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    Thread: Can I be Trans-Race or Trans-Class?
Post: RE: Can I be Trans-Race or Trans-Class?

(April 23, 2017 at 6:17 am)Mathilda Wrote: You will have in all probability spoken to a woman without realising that she is a  MTF transsexual. You would have just seen her as a woman, treated her a...
InquiringMind Politics 41 6305 April 23, 2017 at 1:41 pm
    Thread: Can I be Trans-Race or Trans-Class?
Post: RE: Can I be Trans-Race or Trans-Class?

Well, quite a diversity of opinions. I wasn't really asking whether transgender people choose their transgender feelings. I was more talking about the clear logical step that if your gender is decid...
InquiringMind Politics 41 6305 April 23, 2017 at 2:46 am
    Thread: Can I be Trans-Race or Trans-Class?
Post: RE: Can I be Trans-Race or Trans-Class?

(April 20, 2017 at 10:37 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: (April 20, 2017 at 8:59 pm)Tiberius Wrote: You think transgender people "choose" their gender. That's your first problem. And then there are the p...
InquiringMind Politics 41 6305 April 21, 2017 at 1:09 am
    Thread: Can I be Trans-Race or Trans-Class?
Post: Can I be Trans-Race or Trans-Class?

So if I'm allowed to choose my gender identity to be whatever I want it to be, and thus I can be trans-gender, can I also be trans-race?  I'm clearly white, but could I decide that I am actually trans...
InquiringMind Politics 41 6305 April 20, 2017 at 8:53 pm
    Thread: Power Struggle with Roommate; Need Advice
Post: RE: Power Struggle with Roommate; Need Advice

(April 4, 2017 at 6:41 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: You are in a race to the bottom. It sounds like both of you are willing to let the place become a sty while you wait for the other guy to clean house ...
InquiringMind Off Topic 16 2824 April 4, 2017 at 7:23 pm
    Thread: Power Struggle with Roommate; Need Advice
Post: Power Struggle with Roommate; Need Advice

So I think that my roommate and I are locked in a power struggle.  It's just the two of us in our apartment in student housing, so we're stuck with each other for the time being.  There's kind of a ho...
InquiringMind Off Topic 16 2824 April 4, 2017 at 6:15 pm
    Thread: What Exactly Is an "Earned Privilege"?
Post: RE: What Exactly Is an "Earned Privilege"?

Well, it appears that no one so far is interested in answering my original questions.
InquiringMind Politics 36 9221 March 21, 2017 at 12:45 am
    Thread: What Exactly Is an "Earned Privilege"?
Post: RE: What Exactly Is an "Earned Privilege"?

(March 20, 2017 at 8:42 pm)pgrimes15 Wrote: What's an SJW ? Social justice warrior.
InquiringMind Politics 36 9221 March 20, 2017 at 9:19 pm
    Thread: What Exactly Is an "Earned Privilege"?
Post: What Exactly Is an "Earned Privilege"?

I'm really confused about this idea of "unearned privilege" that the SJWs like to throw around.  I'm especially confused about why three metrics that make a huge difference in a person's privilege - t...
InquiringMind Politics 36 9221 March 20, 2017 at 8:36 pm
    Thread: No One Actually Wants an Equal Society
Post: RE: No One Actually Wants an Equal Society

(March 20, 2017 at 2:36 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Well, people do like to bitch and moan.  However, it's just as easy to imagine that people are bitching and moaning rather than expressing a legitimate con...
InquiringMind Politics 69 7708 March 20, 2017 at 8:07 pm
    Thread: No One Actually Wants an Equal Society
Post: RE: No One Actually Wants an Equal Society

I have two more thoughts on this.   If we could create a society that had full equal opportunity for everyone in every way, do you think people would finally stop complaining that they were being tre...
InquiringMind Politics 69 7708 March 20, 2017 at 12:58 pm
    Thread: Where Are All These Rich Guys Supposed to Come From?
Post: RE: Where Are All These Rich Guys Supposed to Come...

(March 13, 2017 at 4:53 am)Nymphadora Wrote: Do you have statistical numbers from a place - such as the US Department of Labor and Statistics or is this your assumption?  Again - cite a source poin...
InquiringMind Politics 17 2060 March 13, 2017 at 1:47 pm
    Thread: Where Are All These Rich Guys Supposed to Come From?
Post: Where Are All These Rich Guys Supposed to Come Fro...

Much of feminism seems to hope for an equality of result (not equality of opportunity, equality of result) in earnings and status between men and women - equal numbers of men and women CEOs, congressp...
InquiringMind Politics 17 2060 March 13, 2017 at 1:22 am
    Thread: No One Actually Wants an Equal Society
Post: RE: No One Actually Wants an Equal Society

(March 6, 2017 at 5:00 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Yeah, I agree with other posters that the OP confuses 'equal' with 'identical'. Sure, everyone would like to have a stroke of luck now and then, b...
InquiringMind Politics 69 7708 March 7, 2017 at 1:24 am
    Thread: No One Actually Wants an Equal Society
Post: RE: No One Actually Wants an Equal Society

(March 6, 2017 at 4:16 am)Alex K Wrote: No but seriously, there's a difference between equal chances/opportunities and everyone being identical. I don't think that people even want equality of oppor...
InquiringMind Politics 69 7708 March 6, 2017 at 4:37 am
    Thread: No One Actually Wants an Equal Society
Post: No One Actually Wants an Equal Society

I have an idea.  Why has inequality in society (wealth, race, gender, etc.) stubbornly persisted in spite of many decades of efforts to alleviate it?  Why has the discussion of privilege only intensif...
InquiringMind Politics 69 7708 March 6, 2017 at 4:06 am
    Thread: What About Jobs for "Murricans?"
Post: RE: What About Jobs for "Murricans?"

But aren't 'Murricans too busy in jobs that are meaningful, satisfying, and fulfilling - jobs like doctor, poet, scientist, musician, lawyer, CEO - to be interested in jobs that are as meaningless, un...
InquiringMind Politics 18 3123 February 17, 2017 at 8:32 pm
    Thread: The Oppression Olympics
Post: RE: The Oppression Olympics

(February 17, 2017 at 3:42 am)Aristocatt Wrote: Okay, cool. The civil rights movement was awesome because it fought against the restriction of a fundamental right.  I believe based on what you ha...
InquiringMind Politics 81 14905 February 17, 2017 at 4:03 am
    Thread: The Oppression Olympics
Post: RE: The Oppression Olympics

(February 17, 2017 at 3:25 am)Aristocatt Wrote: I'm on a phone, can't really give a full reply.  So you accept that my example was an example of opression, and you accept that just because someone h...
InquiringMind Politics 81 14905 February 17, 2017 at 3:33 am
    Thread: The Oppression Olympics
Post: RE: The Oppression Olympics

(February 17, 2017 at 2:47 am)Aristocatt Wrote: Just to clarify a law limiting the amount of income an African american can make, would not be oppressive? Certainly such a law would be oppressive un...
InquiringMind Politics 81 14905 February 17, 2017 at 3:16 am