Comment on Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism

• LWD@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We are, without a doubt, living in some of the least bigoted societies in history.

  Me, an enlightened Roman, explaining to my house slave how he has it good

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  • doylio@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Name 5 societies in all of history, that are as diverse as the western world today and have the levels of opportunity for minorities

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    • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Name five societies in all of history, circa the time of ancient Rome or before, that had the same level of opportunity for minorities as ancient Rome.

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• TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We can be less bigoted than the past while also having a long way to go still. You could even count as a sign of this improvement that these issues are taken seriously and discussed rather than ignored as just the way things are.

  But we can’t take it for granted, because progress is not guaranteed and equality can decline. Say, such as the matter of abortion rights in the US and consequently how pregnancies are policed, leading to possible arrests even for natural miscarriages.

  If you acknowledge that we aren’t finished fighting bigotry, I don’t really understand what’s your concern here.

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  • doylio@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What is good example comment of gaslighting for $400 Alex?

      Must be nice being able to go thru life and thinking bigotry doesn’t exist while blaming the people who are reporting it. Yes it is the messenger that is at fault.

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    • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      TIL The Jungle is a woke moralizing hit piece and enlightened centrists (such as you, good gentlesir) should have dismissed it

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    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I get that clickbait is a thing, but as a community focused on Technology it seems pertinent to consider what the experience of different people in this area is like.

      Should we pretend it doesn’t happen so that the journalists don’t “win”? It is upsetting to know that this happens, but I don’t see how we “lose” by being informed. This isn’t someone trolling on social media, it’s the reality of the world we live in.

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  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We are less bigoted compared to the past, what the 1720s?

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• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bullshit and it’s time for the Western World to admit that is bullshit.

  Just in my city, solid blue district in solid blue state, the local Jewish temple has a police car in-front of it every time they have services due to a bomb threat over a year ago. People dropped fliers in mailboxes complaining about a person putting up a sign on their door in Arabic that said “god bless this house” The fliers called it un-American. The city next to mine had a mass protest against a Mosque being built.

  Ever been to Thailand? The tolerance of the pagan feels like an understatement. Everyone there believes whatever they want without any shame. People worshipping statues and making offerings to ancestors. Signs everywhere bragging about hallel food and prayer rooms. And before you even try it I am an atheist and have had zero issues there, unlike the US where I have to occasionally lie. The atheist groups I go to half the members don’t want their picture taken or name recorded.

  In what way are we Westerners less bigoted? It isn’t racism, it isn’t feminism, it isn’t religion, it isn’t LGBT. Go ahead and get a few beers in any minority in your country and ask them what they really think. Or you know you could spend thirty minutes of your life looking at all the documented peer-reviewed evidence gathered that paints a picture of our supposed tolerance.

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