Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
I am actively attempting to deradicalize myself. I dislike puritanism and intolerance. DM me if you want my Discord, Twitter, Reddit, etc.
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Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
8mo ago
Buying 5 TVs to take advantage of a sale, then returning four of them immediately.
Wait, do they get the price they paid refunded to them, or the pre-sale price? I assume it'd be whatever price is on the receipt.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
8mo ago
Autocorrect is a bitch. I meant positive discrimination, i.e. going out of your way to hire people from protected groups. Griggs brought affirmative action into the private sector by making it potentially illegal to have any hiring standard that created a disparate impact. I say "potentially" because you could still prove your standards were necessary after being dragged to court to pay legal fees.
New York recently had to pay out insane amounts of money because they were demanding unnecessarily high reading and writing skills from public school teachers.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
8mo ago
How did France avoid "position discrimination" if we got saddled with it? Do they not have a Supreme Court powerful enough to do the equivalent of the Griggs v. Duke ruling?
Conservautism
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8mo ago
The reason to repeal it is that the use of "disparate impact" and "hostile work environment" in discrimination investigations have been disastrous for society, as Richard Hanania's book argues. Repealing the CRA would be the quickest way to fix the problem, and it'll be the only way if the Supreme Court reaffirms disparate impact.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
8mo ago
Interesting. But do they have doctrines that are equivalent to disparate impact or hostile workplace environment?
Conservautism
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8mo ago
I have no idea how to do this, but it should be the top priority of any libertarian think tank.
Conservautism
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8mo ago
The main argument against repealing the Civil Rights Act is that if people have the option to discriminate against racial minorities in jobs, housing, and school admissions, they will do so. In order to know if this is true, we would need to look at a country that has a similar racial mix to America, but no anti-discrimination laws, then compare the life outcomes of Africans or other historically oppressed groups in America to their life outcomes in that country.
Can anyone think of such a country to use as a test case?
I recently found out that France does not have anti-discrimination laws, but also that they don't collect data on race, so it might not be possible to use them as a comparison.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
8mo ago
Aside from Mama Odie, who lives in the bayou, every black character we see works in the diner with Tiana or lives in her neighborhood.
I see your point about the merchandising implications, though. Thank you.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
8mo ago
I recently watched The Princess and the Frog for the first time in over a decade, and my first time since viewing Song of the South. I do not understand why PATF is considered less socially insensitive than SOTS. So far as I can tell, both are guilty of the same sin: romanticizing the past in a way that glosses over the harsh reality of race relations. Both are set in the south and have a mixed race cast; PATF is set during Jim Crow and SOTS is set during Reconstruction. Both indirectly acknowledge race by conflating it with class, never mentioning race once but casting everyone in the lower caste as black.
The best explanation I can think of is that Reconstruction is considered a more salient part of American history than Jim Crow, but that's weird, considering that there are people alive who lived under Jim Crow but not people who lived in the 1800's.
Conservautism
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10mo ago
Great post! Thank you!
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
10mo ago
That makes sense. Thank you for your answer. This opens up another question, though: if not much has actually changed for women, what explains The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness?
Conservautism
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10mo ago
I didn't know about those. Were they unable to open lines of credit because the law prohibited them, or was this something banks chose to do?
Conservautism
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10mo ago
My understanding is that there used to be fewer women in the workplace and more at home. When people say that before the 1970's, women had fewer rights than men in America, I assume that this is what they're referring to.
But it just occurred to me that there was no Jim Crow equivalent for women. Was anything stopping women from entering the workplace before? Was there anything that propelled them to do so?
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
10mo ago
It's a Decemberween mackerel!
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
From a deontological perspective, a culture where punishment for wrongthink is dished out by social media is better than one where wrongthink is outright illegal. That's why I like living in America, where there are no hate speech laws.
But a thought occurred to me: from a consequentialist perspective, it'd be better to let "cancelling" be done by the state, because then people can defend themselves and a court can decide if they're truly guilty of the offense.
I'm ignorant of international affairs, so I have a question for those of you who are better-educated and/or not American: in a culture where there are hate speech laws, like Britain, are Twitter which hunts less common?
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
I'm lost. I thought the IDF was telling civilians in the northern Gaza to move south so they could bomb outposts in the north, but apparently people who fled south are getting killed in air strikes too. How often are civilians supposed to move? Do they always get advanced warning?
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
Wait, why would being seen as EA he bad? If anything, wouldn't it be good? Or are people still kvetching over the Bankman-Fried stuff?
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
I understand why people are afraid Israel will commit genocide. It'd be great for them if everyone in Gaza suddenly disappeared, and the war is perfect cover for them to make it happen. But there's no evidence that they're currently doing this. So far they've killed less than 1% of Gaza's population and are making efforts to prevent casualties. And yet, leftists are accusing Israel of genocide in present-tense, and Biden of facilitating genocide.
Please correct me if I'm wrong on any of this.
So, here's my question. Let's say this does escalate into genocide. Will it be a Boy Who Cried Wolf scenario?
I didn't believe Trump had any authoritarian tendencies until 1/6, and I know most Republicans still don't believe he does. I think that's in large part because of wolf-crying. It could happen again.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
I see your point, but man, rightists sure loved getting involved with the less defensible J6ers.
Conservautism
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11mo ago
Ignorant question, I know. I'm asking it because I'm ignorant and I don't know the answer, but I'm sure there is one, and I want to know it.
Why doesn't Israel just move everyone in Gaza to the West Bank while they do their bombings, then move them back to Gaza when they've destroyed the Hamas bases? Is there not enough room in the West Bank?
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
I meant Unz the outlet, not the person.
You say there's a stronger taboo against anti-black racism now than there was a few years ago, but if that's true, then that's all the more reason why Kirk interviewing Sailer makes no sense.
The problem wasn't ever what views an individual had, it was what clique they're associated with. It's why Milo Yiannopoulos and Gavin McInnes for excommunicated. Sailer is definitely associated with the dissident right, and he writes all about HBD and crime. That's his beat. But now Kirk is associating with him.
I get the feeling you don't remember the Con Inc. climate in 2018, have a refresher.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
So she's not doing streams with Vaush anymore? Is she part of any specific YouTube niche now?
Conservautism
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11mo ago
Horseshoe theory is when the far-right and fat-left become indistinguishable because they're both demanding human rights violations in order to achieve pie in the sky goals. This sounds like something totally different.
And by "based", I don't mean anti-Semitic. I'm Jewish and pro-Zionist (with some reservations about how the Palestinians have been treated). I just mean that they're not going "ewwww, icky low status person with low status beliefs, get away" or demanding people be blacklisted.
Conservautism
Doubly Afraid of Change
11mo ago
Does this mean I can date a leftist woman and "fix" her?
I am sure that normies would find it weird that a town's population would increase by 50% because of Haitian refugees, but I don't think they'd see it as bad. They'd complain if it meant that the people living in the town now have to leave, but they'd have no reason to suspect that that's the case. They'd just see it as a harmless population increase.
Why would this be the case from a normie perspective?
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