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by b6 8y ago
How to make a program that does what you asked it to do, and then add arbitrary fudge factors as the notion strikes you to "correct" for the bogeyman of bias. Suppose sentiment for the name Tyrel was better than for Adolf. Would t
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by b6 8y ago
It actually might be a lucky thing that you heard a crackle and smelled smoke, because whatever burned up might have left a sign on the board. If you look at the board carefully under bright light with a magnifying glass, you may see some c
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by b6 8y ago
I'm sorry. I don't want to make you or anyone else upset. But my honest opinion is that this is a productive thread that people can learn from, even if it isn't of the form you expect.
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by b6 8y ago
I asked them. They're not sure either. Is there a test we can do to know for sure?
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by b6 8y ago
Are you able to answer the question?
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by b6 8y ago
Sure. What I'm asking for is an explain-like-I'm-5 style explanation of how you determine whether someone is a person of color. Are you able to do that? Thanks.
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by b6 8y ago
Sorry, I don't know what you mean. I'm not playing a word game. Someone earlier in the thread asked if somebody was a person of color, and I just want to know how to determine that. I appreciate you sharing the information you did
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by b6 8y ago
I see, sorry about that. Are you able to answer the question in your own words?
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by b6 8y ago
You're suggesting I don't have adult intellectual capacity, right? If it's an easy question, could you just answer it? I'm not sure what "treated as nonwhite" would entail.
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by b6 8y ago
I don't know. How do I find out for sure?
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by b6 8y ago
> I understand that most western countries have societal controls grown over the past centuries. The Chinese did not, and are catching up quickly by implementing similar controls as we have. A sibling comments asks you what you mean here
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by b6 8y ago
It doesn't matter how you invest. You can't protect yourself from karma with money.
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by b6 8y ago
I went looking for the story on Chinese sites, even though my Chinese is not quite good enough for this to be practical. I couldn't find anything, so I asked one Chinese friend and two acquaintances about it. Two couldn't find any
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by b6 8y ago
I lived in China for three years. I speak Mandarin. The article you linked is a report in western media. Can you find the same story in Chinese media?
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by b6 8y ago
You're right, the sentiment is not shared by most Chinese people. Then again, most of them wouldn't recognize the Tank Man picture. They have no legitimate news journalism. Their version of the internet is profoundly sabotaged. Hu
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by b6 8y ago
> it may have positive benefits for Chinese citizens because government officials can be blacklisted for corrupt behaviour I understand the Guardian's reporter needs to report what people said, but for the love of god, could they pl
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by b6 8y ago
Is it possible to only discriminate in favor of some group without discriminating against some other group?
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by b6 8y ago
> we still need a way to get from where we are now to where we want to be. It has been happening already. It's as if we've been gradually smoking less and less, and then a movement comes along that tells us that in order to qui
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by b6 8y ago
This is a harmful way of thinking, unfortunately on the rise lately. Ostensibly to promote fairness and diversity, it encourages us to think more about arbitrary racial categories, hereditary traits, disabilities, etc. Those things about
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by b6 8y ago
> I have really no idea what you're talking about with respect to water fountains and busses. Assuming good faith here. Let me try again. The idea is that saying the n-word while not being black sends a signal of not caring about th
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by b6 8y ago
You say my words send signals, and that the signals depend in this case on the color of my skin. That seems to me to be an evasive way of saying some people will discriminate whether what I'm saying is perfectly OK or terribly offensiv
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by b6 8y ago
You can call me a racist all you want. At the end of the day, I'm advocating one standard of conduct for everyone without distinction by race, while my opponents are arguing for discrimination by race when judging conduct, for segr
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by b6 8y ago
Now you seem to be pretending not to understand a metaphor. Is that to avoid actually debating the point? And please do let me know where I'm coming from. I'd like to hear that, since it's so clear in your mind.
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by b6 8y ago
> It's not up to you. It's as much up to me as anybody else. I won't be discounted because you think I don't have the right skin color to have a valid opinion. > There is something resembling a consensus among blac
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by b6 8y ago
> We as a society have elected to make it a word that is forbidden in polite conversation unless you think the definition is accurate. We have done no such thing. Your statement is about as inaccurate and misleading as it could possibly
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by b6 8y ago
Men are much more likely than women to commit suicide and be homeless, and many times more likely to be incarcerated. If this is not the result of sexism, please tell me what causes that difference.
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by b6 8y ago
Also, we should not have some racial criterion for whether somebody gets to utter a word.
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by b6 8y ago
> He is stupid to now know the social untold rules, such as never say the "n-word". Are millions of black people across the country stupid not to know not to say it?
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by b6 8y ago
The speaker in your video used the word "faggot" the same way, with no intent to offend. How should he be punished? If we're going to have this debate via videos, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRJy48JWiHk
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by b6 8y ago
This is extraordinarily stupid. I fear people in the US are living under some form of mass psychosis about this topic. I grew up in the south. It's been probably 30 years since I heard anyone use the dreaded word in the traditional der

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