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I just LOL’d. Thanks for that, at least. “Nuh uh, YOU are!” 😂

Nobody is taking away any of your rights, though that is a funny juxtaposition given the actual topic under discussion. You’re free to believe any silly hateful thing or resent any idea you want, but this part about refusing to accept people for who they are? That’s legitimately considered a form of prejudice.

Forgive me. I’m pretty slow. A bit of a dotard, really. Gonna need someone to speak slowly and softly to explain this to me like I’m in kindergarten. I suggested that not accepting trans people for who they are… continuing to call them he when they identify as she or making rude insinuations about castration, for example… itself might legitimately be considered a form of prejudice. You then jumped tracks and suggested that I’m accusing people of being phobic for rejecting a sexual advance in a night club. What point are you trying to convince me and others of with this line of reasoning? Because not only are they personal in nature, but they’re also an irrelevant distraction with no worth. I prefer to make my dating and sexing decisions based on the individual qualities and characteristics of the individual before me. Who cares how they identify if I find them attractive and wish to act on it? You sure as shit shouldn’t since it’s my cock and not yours.

Your logic here is weak, or at least the analogy laughable. You are basically claiming (even if only implicitly) that not being attracted to nor wanting to have sex (refusing an advance) automatically means I’m discriminating against the entire gender or class with whom that individual happens to align themselves. I might refuse advances from a female (and in fact I have on a few occasions), but that doesn’t make me a misogynist nor a woman hater. Likewise, I might refuse advances from a gay male (and here again in fact I have on a few occasions), but that doesn’t make me a homophobe. Finally, I might refuse advances from a trans or queer person (see above), but that hardly makes me anti-trans or transphobic. I am primarily advocating for a world with fewer needless divisions; for a world where more people express more positions of acceptance other humans as individuals and not as stereotyped monolithic labels. When people refuse to accept a trans person how they identify it is a type of prejudice… whether or not they happen to be hitting on you. There’s not reason for it beyond fear and lack of experience/exposure. And to repeat my previous position, I support merit based approaches to divisions in elite sports… you either meet the criteria for that group or you do not. Gender and pubic plumbing need not ever enter the equation.

It should be noted that failure to accept trans individuals as they identify can legitimately be viewed as a type of prejudice. In fairness, your comments suggest a lack of acceptance and empathy for this community, even outside the narrow boundaries of elite athleticism.

Some of us, anyway.

At that point, the concept of metabolism takes over and the answer very much depends on the composition (and size) of the object.

I recognize this wasn’t clear in my prev post, but I wasn’t referring to you Which ones? Where are these nonfictional folks, specifically?

So now one anecdote qualifies for “them” generalizations? Gotcha. I’m obviously in way over my head. 🙄 Here yet again (like reparations) we have a rando coming in merely to stir the pot and cause discord among folks who otherwise get along just fine. It’s amazing how easy some ppl make it for these folks to do so.

Thank you for confirming you’re unable to name any specific individuals or actual groups engaging in these behaviors.

Which women? Individual differences seem far more relevant here than binary gender framed averages. Who is this horrible “they” in reality, though? This sounds more like another fictional bogeyman / made up enemy than an actual group of people with any meaningful power to effect change.

Well, yeah. I reckon when we change the consensus meaning of words to better align with our own personal versions of those same words then those words start meaning different things and the conclusions they describe don’t always hold.

Likely a bot in training

Sometimes? 😆 Much obliged btw. My first thought is that this is just a sampling bias. As in… It’s always existed with similar commonality, but you just happen to see it now more often. It takes on a heavier significance in your mind than it really deserves since it seems more frequent than it did before when our datasets were limited to the local herald and balding neighbors.

Yes, that’s correct. However, you appear to assume in parallel that my existing baseline knowledge on this topic is null. That is not correct. Or, until the algorithm detects a break in the pattern, in which case I’m alerted and the workflow I’ve already laid out above gets executed. Even if that fails, I can also see transactions myself at any time and manually challenge any not from us. Banking institutions will tend to reverse any financial liability previously associated with me (and potentially issue new card) and end result is same. For me it was a gas station attendant when refueling the vehicle prior to entering Yellowstone with my family. Card was deactivated before I even got to the hotel. Had to call them to unlock the hold.

No. Brain fart. Meant Brown v Board, not Plessy. My bad. Should obviously stop posting while carrying sheets of plywood. Intended point was to remind that Brown v Board of Education is what ended school segregation. Marshall argued it and won, but the lone dissenter in that landmark ruling used the same color blind language our modern Justices cited to end affirmative action just this week.

Justice Sotomayor also had some choice feedback when the right leaning justices invoked former NAACP civil rights attorney and SCOTUS Justice Thurgood Marshall (who argued Plessy v Ferguson) as a way of supporting this color blind issue we’ve been facing here in this thread. She said: Exactly, but progress is progress. I’d equally support an extra “kicker” or bonus payment for our fellow citizens who happen to be black. Maybe if we keep compromising by half over and over again, we might back ourselves into a “Zeno’s Paradox” path to an actual workable solution on this.

Thinking through how else we might approach this without explicit focus on race. Possibly we could enact a universal basic income program indexed to current wealth and income. Means tested. More for lower incomes, less for higher incomes. It addresses concerns of new racism, but since wealth among non-white Americans is orders of magnitude lower it has the potential to address the same core issues without the semantic baggage. It naturally seems more fair.

The part about me being a jerk, right?

My read... obviously is possible I'm mistaken... is that this was just someone spamming their own youtube video and pretending it was created by someone else. But at least I racked up 3 negs for being a bit firm in my pushback. I'm such a jerk. Lol.

Your point is noticed and acknowledged, though... Justice Thomas has long been strident in his opposition to affirmative action, but even his colleagues on the court suggest that he's too often arguing against strawmen and nonexistent bogeymen. He's attacking a fantasy and hyperbole more than real world problems. I was thankful to see Justice Jackson calling him out on it (from Salon): Again here, however, we're not talking about reparations in the US anymore.

This IMO oversimplifies what's actually happening to the point of making it inaccurate. Your computer knowledge absolutely surpasses my own, but I do have some familiarity with the ways AI tools are being applied in finance to identify and address fraud and it's about more than just IP matching. In some ways, you actually reinforced the point that faraday wallets are a bit gimmicky because you pointed out just how many several other (much easier) ways exist to pilfer the credit card data of consumers... easier, at least, than picking up RFID info while the card is still stored in ones wallet within ones pocket.

And results in a smoother finish IINM

Only in yodas mind. Use the force, you must.