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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Does not surprise me at all that nobody has any opinions about any of this.

It's 4 videos with people who make a point to do things that are not stereotypical and fit into your happy little box of what is and what isn't.

The lefties don't want to believe that women and minorities and gays could actually have such opinions, and the righties just downright don't trust them.



The utter silence after this post for 2 days is the reason I left here.

The RWED is, and always was, just a bunch of narrow minded individuals who would never change.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Where Summers sees innate differences, Barres sees discrimination. As a young woman – Barbara – he said he was discouraged from setting his sights on MIT, where he ended up receiving his bachelor’s degree. Once there, he was told that a boyfriend must have solved a hard math problem that he had answered and that had stumped most men in the class. After he began living as a man in 1997, Barres overheard another scientist say, “Ben Barres gave a great seminar today, but his work is much better than his sister’s work.

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Originally posted by THX:
FWIW I dropped cable nearly 15 years ago. There are so many things on youtube from educational to entertaining and everything in between. Just recently, though, there is the warning signs that they are going to being restricting the monetization on videos that Anita Sarkeesian SJW-types don't like:

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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
Well, let's see BLM, that is so yesterday's news. That movement is definitely misguided, but no more than the "open carry" folks and the
Bundy supporters out west who break the law and abuse their rights as "citizens."

Yes, I believe that black helicopters are armed & ready to go at a moments notice. Same mentality. Different approaches and different outcomes. But all
are troublemakers. There are other ways to bring attention to the plight of
people of color getting shot while severely unarmed. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for law & order - shoot the motherfuckers who break the law, especially
those who kill and hurt innocent people just going about their lives.

Especially those that hurt young children. Fuck 'em, shoot them dead. But so
too the stupid motherfuckers that go around claiming that they are being
treated differently because the government is giving things away to freeloaders. This guy Bundy stood on the principle that he wasn't going to pay the Feds because he didn't recognize their authority. What a bunch of horseshit!

But I do appreciate that guy Anthony that ran the video of the New Orleans
man who questioned the Black Panthers and BLM for not supporting the black
community in their real time of need. That I agree with 1000%. It is foolish to pretend to be for your community and then not support that community
when the chips are down. I applaud him for posting that video. Also the
retired cop, she had some good points. The BLM folks don't know how to go about protesting and channeling their energies in a positive manner. It is
part that and part built up frustration toward the system. Doesn't excuse it, but there you have it. They are in need of some serious leadership.

Had they handled their shit, and presented their protests constructively,
they would have my vote. So, no.....they don't have a good strategy. I've
spoken to my black friends and they don't like what they see either. Stopping folks from going to work is not going to get you any sympathy,
only very pissed-off people. And the campaign interruptions are stupid and unproductive. Scaring a bunch of folks at a rally will get you attention, but very much in the wrong way. You want folks to back your cause, not be afraid or confused by it.

But they are very much like Trump at his rallies. Safe and stupid. Again, you want to work with people, not insult, confuse and intimidate. Trump talks down to blacks and Hispanics; so does the BLM. they both choose a
soft audience that they could manipulate - in Trump's case: he appeals to the pissed-off white man who has fears off losing their privilege in this
country. BLM appeals to the pissed-off blacks that blame everything on the "white" man. Little do both of them know that they have a common enemy. The System. Powerful people use it to their advantage; to maintain the status quo. The rich get richer baby!

Perfect example: Bernie Madoff.


SGG

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
It's not that I don't have an opinion, it's just that I was busy, and this is a really complex topic.

First of all, let me say that every objective study of bias says that bias exists.

Comparing the peer reviews or grant proposals or job evaluations which are evaluated "blinded" (i.e. gendered names removed) versus the same papers/ proposals that are evaluated with gendered names shows that women have to be roughly SEVEN TIMES better than their male counterparts to achieve the same result. There are just waaaaay too many studies on that topic to refute the findings. I'm just going to link a couple, but there are many more.

https://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/academicpersonnel/documents/Rising_Above
_Unconscious_Bias.pdf
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mckinley/notes/snodgrass-sigmod-2006.p
df

If you want personal observation, there is the experience of a female-to-male transgender scientist who has lived and worked as both female male, and what he says is

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Where Summers sees innate differences, Barres sees discrimination. As a young woman – Barbara – he said he was discouraged from setting his sights on MIT, where he ended up receiving his bachelor’s degree. Once there, he was told that a boyfriend must have solved a hard math problem that he had answered and that had stumped most men in the class. After he began living as a man in 1997, Barres overheard another scientist say, “Ben Barres gave a great seminar today, but his work is much better than his sister’s work.

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http://psychcentral.com/news/2006/07/13/gender-bias-from-scientist-who
-knows-both-sides/93.html

Some of the greatest advances in recent science, like CRISPR, were invented by women, but are barely acknowledged in popular culture. Some males tend to turn every interaction into a gladiatorial contest, whether it is interacting online or fighting for research funding.

Same thing with "people of color" and rental, jobs, loans, etc. If you send in "test couples" with the exact same financial history, the lightest skins get the best responses. Again, there are far too many studies to credibly dispute the notion.

I can point any number of biases that work the same. And the response that a minority, or even a disadvantaged majority (women) should be able to "do for themselves" or re-create an entire economy for themselves is ludicrous. On the other hand, endless whining and focusing on EXTREMELY trivial aspect of prejudice ("micro-aggressions" "micro-invalidations") and other politically-incorrect language expressions of prejudice are equally ludicrous. Just listening to "social justice warriors" makes ME want to bang my head against a wall.

Also, that doesn't mean that minorities and disadvantaged majorities don't have their own prejudices against whites, men, or even against themselves. But their biases are less consequential, since they don't have the power and wealth to impose their views on the more powerful.

So, in the "ideal" world, we would all be free to pursue whatever we were individually best at, and would be evaluated only on merit, whether it is financial merit (for rentals, loans, and purchases) or intellectual merit (for research) or whatever merit applied to the situation.

However, all of this - eliminating prejudice, and pure meritocracy - is based on the assumption that we are all supposed to interact in an individualistic manner in a competitive environment, and that freely-competing individuals will find their best personal level and that society as a whole will benefit.

But what if society does NOT benefit from this arrangement? What if brilliant computer programmers are needed to grow food, and brilliant female (and male) researchers are needed to be great parents?

All I'm doing is pointing out that these discussions are based on some pretty unfounded assumptions. Like I said, it's a complex topic and I don't have time to engage in it.



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I think it's time you disabused yourself of that pleasant little fairy tale about our fearless leaders being some sort of surrogate daddy or mommy, laying awake at night thinking about how to protect the kids. HA! In reality, they're thinking about who to sell them to so that they can get a few more shekels in their pockets.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
...shows that women have to be roughly SEVEN TIMES better than their male counterparts to achieve the same result. ...

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...shows that women have to be roughly SEVEN TIMES better than their male counterparts to achieve the same result. ...- SIGNY

Lost me there. Inept women are advanced all over the place. Often with tragic results. Usually it is hard to tease out the consequences but in the case of Kara Hultgreen it was plain to see.- THX

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...shows that women have to be roughly SEVEN TIMES better than their male counterparts to achieve the same result. ...- SIGNY

Lost me there. Inept women are advanced all over the place. Often with tragic results. Usually it is hard to tease out the consequences but in the case of Kara Hultgreen it was plain to see.- THX

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I assumed that you knew that the kind of result I was referencing referred to AVERAGES. It doesn't mean that every single woman in every single case had to be seven times better than a man, it means that in some instances a woman had to be ten time better (or more) and in some instances could be worse.

Why don't you read the articles that I linked to understand what I'm posting? In addition

https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2014/apr/15/
sexism-disadvantage-women-academics
http://blogs.nature.com/peer-to-peer/2008/01/doubleblind_peer_review_r
eveal.html

In any case, the problem is being solved by journals and grant proposal reviews being done "double blind". That means that the reviewer doesn't know the gender, university (affiliation), previous publishing history etc of the writer, and each paper or proposal is evaluated on its merit. This process is leading to increased acceptance of female-authored scientific papers and grant proposals.

It's too bad that most transactions can't be evaluated that way. Rental applications, loan applications, auto purchases would probably be reviewed more fairly if no information was available about the gender, age, and previous residences (because people can infer color from address) of the applicants/ customers, but was strictly limited to verifiable information like credit history.


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I think it's time you disabused yourself of that pleasant little fairy tale about our fearless leaders being some sort of surrogate daddy or mommy, laying awake at night thinking about how to protect the kids. HA! In reality, they're thinking about who to sell them to so that they can get a few more shekels in their pockets.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

I would suggest watching some of the videos from the people I posted here.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Biden ACHIEVES Lowest Approval Rating Ever!

https://rumble.com/vpj8pj-biden-achieves-lowest-approval-rating-ever.h
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Biden began his presidency moderately popular: At the start, Quinnipiac University’s polling found that 53 percent of Americans approved of him and 36 percent did not. Today’s numbers are the mirror image: In a Quinnipiac poll released yesterday, 36 percent approve, while 53 percent disapprove. FiveThirtyEight’s average of polls finds him doing slightly better—42.8 to 51.7—but still in a consistent slide since the end of July. The numbers are very polarized, but Republicans have always disapproved strongly of Biden; the big difference here is erosion among Democrats and independents.
This reversal could have wide-ranging effects. Biden still hopes to pass a massive social-spending program, for which he needs uniform Democratic support. Depending on their understanding of the causes for the slide, members of Congress might defect. Biden’s unpopularity may already have cost Democrats the Virginia governorship and nearly sunk Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey too. If Biden is this unpopular in a year, congressional Democrats will be entirely swamped in the midterms.
But although the effects are evident, the causes are not. Even in today’s era of heavily quantified politics, some enigmas remain. Here are a few of the theories in play for why the president keeps losing ground, as well as their flaws.

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Republicans, now on the margins, feel persecuted and riled up, but when a party controls the White House, House, and Senate, its supporters tend to get complacent. If Biden doesn’t turn around his approval quickly, Democrats will soon have plenty of opportunities to feel their own sense of disaster and persecution, though by then, that will be small consolation.

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Hollywood will barely dare whisper it but the woke revolution that has driven out white men and ensures that every production is ideologically sound will kill the entertainment industry, writes PETER KIEFER and PETER SAVODNIK

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The Hollywood Reporter declared that ARRAY Crew has 'fundamentally changed how Hollywood productions will be staffed going forward.'

More than 900 productions, including 'Yellowstone' and 'Mare of Easttown,' have used ARRAY Crew, said Jeffrey Tobler, the chief marketing officer of ARRAY, DuVernay's production company.

Privately, directors and writers voiced irritation with DuVernay, who, they said, had exploited the 'post-George Floyd moment.' But no one dared to criticize her openly. 'I'm not crazy,' one screenwriter said.

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The comedy series 'Woke' (a scene from the show is above), which premiered on Hulu in September 2020, should have been the statement on America right now. The show started off on the right foot. Then the producers weighed in.

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Rochée Jeffrey, a black writer on 'Grownish,' 'Santa Inc.,' and 'Woke,' said: 'I don't care if white people aren't comfortable because black people are uncomfortable all the fucking time. I can't tell you how many times I've had to bite my tongue so as not to offend white sensibilities, so I don't give a shit if they're nervous.'

The showrunner said that the new politics is making it hard to get work done.

He added that Human Resources departments at the studios and streaming services are awash in complaints directed at white, male showrunners just for doing their job.

'It's gotten to the point where I won't give notes on a script any longer to a woman or person of color.'

Stentz said that he hasn't run into any problems with 'young millennial staffers with more, shall we say, of a social justice emphasis.'

But, he added, 'I know other people have had less happy experiences.'

The writers' room is supposed to be smart, funny, nasty, a little bawdy, the kind of place where people can make jokes and riff and wonder aloud and vomit out ideas that might become an unforgettable scene.

Another showrunner in his mid-fifties (white, male, unfortunately) said: 'You're not allowed to pick your staff anymore, and studios won't let you interview anybody who isn't a person of color.'

He added that the culture of documenting even the slightest of slights makes him anxious. 'I'm sitting in a room trying to run a show with a collection of people I don't totally trust.'

The politicization of content production, creatives said, was going to be the industry's death knell.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Sounds like they remade Halloween

1998 Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

Jamie Lee Curtis on Halloween Ends: ‘Laurie Strode is a feminist hero’
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/oct/07/jamie-lee-curtis-on-hallo
ween-ends-laurie-strode-is-a-feminist-hero

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
After Velma's Massive FAILURE Joe Biden Awards Mindy Kaling with National Medal of Arts

https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZWkNto9GoYo/

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
So many u tube channels banned that were critical of the agenda

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:


Name one.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
George Lucas Rejects Accusation That Original ‘Star Wars’ Films Were Racist And Misogynist: “The Idea Is All People Are Equal”

https://boundingintocomics.com/2024/05/25/george-lucas-rejects-accusat
ion-that-original-star-wars-films-were-racist-and-misogynist-the-idea-is-all-people-are-equal/

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Seattle Times blasted for saying Trump 'falsely' claimed BLM protestors took over big part of the city in 2020

https://www.foxnews.com/media/seattle-times-blasted-saying-trump-false
ly-claimed-blm-protestors-took-over-big-part-city-2020

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