Should newborns be unclassified?

[surdeep]

Gender and race. Shouldn’t all labels be cancelled?

 

[SpeareChucker]

Just don't deny them their vote.

 

[surdeep]

Should BLM join LGBTQQIAAP?

 

[Ramone45]

No, they shouldn't. Be normaler

 

[BrokenBarbie]

Sure, let’s just start them off in life with no basis in reality whatsoever.

What could possibly go wrong?

 

[surdeep]

How can you eliminate systemic bias without eliminating the source of the bias itself...the labels?

 

[BrokenBarbie]

People categorize things.

Hot, cold, safe, dangerous, fun, boring, we’re a very judgmental and self-serving species, and everything has a value based on the category it’s put into.

Anyone can choose to break out of the category they’re put into, but they should realize that it’s not society’s job to validate them for that decision.

You want to throw on a skirt and call yourself Shirley, go nuts, but be prepared for the consequences rather than expecting everyone else to set their belief aside to cater to yours.

It is what it is.

 

[With_David_Bowie]

Gender and race. Shouldn’t all labels be cancelled?

Only in Germany

 

[surdeep]

People categorize things.

Hot, cold, safe, dangerous, fun, boring, we’re a very judgmental and self-serving species, and everything has a value based on the category it’s put into.

Anyone can choose to break out of the category they’re put into, but they should realize that it’s not society’s job to validate them for that decision.

You want to throw on a skirt and call yourself Shirley, go nuts, but be prepared for the consequences rather than expecting everyone else to set their belief aside to cater to yours.

It is what it is.

Do you think the various "Label Groups" like BLM are helping to eliminate systemic categorization by race or are they perpetuating it by labeling themselves?

 

[BrokenBarbie]

Do you think the various "Label Groups" like BLM are helping to eliminate systemic categorization by race or are they perpetuating it by labeling themselves?

There will always be categorization by race, at least until we’ve crossbred to the point where it’s so muddled up that it doesn’t matter.

That’s just the nature of language, using descriptive terms.

I do think they’re widening the perceived divide they claim to want to abolish.

 

[surdeep]

I do think they’re widening the perceived divide they claim to want to abolish.

I also wonder about this.

It should be like children's football in America, where everyone gets a trophy.

 

[Conager]

People categorize things.

Hot, cold, safe, dangerous, fun, boring, we’re a very judgmental and self-serving species, and everything has a value based on the category it’s put into.

Anyone can choose to break out of the category they’re put into, but they should realize that it’s not society’s job to validate them for that decision.

You want to throw on a skirt and call yourself Shirley, go nuts, but be prepared for the consequences rather than expecting everyone else to set their belief aside to cater to yours.

It is what it is.

Surely, you jest.. .

 

[BrokenBarbie]

Surely, you jest.. .

No, and don’t call me Shirley...

 

[surdeep]

Even Barbie had a black friend...for a while.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.timetoast.com/public/uploads/photos/2633553/1309077_091205094627_Christie_1.jpeg?1337251033

 

[BrokenBarbie]

I took this thread as being more about gender than race, because apparently you’re now allowed to just change that to whatever you feel like.

I believe race is static, but then again I believe gender is as well.

 

[surdeep]

I took this thread as being more about gender than race, because apparently you’re now allowed to just change that to whatever you feel like.

I believe race is static, but then again I believe gender is as well.

the fully homogenized people of the future will have numbers, not names.

everyone will be the same height and weight, rendering fat jokes and short jokes obsolete.

a sad day for sean and twatgana.

luckily, they'll be dead.

 

[Conager]

A absolutely not. We could have had a 100% color blind and genderless admissions a d job applications years ago. Initially that was the way things like admissions and job applications were going. When they found out where the chips fell they had to make sure that we had boxes and that we knew who needed a hand up, where.

The last thing that the identitarians want is homogenization. They need their victim groups. California has decided to make unconstitutional discrimination legal again.

 

[BrokenBarbie]

Yeah, leave me out of the personal attack bullshit and whatever agenda that serves.

I’m not here to insult people, we’re not 12.

 

[FataMorgana]

the fully homogenized people of the future will have numbers, not names.

everyone will be the same height and weight, rendering fat jokes and short jokes obsolete.

a sad day for sean and twatgana.

luckily, they'll be dead.

Have you got a wetsuit?

 

[jaF0]

...

Yer Daddy shudda pulled out.

 

[islandman]

Sure, let’s just start them off in life with no basis in reality whatsoever.

What could possibly go wrong?

Oh, please. In every baby's head runs the continuous thought: "I poop, therefore I am."

Anyone whose changed a diaper or 47,324 in the past 5 years knows this.

 

[surdeep]

Children are allowed to identify as they like when they reach the age of majority.

Gender identity, how they vote, whether they go to school or work and so on.

Why not just leave them as Identity Blanks until then? C7360712302 for example.

Why should parents get to decide those things for them?

 

[HisArpy]

Children are allowed to identify as they like when they reach the age of majority.

Gender identity, how they vote, whether they go to school or work and so on.

Why not just leave them as Identity Blanks until then? C7360712302 for example.

Why should parents get to decide those things for them?

Because we're not just a number.

 

[surdeep]

Because we're not just a number.

Tell that to the IRS.

 

[Liar]

Some real galaxy brain stuff going on here.

Or something.