AvocadoPanic
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AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Crimes that may occur with unfortunate or surprising regularity can still be extreme. Are there any specific crimes on the list you provided that you find unwarranted?
I suspect without much effort I could identify more crimes I'd add to the list. Any number of sexual violent crimes against children or the elderly that don't necessarily result in death I'd happily add to the list.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
While I am certainly anti-woke. As a earlier reply suggests the older have quantitatively more 'lived experience'. I'm not sure this is arbitrary, nor is gaining more experience through aging denied anyone except the dead. They say the living have all the privilege. If only the dead had better advocacy groups.
Another not infrequent privilege target is height, at least among men. I've not seen suggestions that the short to median heighted should be given subsidized lifts, though this only makes them appear tall. The height version of stolen valor. It won't grant them the lived experience of being tall. Though dating apps could easily show women more short men. There'd need to be some sort of enforced quota system, women would be required to match and date 4n short men for every n tall man. My suspicion is that because this a privilege deficit that affects men, no one cares. My wife had to show me my height percentile before I accepted I was tall, I'm not NBA tall, or fit, or sporty. The tall in the far right tail of the distribution appear to have more tall privilege than me, do I get an accommodation too? Unless you go too far right and the height is pathological or diagnostic, I don't want that.
'Privilege' to me has always been a bit like dark matter or dark energy, it fills the gaps for people that need an easy explanation of unequal outcomes, where the results of investigating too throughly or deeply would conflict with a preferred orthodoxy.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Your view may be too straightforward.
The informed view from 2008 https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08MOSCOW265_a.html was more balanced and nuanced.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Might this be the cause rather than the effect.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
People who were not useful were at risk of being left behind and/or not reproducing, so psychological mechanisms that punished people for perceived uselessness helped them to pass on their genes.
Is this the case anywhere today? That the useful are more reproductively successful than the useless? Many have traded fecundidity for economic productivity.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Drag performers specifically, I don't anticipate much data. That pederastry is not uncommon among homosexuals is fairly widely discussed.
A recent example; https://www.varsity.co.uk/features/20980
That while homosexuals are not more likely to offend, offenders are more likely to be homosexual has been discussed in the literature. The majority of the studies I've seen focus on pedophilia, rather than hebephilia or ephebophilia.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
I think your 'grooming' may be a term of art at which point the authorities have a reasonable likelihood of success legally when they intervene.
The local townspeople and I likly have a lower threshold for grooming as our actions may be more likely to be extra-judicial.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
How overt and specific must the behavior be to be grooming?
Getting the kids and parents to self-select to participate in their further indoctrination to lifestyle with poor outcomes doesn't exactly seem like not grooming.
It's on par with many adult homosexual adolescent boy grooming scenarios. Often neither sees it as grooming. They've common interests and the boy is an old soul, mature for his age. The drag kids show itself may not be grooming, but it's where all the groomers hang out, and the behavior is normalized.
It won't help there's a group claiming of course this isn't grooming, it's just pride and fun. Indoctrination into the community makes it easier to fiddle the kid later. That it's done with a guise of community pride, rather than prostitution is to many a distinction without a difference. Though I could see an argument that the pederast homosocial relationship is 'better' than being prostituted, murdered and served as kebab.
It's all fun until a groomer tempts you with word too large.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Not sure I'd class 5% pedos as a small percent. I think of small percentages as winning the lottery, being struck by lightning and dying, being healthly 18 - 49 and dying of Covid.
Nor does the 5% pedos really address the larger cohort of homosexual men for which this sort of grooming behavior is normalized towards adolescents, pederastry. The behavior covered by some of the accusations against Kevin Spacey or the descriptions of George Takei losing his virginity at 13 to an attractive older man.
Many other communities that work with youth have specific proscribed safe-guarding policies in place to prevent inappropriate conduct. Parent volunteers in schools, scoutmasters, etc. are subjected to criminal background checks and frequently attend training on safeguarding vulnerable populations.
That 95% of people who do drag kid shows are enabling and providing cover for the 5% who do want to molest kids doesn't seem a great argument in favor of drag kid shows.
Also even the groomers see themselves as the heroes of their stories. They're welcoming the kids into the community or whatever the current euphemism is.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Rather than drawing attention the groomers directly, perhaps a targeted prevention approach directed at those most at risk for grooming.
What would an updated version of this educational film be like?
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Is Japan as helpful with trans men?
Do you have any suggestions for words for transwomen?
Non-consensus Women?
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Rather than justification, how about acquiescence?
I wouldn't necessarily advocate for violence against politicians, lawyers, bankers etc. If angry yet capable mob started building guillotines on capital hill I'd like to see where it goes before reflexive condemnation.
Do you know anyone that married before 30, has 4 children and regrets the sexual promiscuity, alcohol and a 16 - 26 rakish decade? I see one in the mirror everyday.
I don't think it'd be a Sisyphean as you describe. Sadly many of the societal tools to ensure a positive outcome have been blunted. Shaming is frequently seen an sexist, misogynist, anti-alaphabet people, etc. Realistic positive portrayals of women choosing to be mothers, wives and homemakers and family life are rare in popular culture.
Young men are in similar difficulty as evidenced by the popularity of 'Clean up your own room' and perceived lack of respect afforded to those choosing trades or technical training. The many that find themselves in online echo chambers and feedback loops is also unhelpful.
That current year, sexual liberation, leaning-in and girl bossing does not seem to make women very happy is evident in the volume of psychotropic medications consumed by this cohort. That they commiserate in their unhappiness is evident in the literature and media they frequently consume.
Get woke, go broke suggests to me the perception of a deep cultural shift may be unwarranted.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
I made a variation of this argument to my wife after her MD/PhD. She's now a SAHM with our 4 children.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
The hugeness of new trucks is likely driven by fuel standards, or lack of them based on wheelbase.
Many of us would prefer smaller light pickups that are no longer manufactured.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Better metrics likely do exist, would you expect Mohamed to be #19 for French boys in 2019?
Koreans I'd expect to integrate and assimilate better regardless of name, than the ancestral groups currently causing problems in Europe. I'd attribute this to Koreans experience with civilization, while many recent immigrants to Europe do not originate from groups with similar experience.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Immigrants that are keen to integrate will change their names to take common names in their new countries, this is not a new phenomenon. Many European immigrants to the US changed the names to sound more American.
Nisei had predominantly western names. Living in Germany I met several Korean Karl-Heinz, choosing names native to their new country was a way to integrate and embrace the culture.
Saïd Kouachi and Chérif Kou were both born in France, their assimilation seems to have been incomplete. The same can be said for Mohammad Sidique Khan, Shehzad Tanweer, Hasib Mir Hussain in England.
Integration and assimilation is no longer the stated goal, that was modern. Post-modern is decidedly more multicultural.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
The assimilation hasn't worked much better in France than Sweden or Belgium, the Netherlands, etc.
If assimilation was working I'd expect Mohammed to be a much less popular baby name.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
Certainly not evidenced by slave ownership. Only a minority ever owned slaves.
Is your objection to the effect or the implimetation?
Many ad networks rely on specific domains. Some of these networks / domains have poor security practices and will periodically link to malicious sites or code. For variety of reasons I choose to have my firewall blackhole requests to these domains. The net effect is that ads in my network are dramatically reduced.
There is content I happily pay for. There's content I would pay for on an ad-hoc basis if there was a low friction mechanism. I'd be happier pay for content if it was priced more equivalently to my 'value' as an ad consumer. Typically you're asked to pay much more than your worth as a consumer of advertising.
I think there may be some conflation of foreign born / immigrant status and ethnicity in that argument.
I suspect many of the native born women bearing babies in France are not ethnically French. I'm not sure there are good statistics on this in France.
AvocadoPanic
2yr ago
If we want the ethnically linguistically diverse to hear in their own tounges we still may be in seperate congregations. Though I've no principled objection to an organic ethnically diverse congregation.
My objection is that many mainline denominations fail to expel the wicked from among them.
Criminal is also relative. Any view if he's more or less criminal than the average real estate developer, television personality, politician, president, etc.?
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