things. It’s just frustrating sometimes.
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Aug. 7th, 2020 03:16 pmI just found a TERF blog devoted to reposting and condemning every bad or gross thing a "trans rights activist" ever posted.
The reason I found it was that the blogger argued that homelessness is caused by poor moral character.
The reason I found it was that the blogger argued that homelessness is caused by poor moral character.
