Aaaand THIS is why @LemmyDev's hard coded censorship rules are stupid. Can't post a link to a current event story in the news. smh
@realcaseyrollins @LemmyDev Join a server which doesn't have silly censorship rules.
@Korsier @LemmyDev The only other ones are either far right or #MLP themed.
Maybe I will. But I'd prefer to wait til a more neutral #Lenny instance comes around. I could join the alt-right instance, but it was freaking tiring, what I did at #Gab was pretty mentally exhausting and time consuming and the only reason I could do it was cuz I was a single homeschooled dude at the time...arguing with racists isn't something i relish anymore
@realcaseyrollins @LemmyDev I'm of the view that the extremes of left and right are just as bad as each other in terms of preaching hatred and intolerance, but it is better to let bad ideas die in the light than fester in the dark.
@Korsier @LemmyDev @realcaseyrollins You can't both-sides that. Left-wing extremists don't hate on the basis of factors out of someone's control (race, religion, nationality, or sexual orientation), they're intolerant of the intolerant. How can you say hater haters are "just as bad" as those who hate natural characteristics outside of someone's control?
@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @LemmyDev @realcaseyrollins The left hates anyone who disagrees with or even questions their ideology, and their ideology is deeply rooted in race, gender, sexual orientation (i.e. intersectionality). I believe in the conservative idea of judging people based on their character because we're all a minority of one.
@Korsier @realcaseyrollins @LemmyDev it's a perversion to take the liberal value of equal rights and income equality & create that reverse racism straw man, particularly at a time when income equality is still unachieved and blacks are twice as likely to fall victim to police brutality and even more disproportionately incarcerated.
@LemmyDev @realcaseyrollins @Korsier the idea of trusting people to judge others "based on their character" has failed, and conservatives have no remedial plan to correct that failure. Crying "reverse racism" clutches at straws to preserve a broken status quo. Of course the only real racists are those defending the status quo by calling their opposition what they themselves are guilty of.
@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @LemmyDev @realcaseyrollins I don't see how judging people based on their character has failed. Our society is organised around merit. The competent and hard working get to the top.
@Korsier @realcaseyrollins @LemmyDev First of all, you're neglecting the Peter Principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle). Also, merit is just one of many factors. Those other factors are responsible for the gender pay gap.
@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @realcaseyrollins @LemmyDev The primary causes of the gender pay gap are general differences in job interests between the genders (eg. Men are fast more likely than women to choose STEM fields, women are much more likely to choose social type occupations), men are more likely to work longer hours and be more committed to their job, and women take time out for child rearing. None of which indicates systemic sexism.
@Korsier @aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @LemmyDev While this is true, it must be admitted that in certain sectors, such as Hollywood, there is a bit of a disparity.
@realcaseyrollins @aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @LemmyDev You'll excuse me if I don't take women who make millions per year to do a glamorous job too seriously when they complain about how much they make.
@Korsier @LemmyDev @realcaseyrollins I'm sensing cognitive dissonance, as you asserted earlier w/complete confidence: "Our society is organised around merit. The competent and hard working get to the top."
@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @LemmyDev @realcaseyrollins None whatsoever. Highly paid actresses earn exactly what their labour is worth. And I'm also not sympathetic to their whining about how much they earn (which is in the tens of millions per annum).
@Korsier @aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @LemmyDev Mm, no. The reason I point to them is that, yeah, lotsa people on the right can mess with numbers in a way that appears to get rid of sexist income inequality in most sectors, but in Hollywood, there are multiple, multiple instances of female co-stars being paid FAR less than their male co-stars, even if their roles in the film have the same importance.
