• penquin@lemm.ee
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        8 months ago

        I find it unnecessary. Race/gender/skin color or whatever shouldn’t matter.

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          8 months ago

          Yet somehow it is true that the vast majority of smug people who are confidently wrong are white males. Maybe someday we can have equality in the ratio of being smug while confidently wrong.

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          8 months ago

          You know how it goes, not all white males… but almost always it is a white male.

          This guy probably wouldn’t have even considered insulting a speaker that way if she wasn’t a woman. In a scientific setting it’s one thing disagreeing with an argument, and attacking the person proposing the argument.

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              7 months ago

              Yes, but until recently they weren’t even accepted into colleges, were they? Almost like oppression is intersectional or something.

              EDIT: refer to my response to Mango. Y’all way stupider/bigoted than I gave you credit for in the first place.

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        7 months ago

        Yes and I don’t think you pointing out the truth of this stereotype is unwarranted here. But her pointing it out in the first place was. Replace this with another accurate stereotype about another race. Let’s say there’s a city in which a certain race, per capita, commits crimes more than another. Does that warrant someone saying, “So I got mugged, and of course it was a black guy!”

        This type of stereotyping is clearly spiteful, ignores greater understanding about the social situation, and perpetuates the untrue idea most people conflate with these stereotypes: Every member of the race is like this. This is even internalized by members of the race in question, perpetuating the greater social issue itself.