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- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 2 days ago:
Just because you don’t intend to insult someone doesn’t mean you’re not ignorant.
It doesn’t take really any empathy at all to recognise that someone might prefer to be called an undocumented immigrant rather than an illegal one.
I think people really are used to being called the wrong thing, or the wrong pronouns. In reality, if you accidentally misgender someone they often won’t bother to correct you if you’re merely a passing acquaintance, but if you’re more than that they might politely correct you in a non-confrontational way.
People being upset about someone making a genuine mistake and calling them the wrong thing is not the norm, and if someone did that it would be pretty weird.
The term “illegal immigrant” may be a description, but I’m sure you can recognise that it’s not a very dignified one. You probably don’t refer to people you like as “that fat guy” or “that woman with the huge ass”, despite those phrases being descriptive.
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 2 days ago:
Calling someone an illegal immigrant to their face can be an insult
So why would it be ok to refer to a person that way just because they’re not around?
This meme is a commentary on how to teach kids to treat others in a dignified and respectful way.
The same way retard became handicapped and suddenly out of nowhere handicap is not dignified enough, so it became disabled.
That’s true. The progression of language in this way is well documented. It doesn’t diminish someone’s entitlement to feel offended at being referred to as a retard. It’s just how dignity, respect, and language works.
When referring to other people, it’s a common courtesy to consider how they might like to be addressed, and to use that term. It doesn’t matter how you feel about the phrasing or what you would have called them a few decades ago.
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 2 days ago:
I don’t really understand what you’re getting at.
Obviously there are words which are in themselves an insult. There are also words which are not, and there’s a spectrum of different words in between which are more insulting or less insulting or insulting in specific circumstances.
Undocumented migrant is clearly a more dignified way to describe someone than describing them as an “illegal” immigrant.
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 2 days ago:
Describing a person as an “illegal” immigrant is dehumanizing, given that only acts can be legal or illegal, not people.
“Undocumented” immigrant is the generally accepted term.
It doesn’t really matter which you feel is the more accurate or better term. For all intents and purposes they have the same meaning, and one is clearly more dignified than the other.
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 2 days ago:
I cant believe i have to explain this but…
There’s lots of ways you can refer to people. Some are respectful, some are not.
This might shock you but some parents teach their kids to be respectful of others. Avoiding labelling people in ways they might not appreciate is a good start.
It may be a “fact” that someone is an “illegal immigrant” but I’m sure you can see that term is intended to portray the person in a specific way.
Its also a fact that such a person is an undocumented migrant trying to feed their family, or maybe even an asylum seekers fleeing persecution.
So yes, representing facts in a racist way is racist. Well done.
- Comment on We all had one 4 days ago:
I realise this is not OC but sharing photos of your kid’s embarrassing mistakes is pretty awful.
- Comment on We all had one 4 days ago:
IDK. Usually this comment means youre missing a joke but I’m obviously missing the joke too.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 week ago:
Sure, it’s common to have healthy relationships, friends, a job, and take care of yourself.
However, it’s also common to endure brief or extended periods of not being able to do these things for a whole variety of reasons. It might be illness, caring for loved ones, children, loads of things.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 1 week ago:
Sure, in the context of physical abilities.
However, i think bands of hominids who care for each other have a survival advantage. I guess thats who we’ve evolved to be social creatures.
Also, nanna might not be able to hunt mammoths anymore, but she knows what to do in years when the mammoth dont come.
- Comment on Is the whole DC "cleanup" pointless? 1 week ago:
Come on, it’s not about crime. It’s about control, and normalising the presence of military forces in American cities.
- Comment on ‘Long may she reign’: How powerful is Gina Rinehart? 1 week ago:
“It’s just very unfortunate for her that Australians have taken a very, very intense dislike to Trump,” noted another Labor source. “Every time Gina opens her mouth, she drags the Coalition further into a fight we’re happy to have.”
Hah.
I should probably just remind everyone that this photo has been deleted from the internet and can no longer be viewed:
Get a dog up ya Gina.
- Comment on Why is it so common to be interested in true crime when at the same time you're disturbed by it? 1 week ago:
Being disturbed is engaging.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 1 week ago:
That’s a really salient point - there are a lot of other impediments to “fairness” which are much more relevant.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I’m the father of twins.
My daughter looks a lot like me, but my son doesn’t. My son is going to be taller than me, but my daughter will be my height.
It’s just the genetic lottery.
- Comment on How does one join a terror group? Like example ISIS , do people go to a secret website sign up and get provided flags, bomb parts, or whatever? Or is it just a person saying what they did was for ISIS 2 weeks ago:
Literally no one has suggested that the process is anything like that.
- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, ok.
I thought we were just kind of chewing the fat, shooting the shit, so to speak.
If you want to be weird about it, your response doesn’t address the question either.
- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 2 weeks ago:
I think life was pretty cheap in that time and place, so very little time, effort, or money was invested in the well being of crew in the lower ranks.
That is to say, while it might have been possible to obtain fresh food, it often just wasnt a priority.
- Comment on Did cavepeople have domestic pets, like wolves or cats? 2 weeks ago:
I’ll happily acknowledge that you seem to know much more about this topic than I, so the following isn’t intended as a correction, merely the suppositions of a lay person.
The question is really subjective. What is a caveman and what is a pet and how does that relate to a domestic pet.
I’m sure there has been some kind of opportunistic co-operation since forever, even if it’s as simple as a wolf pack not attacking a group of hominids because they’re dangerous but also sooner or later they will kill something and leave a carcass.
At the other end of that spectrum is something like a modern service dog which is an extension of the capability of a hominid.
Somewhere in there you cross a threshold to be a “domestic pet” whatever that is.
Another aspect of what I’m saying is that even if domestic pets emerged there will be instances of remarkable pet-like behaviors stretching back much further.
As an aside, I didn’t really read the article you linked but one part, perhaps out of context, says:
domestication of the dog began in Siberia 26,000-19,700 years ago by Ancient North Eurasians
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 3 weeks ago:
Does that mean Gates will be “good” if he spends all his money on vaccines and then dies of natural causes?
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 3 weeks ago:
I’m not going to make a blanket claim like “philanthropy is not misused to avoid taxes”, because of course in some limited cases it is, but your assertion that the motivation for the Gates foundation is to avoid taxes is baseless. It’s a common idea that you’ve subscribed to, but you’re unable to back it up with even a vague idea.
The Gates Foundation has made Gates’ significantly less wealthy.
I’ll ask you directly: why would you become less wealthy in order to avoid tax?
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 3 weeks ago:
This doesn’t make any sense.
He’s been doing this since long before Epstein was arrested.
He also doesn’t need to launder money because he’s already paid tax on all his money. He’s becoming demonstrably, significantly less wealthy in the course of distributing vaccines. If he were laundering money he would be becoming more wealthy.
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 3 weeks ago:
This doesn’t make much sense to me.
Sure. Gates is not a “nice” person. The business practices involved in becoming a billionaire require him to be a vile human being. Granted.
That said, he has given up his place on the leaderboard. He has become dramatically less wealthy as a result of his philanthropic work.
What are you claiming is Gates’ motivation here? Not getting murdered? Come on. There are much more practical, reliable, and cheaper means to achieve that.
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 3 weeks ago:
That makes two of us I guess.
You said that you don’t know how it works, I can’t really respond to that.
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 3 weeks ago:
It’s not.
This is a common misconception based on meme level reasoning.
I don’t know how this works but I know I don’t like billionaires.
- Comment on Bill and Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge after 15 years: Only 9 of the 256 billionaires actually followed through on giving away half their wealth 3 weeks ago:
Why would you waste $10 to save $5 in tax?
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 3 weeks ago:
People paying reddit aren’t training their models by scraping the web ui.
The original comments are still in the database, which is what you’d pipe into an LLM.
- Comment on Negative gearing reform is back, but young voters now hold the power 3 weeks ago:
To the surprise of absolutely no one, people who don’t own houses don’t like negative gearing.
They’ll take it to an election though. Suicidal to introduce mid-cycle.
It didn’t get up in 2019 because there was too much other stuff, dividend imputation et cetera.
- Comment on Anon looks into cults 4 weeks ago:
I think an array of mental illness and drug abuse is more likely.
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 4 weeks ago:
Ah yes, illiteracy. Hilarious.
- Comment on [Poll] What social media platforms do you know about? 4 weeks ago:
nostr
