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0 pointshueving7y ago0 comments

> I wouldn't be surprised if most of the people who object to this are sexists.

What? You point out the problems with how dumb this law is and then turn around and accuse anyone of objecting to it being a sexist?

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kwxza7y ago

I think he meant that a potential chilling effect on discussion of such regulation is the likelihood that objectors would be labelled as sexist, thus being ignored as opposed to having their points debated upon their merit.

repolfx7y ago

He didn't say that though, and it wasn't a complex sentence.

Logically speaking it's the other way around. People who are for this law are sexists (they want discrimination on the basis of sex) and the people against it are the non-sexists (appoint purely on merit). Obviously it will be inverted in many discussions: Orwell didn't invent the term doublespeak for no reason.

roenxi7y ago

kwxza is correct. Obviously I'm not using the word according to its dictionary definition, but I'm in good company using it to mean "not in the best interests of females". In practice, the meaning of the word is being broadened by activists.

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