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  1. Re:Always the left pushing "hate speech" laws. on Germany Starts Enforcing Hate Speech Law (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Funny how when you guys do it you justify things by saying "freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences" but when someone else decides to simply not subsidize something you like it's fascism.

  2. Re:Citations are abused on The Science That's Never Been Cited (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    I can do it with two words: "Inverse Correlation".

  3. Re:Social smoking? Smoking media? Something there on Facebook Admits that Some Social Media Use Can Be Harmful (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The difference is smoking causes cancer while TFA's social media usage scenarios are most likely caused by rather than causing mental health issues.

  4. Re:Citations are abused on The Science That's Never Been Cited (nature.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You have no idea how bad this has gotten in the social sciences. These days even the most trivial MA coursework level paper is expected to have upwards of 50 citations and be several thousand words long. The only real place you have to pad your work out to meet the ever more obscene wordcount and citation requirements is your lit review, which has resulted in pretty much every single MA candidate cranking out multi-thousand word multi-decade lit reviews as a critical part of every single paper they write.

    Something I noticed while completing my own MA was that the further back I went the shorter papers and bibliographies got, to the point the original paper that first discovered the "Democratic Peace Theory" was a mere handful of pages and had somewhere around 12 citations. For all people talk of grade inflation my experience has been the opposite, almost no professor at a university today would be able to pass their own program or classes using their own work from when they originally got their graduate degrees. It's not grades that are inflating, it's expectations.

    It's the bastard spawn of the tenure-journal-complex and the modern idea that we can quantify and over-manage every little thing by just making numbers go up or down.

  5. Re:Nothing changed but the language on Sexual Harassment In Tech Is As Old As the Computer Age (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    They're the majority because they're the majority, and because they have all the institutional power and control over feminism and a disturbing amount of society at large.

    The reason they have that kind of power and influence is because of "useful idiots" like you using exactly the tired old apologia you're using right now to meatshield and whitewash.

  6. Re:Nothing changed but the language on Sexual Harassment In Tech Is As Old As the Computer Age (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Oh I'm sure some gender studies department somewhere has fabricated whatever data you could want, after all the truth never mattered to people like Dr. Koss who've fabricated results >70% of their own respondents rejected or manufactured such contrived and twisted operationalizations that they successfully erase 50% of rape victims.

  7. Re:Nothing changed but the language on Sexual Harassment In Tech Is As Old As the Computer Age (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Classic societal overcorrection — but make no mistake, it is an overcorrection, not simply coming out of nowhere. The current state is a direct result of how risky it has been for women to be alone with a male coworker all along.

    Every time I think you and the other /. SJWs can't possibly get any more deluded and disconnected from reality you prove me wrong. You sound exactly like the breathless and hysterical way klansmen talk about black men being a threat to white women.

  8. Missing from the article: Rampant sexism on Massive Financial Aid Data Breach Proves Stanford Lied For Years To MBAs (poetsandquants.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The data also showed that female students were significantly more likely to have money thrown at them than men in identical financial circumstances. And men are already a disadvantaged minority in the entire education system, let alone by the time they get to university.

  9. Re:because what you want to watch isn't on netflix on Netflix Is Not Going to Kill Piracy, Research Suggests (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    First off none of your "rationalizations" bear an resemblance or applicability to the real world or even the points you're responding to. Second off you are axiomatically assuming that what people are doing is unethical in the first place, as opposed to the unethical parties being the massive multinational megacorporations who've successfully engaged in bribery to corrupt governments and distort laws in their favor.

  10. Re:All well and proper on After Bankrupting Gawker, Peter Thiel Demands a Chance to Buy Them (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 0

    It's not a hijack in the slightest, this is directly on the subject of people condemning what's happened to gawker as if it were some kind of tragic martyrdom of the last bastion of the free press.

  11. Re:All well and proper on After Bankrupting Gawker, Peter Thiel Demands a Chance to Buy Them (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 0

    The hilarity is that all the people screaming about gamergate, the alt-right, neonazis, and trying to cast gawker as a martyr for freedom of the press are the exact same people who lost their shit over the fappening. They're perfectly alright with publishing stolen sex tapes and nudes... as long as it's not of an attractive woman.

  12. Re:autism or not, reason should override "feelings on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No, no it isn't. Any more than me saying you're allegedly a child molesting cannibal is different than just calling you one. It's a weasel word.

  13. Re: Damore isn't the one who should rethink things on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    One PhD candidate who's a textbook example of someone trying to draw a bullseye around a hole in the wall in order to support their preconceived prejudices versus several people WITH doctoral degrees, awards, and professorships who actually follow the evidence instead of start out with a preordained conclusion and work backwards to support it.

  14. According to your own feminist standards a drunk person can't consent to sex.

  15. Re:"But we poor, poor men get raped sometimes too" on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's been repeatedly proven year after year by the CDC's own data that roughly 50% of rapes are by women against men. The only reason anyone claims otherwise is because they defined the word "rape" in such a way that only women raped by men count. So they have data showing that half the victims of non-consensual sex every year are men victimized by women, but they only CALL it "rape" when it's the other way around.

    What I'm doing is not "whataboutism", it's pointing out that the very same people whose entire core argument revolves around claiming a monopoly on morality BECAUSE of issues like this are in fact not only hypocrites but directly involved in HARMING victims of rape and abuse in order to fabricate fraudulent statistics to push their anti-equality agena.

  16. Re:Can you please point me to the feminist memo? on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No that was from widely respected tenured feminist professors at major universities, and feminist writers at major international mainstream news outlets.

  17. Re:I read every word of the memo and was disgusted on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Except actual experts in the field including non-white women whose doctoral dissertations were in this field say the exact opposite.

  18. Re:autism or not, reason should override "feelings on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You literally claimed someone was helping and supporting the KKK just because they thought the phrase "Grand Wizard" was cool sounding, which it is. That's an utterly repugnant thing to claim on its face let alone to use as an underhanded smear tactic when you've got nothing on them otherwise and are flat out lying about things they said and did.

  19. Re: Damore isn't the one who should rethink things on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    How about instead of a random blogpost we listen to four different scientists with expertise in this subject including a non-white woman whose doctoral dissertation is in this field. The memo was well written, well cited, backed by a majority of actual scientifically sound evidence as opposed to fraudulent garbage put out by gender studies departments, and he represented all of those fields incredibly well to the point that the people attacking him have had to constantly flat out lie to do so.

  20. Re:Damore isn't the one who should rethink things on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The suffragettes were quite violent and their founders rather open in denigrating men as morally inferior beings to women.

  21. Funny how suddenly having sex with someone who's too drunk to know where they are or who they're with isn't rape when it's a feminist doing it.

  22. Re:Damore isn't the one who should rethink things on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Considering the number of times they've terrorized Jews on college campuses, burned books, and silenced people through violence and threats... Yeah you guys are getting closer and closer to the textbook here.

  23. Re:Damore isn't the one who should rethink things on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Thanks for continuing to prove to everyone you didn't read a damn thing for yourself and have no clue what you're talking about. The memo engaged with actual scientifically valid studies, rather than gender studies manufactured agitprop and fraudulent agenda pushing papers, and simply explained "This is why on the whole you find less women interested in being engineers". People then lied through their teeth to completely make up the narrative you're repeating here.

    And P.S. You just described about a century of feminist literature claiming men are inherently inferior, violent, and evil beings who belong in concentration camps or must be reduced to 10% of the human population. SJWs always project.

  24. Re:Also affects normal people on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There are three rules of behavior SJWs almost always follow. They always lie, they always project, and they always double down. Right now you're doing the second one.

    He literally made a throwaway tweet about the fact that "Grand Wizard" is a cool name. It's no different than us Jews lamenting that at least the Nazis were snazzy dressers, although they ruined trench coats for the rest of us. And you are now trying to turn that into him literally helping the Ku Klux Klan.

    That's beyond idiocy and into dangerous paranoid fanaticism.

  25. Re:autism or not, reason should override "feelings on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I love watching people like you try so desperately to flip the term "snowflake" around that, like every other slur you've invented, you just throw it randomly in sentences as a sort of generic grammatical exclamation point.

    Also those two tweets are both perfectly rational and one is supported by so much hard data that it's an entire field of research unto itself in political science. Right up through the end of the Vietnam war, and continuing today in less developed countries, women were and are substantially more conservative socially and politically than men. This is an objective fact. It's a direct result of the fact that those roles evolved over thousands upon thousands of years to ensure human survival during the millenia we went without modern medicine and birth control and an information-age economy.

    As for not challenging women just look at what happens to people that do. Literally an entire slur has been invented just to silence people who disagree with women about anything, anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances.