Tarnstellung
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Tarnstellung
2mo ago
Africans well are on video saying kill the boer and want to expel whites from S Africa.
Not the majority view in South Africa, even among Blacks.
And hey look we still see distinct voting patterns by ethnicities decades and centuries after they came here.
What point are you making exactly? The Irish, Italians and Germans shouldn't have been allowed in?
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2mo ago
Here I am. I believe modern American suburban living is terrible for the health of both people and the planet, but I understand that it's largely a reaction to unbearable crime rates and disorder in densely-populated areas, and that addressing them is the only way to get American families with children (as opposed to young adults who can put up with more) back in cities.
(Note: I'm not American.)
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2mo ago
How convenient that Blacks are too rowdy and criminal, Asians too boring and presumably not criminal enough, and your own race is just right.
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2mo ago
Singapore is by no means homogeneous. There were race riots in the 1960s. Malays are economically less successful than the Chinese, and probably more prone to crime. Housing has racial quotas to ensure every building is in line with the national makeup. None of this stops them from living densely.
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2mo ago
Google "immigrants commit less crime" and you'll find studies galore. We can have a look at one in particular if you like. The profile of immigrants in the US and Sweden is very different and it is entirely plausible that immigrants to Sweden commit more crime than natives and immigrants to the US commit less crime than natives.
Harvard discriminated against Asians in admissions for a reason. I don’t make the rules but even the elites decided Asians kill the vibes of a place.
The reason being they're extremely racist? I mean, what you are saying about Asians is racist by any reasonable definition.
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2mo ago
NIMBYism is not the fault of immigrants.
Immigrants in the US commit crime at a lower rate than natives. Native Black people do commit crime at a very high rate, which can ruin neighbourhoods, but that has nothing to do with immigrants.
San Francisco is a boring Asian town now which use to be like the people from Full House.
What exactly is the problem? Just the fact that they're Asian?
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2mo ago
For example, Bill de Blasio is not entitled to the same courtesy, even when he was born as Warren Wilhelm he was not yet notable.
Have you read the article? He'd already started political campaigning at the time he changed his name.
No one is worried that Bill might see his article, and become very sad when he is reminded of his dead name.
Does he actually have a problem with people knowing his former name? Are his political opponents liable to passive-aggressively refer to him as "Warren Wilhelm Jr."?
The aforementioned Jerma985 made a clear effort to hide his real name, and that was respected.
For another less notable but still Wiki notable case, wish of recently deceased Nicholas Alahverdian to be exclusively known as Arthur Knight is not respected too.
Of course a criminal who changed his name repeatedly to commit fraud and escape prosecution is going to have all his aliases listed. How is this in any way comparable to a trans person whose only notable activity was done under their new name?
Here is another relevant policy I found:
Caution should be applied when identifying individuals who are discussed primarily in terms of a single event. When the name of a private individual has not been widely disseminated or has been intentionally concealed, such as in certain court cases or occupations, it is often preferable to omit it, especially when doing so does not result in a significant loss of context. When deciding whether to include a name, its publication in non-media secondary sources, such as scholarly journals or the work of recognized experts, should be afforded greater weight than brief appearances in news stories. The appearance of names in citations, such as in newspaper headlines, is not restricted, but editors can consider finding alternative sources that do not use the name.[e] Consider whether the inclusion of names of living private individuals who are not directly involved in an article's topic adds significant value.
The presumption in favor of privacy is strong in the case of family members of articles' subjects and other loosely involved, otherwise low-profile persons. The names of any immediate, former, or significant family members or any significant relationship of the subject of a BLP may be part of an article, if reliably sourced, subject to editorial discretion that such information is relevant to a reader's complete understanding of the subject.[f] Names of family members who are not also notable public figures must be removed from an article if they are not properly sourced.
Tarnstellung
2mo ago
Using someone's objectively real, legal name does not entail accepting that they are their stated gender. Someone could change their name for non-trans-related reasons, and you would presumably accept that.
That the new name is typically one used by the opposite gender is irrelevant. If someone had a gender-inappropriate name because their parents are weird – a boy named Sue or one of the many girls nowadays given traditionally masculine names – you surely wouldn't object to that, either.
If a trans person was not notable before transitioning, their former name is of no interest to the public and there is no reason to include it, and a good reason – namely, courtesy – to exclude it. Note that the fact that they are trans is allowed to be included, since that is clearly of interest to the public.
In fact, Wikipedia is pretty consistent on this. The same courtesy is extended to, for example, the streamer Jerma985 whose real name you won't find anywhere in his article. It formerly contained a fake real name, which he presents as his real name, presumably to protect his privacy, but even that has now been removed.
This isn't the only instance of Wikipedia being courteous with respect to non-notable people or things people did before they became notable. One Wikipedia policy says (emphasis mine):
Someone who does not wish to be the subject of a [biography article] may nominate it for deletion (...) Unless the subject clearly passes the general notability guideline (GNG) or is a current or former elected or appointed official, editors should seriously consider honoring such requests. Factors weighing in favor of deletion include a problematic article history, real-world harms identified by the subject, and the subject being only minimally notable or notable for only one event.
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2mo ago
If a trans person was not notable before transitioning, their former name is of no interest to the public and there is no reason to include it, and a good reason – namely, courtesy – to exclude it. Note that the fact that they are trans is allowed to be included, since that is clearly of interest to the public.
In fact, Wikipedia is pretty consistent on this. The same courtesy is extended to, for example, the streamer Jerma985 whose real name you won't find anywhere in his article. It formerly contained a fake real name, which he presents as his real name, presumably to protect his privacy, but even that has now been removed.
This isn't the only instance of Wikipedia being courteous with respect to non-notable people or things people did before they became notable. One Wikipedia policy says:
Someone who does not wish to be the subject of a [biography article] may nominate it for deletion (...) Unless the subject clearly passes the general notability guideline (GNG) or is a current or former elected or appointed official, editors should seriously consider honoring such requests. Factors weighing in favor of deletion include a problematic article history, real-world harms identified by the subject, and the subject being only minimally notable or notable for only one event.
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2mo ago
Yes, needlessly pissing off conservatives for zero benefit is a favourite pastime of the modern LGBT movement. See also: drag queen story hour. I would also add trans people in prisons and sports, though those are more a case of benefits existing but not outweighing the costs, as opposed to drag queen story hour and your proposed discussion of homosexuality in sex ed, where the benefits are not close, but exactly equal to, zero.
The downvotes may be from people who want conservatives to be pissed off because it makes it easier for them to win. An LGBT movement that picks its battles better would certainly accomplish more.
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2mo ago
How did the Boriswave happen? Did the government not realize the new immigration policy would increase immigration? Did they not notice the increase as it was happening? Did they not realize the increase would be politically unpopular? The last one seems particularly unlikely. Johnson is a skilled politician – he did win a general election, after all – so he surely wouldn't make such a mistake.
What about Truss and Sunak? I guess the former didn't have much time to implement policy changes, but the latter had two years, so all the same questions apply to him.
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2mo ago
What kind of accountability do you expect? She had no way of knowing. Unless you assume all gay men are paedophiles, which is blatantly false. Nearly all children raised by gay couples experience no sexual abuse. These cases are vanishingly rare.
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2mo ago
Gay men are degenerate sex fiends, but that's because they're men, not because they're gay. Straight men would be elated to have as much sex as gay men are having; they are prevented from doing so by women, who are generally much less interested in sex.
(Obviously not all gay men, not all straight men, not all women. But you get the point.)
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2mo ago
How would you have done it?
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2mo ago
Related, I object to completely censoring homosexuality from children any more than heterosexuality: that means at minimum, they should be told in sex-ed that it exists and it's normal for some people to feel it.
What does this accomplish? If they're gay, they'll figure it out, as gay people have been figuring out for all of history. They don't need to be told. Especially in 2026.
The political cost of this immense, as it pisses of conservatives, and it accomplishes nothing.
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2mo ago
It's a blinded trial. It was necessary to test whether you were actually clocking trans women or just making up tells because you already knew they were trans.
It just occurred to me that I could have done a similar experiment by presenting you with photos of several cis women and one trans woman. But that hadn't occurred to me at the time. Sorry.
I'd still like to hear your opinion on Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović.
Okay, I was lying and she is a random cis woman I found online. Congrats, you can perfectly distinguish trans women from cis women.
Can you tell Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović is cis? I was going to go with her because she legitimately looks like she might be trans, but she has a Wikipedia article which would have told you she was not trans.
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2mo ago
She was well known in Russia and did interviews about her experience. Are you seriously relying on ChatGPT? Does she pass so well that it made you suspect she might actually be cis?
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2mo ago
The harm would be from knowing that there are people out there looking at, and pleasuring themselves to, images or videos of you being abused.
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2mo ago
I've seen her on Russian TV and talk shows and I don't think those recordings were edited.
Here are photos from the Daily Mail. I don't think they edit photos to make people look better.
You can see next to a man she looks noticeably shorter (because she started hormones early and didn't go through male puberty), which would have a major effect in person. Many trans women don't pass due to height.
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2mo ago
I've seen her on Russian TV and talk shows and I don't think those recordings were edited.
Here are photos from the Daily Mail. I don't think they edit photos to make people look better.
You can see next to a man she looks noticeably shorter (because she started hormones early and didn't go through male puberty), which would have a major effect in person. Many trans women don't pass due to height.
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2mo ago
I haven't. What would motivate parents to do that?
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2mo ago
A filter doesn't change shoulder or jaw width or whatever people are clocking. It can improve skin texture a bit.
Have you had a look at her Instagram? Or her photos on Google?
I would say most of that falls under "disorder". Flowers may be removed due to vandalism, toilets may be closed and benches removed due to the homeless/drug addicts, etc. Most of this would be solved if you just locked 'em up: criminals in prison (harsher sentences), crazies in mental hospitals, drug addicts in rehab (and prison for repeat offenders). The rest is just a lack of funding, which is generally attributed to wealthier people moving to the suburbs and decreasing the city's revenue.
Regarding public transport specifically, most suburbs have terrible or nonexistent public transport, so that's certainly not a reason people move there. Denser cities generally have some kind of public transport, even if it's filled with people smoking every substance imaginable.
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