Your opinion of me and my motivations is entirely irrelevant. It doesn’t change the situation we’re in at all. I’m practical enough to understand that playing to your audience is not the same thing as compromising your values. You can keep insisting that it is if it makes you feel better about losing but it’s not going to help you win.
Have you considered that the issue of healthcare might be big enough to cause bigots to put their hate aside and come together with trans folk despite their disapproval?
Nothing is important enough to those people to team up with trans folk and if you don’t know that then you haven’t been paying attention.
Healthcare reform is good for everyone, including trans people. There’s nothing exclusionary about being strategic with the arguments you choose to make in support of your goals.
What moral quandary? No one but pedophiles complains about the fact that age minimums for certain activities exist. Cognitive function is a bell curve and old people are on the back end of it. That’s just a fact of life. What is controversial about it?
Aramaic is an ancient language used by some Middle Eastern cultures which reached its peak usage during the height of the Roman Empire. It is not the modern Arabic language.
Just let people fuck who they wanna fuck (legally, of course)
I don’t disagree with what you’re saying I just want to play devils advocate a bit with this statement. It seems sort of odd to caveat a statement that appears unrestrictive with a restriction. I understand why you did it but you conceded the fact that there should be limits on who you can fuck within a statement that, when taken at face value, should mean you can fuck whoever you want. That seems a bit cumbersome doesn’t it?
Apparently not. The world would be a much better place if we all stopped making such a big deal about specific trigger words and focused on the ideas being communicated. If someone’s intent was to be an asshole then sure, get the pitchforks out, but make it clear it’s the idea that’s bad. Don’t just scapegoat the word. If they weren’t obviously trying to be a dick then calibrate your response accordingly.
To put it another way, if you’re upset about the use of a word that a scientist might use to describe something then you’re probably being overly sensitive.
That accurately describes just about every industry and business in America. MBAs are the most overrated educational path in the world. The characteristics of a leech in human form.
Tom did it right. He is what all social media execs should have been (afaik, he may be a terrible person in secret but all evidence I’ve seen points to the contrary). He built a popular site, made his money, then fucked off into the sunset without trying to ruin society for a bit more money.
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