So denying (the extent of) biological sex differences should be suppressed?If certain viewpoints [...] are [...] just plain (factually) wrong (intended to spread lies, whether or not on purpose), the liberty to post what you want, ends.
So denying (the extent of) biological sex differences should be suppressed?If certain viewpoints [...] are [...] just plain (factually) wrong (intended to spread lies, whether or not on purpose), the liberty to post what you want, ends.
Ah, but Simmons wasn't denied a right to make a statement as he deemed fit, rather it just got him in trouble with his employer. Now we can debate the justice of that as much as we can assess the merits of his gesture. At the private level of employer/employee relationship, however, the two are of course inextricably connected. Since many took umbrage with Simmon's response as being racist (in a time of increasing intolerance towards racism and in which a crime is aggravated by racist motives), unavoidably the cyclist's employer took an aversive messure to diminish the negative publicity. Simmons, as a Trump supporter responding to the opposition (which is political), simply chose the most offensive icon imaginable, thus exposing himself to the public scrutiny inherent to democracy. And if his gesture was done with complete innocence as he claims, devoid of any degrading correlations or unaware that they could be assumed (although who can really believe that?), then his lack of shrewdness alone inevitably came with a price. Unfortunately, and Simmons learnt this the hard way, being able to say what you want doesn't come without burdens.Where were you in the Simmons thread.
going down the slippery slope: noSo denying (the extent of) biological sex differences should be suppressed?
Arguably anti-racism isn't political whereas racism is. That sounds contradictory, but when you think about it, just being opposed to people being jerks isn't the same as being a jerk.By contrast, Tao's statement against racism is being attacked as dishonourable and reprobate by some who would rather he keep his views to himself (why, though, is anyones guess and the suspicions of racism it inevitably produces). Yet those who defend Simmons proclaim his right to freedom of speach (the same one they would deny Tao), even when that was never up for question. The double-standard is mindboggling.
The hardest social constructivist certainly fit that bill. Don't know why they shouldn't be suppressed by your standards.But you (or better and less personal: anyone expressing certain viewpoints on biological sex differences) with the clear intention to discriminate / divide / intolerate / strive for an ideologic agenda / whatever viewpoint nothing to do with the pure biology ... shouldn't deserve any platform
Concerns over censorship are purely grounded in a democratic right to freedom of speach, bearing in mind a caveat; namely beware of any attempting to take access to a constitutional right as justification to repress or discriminate against other citizens or categories as I have put differently before. In addition, having a right to expressing one's political views, essential to a functioning democracy, doesn't come with a dispensation against being scrutinized, even vehemently attacked (within the robust confines of political debate), for one's positions. In other words, for good or bad, own them.You realise that you post in a forum where political discussion is not allowed and where the politics forum was shut down yet here you are complaining about censorship. My issue is that if people are to be allowed to post political viewpoints, there should be no half-measures. Various viewpoints should be accepted or else that is censorship and totalitarianism...
While you can't control people's views, racism has become unlawful in many states when it is a motive to discriminate, of a hate crime, political persecution or exclusion from the school or work environment. This is why at the level of public discourse (of "freedom of speach"), the one making racist statements does not have the same value as the one making anti-racist statements. They are not moral equivalents. But they are both definitely also political, in so far as entire policies have been devoted to sustaining one or the other in recent and not so recent times.Arguably anti-racism isn't political whereas racism is. That sounds contradictory, but when you think about it, being opposed to people being just jerks isn't the same as being a jerk.
I would need an example, before I can test my 'bill'The hardest social constructivist certainly fit that bill. Don't know why they shouldn't be suppressed by your standards.
?Where were you in the Simmons thread.
Biological sex as a spectrum.I would need an example, before I can test my 'bill'![]()
AFAIK you have very manly men, very womanly women, very womanly men and very manly women, and everything in between, both from a pure biological POV as based on the way people feel about themselves.Biological sex as a spectrum.
Nothing to disagree with here, although the issues at stake don't really pertain to biological parameters, so much as to a socio-cultural evolution that has forced legislators and academics of late to bear in mind the complexities of human self-awareness. Evolutionary biology has uniquely equiped humans to have perceptions about themselves that evidently transcend the narrowly scientific definition of sex among all animals. One's sex is thus not necessarily in each case a limiting definition of one's person, according to the traditional gender roles.Sex (not gender) is a very well defined term in biology. All animals that sexually reproduce can be divided in classes of sex. There's no spectrum, you're either one or the other. No one is more man than another man. Just like no odd number is more odd than another odd number. Humans are animals first and foremost, and what is true for all animals is therefore also true for humans.
PS: That is not to discredit a more complex understanding of sex/gender (a triad of biological/psychological/social categories), but just that the other dimensions don't nullify our evolutionary formed biology.
Well there are still issues that haven't been addressed for safety that you'd have thought would have been by now. We can hope, but who knows.So this lad decided, along with his team to withdraw from the race and get his head checked out as he felt dizzy after the fall today. Why is it when Bennet crashed the other day and was wobbling all over the pavement after smashing his helmet, he was allowed to carry on after saying he was ok, when obviously he was not. Is it going to take someone to have a serious crash after an head injury for something to be done? Luckily Bennet seemed to recover ok and get through the stage.
Simple answer: yes.So this lad decided, along with his team to withdraw from the race and get his head checked out as he felt dizzy after the fall today. Why is it when Bennet crashed the other day and was wobbling all over the pavement after smashing his helmet, he was allowed to carry on after saying he was ok, when obviously he was not. Is it going to take someone to have a serious crash after an head injury for something to be done?
I think it’s because the season was in a different order last year. So those GC riders that did well at the Giro last year but not this year won’t have had many scoring opportunities. And he missed his due to concussionOuch.
I just noticed Geoghegan Hart dropped from 26th to 921stin the UCI world rankings, with the 2021 Giro having completed.
Lot of places to make up at the Tour, even though I don't quite understand, how he can drop that far?
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Yes he started the year in 17th and was 26th before the Giro dropped off.I think it’s because the season was in a different order last year. So those GC riders that did well at the Giro last year but not this year won’t have had many scoring opportunities. And he missed his due to concussion
If Hindley beats Pog one day it will turn out that TGH had the highest peak level in this century.In the reflected glory of what Hindley's just done, TGH's Giro win suddenly looks a little but better.