Good stuff is a hard marker to hit.
Going back to 54% of Americans read at or below the 5th grade level (in terms of functional capacity and reaching comprehension), they need it spelled out.
And this good is slowly being eroded away.
Alien hardly explains anything. Alien Romulus isn’t as bad as much modern cinema but explains too much sometimes
Double check and see if your state protects the use of your sick time.
In the state I live, there are special protections for using sick time. If they so much as make a comment about it that’s a violation. A write up would probably get the business sued by the state.
This is a selective quote.
The whole thought experiment for the Paradox does require us to take time to determine if someone is truly intolerant versus ignorant. After they have established that they are intolerant then the recommended conclusion holds.
That said, in the context of Nikki Minaj, she has definitely shown herself to be intolerant (probably due to willful ignorance caused by… You guessed it… Wealth echo chamber).
Nice to see you again SARGE.
Since only one person gets to be the hero…
“Number One”
I appreciate the reply. I have nothing to build on from here and I appreciate both your take and your willingness to be clear.
Thanks so much for the discussion.
I agree on the moral bottom line: bigotry is bigotry, and it isn’t excused by someone’s past.
Where we disagree is whether the “why” matters. I’m not asking for pity or moral credit; I’m talking about causality because prevention requires understanding how these beliefs form and get reinforced. “Explanation” isn’t “justification.”
If you’re claiming trauma can’t be a contributing factor in any case, that’s a stronger claim than “it doesn’t excuse it,” and I don’t think it’s self-evident. Fear and threat-perception can shape ideology, and some people channel that into scapegoating. Especially so when insulated by wealth, platform, and echo chambers.
Also, bringing up genocide shifts the topic from mechanisms of prejudice to extreme hypotheticals. The point stands without that comparison.
If you don’t want to discuss causes at all, that’s your call. If so, we’re not actually disagreeing about accountability, just about whether analysis is worth doing.
Are you saying I’m making a hasty generalization?
I’m not claiming “survivors become bigots.” I’m talking about this case: it’s plausible her assault left her with fear that she later converted into ideology. Becoming extremely wealthy then gave her the platform and the insulation to reinforce that fear in an echo chamber until it hardened into vitriol. None of which removes her responsibility.
Bigots come from all kinds of backgrounds for all kinds of reasons. In her case, trauma + power + echo-chambering instead of healing seems like a plausible pathway.
And to be clear: none of us has the information to know whether she held these views before the assault, and we definitely can’t know the counterfactual of who she would’ve become without it.
Given the nature of her trauma induced bigotry, I doubt she has the biological knowledge required to be aware of this simple fact.
Is this Green Text in the wild?
I hate memes like this. They are so disingenuous. I don’t get vaccines only for me, I get them for my immuno-compromised neighbors as well.
Goodwill has a recycling partner that can take most e-waste .
I think you just defined purgatory.
That or we teach the the Marie Kondo method with some SEL.
“Let’s understand that Derek has given us all that he has. We appreciate his help in our learning and must say goodbye and thank you.”
“Everyone, remember, if we are like Derek we to can get worn out and be replaced. Thus you must seize the means of production.”
Frankly. I don’t think I internalized the source material enough to provide a fair take on the source and concede the author likely conflates the issue poorly.
Thank so much for the intellectual bout. Appreciate you.
Sure. But the issue is the sample size is naturally large so the Central Limit Theorem applies.
As such, the population of the US as a whole is likely normally distributed. Thus the outliers are normalized and this should not skew anything.
140k/4 is about 35k a person. Since a household of 4 assume 2 kids and kids consume a median of 30k a year not including housing you are limiting each adult to about 40k a year pre tax. Tax is going to consume about 50k so that’s 30k for 2 adults for the year. Housing costs at 1800 a month for a 2 bedroom eat up about another 20k.
This leaves 10k for food, clothes, etc.
Assuming I didn’t jack up my math (bad assumption even if I teach finance as a living), there is simply not enough money to really enjoy life. At 80k you are living on a 60k deficit, which means you rely heavily on the good grace of others to function.
Unless I am mistaken poverty lines are usually for families not individuals.
I think 140k median us wide for a family seems reasonable. Sure it’s pretty high for some Low Cost of Living areas, but many of those areas lack local social services, public transit, etc.
For how many people?
A month is more than enough time to plan and discuss future options. Especially for a community. 👍