I mean it’s a college campus, and I’m actually happy to see that on the discussion topic, especially since it looks like they’re covering the arguments for and against censoring hate speech

People should have that discussion, because people should hear the arguments for and against hate speech laws.

If one side refuses to learn the other side’s argument society can’t progress forward, and people will just keep screaming at each other with their fingers in their ears

That’s literally the point of a college education, study & learn all sides of an argument

I mean, that assignment’s not wrong. Mass media 100% trivializes women & makes them feel inadequate, because that’s how they’re able to scam them into buying a shit load of feminine care products that the majority of women don’t actually need

It’s a giant marketing ploy designed to prey on female inadequacy by showing them “perfection” and then promising them they too can achieve that level of perfection by buying our products

It’s a giant scam

Like it turns out Women are great for advertisers. Stick a sexy woman wearing very little clothes next to anything and you immediately draw the eyes of most men to your advertisement. Put a sexy women next to some care products and tell women you too can be like her if you use xyz to sell to women

If you tried doing the same to a guy, you’d probably only attract female eyes, which you can do with a sexy woman as well

So why not just use the female model since she’ll potentially attract male eyes as well. Even if men won’t buy the product they might remember the brand name & talk about it

Like the SJW movement may have jumped the shark and gone full crazy, but the movement did start with some legitimate talking points over actual issues, and IMO the depiction of Women in the media was one of them

That’s because Digimon is sweet

I mean, Chelsea didn’t just chose to stand with the left. She chose to openly align with the Antifa left. The faction that openly tells people open discussion with right wing individuals (all of which they lump in with Nazis) is bad and makes you no better than Nazis. Like no shit her side was going to turn on her when she spoke to openly right wing people and didn’t constantly scream at/shit on them.

She’s clearly trying to get back in their good graces

I mean, just because you’re willing to blow the whistle on government corruption doesn’t mean you’re knowledgeable in politics or even intelligent

It just means you have information that proves wrongdoing and a moral compass that’s telling you what the corporation/government is doing is wrong

Who exactly is she trying to deceive here?

Eh, I just look at this whole thing, and I just don’t give a shit. Like, why the fuck am I suppose to care who Chelsea Manning spends her free time with? Why does anyone care? Why do I care what her relationship with Cassandra Fairbanks is? Like, I understand why Tim cares, since Cassandra is his friend, but why does anyone who’s not actually friends with either Chelsea or Cassandra give a shit?

So what? Why should someone’s personal life have any barring on their activism?

Martin Luther King Jr. had affairs and was a pretty sexist guy. Who cares when his message is all about equality for all races, and bringing blacks & whites together.

Nobody’s perfect. Everyone has flaws. Flawed people can still have good ideas

Stupid autocucumber

My tablet likes to make dumb corrections all the time

Very few people are 100% good or 100% evil. Even the best people have terrible ideas, even the worst people have some good ones.

I mean, the Antifa crowd ain’t liberal

With their whole “liberals get the bullet too” slogan

I mean, the only reason the Christian Bakery lost that court case is because they Doxxed the gay couple.

They launched a full scale harassment campaign against them

https://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/debunking-big-media-myth-real-reason-anti-gay-bakers-oregon-were-fined-135000

The stupid Bakery posted the couple’s address online leading to them receiving constant death threats. The $135000 fine had nothing to do with discrimination laws & everything to do with the emotional damages from getting constantly harassed by internet trolls

Definitely not, but you can’t go posting people’s private info online

The bakery is a business. The couple didn’t go around posting the Baker’s personal address. Naming and shaming a business is different from posting a private citizen’s personal address

Not really, one makes your work life shit, the other makes your personal life shit

I agree, they shouldn’t bother giving their business to assholes who would refuse it

And so they posted a vocal public review against the bakery for refusing service. There’s nothing wrong with that

The lawsuit only happened because their address got posted

The couple sued because the Bakery posted their info in response to a scathing bad review they left after the couple was denied service

Didn’t you hear, they were never friends tho

If you’re leaking classified information about our government violating human rights (such as the surveillance state violating our right to privacy) it’s not really you betraying your country. I’d consider that more revealing the fact that your country is betraying you. On the other hand if you’re just leaking classified information that reveals no wrongdoing for the sake of leaking classified information, yes you’re betraying your country.

The only Amazon series I've seen currently is The Man in the High Castle, and I loved it so so I have high hopes

Why can’t men raise kids & women work?

Also I’m not really seeing how women being in the workplace lowers Men’s salaries.

There’s literally no difference between me staying home and raising the kids and my wife working vs my wife staying home raising the kids and me working

Tell that to Zachary Turner

I never said the mother can’t be more empathetic. It’s almost like naturally assuming all mothers are more empathetic is just as irrational as assuming they’re not. Judge people individually, not as collectives

Except you’re not going by facts, you’re going by scientific assumptions

Just because the mother is more likely to be better suited to raise children in any given relationship, doesn’t make it true of every relationship

Which is specifically the argument I’m against

I mean, a loose hypothesis gives you loose results

I guess they consider dying a cure for autism?

Which is sad considering autism isn’t a disease, you can’t cure it.

There’s nothing to cure though. Autism isn’t a sickness, it’s a disorder that effects state of mind.

Sure in the future you might be able to temporarily readjust their state of mind, but the default will always be the same

Considering no mental condition in existence has ever been cured

Treatable sure, but there’s a major difference between take this drug once and you’re good to go vs take this medication once a day every day

I sincerely doubt medicine will ever evolve to the point where humans have learned how to rewire a human brain

because the trials required to do so will almost assuredly be considered torture

And unless we get the second coming of Nazi doctors who don’t give a shit about their patients o don’t see us ever getting there

How else would you propose doctors experiment on live human brains in order to change the way they perceive the world in a way that wouldn’t be considered torture?

Except you can’t torture volunteers? You can thank shit like the Stanford Prison Experiments for that

Even if we can keep a brain alive in a jar, how do we know how that brain currently perceives the world? Hell, how would it even perceive the world?

I’m fairly certain it takes more than medication to rewire the way a human brain perceives the world

Because just taking medication is going to be more treatment, less cure

And the methods of discovering many cures are largely considered barbaric by today’s standards & would never fly in the scientific community today

A lot of our knowledge of the brain came as a result of lobotomies. Great for research, less great for the patients.

But at what point do governments step in & start extending these grown test subjects human rights? Hell Sophia the robot AI was just given Saudi Arabian citizenship.

If I’ve learned anything it’s the fact that the American government shits all over science every chance it gets

That I agree with

Hopefully once we start colonizing other planets we tell the governments of Earth to fuck off, but I’d be willing to bet even on Mars we’ll have shit like Martian America or Martian Russia

Legit just link the article itself

Wikileaks has also built up a reputation of not publishing lies

If you can’t prove to them what you have is fact, they won’t publish it

Sure Wikileaks may not publish everything, sure they may be biased and target specific groups with leaks, but you can be certain that anything they do choose to publish is true

There may be more to the story than what’s published through them, but what is published is true.

It’s up to the reader to determine if what’s left out is left out because of Wikileaks’ biases or because Wikileaks didn’t want to make a claim it wasn’t 100% sure of

And we all trust cops to cover their own ass at the expense of the people

Honestly trust is the big issue. The mainstream establishment has pissed all over the people’s trust, because they’re so use to the people trusting them blindly because who’s going to prove them wrong.

But with the advent of television & the internet it’s become very easy to prove them wrong. If a corrupt Deputy Marshal showed up to your home and shot your son back in 1850 who’d ever believe you? It’s your word against a badge, and people had trust in the authorities. Today all you have to do is point a camera at the corrupt Marshal and bam, instant evidence that can be uploaded to the eyes of millions in a matter of seconds

For the first time in History the people can legitimately hold the establishment accountable for their lies

Because the crazy inaccuracies and lies from the mainstream media have always existed, they’ve just been impossible to prove.

Because that farmer who’s been misrepresented & Libeled in a big city paper. Who the fuck is going to have heard his side of things. He had no way of speaking out to as large an audience

But today that guy can get on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and speak out

And if enough people care his voice will be heard by more than the 20 people he knows personally

He could reach an audience of millions

Who knows how many people got censored like Lindsay Shepherd did 90 years ago, but today, all it takes is a social media post getting into the correct hands and all of a sudden boom

Like #MeToo has blown up so much that some extreme feminists are finally giving a voice to Bill Clinton’s accusers. Even CNN employees were retweeting an article that his accusers weren’t just right wing nutjobs.

Social media has given the people an incredible amount of power. 2016 was the first year where a majority of the kids who grew up with social media were eligible to vote and look what happened. The most popular Republican candidate was a complete outsider and the Democrats had to cheat to prevent Bernie, an independent, from winning their primary.

Shit like what happened to Ron Paul in 2012 can’t happen again

Yep. Because everyone I knew in High School wanted Ron Paul, but most of us weren’t 18 until after the primaries ended so we couldn’t vote. He got super railroaded by the media, and smeared as a joke

The Dem’s did the exact same thing to Bernie in 2016 on a larger scale that the Republicans did to Ron Paul in 2012, only in 2016 it didn’t work

Because the newest generation got around the media blackout by getting news updates from Facebook, Reddit, twitter, ect

Honestly it’s anyone’s game

Literally anyone who can platform themselves well enough can run now.

Reactor is proof of that. If you know what you’re doing you can manipulate these social media sites easily

It doesn’t matter if people try to censor you anymore, hell Reddit certainly tried to censor the_donald

All that requires is charisma

Donald Trump is one of the most charismatic personalities out there. He’s great drumming up attention and getting people to look where he wants them to look

Obama was more eloquent, but yes. Trump is more in your face. He’s been playing the mainstream media like a fiddle for decades. He knows how they work and how to manipulate them

And they let him, because it makes them money