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No; but it's easy for a white person to be oblivious to the impact of their own words. And also to accept feedback, learn and adapt.When I say "above scrutiny" I mean that someone is starting from the position of assuming someone is correct because of whatever superficial characteristics they possess. In this example, it's assuming that the black person is correct....because they are a black person.
Since no one can prove a negative, this puts the white person in this example in a nearly impossible position whereby they've already been judged guilty.
Well, yes, I assume that people who describe their experiences to me are, largely, being honest. And I have also seen the studies and brain scans and so on which demonstrate that there appears to be some biological basis to that experience. So, one might interpret those things differently, but objectively there seems to be "something" to the whole thing.Well you're resting this very belief upon certain assumptions. For example, the assumption that such a feeling even exists....and the assumption that there can be such a thing as "the wrong body" in any objective sense of the word.
It's nice that you believe the things you were told....but certainly, reasons exist to not believe them or approach them more skeptically.
In my limited experience, they're often abuse and trauma survivors.If someone is "old" by which I mean well into adulthood and still struggling with their "identity" they have, imo, wasted their lives or otherwise made extremely poor choices.
I mean that it can be quite difficult and onerous (even where it is practically possible) to have their gender recognised legally, particularly if they have not chosen surgery or have only had limited surgery.What do you mean "legally recognized"?
There's a source outlining some of the legal and administrative stuff here: Change of sexOur lawmakers are struggling with simply explaining what a woman or man is.....so I'm doubtful of any such lawmakers attempting to craft any legal statutes around words they cannot define.
A just society in which everyone is able to be safe, thrive, and strive to fulfil their potential.A long way to go to what? What is the end goal?
I'd ban the commercial production and distribution of tobacco products, for a start. You want to grow a little in your garden, and even share with your neighbours, fine. But the days of companies making billions out of a highly addictive substance which only creates massive health burdens for our society should be gone.We don't have to go into it....just give me an example.
Well, its proponents on this thread have been pretty fuzzy about it, but it seems to be the enshrinement of a particular moment circa 1950, where "Christian values" reigned and we didn't have to deal with messy issues of sex, gender, human rights, and so on. (At least, that's the idealised, somewhat romanticised view of how it was).What's the traditional approach?
Depends on the workplace. My suspicion that the "traditionalists" don't actually care about women's equality is based on what I've observed of the way such people actually behave.They seem to have accepted women in the workplace without much difficulty....
It would certainly be good to see the left become focussed, organised and strategic about achieving their goals. I've observed in the last decade or so that (broadly speaking) "the left" seems to have assumed that their self-evidently good and right attitudes would prevail, and that they didn't need to work to build the society they wanted. Then they've watched with dismay as people with different views and more discipline have been more effective. I'm still waiting for that realisation to crystallise enough to galvanise real action, though.It would be good to see the left handle this reversal of fortune as well as they did.
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