PC Principal V: What The Fuck Am I Reading

[BerenTebogo]

Usually Kuro is eager to inject medical knowledge where it isn't needed. Where is he now?

Anyway, body weight is a large factor in metabolism of medications. There are other factors like body fat %, current diet, mineral deficiencies, and many others that I don't know cuz I'm not a doctor. Any scientifically demonstrated predisposition to these factors by gender, i.e. higher alcohol consumption, higher coffee consumption, etc. can be mapped directly to the conclusion that certain genders absorb different drugs at a different rate.

[Fiye]

Self censorship FTW

https://twitter.com/SamHarrisOrg/sta...210562048?s=19

[Melena]

Who is he and why should I care that he cancelled his Patreon?

[Lucavi]

^ Who the hell is that?

[Salodin]

White supremacist iirc

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[AoE]

Ex-friend of mine was trying to sell me on that dude. Listened to one podcast and realized it was only a matter of time before we stopped being friends. Took about a month.

[archibaldcrane]

White supremacist iirc

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Excuse me, they prefer to go by "scientific racists" tyvm

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[Karbuncle]

White supremacist iirc

Now that you mention it I think I heard him say its okay to be white at one point, I'm putting 2 and 2 together now.

On topic of the Social Media/Patreon issues. Ya'll just okay with this kind of thing, meaning the deplatforming and such on social media just because its beneficial to the Left? The shortsighted and turning a blind eye approach to these social media purges of political opposition simply because the current power structure that allows this to happen "benefits" your political bias is astounding. I don't have to agree with the people being deplatformed and buried to know this kind of thing is extremely dangerous, EXTREMELY dangerous, and you should see that too. For all the rally cries against fascism these are the most fascist moves in the playbook.

I understand Facebook, Twitter, Patreon, are all platforms you more or less lease your space on and they have rules and guidelines and you're subject to follow those, but these rules and guidelines are only being applies to those of Right-leaning politics, and not the other way around, this is a politically driven banning/purge, and thats not okay. Most of the people being banned off Patreon are clearly not breaking any rules Patreon has set forth and are being removed without the option for a good-faith appeal.

The dark precedent this sets should be clearly noticeable even for you guys. I know you can't change anything, I guess I just need to know if you even realize what path this takes us down or if you even care so long as it wins you the next election.

[Zealot]

I'd agree with you if it were the government making moves like this but so far it's all been private companies. Nothing is stopping any of these individuals or groups from starting their own social media platforms, and indeed some have.

It's not poltiical opposition if there's no one political behind it. I guarantee you the people in charge of Twitter, Patreon, etc all donate to Republicans.

When some government actor says that there should be legal repercussions for groups or individuals engaging in speech they find offensive, then you'll know we've got a fascist on our hands. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm just off to check the President of the United States' tweets for the day.

[Karbuncle]

I'd agree with you if it were the government making moves like this but so far it's all been private companies. Nothing is stopping any of these individuals or groups from starting their own social media platforms, and indeed some have.

It's not poltiical opposition if there's no one political behind it. I guarantee you the people in charge of Twitter, Patreon, etc all donate to Republicans.

When some government actor says that there should be legal repercussions for groups or individuals engaging in speech they find offensive, then you'll know we've got a fascist on our hands. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm just off to check the President of the United States' tweets for the day.

Simply because there isn't a sitting politician pulling the strings (Of which we have no evidence) thats its okay for incredibly large social structures that shape the very interactions of our society today to heavily lean one political direction and purge those on the opposite end while allowing even the most radical forms of their own side continue?

That's.... thats not something I can agree with, and I'm really just astounding its A-okay in your book(Or at least how you rationalize it). If Lobbyists and corporate interests effecting our government and laws so much wasn't a reality in our world, I'd be more inclined to agree with you, but these "private companies" have a political agenda, and a very good reason to get their candidate elected. Rather a politician is pulling the strings or not seems irrelevant to me when it comes to something as large as Social media and their ability to influence.

Its also highly unlikely to me with how Lobbying works there isn't some political power at play here.

Edit: Forgive me I did edit my post, I needed to reword some things.

[archibaldcrane]

Racism, dehumanization of trans people, etc are not exclusively performed by right wingers.

Nobody is getting bant for advocating for lower taxes or gun rights.

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[Ksandra]

I'd agree with you if it were the government making moves like this but so far it's all been private companies. Nothing is stopping any of these individuals or groups from starting their own social media platforms, and indeed some have.

White supremacists can sit on a splintery stick and turn for all I care; however, here is what I find interesting.

For the most part, liberals say they don't like capitalism and the free market, but what you are essentially saying is this is ok due to the results of capitalism and the free market.

I honestly don't know how to react to these situations because I am definitely biased against these shitfucks, but I do see the danger in what karbuncle is saying because I, as a general rule, hate the concept of capitalism and the free market when it comes to social morality.

[Karbuncle]

Racism, dehumanization of trans people, etc are not exclusively performed by right wingers.

Nobody is getting bant for advocating for lower taxes or gun rights.

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I am not going to waste my time digging up dozens of Left-Leaning hate groups or individuals supporting violence and murder against the "Opposition" that continue to exist on Twitter, Patreon, and etc, or the groups/individuals that are painfully and outspokenly racists against White people (But thats okay to you guys!), because I don't believe for a second you're that ignorant to not know of groups like Antifa or have seen other examples of the Far-Left groups that spout stuff that goes too far, you absolutely are not that dumb.

These are bad people, its okay to denounce them as much as any reasonable Right-leaning person denounces the far-right ideologues and crazies.

Before we mix up "Politically motivated silencing of opposition is a dark path to go down" with "I support those banned and what they have to say", I'm going to go ahead and spell out again this isn't about validating their opinions, nor do I stand in defense of their views, its the precedent it sets that this kind of tactic is okay or should be allowed even from a corporate perspective. Rather its the left or right getting silenced its not okay.

I'm not arguing there aren't plenty of assholes on the Right, I'm not arguing that by some standard these are justified by the Terms of Service of these companies, or any some such, its not that these people are being deplatformed thats bad its that ONLY the people with right-leaning views are being deplatformed and those more violent or radicalized views on the left go unchecked and allowed to operate. Its that these silencing are clearly politically motivated rather by the individuals on the teams doing the banning or some corporate interests backing it up, its that its a heavily biased application of their rules applying to only one side or applying in vast majority to only one side.

Here's one example from Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/doctorbones

and to point out a section of this which has since been edited out. This person is a fucking lunatic

"Each dollar you send is a bullet in the chamber of a gun, we're building together, that fires a massive .44 round into the heads of politicians and capatlists alike"

The metaphorical speech aside, this is okay? I don't think so, but its staying up... so much for their terms of service? This goes back to what I said earlier about this purge being one sided, or at the very least these people have clear ideological ties that are motivating the people they target and deplatform.

Edit: (Probably done editing. I'm sorry)

[Andalusian girls]

lolz @ Harris being known for being a white supremacist. he's a former neuroscientist turned public intellectual by damning religion and establishing himself as one of the four horsemen of atheism (like all the others but Dawkins his work was insignificant before hopping on the God is dead train). he's gotten into trouble over the years for blasting Islam (Ben Affleck famously calling him racist on air for it) and I assume the casual character assassination above stems from him hosting The Bell Curve's author on his podcast after said author's quadlisting, The Bell Curve being notorious for identifying the IQ gap between ethnicities (true) and stating intelligence is primarily genetic and mostly immutable and reducible to a single figure like intelligence quotient (not true).

Harris likely holds some prejudicial attitudes and made a foolish error turning Murray into the illiberal PC-mob SJW-victim cause célebre of the day, but he has spoken at length about white privilege, racial inequality in America, is a great proponent of Rawls's veil of ignorance, and lambasts Trump endlessly for every imaginable reason, among them the appeals to white nationalism. if he's a white supremacist he's doing a pretty bad job at it.

[Krandor]

So he's white and said bad things about Islam? Under the current political spectrum that definitely makes him a Nazi.

[Salodin]

My only knowledge of Harris is him going on Ezra Kleins show and trying to defend "imagine if scientists found a gene expressed in whites that isnt expressed in blacks related to intelligence", and then tried using that to justify another shitty position like both werent imaginative absurdaties.

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[Salodin]

Dude might not be a white supremacist, if AG is to be believed, but he def is that guy that picks a weird hill to die on.

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[Salodin]

Also, dude preemptively deplatforms himself off certain sites and instead creates his own platform where he can keep all the fees and people are upset for him. Get real lol.

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[NynJa]

So he's white? Under the current political spectrum that definitely makes him a Nazi.

Made a little correction there

[Greatguardian]

Dude might not be a white supremacist, if AG is to be believed, but he def is that guy that picks a weird hill to die on.

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It takes five minutes to look the guy up on wikipedia. Dude's a NYT Bestselling author. At most, he's picking a hill to mildly inconvenience himself on.