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reddit-0 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: Objectification of female video game characters is yet another part of the 'this is what hot girls look like' problem that tends to cause eating disorders amongst females. That's not specific to video games, of course; lots of forms of media promote unrealistic ideals... | Video games aren't the only thing that causes this issue, so I'd think it's impossible to determine the level of harm they directly cause. But together, along with all other forms of media, it results in [69% of women citing increasing pressures from media to reach an unrealistic standard of beauty. Only 50% of women i... | {"title": "Objectification of female video game characters is yet another part of the 'this is what hot girls look like' problem that tends to cause eating disorders amongst females. That's not specific to video games, of course; lots of forms of media promote unrealistic ideals of hotness.\n\nNot to mention you're con... |
reddit-1 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: I worry you are operating under some very extreme standards, here, and you're kind of all over the place. How literal are you being? For instance, would someone, to be affected by a video game, have to *literally* not be able to distinguish reality from fantasy? Wo... | What do you mean by "harmful?" I'm worried this is all just going to be arguing about what that word means.
That kind of statement is usually made as a comment about general trends across society and societal-level attitudes and narratives that as a whole work together to disadvantage women. But I wonder if you're... | {"title": "I worry you are operating under some very extreme standards, here, and you're kind of all over the place. How literal are you being? For instance, would someone, to be affected by a video game, have to *literally* not be able to distinguish reality from fantasy? Would someone have to *literally* shoot som... |
reddit-2 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: To better understand Aziz's behaviour. Lets see what assault is, conduct of sexual act without consent. Extending this line, a sexual encounter without a party's consent is assault right? Now, the girl says that she wasn't comfortable and she gave non verbal cues, tol... | [deleted]
Texting her the next day has nothing to do with whether it was consensual or not.
I was assaulted when I was barely a teenager and the guy got in touch with me the next day to ask “if I was crying because his dick was too big”
The only reason I’m sharing that anecdote is only to say that texting her the ne... | {"title": "To better understand Aziz's behaviour. Lets see what assault is, conduct of sexual act without consent. Extending this line, a sexual encounter without a party's consent is assault right? Now, the girl says that she wasn't comfortable and she gave non verbal cues, told him she doesn't feel well, she didnt wa... |
reddit-3 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: Assuming this is true, one woman stated that he performed oral sex after she had explicitly said she'd like to 'cool things down' and certainly had not provided consent in any form.
You do not have to physically resist to prove you're not consenting. Consent is a *p... | She did resist verbally.
You can't put the responsibility on the victim to physically resist. 1. it's irrelevant, they're still being assaulted, they are the victim; 2. often it's physically impossible due to adrenaline causing you to freeze, and the strength imbalance between males and females.
No, consent needs to ... | {"title": "Assuming this is true, one woman stated that he performed oral sex after she had explicitly said she'd like to 'cool things down' and certainly had not provided consent in any form. \n\nYou do not have to physically resist to prove you're not consenting. Consent is a *positive* assertion. You either give it ... |
reddit-4 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: >If you are never told to stop, how can you really know to stop if the other person is still taking part?
Your view requires ignorance of the technical definition of sexual assault. Sexual assault is defined as any type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs wi... | >When Ansari told her he was going to grab a condom within minutes of their first kiss, Grace voiced her hesitation explicitly. “I said something like, ‘Whoa, let’s relax for a sec, let’s chill.’” She says he then resumed kissing her, briefly performed oral sex on her, and asked her to do the same thing to him.
>... | {"title": ">If you are never told to stop, how can you really know to stop if the other person is still taking part?\n\nYour view requires ignorance of the technical definition of sexual assault. Sexual assault is defined as any type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the explicit consent of the recip... |
reddit-5 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: I think in cases like this it's important to look at the facts instead of using gut feelings to say what is and isn't sexual assault.
In the state of New York (where the alleged events took place), sexual assault is defined as [subjecting another person to sexual con... | If the only evidence is her word, then what evidence do you have that this encounter didn't happen the way she says it did? By your statement, the only evidence available is in favour of her version of events | {"title": "I think in cases like this it's important to look at the facts instead of using gut feelings to say what is and isn't sexual assault.\n\nIn the state of New York (where the alleged events took place), sexual assault is defined as [subjecting another person to sexual contact without the person's consent](http... |
reddit-6 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: Consent is opt-in not opt-out.
She didn’t opt-in.
If someone wants to use the “I’m bad at body langauge defense” then they need to defult on verabl consent.
Everyone is right below. If you are good at body language you don’t need to formally ask every single tim... | Neither do you. That’s the point: There is an absence of consent, therefore *non-consensual*.
>Giving oral sex certainly satisfies the standard for implied consent.
No, it means that you consent to giving oral sex... it doesn't mean that you're consenting to everything (or anything) else.
>If lack of explicit... | {"title": "Consent is opt-in not opt-out. \n\nShe didn\u2019t opt-in. \n\nIf someone wants to use the \u201cI\u2019m bad at body langauge defense\u201d then they need to defult on verabl consent. \n\nEveryone is right below. If you are good at body language you don\u2019t need to formally ask every single time. But if ... |
reddit-7 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: What Ansari did was “diet assault.” He didn’t force her, he didn’t threaten her, but he *did* pressure her and did not take no for an answer.
What this woman described is the more insidious type of sexual misconduct that I can guarantee almost every sexually active w... | It sounds like she stated specifically like she didn’t want to have sex and he, instead of listening, kept asking how/where she wanted him to fuck her.
Either way, I don’t care if it’s difficult to read. Rise to the challenge. I don’t know why people defend this kind of behavior by acting as if men are incapable of re... | {"title": "What Ansari did was \u201cdiet assault.\u201d He didn\u2019t force her, he didn\u2019t threaten her, but he *did* pressure her and did not take no for an answer.\n\nWhat this woman described is the more insidious type of sexual misconduct that I can guarantee almost every sexually active woman has experience... |
reddit-8 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: >Whoa, let’s relax for a sec, let’s chill.
>Next time. (In response to him asking where she wanted him to fuck her. Her response is indicating that she doesn’t want to tonight.)
>I don’t want to feel forced because then I’ll hate you, and I’d rather not ... | There are severe consequences for saying “no”. There are plenty of anecdotes and stories of men reacting horrifically and violently to rejection. It’s not exaggeration when women in this situation choose between rape and violence, defamation (especially in this case with a very popular person), or even death.
This is ... | {"title": ">Whoa, let\u2019s relax for a sec, let\u2019s chill.\n\n\n>Next time. (In response to him asking where she wanted him to fuck her. Her response is indicating that she doesn\u2019t want to tonight.)\n\n\n>I don\u2019t want to feel forced because then I\u2019ll hate you, and I\u2019d rather not hate ... |
reddit-9 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: Although you may be correct in most places in New York it is assault.
>130.20 Sexual misconduct.
A person is guilty of sexual misconduct when:
1. He or she engages in sexual intercourse with another person without
such person's consent; or
2. He or she engag... | >SILENCE OR LACK OF RESISTANCE, IN AND OF ITSELF, DOES NOT DEMONSTRATE CONSENT.
Edit: Article 129-B | {"title": "Although you may be correct in most places in New York it is assault.\n\n>130.20 Sexual misconduct.\nA person is guilty of sexual misconduct when:\n1. He or she engages in sexual intercourse with another person without\n such person's consent; or\n2. He or she engages in oral sexual conduct or anal s... |
reddit-10 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: Have you ever dealt with someone who you admire/care for/respect asking you to do something you really don’t want to fucking do; but, you do it anyway and the experience was exponentially (like the bridge has been nuked) worse than expected?
Idk how many people hear... | I didn’t ask if the situation would stop. I’m asking if my consent to one act of sex applies to any possible sex act imaginable. If, while fucking I randomly stick my finger in a dude’s asshole, did I commit a crime? See consent is not assumed it is given “hey babe can I stick my finger in your ass?” Anything other tha... | {"title": "Have you ever dealt with someone who you admire/care for/respect asking you to do something you really don\u2019t want to fucking do; but, you do it anyway and the experience was exponentially (like the bridge has been nuked) worse than expected? \n\nIdk how many people heard this advice growing up but my mo... |
reddit-11 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: First off I just want to say I can understand why you are a bit skeptical about this as in today's world sensationalised articles/accounts are a common occurrence. So let's start off by assuming this article is minimally sensationalised and let's validate everything t... | Honestly after some more reading and the recent font page post, I think I may have been a bit too biased towards the woman. There's no doubt that Aziz didn't get the hint but the woman made literally the least possible effort to say no.
Here is the [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/7qoc0i/aziz_ansar... | {"title": "First off I just want to say I can understand why you are a bit skeptical about this as in today's world sensationalised articles/accounts are a common occurrence. So let's start off by assuming this article is minimally sensationalised and let's validate everything the woman in question felt or said. This i... |
reddit-12 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: I think that it's actually a good thing that the Aziz thing is happening. Or at least that it was inevitable to eventually happen. Like you said, things definitely approached a gray area. He was certainly (or at least arguably) a scumbag about it, but it doesn't seem ... | >Modern feminism is infantalizing women and destroying any framework for functional consent. The dream of 'all sex is rape' is one step closer.
Maybe it is a few steps closer.
It's not destroying the framework, it's deconstructing it. The idea of deconstruction is to take a system apart and then build a better on... | {"title": "I think that it's actually a good thing that the Aziz thing is happening. Or at least that it was inevitable to eventually happen. Like you said, things definitely approached a gray area. He was certainly (or at least arguably) a scumbag about it, but it doesn't seem like he was a rapist. On the other hand, ... |
reddit-13 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: >James Franco is accused of sexual assault/misconduct by convincing his then-girlfriend to give him road head.
Well he didn't try to convince her at all, he shoved her down to his exposed penis. It's not consent if you don't wait and to quote another famous sexual... | >I didn't see that in the LA Times article.
It's in there.
"Cute #TIMESUP pin James Franco. Remember the time you pushed my head down in a car towards your exposed penis & that other time you told my friend to come to your hotel when she was 17? After you had already been caught doing that to a different 17 ye... | {"title": ">James Franco is accused of sexual assault/misconduct by convincing his then-girlfriend to give him road head.\n\nWell he didn't try to convince her at all, he shoved her down to his exposed penis. It's not consent if you don't wait and to quote another famous sexual assaulter \"Move on her like a bitch.\... |
reddit-14 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: It's weird that you throw out the line "Gender is a social construct" without realizing how much that actually matters.
For example, you list "food" as an example of a social construct. So in your view there is a set of things that are acceptable as food. It's more t... | It's weird that you throw out the line "Gender is a social construct" without realizing how much that actually matters.
For example, you list "food" as an example of a social construct. So in your view there is a set of things that are acceptable as food. It's more than two, but there are restrictions and things that ... | {"title": "It's weird that you throw out the line \"Gender is a social construct\" without realizing how much that actually matters.\n\nFor example, you list \"food\" as an example of a social construct. So in your view there is a set of things that are acceptable as food. It's more than two, but there are restrictions... |
reddit-15 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: If someone dresses like a man, acts like a man, but has the genitalia of a woman than it's actually more useful to me that we call him a transgender person than anything else.
Call this person a male and you would be confusing anyone who might have a sexual interest ... | > You can still tell it's a woman quite easily
Go to Thailand someday. I bet most straight men would appreciate it if that beautiful women over there identified herself as trans-gender.
>now someone had a different sense of fashion and everyone thinks they're a different gender.
"Everyone" is horribly oversta... | {"title": "If someone dresses like a man, acts like a man, but has the genitalia of a woman than it's actually more useful to me that we call him a transgender person than anything else.\n\nCall this person a male and you would be confusing anyone who might have a sexual interest in this person.\n\nCall this person a f... |
reddit-16 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: >but that doesn't change weather they are male or female.
Even if we grant you your premise, it doesn’t logically follow that the other genders are meaningless or useless. You admit that these other genders tell you things about that person. Being informative is c... | >but that doesn't change weather they are male or female.
Even if we grant you your premise, it doesn’t logically follow that the other genders are meaningless or useless. You admit that these other genders tell you things about that person. Being informative is certainly useful, isn’t it? | {"title": ">but that doesn't change weather they are male or female.\n\nEven if we grant you your premise, it doesn\u2019t logically follow that the other genders are meaningless or useless. You admit that these other genders tell you things about that person. Being informative is certainly useful, isn\u2019t it?"} |
reddit-17 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: As you yourself recognized, gender is separate from sex AND is a social construct, generally informed by sex as well as culture.
Now, since we agree gender is a social construct used to inform others of a part of ourselves, doesn’t it stand to reason that someone wo... | I think it would be most useful to have sex and gender on the card - makes identification easier. If someone is s:m and g:f, then you can look at them and see that they code female but understand that they are biologically male. That seems like plenty of info - same can be done for gender options: m, f, t, other seems ... | {"title": "As you yourself recognized, gender is separate from sex AND is a social construct, generally informed by sex as well as culture. \n\nNow, since we agree gender is a social construct used to inform others of a part of ourselves, doesn\u2019t it stand to reason that someone would construct one beyond what is p... |
reddit-18 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: im not a neo-nazi but i lean conservative. it's ridiculous how many news source and liberals love to just jump in and call anyone fighting their views a neo-nazi.
a free speech protest isn't a "neo-nazi" rally for example.
you need to stop seeing people as neo-nazis... | by your logic...
progressives = commies. alt-left = commies. blm = commies. feminists = commies. classic liberals = not commies (oh wait, classic liberals are either conservatives or alt-rights aka nazis)
would you want to live in a world with such asinine name calling and labeling? i can just discount anything you h... | {"title": "im not a neo-nazi but i lean conservative. it's ridiculous how many news source and liberals love to just jump in and call anyone fighting their views a neo-nazi.\n\na free speech protest isn't a \"neo-nazi\" rally for example.\n\nyou need to stop seeing people as neo-nazis and using it as an easy vehicle to... |
reddit-19 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: How do you just casually meet a neo-nazi in your hometown? I've never seen or met one, and I've been to some shady places. | I grew up in a huge city and now live in the boonies. Never seen or heard of one. | {"title": "How do you just casually meet a neo-nazi in your hometown? I've never seen or met one, and I've been to some shady places."} |
reddit-20 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: The continued settlement building in the West Bank, would that be the same West Bank the Jordanians and Palestinians ethnically cleansed all Jews from after the 1948 war while destroying buildings and cemetaries that were over a thousand years old? Of course the Jews ... | The continued settlement building in the West Bank, would that be the same West Bank the Jordanians and Palestinians ethnically cleansed all Jews from after the 1948 war while destroying buildings and cemetaries that were over a thousand years old? Of course the Jews that were ethnically cleansed have no right to retur... | {"title": "The continued settlement building in the West Bank, would that be the same West Bank the Jordanians and Palestinians ethnically cleansed all Jews from after the 1948 war while destroying buildings and cemetaries that were over a thousand years old? Of course the Jews that were ethnically cleansed have no rig... |
reddit-21 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: What makes a nation apartheid is a desire to keep people of some ethnicities forever separate and subject, never permitting them full rights of citizenship. There are countries (UAE) where this is true, but Israel is not one of them. Israel gives it's citizens of Pa... | Instead of blindly believing what this person is saying you should go and study the topic yourself. There's a lot of pro Israeli propaganda circulated by the media so that people won't become aware of the situation. There's a reason that Israel is the world leader in broken UN resolutions and why almost every country i... | {"title": "What makes a nation apartheid is a desire to keep people of some ethnicities forever separate and subject, never permitting them full rights of citizenship. There are countries (UAE) where this is true, but Israel is not one of them. Israel gives it's citizens of Palestinian descent full rights of citizens... |
reddit-22 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: Israel is not an apartheid state simply because they have a reason to make firm divisions and obstacles to the historically and currently hostile Palestinian population. If Hamas and the PA discontinued their hateful and antisemitic rhetoric in how they operate in the... | Israel is not an apartheid state simply because they have a reason to make firm divisions and obstacles to the historically and currently hostile Palestinian population. If Hamas and the PA discontinued their hateful and antisemitic rhetoric in how they operate in the Palestinian political sphere and how they educate t... | {"title": "Israel is not an apartheid state simply because they have a reason to make firm divisions and obstacles to the historically and currently hostile Palestinian population. If Hamas and the PA discontinued their hateful and antisemitic rhetoric in how they operate in the Palestinian political sphere and how the... |
reddit-23 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: I understand your argument is about the state of Israel but I find it very hard to accurately talk about these topics without the context of the situation. Jewish people were ethnically cleansed from the West Bank and other areas of Israel by Muslim occupiers. Despite... | Could you clarify this - what other countries in the Middle East do you feel are not legitimized...?
> but today the region is so damaged and so full of extremism that I fear that self-determination will lead to the creation of even more Shariah states (something which I think is intolerable).
It they want to the... | {"title": "I understand your argument is about the state of Israel but I find it very hard to accurately talk about these topics without the context of the situation. Jewish people were ethnically cleansed from the West Bank and other areas of Israel by Muslim occupiers. Despite this hate filled past, Israelis of today... |
reddit-24 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: First of all, the word you're looking for is *ethnocentric*.
There's a reason you had to resort to Urban Dictionary, and it's not a good one.
Secondly, your interpretation of racism is really odd. The idea that hating black people but not Asians means you're not rac... | > My point was that if someone appears not to want immigrants from black countries but seems ok with Asian immigrants, then what are the chances they are motivated by a belief of white superiority?
This is the false belief that racism requires you to believe that your race is *superior* as opposed to merely the *in... | {"title": "First of all, the word you're looking for is *ethnocentric*.\n\nThere's a reason you had to resort to Urban Dictionary, and it's not a good one.\n\nSecondly, your interpretation of racism is really odd. The idea that hating black people but not Asians means you're not racist is... what? That's definitely rac... |
reddit-25 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: 1 - That's quite a fringe case. What's usually considered racism is clutching your bag when next to a casually dressed black person, or police feeling threatened by black people when if the skin colour were different that would change their reaction. That's what racia... | > My idea is that people who are biased against races are actually biased against certain cultures, not their ethnicity directly.
What if your capacity to *recognize* and *condemn* negatives in cultures is observably patterned along racial lines? As a direct example, being hyper aware of intolerance and violence a... | {"title": "1 - That's quite a fringe case. What's usually considered racism is clutching your bag when next to a casually dressed black person, or police feeling threatened by black people when if the skin colour were different that would change their reaction. That's what racial bias studies are about: how a lot of pe... |
reddit-26 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: Sure Racism and culturalism is different, but they are correlated.
>I’m walking down an alley late at night. I see 3 young black men in typical “hood” attire walking toward me from the opposite direction. Suddenly, I’m wary and tense. Am I racist? What if I told y... | Being afraid of rough bikers would be understandable since they're directly related to gangs and crime. A black guy wearing baggy clothing isn't. If the black guy had some red bandana hanging out the right pocket, then that'd be different.
In regards to the idea that you'd be just as worried around a white guy in "ho... | {"title": "Sure Racism and culturalism is different, but they are correlated.\n\n>I\u2019m walking down an alley late at night. I see 3 young black men in typical \u201chood\u201d attire walking toward me from the opposite direction. Suddenly, I\u2019m wary and tense. Am I racist? What if I told you I would feel the... |
reddit-27 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: They have another word for what you call "culturism" in sociology: *neo-racism*. It came up in the 80's to describe what some might call a 'new modality of racism" which focuses on "cultural differences" instead of skin color. On of the main author behind the terminol... | I'm not sure how you want me to prove that. Can you?
For one thing, I do not think cultures are simple enough to be summarized and weighted. That is a simplistic understanding of cultures. I understand neither cultures nor individuals in a way compatible with neo-racist though. People are, generally, not receptacles ... | {"title": "They have another word for what you call \"culturism\" in sociology: *neo-racism*. It came up in the 80's to describe what some might call a 'new modality of racism\" which focuses on \"cultural differences\" instead of skin color. On of the main author behind the terminology (E. Balibar) describes it as \"a... |
reddit-28 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: Couldn't racism be seen as a aggravating factor of Culturism ?
What I want to say is that:
* A black guy with a suit will get better results going to an interview that a black guy without a suit
* If a black and a white man, both wearing suit goes to an interview ... | > But I don't think that people typically understand that there is a distinction at all between race and culture
On a macro level, these two tend to overlap quite heavily, and people tend to use over generalization all the time. Reminds me a bit of this topic (https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/7r1ist/... | {"title": "Couldn't racism be seen as a aggravating factor of Culturism ? \n\nWhat I want to say is that:\n\n* A black guy with a suit will get better results going to an interview that a black guy without a suit\n* If a black and a white man, both wearing suit goes to an interview with the same resume, studies show t... |
reddit-29 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: They don't mean "culturalist", they mean bigoted. We've got a word for it already, no need to go to urban dictionary and find a new one.
Donald Trump may or may not be a racist. Donald Trump is indisputably a bigot. | A bigot is someone who judges (typically negatively) and makes assumptions about an individual based upon a group that individual is associated with.
Hmmm... can you give me some examples? I don't think I'm a bigot. I look at everyone as an individual and realize that they are defined individually, not by the group ... | {"title": "They don't mean \"culturalist\", they mean bigoted. We've got a word for it already, no need to go to urban dictionary and find a new one.\n\nDonald Trump may or may not be a racist. Donald Trump is indisputably a bigot."} |
reddit-30 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: >Obama said he'd help people hurt by trade, never happened. In fact he used significant political capital to push more of the same trade deals that he himself admitted have hurt American workers.
On your points on trade:
[Economists on NAFTA](http://www.igmchicag... | >Yeah, and most Americans don't believe free trade has been good for them.
Most Americans didn't believe in evolution until a few decades ago, either.
> There are economists who disagree with Free Trade
As someone going for a PhD in economics, I can assure you there are virtually none.
>it's just a lot har... | {"title": ">Obama said he'd help people hurt by trade, never happened. In fact he used significant political capital to push more of the same trade deals that he himself admitted have hurt American workers.\n\nOn your points on trade:\n\n[Economists on NAFTA](http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/free-trade)\n\n[Economi... |
reddit-31 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: Your title doesn't match up clearly with the content of your post. I don't see anything you write that implies that Obama was being deceptive about anything. I also don't really understand the distinction between "corporatist" and "left-leaning." I don't see how th... | [deleted] | {"title": "Your title doesn't match up clearly with the content of your post. I don't see anything you write that implies that Obama was being deceptive about anything. I also don't really understand the distinction between \"corporatist\" and \"left-leaning.\" I don't see how those are meaningful categories... and ... |
reddit-32 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: >The current economic system is a zero sum game.
This is 100% false. Your basic assumption/understanding of economics is dead wrong. | >that once you have zero, you are out of the game, as it is almost impossible to move up from zero.
This might be even dumber. What does a 16-year old have? What about a 10-year old? A toddler?
Plenty of people have zero and move up. | {"title": ">The current economic system is a zero sum game.\n\nThis is 100% false. Your basic assumption/understanding of economics is dead wrong."} |
reddit-33 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: I'm mostly curious about your claim that it would improve the economy. I don't understand what on earth makes you say that.
> The current economic system is a zero sum game.
It's not. The government giving your money to someone else is a zero sum game. You los... | I've seen these sorts of silly videos before. Doesn't change the very basic economic facts that making it less necessary to work weakens the incentives for people to work. And also higher taxes weakens people's incentives to work. A cartoon video doesn't change either of those facts.
I agree that some form of UBI wou... | {"title": "I'm mostly curious about your claim that it would improve the economy. I don't understand what on earth makes you say that. \n\n\n> The current economic system is a zero sum game.\n\n\nIt's not. The government giving your money to someone else is a zero sum game. You lose and the guy who gets your money p... |
reddit-34 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: If everyone is just getting 12k a month then prices will go up as people who previously did nothing are getting free money and people with money already will get more. It will cause hyperinflation and a never ending cycle of the same people who put the universal basic... | Not really, I mean sure ours could but that would only be us, not the many other nations that don’t want the UBI. | {"title": "If everyone is just getting 12k a month then prices will go up as people who previously did nothing are getting free money and people with money already will get more. It will cause hyperinflation and a never ending cycle of the same people who put the universal basic income raising it and raising it to comp... |
reddit-35 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: > 1: The current economic system is a zero sum game.
This is incorrect, value is created all the time, when a new movie is created that isn't zero sum.
More fundamentally the big risk of a large scale wealth redistribution is inflation, by increasing the velocit... | Zero sum is a commonly used term in economics and mathematics that means that all transactions in a system have net 0 sum that is all gains are losses elsewhere.
Even using your definition of zero sum that if someone goes broke they have no means to recover this doesn't describe our world. For example, plenty of peopl... | {"title": "> 1: The current economic system is a zero sum game. \n\nThis is incorrect, value is created all the time, when a new movie is created that isn't zero sum.\n\nMore fundamentally the big risk of a large scale wealth redistribution is inflation, by increasing the velocity of money in the economy in a way de... |
reddit-36 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: > For example, most democrats thought it was impossible that republicans would be bigoted and/or ignorant enough to vote for Trump but they were. They learned something about republicans.
This right here is why they won. Even in your attempt to understand the ot... | Is your contention that 100% of Trump voters did so because they liked his personal stance on both immigration and terrorism?
If it is, then you're objectively wrong.
If it's not, then you're morally wrong for using statistics to assume things about an individual person's position on things. You don't persuade large... | {"title": "> For example, most democrats thought it was impossible that republicans would be bigoted and/or ignorant enough to vote for Trump but they were. They learned something about republicans. \n\nThis right here is why they won. Even in your attempt to understand the other side, you still ended up just sayin... |
reddit-37 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: > Because of these two differences, any increased understanding will only make partisanship worse because the antagonism isn't caused by caricatures each side has of the other but by the realities of their mutually exclusive agenda.
Ironically, your descriptions o... | > Is not all politics identity politics?
Nope - not at all.
"We need programs to address poverty in the black community" is identity politics.
"We need programs to address poverty in the US" is not.
It's a pretty clear difference. | {"title": "> Because of these two differences, any increased understanding will only make partisanship worse because the antagonism isn't caused by caricatures each side has of the other but by the realities of their mutually exclusive agenda.\n\nIronically, your descriptions of both sides are caricatures in and of ... |
reddit-38 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: I'm having difficulties even imagining what "extreme justice" would even mean. Even in your OP, all you really talk about is (in)equality. Can you elaborate? | I'm having difficulties even imagining what "extreme justice" would even mean. Even in your OP, all you really talk about is (in)equality. Can you elaborate? | {"title": "I'm having difficulties even imagining what \"extreme justice\" would even mean. Even in your OP, all you really talk about is (in)equality. Can you elaborate?"} |
reddit-39 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: Regarding your title: who defines what an "extreme" is?
>Presuming there are many people who might go along with that plan, perhaps even a majority, we could all live in a country where everyone would receive $55,000 in annual income.
Sounds good. What's the down... | Regarding your title: who defines what an "extreme" is?
>Presuming there are many people who might go along with that plan, perhaps even a majority, we could all live in a country where everyone would receive $55,000 in annual income.
Sounds good. What's the downside, apart from disincentivized skilled labor?
>... | {"title": "Regarding your title: who defines what an \"extreme\" is?\n\n>Presuming there are many people who might go along with that plan, perhaps even a majority, we could all live in a country where everyone would receive $55,000 in annual income.\n\nSounds good. What's the downside, apart from disincentivized sk... |
reddit-40 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: This argument is just incorrect. Restricting firearms has lowered gun violence substantially in many cities in America. Also your analogy with the first amendment is also bad. Freedom of speech has nothing to do with the medium involved. It's the freedom to state ... | it's to reduce gun violence, because guns usually kill people a lot more than stab wounds. If everyone was fighting with sticks we'd have a lot less murders... | {"title": "This argument is just incorrect. Restricting firearms has lowered gun violence substantially in many cities in America. Also your analogy with the first amendment is also bad. Freedom of speech has nothing to do with the medium involved. It's the freedom to state your beliefs, an abstract quality.\n\nIn ... |
reddit-41 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: As a whole I kind of agree with you, but I take issue with this statement
> Because of this they push for regulations that restrict things such as “bump stocks” that “make it possible to kill scores of people” much easier than with a conventional semi-automatic we... | They turn perfectly legal semiauto rifles into a bastly more dangerous full automatic one. Isn't that enough? I hate to bring up tragedies in this debates, but remember that the Vegas shooter used one. The death toll may have been different if he hadn't had access to a bump stock. | {"title": "As a whole I kind of agree with you, but I take issue with this statement\n\n> Because of this they push for regulations that restrict things such as \u201cbump stocks\u201d that \u201cmake it possible to kill scores of people\u201d much easier than with a conventional semi-automatic weapon.\n\nHow are bu... |
reddit-42 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: Plenty of people refer to themselves as Italian American. Or Japanese American. If people want to be connected to their ancestry, that's not bad. It can give people a sense of history and culture and community. That does not make them less American. Those things only... | Yes. I'm glad you're not racist. Truly! But saying you don't see color as if you couldn't tell if someone is black or Asian when they're standing in front of you, when that's something they identify with and that matters to them, is insulting and makes you look insane. Of course you can see it. So maybe find a better w... | {"title": "Plenty of people refer to themselves as Italian American. Or Japanese American. If people want to be connected to their ancestry, that's not bad. It can give people a sense of history and culture and community. That does not make them less American. Those things only modify American, after all; they don't s... |
reddit-43 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: All black people are black. Not all black people are African or American. The same can't be said of being Irish, Mexican, Russian, whatever.
There are Irish Americans who are black. There are Scottish people visiting America that are black. There are white Africans ... | And if you go far enough back in time, literally every single human on the planet came from Africa. Therefore none of us are American or Irish or English or anything like that. | {"title": "All black people are black. Not all black people are African or American. The same can't be said of being Irish, Mexican, Russian, whatever. \n\nThere are Irish Americans who are black. There are Scottish people visiting America that are black. There are white Africans visiting America that are more African ... |
reddit-44 | contrarian | cga-cmv | Challenge this assumption for pre-writing ideation: African American is not a race. it's an ethnicity of Americans from the slave trade who don't know what country they are from. | > Most black people call themselves African American
[This poll of black Americans](http://news.gallup.com/poll/28816/black-african-american.aspx) shows that more people prefer the term "African American" than prefer the term "black". However, more importantly, in my opinion, it shows that a majority don't care. U... | {"title": "African American is not a race. it's an ethnicity of Americans from the slave trade who don't know what country they are from."} |
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