murrkat·hace 3 años·discussIs there not a chance one of the young men offering open labs or tutoring might, in fact, be intelligent, enthusiastic about the sciences and decent?
murrkat·hace 3 años·discussAgreed about the strawmanning. (Ahem, “strawpersoning”?)Seems to be a common rhetorical tactic to substitute untoward “downstream” effect with a system itself.(“Because System X can be exploited for unwanted behavior Y, we need to condemn System X as much as we do behavior Y.”)
murrkat·hace 3 años·discuss“Disgusted and uncomfortable” with a specific person's behavior or by the idea itself?
murrkat·hace 3 años·discussAnything not “equally accessible to all” is antithetic evil.It is more just for everyone to be worse off than advantage to accrue to the already advantaged.