People pick on whatever sticks out. Is the developer Russian? Russian insults. Are they of Chinese descent, and he comments?
Sure, but the problem isn't that, but what commonly sticks out and how it's insulted.
Being white usually doesn't stick out. Being non-white does. "Whitey" and "cracker" are almost comical in comparison with other racial slurs.
Being a straight man usually doesn't stick out. If someone still wants to insult a straight man, they usually do it by comparing them to women or to homosexuals.
People use ethnicity according to their prejudices as insults, but you rarely hear "Swedish" as an insult (except maybe on Fox News). So that's very selective. You also see mental illnesses and mental capabilities used as insults. Disabilities as well. Class is also often used ("redneck" isn't just aimed at whites, but poor, uncultured whites).
Some groups are way more targeted than others. If you look at which groups are targeted and which ones are not, you should see a clear pattern.
...moron, fag (though it doesn't apply), n*gga (though it doesn't apply)...
It's interesting that most if not all serious insults are about minority status. You insult a straight man by calling him non-straight, but a homosexual by calling them homosexual.
That alone should tell us that the identities not turned into serious insults are above those that are.
If you're referring to that wage gap crap, it's been debunked time and time again.
There's a big difference in what men and women earn at the end of the day (although in the studies I've seen there's a few percentage points of difference that can't be explained). This is often explained with women making different career and family choices. If we accept that reasoning, then if a difference is the result of choice, then it's acceptable. That makes me wonder about one of your other points:
Where are the employment campaigns for more women in dangerous or hard labor jobs?
Why do you think this is a problem? Noone's forcing men to work in dangerous jobs, right? Just like women "choosing" jobs that pay less than men's jobs, men choose dangerous jobs. Women choose one way and get paid less, men choose another way and have more work accidents.
Personally I'm against both situations and I don't think that choice (or the illusion of it) magically solves every problem.
Lastly, I think you should pitch your idea of hiring women into these male-dominated, dangerous jobs. I'm sure women are genuinely wanted by the guys there, and they'll be accepted as equals, right?
13 shootings with 62 victims in Europe the last 10 years, versus 67 shootings and 132 victims in the US. Europe has more than twice the population. That's a pretty significant difference.
PS. I'm not counting the Breslan shooting for obvious reasons.
And what if you do go out with your rapist for some reason? Does that change anything? No.
There are many reasons. Not every rape is obvious. If you've been raped maybe you're rationalizing it as something else until someone tells you. Maybe you can't admit to yourself that a person you admired is a rapist. So you push your doubts away and try to act normal. It's quite common if you listen to the stories of rape victims.
Wrong. It clearly states in the police report that he had sex with one of the women while she was sleeping. She couldn't have given him consent. Sex without consent is rape.
What you and your long time partner have agreed to is irrelevant here. If you initiate sex with a sleeping person you don't have consent. Sex without consent is by definiton rape. It doesn't matter if it wakes the person up or not, it's still sex without consent.
According to the police report, Assange was violent with one woman and had sex with another while she slept. The latter is sex without consent, which equals rape. So he should stand trial. You don't get to rape people and walk away, even if you're a hero.
The funny thing is that if you go to Japan, you see these palm readers who set up shop at night on streets, with a tiny booth and everything. I immediately thought of them when I read this.
So why aren't people complaining loudly about the mine cart ride in Temple of Doom?
This isn't about physics or suspension of belief, really. It's about how nothing can live up to the old movies, because they're heavily steeped in nostalgia.
Like the moral teaching that women are the property of their husbands, or that slavery is fine?
There's no reason to live by millenia-old rules just because they're old.
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Good point. Also, don't forget the environmental costs of uranium mining.
People pick on whatever sticks out. Is the developer Russian? Russian insults. Are they of Chinese descent, and he comments?
Sure, but the problem isn't that, but what commonly sticks out and how it's insulted.
Being white usually doesn't stick out. Being non-white does. "Whitey" and "cracker" are almost comical in comparison with other racial slurs.
Being a straight man usually doesn't stick out. If someone still wants to insult a straight man, they usually do it by comparing them to women or to homosexuals.
People use ethnicity according to their prejudices as insults, but you rarely hear "Swedish" as an insult (except maybe on Fox News). So that's very selective. You also see mental illnesses and mental capabilities used as insults. Disabilities as well. Class is also often used ("redneck" isn't just aimed at whites, but poor, uncultured whites).
Some groups are way more targeted than others. If you look at which groups are targeted and which ones are not, you should see a clear pattern.
...moron, fag (though it doesn't apply), n*gga (though it doesn't apply)...
It's interesting that most if not all serious insults are about minority status. You insult a straight man by calling him non-straight, but a homosexual by calling them homosexual.
That alone should tell us that the identities not turned into serious insults are above those that are.
I recall that the global temperature peaked in 1998 and has not broken that record since.
No, the latest record was 2010.
I recall that the temperature reached in 1998 was lower than that of 1934.
No, globally, 1934 is the 49th hottest year on record.
There seems to be a certain difficulty to create a correlation between CO2 levels and global temperatures.
No, an enhanced greenhouse effect from CO2 has been confirmed by multiple lines of empirical evidence..
Might be better for your argument if that wasn't completely false.
If you're referring to that wage gap crap, it's been debunked time and time again.
There's a big difference in what men and women earn at the end of the day (although in the studies I've seen there's a few percentage points of difference that can't be explained). This is often explained with women making different career and family choices. If we accept that reasoning, then if a difference is the result of choice, then it's acceptable. That makes me wonder about one of your other points:
Where are the employment campaigns for more women in dangerous or hard labor jobs?
Why do you think this is a problem? Noone's forcing men to work in dangerous jobs, right? Just like women "choosing" jobs that pay less than men's jobs, men choose dangerous jobs. Women choose one way and get paid less, men choose another way and have more work accidents.
Personally I'm against both situations and I don't think that choice (or the illusion of it) magically solves every problem.
Lastly, I think you should pitch your idea of hiring women into these male-dominated, dangerous jobs. I'm sure women are genuinely wanted by the guys there, and they'll be accepted as equals, right?
Assange had sex with a woman while she slept. Sex without consent is rape.
According to the police report, Assange had sex with one of the women while she slept. Sex without consent is rape.
I wrote about school shootings.
13 shootings with 62 victims in Europe the last 10 years, versus 67 shootings and 132 victims in the US. Europe has more than twice the population. That's a pretty significant difference.
PS. I'm not counting the Breslan shooting for obvious reasons.
Alternatively, conspiracy nuts and Assange fanboys are willing to let him walk free from rape.
You can have implict conscent or give consent beforehand to a partner you know well and trust. Without that, it's rape.
But your scenario isn't the least bit relevant for Assange.
And what if you do go out with your rapist for some reason? Does that change anything? No.
There are many reasons. Not every rape is obvious. If you've been raped maybe you're rationalizing it as something else until someone tells you. Maybe you can't admit to yourself that a person you admired is a rapist. So you push your doubts away and try to act normal. It's quite common if you listen to the stories of rape victims.
But if you took a nap during the aprty and someone had sex with you in your sleep, you can definitely claim they raped you.
Sex with a sleeping person is rape, however.
Wrong. He had sex with them with their consent...
Wrong. It clearly states in the police report that he had sex with one of the women while she was sleeping. She couldn't have given him consent. Sex without consent is rape.
What you and your long time partner have agreed to is irrelevant here. If you initiate sex with a sleeping person you don't have consent. Sex without consent is by definiton rape. It doesn't matter if it wakes the person up or not, it's still sex without consent.
He didn't force himself on anyone.
Wrong. In the police report it clearly says he had sex with one of the women while she slept. Sex without consent is rape.
"...he had condom-less sex with complainant 2 on the morning of 17 August while she was asleep..."
Sex with a sleeping person is sex without consent, which is rape.
According to the police report, Assange was violent with one woman and had sex with another while she slept. The latter is sex without consent, which equals rape. So he should stand trial. You don't get to rape people and walk away, even if you're a hero.
The bias and prejudice that keep women out of IT could be said to be an informal quota system for men. That too should lead to an inferior product.
Diversifying doesn't necessarily mean a quota system, and it can very well be profitable. Like for IBM.
The funny thing is that if you go to Japan, you see these palm readers who set up shop at night on streets, with a tiny booth and everything. I immediately thought of them when I read this.
Add the ability to buy episodes from anywhere in the world, and you got yourself a deal.
So why aren't people complaining loudly about the mine cart ride in Temple of Doom?
This isn't about physics or suspension of belief, really. It's about how nothing can live up to the old movies, because they're heavily steeped in nostalgia.
Like the moral teaching that women are the property of their husbands, or that slavery is fine? There's no reason to live by millenia-old rules just because they're old.