• Sixer Zero
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    272 years ago

    The annoying thing is, it’s not just the dumbest person from high school. It’s people who seem normal, until anything political is brought up.

    • FunkyMonk
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      82 years ago

      I’m old, is political just slang for biggotry and woke just slang for empathy? I can’t keep up with modern language.

      • @[email protected]
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        72 years ago

        “Political” is not white, or male, or straight, or Christian.

        “Woke” = accepting of events and / or circumstances that have had in-/direct influence on their lives, likely preventing then from reaching parity.

        So you’re pretty much spot-on.

        • @[email protected]
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          42 years ago

          Hey so I’m a straight white male (not by choice) and I’d like to stop being lumped in with assholes.

          Like, lots of assholes are straight white males, I get it. But we’re overwhelmingly decent dudes.

          Also, dude, “male” is not the preferred nomenclature anymore

          • @[email protected]
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            42 years ago

            I’d like to stop being lumped in

            This is the problem with group identity instead of viewing everyone as an individual.

            Assholes come in all shapes, sizes, genders, colors, and backgrounds… so do good people.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 years ago

            “NoT aLl Men”

            If you don’t do the bad things then they’re not talking about you. But they say “men” because it’s almost always men.

            Example: men are rapists. => Not all men are rapists, but the vast majority of rapists are men.

            So you don’t need to feel sensitive about this, unless you somehow think you’re guilty of whatever they’re talking about.

            • @[email protected]
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              12 years ago

              “Some men”. Fixed. Just add one word. The fact that you’re so fixated on gaslighting people into thinking that generalizations are only okay when it targets the correct sex is very telling of your ignorance.

              • @[email protected]
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                22 years ago

                No one says “all men”. You’re implying it.

                Dogs bark. Not all, of course. But no one says some.

                • @[email protected]
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                  12 years ago

                  “Men” is a classification set that includes all individuals of a sex. You’re wrong categorically and philosophically, and the more you suggest otherwise the more you just look like a bigot.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    22 years ago

                    “Men” is a classification set that includes all individuals of a sex.

                    Gender, actually. Men/man is a gender, not a sex. Male is a sex. If we’re going to be pedantic, let’s be properly pedantic about all of it I guess.

                    all individuals

                    I can’t help if you see the world in strict absolutes. Most people don’t do that. Most people understand that you can refer to a category without meaning literally every thing in that category 100% of the time.

                    Like when you said: “Other people have kind of touched on this already, but clients prioritize connections based on…” You clearly didn’t mean ALL other people. Not every human on earth, surely. You meant some other people, but that those people were ‘other’. Likewise, when people say men are the problem, they’re talking about toxic/harmful men. Not all men, but they’re all men.

                    Also, your post history is … interesting. You are quite argumentative. There’s an old saying, “If everything around you smells like shit, check your shoes.” Maybe, just maybe, you’re not surrounded by jerks.