(January 12, 2025 at 10:53 am)Istvan Wrote: Gee, you guys are so far up in your ivory towers that you don't think marginalization is as big an issue as it seems from the ground.
I suppose that, for those who come from a culture where brutal (and even fatal) violence is an acceptable form of complaint, a more nuanced approach is... elitist.
Then again, this is from the viewpoint of a culture that views brutal violence against women and gays as something that those oppressed groups should "get over." So perhaps it's just that the shoe is on the other foot? One might even think that they're being triggered, the poor souls.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
