So much dishonesty, "They called on science & reason to support James Damore saying women were biologically inferior but refuse to acknowledge that it's irrational to say that people are inferior because they're women." (Paraphrasing) Lies but illogical even if it were truehttps://twitter.com/BristolBen/status/994245846433705984 …
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I've suspected for a long time that these people DO look at this way. That everything male/masculine is superior to the female/feminine. Earning more money is superior to having a good relationship with your children. Tech is a more important field than nursing, or whatever. Etc.
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It's some sort of circular reasoning. Since men have been oppressors, if men have or do something then it must be good. Thus if women were the ones tending the household, this must be of lower value. I dunno, it's really difficult to dress it in rational terms, because it's not.
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Just thinking out loud here but.. Surely different ideologies exist, but sometimes it just seems it comes down to language. So when I say 'different', they hear 'unequal', or 'superior/inferior', because to them those are synonyms.
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OR that IS how they see things. That if people are different, then based on some criteria or other, one MUST be superior. This is also why they so strongly object to this thinking, because if they were to agree, they themselves would have to start to believe that
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men are superior to women. Or if they were to acknowledge average IQ difference between populations they would have no choice but to become nazis...?
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And maybe that very basal way of looking at things, of understanding the world, is what lies at the bottom of this ideological divide?
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Yes, absolutely. It's counterintuitive but it comes down to this belief that the world is constructed by discourses - ways of talking about things - and that everything is culturally constructed in this way within hierarchies of identities. Saying things makes it reality.pic.twitter.com/J6DWlEPK3j
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This is surreal.