The Potter Series is Neoliberal Garbage
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MagneticMonopole — 3 years ago(June 06, 2022 01:20 PM)
It demonstrably is not.
If you are denying that JK is a transphobe, then you simply haven't been paying attention. She's actively opposed legislation helping trans people and made plainly transphobic comments, multiple times.
If it's relevant, then talk about it. That's not "retreading" anything. If it's not relevant, don't mention it. That's how it works.
How it works is that he gets to talk about what he wants to talk about. And he was completely justified in his approach.
At the time he uploaded the video, JK's transphobia had already been established and discussed for years, but no one had really gone over the surprisingly conservative politics of her popular books. -
Karl Aksel — 3 years ago(June 06, 2022 03:48 PM)
If you are denying that JK is a transphobe, then you simply haven't been paying attention. She's actively opposed legislation helping trans people and made plainly transphobic comments, multiple times.
No, she has not. The legislation she opposed was one where anyone could change gender legally just by stating it, so a male rapist could be sentenced to serve in a women's prison if he wanted to. She was actually addressing the potential consequences of a spectacularly ridiculous legislation, not opposing trans rights in any way, shape or form. And feel free to post anything she has written or said which could possibly qualify as transphobic. So far I haven't seen a single thing, from anyone.
How it works is that he gets to talk about what he wants to talk about. And he was completely justified in his approach.
Sure, if he wants to look like an idiot. If he wants to be taken seriously by anyone who doesn't already agree with him, he needs to avoid logical fallacies.
At the time he uploaded the video, JK's transphobia had already been established and discussed for years,
Discussed, sure. Established? Not remotely.
but no one had really gone over the surprisingly conservative politics of her popular books.
Then that's what Shaun should have done, and any trans discussion would be completely irrelevant and only distract from his point - which
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MagneticMonopole — 3 years ago(June 06, 2022 05:24 PM)
Okay, I can now see that you are a transphobe bigot yourself, which is why you agree with this dumb bitch and are annoyed that Shaun referenced what non-bigots in the skeptical community already knew and have known for years.
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/. — 3 years ago(June 06, 2022 05:27 PM)
Have you ever produced an argument that wasn't an ad hominem attack? I've never seen you try to take someone's points apart. It's appeals to "Science!" (never citing actual per reviewed science, just saying the word science) or name calling.
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/. — 3 years ago(June 06, 2022 06:10 PM)
Okay, I can now see that you are a transphobe bigot yourself,
What did you expect on this board that only has hateful bigots and nazi trolls?
It's really the worst place to discuss those things. Why are you doing it?
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MagneticMonopole — 3 years ago(June 06, 2022 05:50 PM)
No, Neo-liberalism is the correct term. Technically, it is the modern approach to capitalism that is shared between "mainstream" politicians, whether self identifying as conservative or liberal. Every president in recent memory was/is neo-liberal, whether Reagan or Obama.