Science Denial Won’t End Sexism

Re:Science Denial Won’t End Sexism by deogeo on Monday March 11, 2019 @06:43PM (#19363593)

But the articles (not just this one, but very nearly all of them) don't talk about X and Y - they talk about "white people" and "minorities", and stubbornly pretend the two groups are distinct.

A quick search (though I couldn't find any particularly authoritative sources) says white people are ~16% of the global population, behind both south and east asians. To keep calling everyone else 'minorities' is more than a little US/Eurocentric. Especially when they put phrases such as "In a world where world-class...", implying they're not limiting themselves to 'country X'

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Re:Science Denial Won’t End Sexism by tathougies on Monday March 11, 2019 @07:37PM (#19363972)

Oh stop it. Asian here. Discrimination happens in individual societies. The united states and Asian countries do not share societies. It is clear from the language and website of the article that it is targeted towards the USA

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Re:Science Denial Won’t End Sexism by nkurz on Monday March 11, 2019 @11:57PM (#19365298)

> It is clear from the language and website of the article that it is targeted towards the USA

Maybe, but since the author is Canadian, and the website is Australian, I'm surprised you would be so confident of this.

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Re:Science Denial Won’t End Sexism by AnimalMuppet on Monday March 11, 2019 @07:07PM (#19363765)

The discrimination isn't worldwide; it's within a country. So, since the conversation we're having is about discrimination within a country, it makes sense that the term "minority" is also to be understood as being within that country. Whether any race has a majority world-wide is completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand.

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