Kulturkampf

[Alpacx]

See, this is why I can't take the "regulate the media" argument serious because how many articles have been written about Sophie Cunningham in recent weeks? How much pressure has been put on her, not just online but in real life? And yet it's understood that this is fair coverage

Factually incorrect:

[Potato]

I think true crime-brained wine moms transcend the political spectrum, actually.

If they have the time and money to do this they're likely upper middle class progressives.

[Potato]

See, this is why I can't take the "regulate the media" argument serious because how many articles have been written about Sophie Cunningham in recent weeks? How much pressure has been put on her, not just online but in real life? And yet it's understood that this is fair coverage

Factually incorrect:

What a cunt

[HaughtyFrank]

Not providing a counter argument and locking replies is a great way to convince people

[Ethan]

See, this is why I can't take the "regulate the media" argument serious because how many articles have been written about Sophie Cunningham in recent weeks? How much pressure has been put on her, not just online but in real life? And yet it's understood that this is fair coverage

Factually incorrect:

Was she really booed though? Rachel literally shows a one second clip and we barely hear anything except for the commentator saying "hearing the boos". 
Anyway, in the full video, Rachel goes on and suggests watching the Last Week Tonight "fantastic" segment about trans women in sports, summarizing it with "cis men don't actually have an across the board advantage over cis women in sports". 



Rachel is a bit like Canada's own Taylor Lorenz, with a little Alejandra Caraballo thrown in. Although herself a cis woman, she feels concern as a tall woman because, and I quote, "people like Cunningham and myself are also among those who might be disproportionaly targeted by these anti-trans laws. These laws force rigid expressions of femininity on women". 

[Potato]

"Cis men don't actually have an across the board advantage over cis women in sports."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.news.com.au/sport/sports-life/uproar-as-allboys-netball-team-beats-girls-to-win-state-title/news-story/819d1d0101345dad1aee9ea814102456%3famp

Cool.

[Ethan]

"Cis men don't actually have an across the board advantage over cis women in sports."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.news.com.au/sport/sports-life/uproar-as-allboys-netball-team-beats-girls-to-win-state-title/news-story/819d1d0101345dad1aee9ea814102456%3famp

Cool.

Well akshually, in skeet shooting and ultra-marathon passed the 278th kilometres, cis men and women are pretty much on equal ground. 
See, not across the board!

[Uncle]

the whole point of sport is that even if groups are mostly equal on average, standout examples will rise above all the rest and inscribe their names in the history books

you look at the high end of the spectrum of athletic achievement, and they're all men

like I've said before, I look forward to one day seeing that all records are held by "women," rather than women

high jump, long jump, longest drive, fastest pitch, most home runs...bring it on, prove that men also make better women than women

[HaughtyFrank]

"Cis men don't actually have an across the board advantage over cis women in sports."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.news.com.au/sport/sports-life/uproar-as-allboys-netball-team-beats-girls-to-win-state-title/news-story/819d1d0101345dad1aee9ea814102456%3famp

Cool.

Read an interesting article recently

The phrase “throw like a girl” is a crude stereotype, but, like many stereotypes, it contains more than a grain of truth. In fact, the sex difference in overhand throwing is one of the largest behavioral sex differences ever measured.

Psychologists typically express group differences in standard deviations. Among young children, boys outperform girls in throwing distance and velocity by about 1.5 standard deviations. The gap widens across childhood and adolescence. By late adolescence and adulthood, estimates are generally around two standard deviations or greater. Thomas and French’s classic meta-analysis remains a useful starting point for examining this sex difference.

A difference of two standard deviations is roughly the same magnitude as the familiar adult sex difference in height. It means that the average man throws as well as or better than about 98 percent of women.

The raw numbers make the point just as clearly. In one study of young adults, men threw a tennis ball at an average velocity of 29.4 meters per second, compared with 18.6 meters per second for women. In other words, the women averaged about 63 percent of the men’s throwing velocity. At elite levels, the sex difference remains large. In modern track and field competition, men throw the javelin about 30 percent farther than women despite using a heavier javelin. The sex difference in javelin performance is therefore substantially larger than the familiar male advantages in running and jumping events.

These are group averages, not rules about individuals. The distributions overlap, some girls and women throw extremely well, and training matters. Nonetheless, the sex difference is large, appears well before puberty, and generally increases with age.

https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/throwing-like-a-girl-is-biology-allowed?r=17uk7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true

The longer article is about how despite those differences, differences that remain even in completely different cultures, from Americans to Germans to Aboriginals, you'll have researchers arguing that this has nothing to do with biology and is solely related to culture. The idea that a difference between genders can be explained through biology, not just culture, seems almost dirty

[Alpacx]

"Cis men don't actually have an across the board advantage over cis women in sports."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.news.com.au/sport/sports-life/uproar-as-allboys-netball-team-beats-girls-to-win-state-title/news-story/819d1d0101345dad1aee9ea814102456%3famp

Cool.

Well akshually, in skeet shooting and ultra-marathon passed the 278th kilometres, cis men and women are pretty much on equal ground. 
See, not across the board!

Their favorite is figure skating back in the olden days when it was apparently about skating figures into the ice instead of jumps and spins and shit.

[Potato]

They fired the guy who exposed Jason Arday

[benji]

You know what's more annoying than the DSA's policies? Them not even knowing how to defend themselves against the most obvious counter arguments

Not providing a counter argument and locking replies is a great way to convince people

It's not their job to educate you.

[Alpacx]

They fired the guy who exposed Jason Arday

Not fired yet but I think his goose is cooked

[HaughtyFrank]

The weird thing is the university was well aware of his race stuff, that's after all why he lost his position at Cambridge, but now when he called out plagiarism he crossed a line?

[Potato]

It's funny...if you are going to criticise a guy for saying that in a meritocracy without affirmative action very few black people would hold positions of power, then you also have to criticise the DEI theory that says very few black people can hold positions of power if we keep it a meritocracy and don't implement affirmative action.

[benji]

but now when he called out plagiarism he crossed a line?

Way to downplay murder.

[benji]

It's funny...if you are going to criticise a guy for saying that in a meritocracy without affirmative action very few black people would hold positions of power, then you also have to criticise the DEI theory that says very few black people can hold positions of power if we keep it a meritocracy and don't implement affirmative action.

I think it's funny that the argument of these people is that these are irredeemably white supremacist institutions that plan and organize at all times to advance white supremacy yet we can also trust them to better the world with DEI policies rather than deliberately advance people like Arday to promote white supremacy when he inevitably fails. And also rope in the "anti-racists" to not only defend people like Arday but the policies and the institutions themselves. Look at how they move in lockstep to defend white supremacist incredibly wealthy elite institutions like Harvard and Cambridge (or the corporations or cops celebrating DEI) and insist we should trust them in every way.

[benji]

[HaughtyFrank]

[benji]

Recall the words chanted in Charlottesville, Virginia: “You will not replace us!” Recall the string of mass shooters across the globe—in Oslo, Christchurch, Buffalo, El Paso, and Pittsburgh—who claimed their crimes were a defense against “White genocide.” Recall business and media figures cultivating anxiety and furor over demographic change. These incidents only scratch the surface: Popular and ruling politicians in every region of the world have expressed some version of great replacement theory, eroding democratic norms in the name of preventing demographic change.

The term was coined in 2011 by a French novelist who argued that Black and Brown immigrants were “invading” Europe, brought by shadowy elites to “replace” the White population. From there, politicians and theorists in the United States and elsewhere repackaged it as a story of “globalists” welcoming “migrant criminals” and promoting diversity to take away the jobs, cultures, electoral power, and very lives of White people. Over time, great replacement theory has expanded those under threat to include citizens, men, Jews, Christians, heterosexuals, and ethnic majorities in countries as distinct as Russia, El Salvador, Brazil, Italy, and India, all targeted with the message that they are facing an existential attack that only a strongman can prevent.

In Chain of Ideas, internationally bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi offers an unsettling but indispensable global history of how great replacement theory brought humanity into this authoritarian age—and how we can free ourselves from it.

Chain of Ideas, a new book by professor Ibram X Kendi, doesn’t provide a one-world encapsulation of our modern woes. But, in a meticulously researched 500 pages, it lays out an essential framework for parsing current events.

The central thesis is that the ideological origins of what Kendi terms “our authoritarian age” lie in the so-called “great replacement theory”. This is defined as “a political theory that powerful elites are enabling peoples of colour to steal the lives, livelihoods, cultures, electoral power, and freedoms of White people, who now need authoritarian protection”.

“Kendi writes that great replacement theory is the ‘world’s most dangerous idea’ as those in power use it to justify creating a white, Christian state by any means necessary.”—The Root

Who knew the goal of the CCP, many Muslim regimes, African dictatorships and Hindu nationalists was to create a white Christian state based on a theory invented in 2011?

[Alpacx]

That's just normal socialism.

I hope this comes up on Era:

[benji]

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"Why does not the largest of the New Black Panthers simply eat the other races?"

[HaughtyFrank]

I've said it before but I truly don't understand why you'd tie yourself to Karmelo Anthony. This is in no shape or form an instance of misused justice. If you feel sad about a 17 year old throwing his life away, sure, but if you make this a case of systemic racism you're literally arguing for black people to get away with murder

[Besticus Maximus]

sunk cost fallacy? addiction to belligerence? The sheer giddy thrill of forcing someone to say the sky is actually green?

[HaughtyFrank]

[Rendle]

I've said it before but I truly don't understand why you'd tie yourself to Karmelo Anthony. This is in no shape or form an instance of misused justice. If you feel sad about a 17 year old throwing his life away, sure, but if you make this a case of systemic racism you're literally arguing for black people to get away with murder

sunk cost fallacy? addiction to belligerence? The sheer giddy thrill of forcing someone to say the sky is actually green?

It's because he's black.

[HaughtyFrank]

Choosing "She/They" is self aware enough that no one has time for that shit. Everyone will just call her she

[Potato]

Recall the words chanted in Charlottesville, Virginia: “You will not replace us!” Recall the string of mass shooters across the globe—in Oslo, Christchurch, Buffalo, El Paso, and Pittsburgh—who claimed their crimes were a defense against “White genocide.” Recall business and media figures cultivating anxiety and furor over demographic change. These incidents only scratch the surface: Popular and ruling politicians in every region of the world have expressed some version of great replacement theory, eroding democratic norms in the name of preventing demographic change.

The term was coined in 2011 by a French novelist who argued that Black and Brown immigrants were “invading” Europe, brought by shadowy elites to “replace” the White population. From there, politicians and theorists in the United States and elsewhere repackaged it as a story of “globalists” welcoming “migrant criminals” and promoting diversity to take away the jobs, cultures, electoral power, and very lives of White people. Over time, great replacement theory has expanded those under threat to include citizens, men, Jews, Christians, heterosexuals, and ethnic majorities in countries as distinct as Russia, El Salvador, Brazil, Italy, and India, all targeted with the message that they are facing an existential attack that only a strongman can prevent.

In Chain of Ideas, internationally bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi offers an unsettling but indispensable global history of how great replacement theory brought humanity into this authoritarian age—and how we can free ourselves from it.

Chain of Ideas, a new book by professor Ibram X Kendi, doesn’t provide a one-world encapsulation of our modern woes. But, in a meticulously researched 500 pages, it lays out an essential framework for parsing current events.

The central thesis is that the ideological origins of what Kendi terms “our authoritarian age” lie in the so-called “great replacement theory”. This is defined as “a political theory that powerful elites are enabling peoples of colour to steal the lives, livelihoods, cultures, electoral power, and freedoms of White people, who now need authoritarian protection”.

“Kendi writes that great replacement theory is the ‘world’s most dangerous idea’ as those in power use it to justify creating a white, Christian state by any means necessary.”—The Root

Who knew the goal of the CCP, many Muslim regimes, African dictatorships and Hindu nationalists was to create a white Christian state based on a theory invented in 2011?

It's funny that he talks about 3/4 of the world's population living under authoritarian rule, but then proceeds to talk about how bad the whites are and says nothing about the yellow and brown and black people who accept the authoritarian governments and talks about them like they're the ones fighting for personal freedom from "oligarchs" as if the entirety of Russia, China and central Asia isn't under their direct control.

Racism is bad, even if you're black. The first step to overcoming racism is to look at your own prejudices and recognise your own racism.

[HaughtyFrank]

Why is every politician a bellend?

[Alpacx]

   


Gold Jerry, Gold.

When I began medically transitioning, my body radically changed. My center of gravity shifted, my skin felt entirely different, fat redistributed all over my body and I lost a shoe size. That's because the way hormones interact with your body happens on a cellular level. When I tell people that many trans women lose height from HRT they are astonished. When I mention its because our ligaments change due to the hormone readjustment they usually say something along the lines of "now that you mention this, it makes sense, but never in a million years would I have considered thinking about this."

This applies to sports, considerably. I've talked about how transitioning completely redid how I need to perform a rowing stroke and how the muscle memory I had built up when I was a collegiate and club rower was now misaligned. It took me quite a bit of time to feel stable in a boat again because I need to relearn how to do a sport that had been second nature for quite some time.

So, no I am not a biological male. I don't know what that would entail, but certainly it is not what my body's endocrine function is right now. Even just saying that is telling you more about my personal history that anyone is entitled to, but I am mad. I'm furious even. This phrase is offensive to myself on a deep level, yes, but it is also inaccurate in a way that is harmful. Same with using the phrase "trans-identified male" which media outlets across the pond seem to be adopting en masse.

If you believe I am a man just say it. Stop calling me a "biological male" or a "trans-identified male" and just be honest for once. You don't want to protect or promote women's sports, you just think trans women are men if they want to participate alongside cisgender women. That's what these columns boil down to. They are transphobic, they are rooted in the belief that no matter what we do for transitioning it will never fully make us women and for that we should not have access to spaces that the general public uses without a second thought. You can tell me how valid you think I am until the cows come home, but you are calling me a man. I just hope that you never have to experience someone defining who you are, and using chosen language for how you exist all without your consent or input. It really is awful and draining. But clearly the world needs another column where you justify doing just that with little editorial oversight.