• penquin@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      I find it unnecessary. Race/gender/skin color or whatever shouldn’t matter.

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        8 months ago

        You know how it goes, not all white males… but almost always it is a white male.

        This guy probably wouldn’t have even considered insulting a speaker that way if she wasn’t a woman. In a scientific setting it’s one thing disagreeing with an argument, and attacking the person proposing the argument.

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            8 months ago

            Yes, but until recently they weren’t even accepted into colleges, were they? Almost like oppression is intersectional or something.

            EDIT: refer to my response to Mango. Y’all way stupider/bigoted than I gave you credit for in the first place.

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                8 months ago

                OMG, how dense can you be? You can be a sexist black men. But the chances that you will be invited to a NASA conference to insult a female scientist in the first place is mediated by your chances of being a highly educated scientist yourself which is limited by systemic racism still inherent in STEM and the education system of the US.

                So, statistically speaking, it would still be more likely to be a white male, the one doing the insulting.

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                  So you’re saying everyone can be racist or sexist but only white people are established? That’s fair enough. I’m pretty anti establishment myself because there’s a million ways that power gets abused.

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        8 months ago

        Yet somehow it is true that the vast majority of smug people who are confidently wrong are white males. Maybe someday we can have equality in the ratio of being smug while confidently wrong.