No, most people don't want to silence those who say gender differences exist. This is obvious to people not ideologically-motivated to deny it. The threats which ranged from grenades to bricks to shitty diapers came from a small number of zealots. Tho the ideas have power.
That's right, yes. We were unable to discuss the substance of the issue I was raising about the problem of having different ethical expectations of different cultures because of your insistence on focusing instead on whether cultural relativism was the right term for the problem.
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I remove myself from such conversations if a person keeps focusing on semantics after a maximum of three attempts of clarifying my meaning & asking that person to instead address what I mean rather than what they think I should call what I mean.
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I did this after getting bogged down in what is the correct definition of 'atheist' and 'feminist' so many times and never getting to actually discuss arguments against the existence of God or how to go about achieving gender equality.
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Cool. My goal is never to bog down, only to get clear on shared terminology before moving forward. Otherwise you just have to start over halfway through.
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This is the problem tho. People never agree to share terminology. They just argue forever about whether an atheist is someone who lacks belief in God or holds a belief that God does not exist. Very very tedious. Much better to establish what they mean by a word & get to substance
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I never called myself one until hearing the passive version. Seven on the Dawkins scale seems like too much certainty. We simply can’t know some things.
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Most of us are a six, I think.
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Right, because if the view you’re criticizing is pluralism instead of relativism, it matters a great deal for which objections can be raised and the options in defending the position. I believe relativists are a fringe view and pluralism dominates the left.
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OK, that's potentially an interesting conversation in its own right but it wasn't the point I was making in my essay and I couldn't get you to address what I actually was talking about so I gave up. Honestly, it's fine. I bear you no ill will. Just not going to try that again.
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Well, since the issue was relevant to your claims in the article and I was trying to address them and was making a point you now consider interesting i appreciate the lack of ill will. My virtual door is always open to help work through such issues.
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