Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
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Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
This Wikipedia article has not only amused me greatly, but provided hope, something that I didn't think a Wikipedia article could ever do. I thought we had reached a point where saying "trans women are men" was socially equivalent to using a racial slur, a signal that you oppose trans rights and/or hate trans people outright. Now, there is a popular meme that plays on the fact that trans women are men, while acknowledging that it's okay for them to live in a way that's consistent with who they want to be.
I think that's what's happening.
See, I mainly know the word "bussy" in the context of discussing hypothetical sex with trans women, but that's because of the kind of people I talk to and the kinds of things I read. Is this use of the word an outlier? Is it mostly used to refer to homosexual cis men (which makes the joke much less funny)? Would a lefty who uses the term to refer to cis mens' anuses be offended if I used it to talk about trans women's anuses?
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
I see. There was at least one trans rights protest where someone has a "less hate, more bussy" sign, but I suppose it is an outlier, like my friends who use the term.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
That's very disappointing. What I loved about the article wasn't just that it was funny, but that it seemingly signified a cultural change, that we were once again allowed to laugh about differences and not take everything so seriously. I want to go back to the 00's so much that it's physically painful.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
It's a trans protest, specifically, though. Maybe if it was a pride parade I'd buy it as a gay thing.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
..If I didn't know better, I'd say this means that to the key to defeating wokeness and returning to the culture of 2003 is actually to let wokeness win.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
Is anyone familiar with the YouTuber Ryan Chapman? He has a number of videos on socialism, fascism, etc, but I'm not sure what his ideological bias is. (I assume he has one, as most people do.)
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
Why do many people find it more upsetting to see animals suffer than humans? I don't like seeing any living creature suffer, but my rankings, from worst to least bad, are human children, then animals, then human adults.
On a conscious level, I know that animals can't be entirely innocent, because they kill smaller creatures, but I think maybe they're just innocent enough that they remind me of children on a subconscious level. Or maybe they literally don't realize the meaning of their actions.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
When I discuss Critical Race Theory with leftists, I often make the point that, while I'd rather public schools not encourage students to speculate on the causes of racial disparities, I'd be amenable to a compromise where systemic racism is taught as one possibility, alongside cultural and biological explanations.
The response to this (when it's not an accusation of racism on my part) is that I'm just like the creationists who wanted their psuedoscience taught alongside evolution. This is kind of true, in that I am asking that ideas I like be taught alongside ones favored by the academic establishment. However, when you take social desirability out of the equation, HBD is more similar to evolution because it literally IS just applied evolution, and systemic racism/CRT/disparate impact/wokeness/social justice/anti-racism/whatever label we're using this week is analogous to creationism in that we have little direct evidence it exists, but we assume it must exist because the current state of affairs would make sense as its outcome, even though it would also make sense as the outcome of other processes.
I doubt that I'm the first person around these parts to say that the Pastafarian explanation for gravity (an invisible, non-corporeal Flying Spaghetti Monster physically pushes us onto the ground) has no less evidence supporting it than the woke explanation for half-Asian, half-white children having a mean IQ between that of Asians and that of whites (stereotype threat impacts them half as much).
I also doubt that I'm the first person around these parts to draw a comparison between creationists who acknowledge microevolution while denying Darwinism to leftists who acknowledge within-group heritability while denying between-group heritability.
However, a thought occurred to me today that frightened me, and my hope is that when I voice it, you will unanimously dismiss it as ridiculous, because if it's in any way true, then I'm going to be devastated.
What if the truth value of Darwinism had little, if anything, to do with its acceptance by the academic establishment, and the falsehood of intelligent design had little, if anything, to do with its rejection by the academic establishment? If truth was that important, we'd expect CRT to be seen as equivalent to creationism, but it's not.
You know the Schmitt meme about how all disputes can be reduced to friend vs. enemy? Well.. maybe that's what happened with the debate over evolution in public schools. Maybe evolution was pushed specifically because the religious right objected to it, and not because it was real. That evolution actually WAS real was incidental at best.
Promote evolution and CRT because they hurt the right. Eliminate intelligent design and HBD because they hurt the left. This is how a Schmittposter would describe what happened, and maybe that literally is what happened.
Please tell me I'm just mindkilled. I'm not being rhetorical here. I would find that reassuring.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
I heard that one of the Red Scare people had a role on this show. Do you get the impression that the show's writers are sympathetic to anti-idpol leftism? If so, that'd be reason enough for me to watch.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
I didn't even know she was vaguely conservative until recently. I thought it was the feminine Chapo Trap House and the home of Sailor Socialist, but apparently they had nice things to say about Alex Jones and Ann Coulter? I'd listen if I knew where to get episodes Without paying.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
You seem to think that HBD is silly, but also that the claim that differences in outcome between groups are primarily caused by oppression is silly. And that's fine! My point is that the strong preference in polite society for one over the other is hard to reconcile with evolution being similarly preferred over intelligent design unless one takes the Schmittpill.
("Preferred" is putting it mildly, since we're talking bans and blacklisting, but I'm too tired to think of a better word.)
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
(cue Idubbz speech about Sam Hyde and post-irony)
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
The early 21st century stuff is what I lived through, and I took it seriously when I was happening because I was in the fifth grade and thought the Flying Spaghetti Monster was the greatest comic invention ever. I wasn't even thinking about the Scopes trial as I wrote my post. I should've expanded my frame of reference while writing.
Still, my point stands. There were efforts to get intelligent design taught in schools in the 00's, which were defeated by the left, because they.. cared about the truth? Or because they cared about stomping on the right?
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
You misunderstand. I don't think evolution is wrong. I know it's true. I'm saying that its truth value may be incidental to its acceptance. It seems probable that if the acceptance of evolution were, somehow, going to hurt the left instead of the right, it never would have become accepted.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
Because it's one of my highest moral values, and the only thing that makes me more upset than the lack of fairness is the refusal of most people to acknowledge the lack of fairness. I'm too autistic to handle a society built on lies. I'm glad I'm not in China, where I'd get myself sentenced to death for trying to change my legal name to "Tiana Man Square", but this is still far from ideal.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
God, you're speaking my language. I hate this meme too. I could interpret it charitably by saying they're talking about intersex people, and not about people who choose to identify as they/them, but I've been around the block enough to know that that's what they're talking about.
I don't even have a freaking problem with trans people! I just want to live and let live! Transition as much as you want, this is America, etc. But the activists keep making things so difficult.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
Does Eliezer Yudkowsky, or any other prominent AI writer for that matter, think an And I Must Scream scenario of eternal torment is possible?
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
You should start one, but only staff it with people who are anti-woke, just to be safe.
Conservautism
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11mo ago
Yet he hasn't committed suicide to avoid the basilisk.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
I realized that I don't know WHAT the gatekeeping is like for gender transitions for children, or even for adults. (Though I care more about with children.) Ideally, there'd be brain scans taken and default hormone levels taken, but I've never even heard of the former being done.
Does anyone have any reading material on this, preferably without an obvious bias?
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
Thank you. I'm mostly able to follow this, but there's one thing I'm still unsure of. Under v8, puberty blockers can start at Tanner Stage 2 (so around age 12), but does hormone therapy still start around 16?
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
There's a psychological phenomenon where people overestimate the presence of their outgroup once their space is diversified. For example, when women are integrated into an all-male workplace, the men who were there before might feel that women now make up more than half of the workplace, when they only make up, like, 30%. Or when a social media platform stops banning far-right speech, its userbase might feel that the far-right has taken over the network, when they've merely gone from 2% of posts to 10% of posts. Is there a term for the cognitive bias that I'm describing?
There's a "protect trans kids" poster on Gwen Stacy's bedroom wall in Across the Spider-Verse. This is the second time I've seen this exact phrase, after Don Cheadle wore it on his shirt when appearing on Saturday Night Live.
Okay, my curiosity is piqued. What does this phrase mean?
I assume this message is in reference to a specific threat that exclusively, or at least disproportionately, impacts trans children. Specifically, my assumption is that it relates to bathroom bills and/or gender affirming care, but I have a close friend who insists that it refers to hate crimes, and he says that I'm "living in a bubble" if I don't think it refers to hate crimes. But I really haven't heard anything about a hate crime surge against transgender children, real or exaggerated. I heard plenty about the supposed hate crime surge against Asians three years ago, so if there was a similar narrative going on with trans kids, I figure I'd hear about that too.
Which isn't to say that I never hear people complain about hate crimes against trans people! But when I do, the discussion is about transgender people of all ages, not specifically children. The only activist movement I hear about that specifically relates to trans children is their supposed right to medically transition, but my friend says I'm being uncharitable if I assume that that's what is being referred to.
I'd appreciate it if you guys help clear this up for me.
Edit: When I told him about this post, my friend clarified that he thinks the ignorance is that I think it implies exclusively to these issues and not to violence.
Great post, but one short question: what kind of affirmative action would they want, if not what Harvard is doing? The only alternatives I can think of are explicit race quotas (which are unconstitutional) and class-based affirmative action (which would create disparate impact).
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