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0 pointsJohanx641y ago0 comments

What benefits does your linguistic framework and redefinitions of commonly used terms offer? I'm not seeing it.

Looks like you're desperately looking for some seams from which to break fabric of cohesive society appart.

Homogenous societies do not need nor should they offer special affordances to either atheists or religious people. Only diverse societies that have imported bunch of incompatible religions that beef with each other and prevailing culture (often violently!) that need "special" accomodations and guard rails to prevent escalations of conflict.

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ceejayoz1y ago

I’m not the one redefining terms. Diversity covers far more variation than skin color alone. DEI efforts have long included things like “women in tech” or “LGBT friendly”.

Your country may be homogenous in color, but in everything? Closest you probably get to that is the Vatican, and even there there’s various kinds of diversity.

Johanx64OP1y ago

Preferential treatment based on immutable characteristics. It's called discrimination. Great idea!

What you're engaging in is transparent and glaringly obvious. It's subversive and downright malicious.

Even in a cohesive and homogenous society, you are desperately looking for any and all means to split, fracture and divvy up the population in warring "diversity" groups that are constantly at odds with each other. There has to be something you can use right?

Young children, the elderly, women, atheists or religious folk aren't a diversity group. They are just people.

I know exactly what you're doing, and it doesn't work in cohesive functional societies. They reject it.

ceejayoz1y ago

> Preferential treatment based on immutable characteristics.

No. Not preferential.

> It's called discrimination.

Using the US as an example again, we only got our first female Supreme Court justice until the 1980s. Two hundred years of men. Never a female President. This is pretty concrete evidence for discrimination against them in American society.

Somehow, trying to recognize that gets twisted backwards into the act itself.

A cohesive, functional society seeing significant gendered threats and violence: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2621gzvkdo

Why are black people “diverse” but women or Jews or blind people are not?

You keep dodging the question. Help me understand - what’s “diverse” and what’s “normal homogenous”? How do you determine which is which?

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0 pointsJohanx641y ago0 comments

What benefits does your linguistic framework and redefinitions of commonly used terms offer? I'm not seeing it.

Looks like you're desperately looking for some seams from which to break fabric of cohesive society appart.

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ceejayoz1y ago

I’m not the one redefining terms. Diversity covers far more variation than skin color alone. DEI efforts have long included things like “women in tech” or “LGBT friendly”.

Your country may be homogenous in color, but in everything? Closest you probably get to that is the Vatican, and even there there’s various kinds of diversity.

Johanx64OP1y ago

Preferential treatment based on immutable characteristics. It's called discrimination. Great idea!

What you're engaging in is transparent and glaringly obvious. It's subversive and downright malicious.

Young children, the elderly, women, atheists or religious folk aren't a diversity group. They are just people.

I know exactly what you're doing, and it doesn't work in cohesive functional societies. They reject it.

ceejayoz1y ago

> Preferential treatment based on immutable characteristics.

No. Not preferential.

> It's called discrimination.

Somehow, trying to recognize that gets twisted backwards into the act itself.

A cohesive, functional society seeing significant gendered threats and violence: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2621gzvkdo

Why are black people “diverse” but women or Jews or blind people are not?

You keep dodging the question. Help me understand - what’s “diverse” and what’s “normal homogenous”? How do you determine which is which?

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