Valid.
olivecrest
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So you are all in with “us vs them” politics.
Yay my team and fuck the other guys they suck.
Definitely this was Trumps takeaway. He broke the law his first term many times with little or no consequence so of course he is doubling down.
Most people I know keep a car for 10+ years. The Thai thing was like six years ago and he wasn’t on my radar before then.
This is SUPER helpful and thoughtful and I thank you.
Like when we start doing research in a nuanced and scientific way then the folks who aren’t part of the scientific community can very easily “wildly gesture” racism and say “it’s science”.
So it is not that there aren’t differences, it’s that if we aren’t very careful then valid research can get inaccurately used to support racism/sexism.
I don’t remember the details but I feel like way back the president of Harvard said something about sex differences and got fired and what he said didn’t seem incorrect to me. It really bothered me. But maybe it was more “in a leadership position you need to be aware of how people will twist your words” than “what you said was true but we want to pretend it’s not”.
Do you feel like calling a whole group “these people” is a helpful approach?
Lots of people aren’t online as much as you and I are. They might have bought an EV for environmental reasons 10 years ago without even noticing who owned the company.
So why are they idiots do you think? Like are you just naturally and inherently superior to all of them?
Or maybe they were raised differently than you were and taught different things than you were. Exposed to different ideas. Maybe they lack knowledge because they went to a shitty school rather than because they are inferior.
Or that is just an excuse because I don’t want to admit that they are idiots. Idiots who strangely enough don’t want to vote for people who are convinced they are idiots.
Not everyone is online as much as we are. Lots of people are utterly unaware that ever happened.
Agree. Plus they are utterly ridiculous.
Sincere question- I am a girl. I program/work in tech.
I can say that on average women are shorter than me and nobody has issues. But if I say that on average women aren’t as good at spacial relations then somehow I’m sexist.
The fact that on average women are shorter does NOT mean anything about a particular woman. The woman in front of you may tower over most men. She may be one of the tallest people ever. But men have more testosterone in their system and it makes them physically develop differently and ON AVERAGE they are taller.
So testosterone doesn’t only affect height, it affects brains as well. Same with estrogen. Ask anyone who takes those drugs for medical reasons or because they are transitioning. I’m a woman who is way better at spacial relations thinking than most women. Other than that I’m petite, soft spoken and love babies. Not masculine at all. Not on drugs. But - kind of like a very tall woman - I’m a bit of an outlier in how my brain works compared to other women.
I get it that some folks have used science to do “superior race” “superior sex” oppression and that is horrifying. The current administration in the US = facist nightmare 100%, and incompetent to boot.
But it still is objectively true that there are generalizations / averages that can be made based on race and sex. Why is someone sexist for saying things that are objectively true?
I am 100% in support of boycotting Tesla.
Just if someone bought a Tesla as their personal vehicle 10 years ago because they wanted an environmentally friendly car - before we knew what an asshole Musk was - I don’t think they deserve to have their personal property damaged/destroyed.