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  1. That's not really definition creep at all. Racist jokes have always been racist. They just haven't been as widely judged as they are now. You don't mind being judged, you say what you want. Welcome to civilized society.

  2. Re:eh? on Sexist Presentations At Startup Competition Prompt TechCrunch Apology · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To be fair, advocating a felony is actually an exception to free-speech, and would likely have been sent to jail for suggesting murder instead of rape with their chant. People tend to not have a sense of humor about things where they think their safety is actively being threatened.

  3. It's exactly the same as how people accuse "no moderate Muslims of condemning terrorism". Of course they do, they do all the time, and no one who's looking to play the victim pays attention to that.

  4. Re:Congratulations on Sexist Presentations At Startup Competition Prompt TechCrunch Apology · · Score: 1

    Ok, so, I'm not the strawman you created. Your entire post can be boiled down to "people care about different things than me and that's obviously and inherently bad"

    Feminism isn't an extreme position in the slightest. The broken mental construct that it is is basically pro-discrimination.

  5. It's not "hunky-dory", and that's the end of that entire line of reasoning.

  6. Re:Congratulations on Sexist Presentations At Startup Competition Prompt TechCrunch Apology · · Score: 1

    Yeah, remember when we didn't talk about racism back in the early 1800s. Not a peep of discrimination then. Morgan Freeman is an actor, distanced by a fuck-ton of money and a great deal of celebrity from the day-to-day discrimination that a lot of African Americans face.

    It's not your job to get outraged, but that doesn't mean that horrible things aren't happening.

  7. Durr, both are wrong in that they propagate stereotypes, while different degrees of wrong, both are legal in that they're free speech. You should stop pretending that being judged for the things you say is the same as sitting in front of a judge for the things you say.

  8. Re:eh? on Sexist Presentations At Startup Competition Prompt TechCrunch Apology · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, women can be sexist. Objectification can go both ways, and can even be homosexual. Oddly, in public avenues like these, it almost always appears to come from politically dominant classes, and these hypothetical questions are almost never relevant. How strange is that?

  9. Re:I was wondering what that galloping sound was on Sexist Presentations At Startup Competition Prompt TechCrunch Apology · · Score: 2

    Oh how scathing, being accused of coming to rescue of [ERROR MISSING FEMALE IN CONVERSATION] for the hope of sex with them. There is absolutely no reason to defend the notion that all people are created equal beyond combination pity-thanks sex.

  10. Re:Congratulations on Sexist Presentations At Startup Competition Prompt TechCrunch Apology · · Score: 0

    You ever notice how people who hate women for imagined reasons are also good at hating lots of men for imagined reasons too? Like they don't have anything useful to contribute to society, so all they have left is being angry at people who do?

  11. Re:Congratulations on Sexist Presentations At Startup Competition Prompt TechCrunch Apology · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've never been quite so insulted in a manner that made quite so little sense in my life.

  12. Re:The relationship between Google and Uncle Sam on Google Speeding Up New Encryption Project After Latest Snowden Leaks · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, you can encrypt it yourself, with a private key you don't give to NSA lovers like RSA, and give your public key to your friends(and vice-versa, naturally).

  13. Objectification is conventionally considered sexism even when it doesn't contain explicit stereotypes, because it's implicitly dehumanizing. You don't consider it sexism.

  14. Re:Congratulations on Sexist Presentations At Startup Competition Prompt TechCrunch Apology · · Score: 2, Funny

    "You treat women like human beings, you must be a particularly physically weak male. Cower before my obviously flawed logic, and limited mental capacity"

  15. Re:A tad obvious on Humans Choose Friends With Similar DNA · · Score: 1

    Except they specifically say you have more in common than with a randomly selected stranger, so you're "obvious" point is completely contravened by the article.

  16. How dare you!? on Humans Choose Friends With Similar DNA · · Score: 4, Funny

    How dare you insult my friends by comparing them to me!

  17. Re:Holy buzzword Batman! on Survey: Most IT Staff Don't Communicate Security Risks · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh god, when they say that in person, to your face, and mean use email to discuss it, it's time to shrivel up and die.

  18. Maybe I'm an excessive user on Epic: A Privacy-Focused Web Browser · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But 1000 blocks an hour is way short of what Ad-block plus gets with the standard list.

  19. Re:you know hell has frozen over on NRA Joins ACLU Lawsuit Against NSA · · Score: 0

    Yeah, you do that.

  20. Re:Sic semper tyrannis on NRA Joins ACLU Lawsuit Against NSA · · Score: 1

    Yay, so sexist tripe, that's how you know it's a fundamental human right, when it arbitrarily starts sorting humans into categories based on age and gender to see if they qualify.

    So self-evident.

  21. Re:This just in: on NRA Joins ACLU Lawsuit Against NSA · · Score: -1, Troll

    They're about a specific class of gun, that hasn't been constitutionally ruled to be protected by the 2nd amendment. Intentionally being misleading then saying "aha, but now I will misinterpret what you said to show you as an idiot" isn't being reasonable.

  22. Re:you know hell has frozen over on NRA Joins ACLU Lawsuit Against NSA · · Score: 0

    "If I don't have the ability to take someone else's right to life, how can I do anything?!?!"

    The notions of checks and balances, democracy, social contracts, rule of law, basic self-determination, all were impossible until the 16th century when someone exploded some lead down a metal tube.

    Tell us more about how human nature depends on a specific piece of technology.

  23. Re:This just in: on NRA Joins ACLU Lawsuit Against NSA · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah, you sure can edit those to hide the context of those to pretend it's about all guns. Nice use of the ellipsis there, and with no link back to an original source.

    A+ for effort!

  24. Re:Between the two organizations on NRA Joins ACLU Lawsuit Against NSA · · Score: 1

    Both of those come from not being a shithead that wants to see people suffer, and not the bill-of-rights.

  25. Re:you know hell has frozen over on NRA Joins ACLU Lawsuit Against NSA · · Score: 1

    To be fair, the whole "outraged==paying attention" formula applied to the patriot act.