Re:The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Intern...
by smsm42 on Saturday August 05, 2017 @07:45PM
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Reading the lists of micro-aggressions, like this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201... one can not fail to notice that some of them are clearly political disagreements and that disagreeing with the left tribe dogmas is declared to be micro-aggression there. I can agree that this is ridiculous, but apparently whoever wrote those lists does not think so.
Re:The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Intern...
by DalaiObama on Saturday August 05, 2017 @08:07PM
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Have you tried actually disagreeing with leftists?
Many can handle it fine and have a decent discussion. But many will explode in self righteous rage and do all the things people blinded by hate do.
Re:The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Intern...
by LyndsySimon on Sunday August 06, 2017 @10:37AM
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This is my experience as well. On the right, extremists tend to sort of "clam up" and just stop engaging in meaningful dialogue. On the left, they tend to attack the person challenging them.
I say this as as extreme libertarian, so I have my share of disagreements with both.
Re:The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Intern...
by twh270 on Saturday August 05, 2017 @06:56PM
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It's hardly a 'simplification' when people on the left regularly use the kind of speech I described to attack people who disagree with them. The right is just as guilty, but the comment I responded to was giving the left a pass on it, which is what I object to.
Re:The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Intern...
by rhizome on Sunday August 06, 2017 @12:11AM
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They weren't giving the left a pass on it, they said the offended-right was using the same language.
Re:The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Intern...
by humanrebar on Saturday August 05, 2017 @08:47PM
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To be fair, it was a reply to a comment pointing out hypocrisy with at least a bit of snark.
> Much of the left considers simple disagreement to be micro-aggression...
Tone down on the hypocrisy. If you want your side's arguments to be evaluated fairly, don't make ridiculous oversimplifications of the other side's positions.