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0 pointsnashashmi8y ago0 comments

If you switch out words of gender with words of race, it may sound more offensive. That is what the Youtube CEO said and it immediately began to make sense.

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nightcracker8y ago

To be the devil's advocate, many things are a lot more offensive if you swap words of gender with race.

"Birth control for blacks", "we need more jews in STEM", "no blacks in the whites only bathroom".

They're more offensive because unlike race there are very real and relevant biological differences when it comes to gender. And whether or not that applies to STEM probably shapes your viewpoints on this subject.

AlwaysBCoding8y ago

"If you change what he said it sounds worse" lol, is that seriously your argument?

5ilv3r8y ago

It's a very good argument. Behavior that is ok for one group should be ok for another group, and viceversa. That is a truth of equality.

mhermher8y ago

If you turn "I only have sex with women" into "I only have sex with white people", suddenly it sounds pretty offensive. Can we judge those two statements equivalently? It's not a good argument at all.

Chaebixi8y ago

> It's a very good argument.

In the best case, that argument only has a little utility. However, it's a pretty bad argument now, since political correctness only allows you to make those kinds of swaps in certain cases. Nowadays, it can only be use to amplify the outrage against an already-identified villain.

ng128y ago

I think there's a different point -- that we're willing to ignore certain avenues of discussion to maintain a civil society.

sleazebreeze8y ago

It's interesting to note that that was actually the structure of one of the arguments in the lawsuit - changing "men" to "women" to demonstrate the flaws in a Googler's reasoning. Check out points 166-169.

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