I used the API to see what mods were censoring. The lack of mod transparency is gross.

A few times as a kid I had to take a taxi alone. I knew the way home, but the driver decided to make a lot of unnecessary turns and go this round about way to run up the fair. I was probably in 3rd grade and knew what he was doing but didn’t have the guts to call him out.

Sure, I replied to another comment here.

Equality and equity are different, as it has been defined by various movements in the US. This definition has been adopted in mainstream usage for a while now. I’m surprised by your question, I feel this would be common knowledge to most people in western societies by this point. But I’m happy to answer if you are asking in good faith.

Equality is sort of the color-blind approach to treating people equally, with little to no regard for their race. It looks at their individual circumstances, not making broad assumptions based on their racial background. For the record, color blind doesn’t mean we dont seek to identify and correct racial issues, it just means we typically do so without creating race specific policies and instead apply the policies to everyone. My deep appreciation of equality as a fundamental principal is why I oppose equity and the strategic equivocation with which it is used.

Equity is contrasted to that by putting race front and center, and often above all else when making decisions on resource allocation. It’s how we get policies that broadly focus on racial groups. It’s not always advertised but equity is opposed to equality, so that specific races can be selected to receive benefits, or excluded from receiving benefits.

Speaking to the movement more broadly, In order to justify equity, anything that can be measured through the lens of race will be(deconstruction) and any difference in outcome will be flagged as racism, but only if white people are on the advantagous side.

Why is this bad? Don’t POCs need help?

They often do, but our racial based policies to correct them are often counterproductive, discriminatory, or even harmful. Our need based programs already disproportionately benefit them, and will continue to do so more if we bolster them. Here’s some quick examples of equitable efforts, just to give you an idea of how it manifests. These are extremely condensed, but I could pull links later if you want them.

• Misguided attempt to remove sat scores from college admissions because of claims it’s inequitable.
• Despite overwhelming evidence that helmets save lives, helmet laws were cut because some demographics didn’t wear them as often.
• College students giving free covid masks to minorities but saying white people must pay.
• There was an attempt to create a math framework that attempts to deconstruct mathematics into a racist construct.
• When a professor did a comprehensive study of police violence and found no disparity in some aspects of policing, he was advised not to publish the results.

The pursuit of “equity” is a tribalistic and often racist effort that rebuilds and reinforces the systemic racism we’ve been trying to dismantle for decades.

I Googled some extremely invasive weed(creeping buttercup) and Google suggested to let it be, quoting some awful reddit comment.

Being in a relationship makes it easy to have sex.

That was my issue with old school SymForums. I don’t see that so much on reddit.

Driving a smaller SUV and the number of vehicles whos headlight are at my eye level really sucks. There’s also some study out there about the unnecessary raised hood that does nothing but increase fatalities and lowers visibility of the 10 meters directly in front of the vehicle.

And portable cd players were rated by how well the could handle movement, which basically meant many seconds they could hold in memory to prevent skips.

if you’re not a straight, white, male, it’s acknowledging the extra hurdles of discrimination (intentional or not), and the limited access to famialial resources that you might have to overcome for which the straight white male would not

Assuming you know something about someone only due their skin color is pretty fucking racist. That includes assuming a white person has familial resources, or assuming that a non white doesn’t.

It’s odd sitting here having to explain that stereotypes are bad.

Are you implying “anti racist discrimination” is justified by your quote? I agree with your quote, but it is not supportive of Kendi’s quote in the slightest. To discriminate is to “unjustly treat categories of people”, so if someone is acting racist and you don’t tolerate them, that is not discrimination at all because you are judging them for their actions, not their looks.

Weight should absolutely be a factor in registration fees. Between road damage, their environmental cost, and danger they pose it’s a no brainer.

Oh yeah, I was just clarifying my original position. I appreciate your insight.

“The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination”

Yeah I wasn’t talking about either scenario from a participatory POV. Moreso speaking to the general interest.

You can be interested in something without wishing for it or wanting to participate. I’m sure women who listen to serial killer podcasts don’t want to be featured in one.

Do Israeli institutions not have mechanisms to dismiss officials who vocalize rhetoric like this?

It could easily be read as sarcastic. In normal times, I don’t think that interpretation would be common, but in the internet of today, the toxicity is just so high it’s often the correct interpretation.

My interest in war is that there is nothing higher stakes, it can be a fight for the survival of not just yourself but your family, community, or nation, or even our species if we are talking fiction (or global warming).

So if we were to stereotype the genders, men are typically more interested in death/violence at a humanitary level and women at a personal level.

Why dont the surrender? That’s what you do when you are utterly defeated and don’t want more people to die.