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80% of victims of the ✝️ #CatholicChurch in 🇫🇷 #France since the 1950s are #boys (mostly #men by now).
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News article:
* Headline: “girls”, not “boys”.
* Focus and first sentences are on female victims.
A sign of hope, though:
> _“Female #pedophilia exists and unfortunately the media never talk about it.”_
https://news.yahoo.com/nuns-raped-girls-crucifixes-female-110940545.html
Halfway through this #podcast #episode, and #BariWeiss has shared already so much wisdom:
Well, the man is explicitly against democracy, for authoritarianism, and is calling for a king, no less. He didn't left much inside the closet!
Sorry for insisting on these points again. It's just that I'm worried that sometimes decent people (like you) seem to make too generous a reading of his ideas, inadvertently contributing to popularising his agenda.
I definitely agree with you about the difference between supporting or promoting anything, and enforcing it through government.
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> _«Ser director te da un #poder enorme, no fáctico de que la gente te traiga los cafés, sino de imponer tu propia visión del mundo. Por eso, con tanto poder el riesgo está en el abuso de poder. Porque es una profesión que se presta a que si tú tienes un espíritu autoritario, ese #autoritarismo se te escapa por algún lado.»_
Ups.
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> _«Cuando pienso en los años 80, el modo en que vivíamos y las luchas de las que veníamos, ni en mi peor pesadilla hubiera pensado que en 2021 íbamos a estar socialmente como estamos ahora. […] No sé si es que antes no se hablaba de ellos y ahora sí, pero yo veo más ataques homófobos en la calle que nunca.»_
Hay que ser muy enemigo de la estadística, la Historia, la sociología y la psicología para pensar que hace ~40 años un homosexual que no se ocultase iba más seguro por las calles de #España que ahora…
> _«'Puto maricón', es algo que corresponde a otros períodos de nuestra #historia.»_
¡Efectivamente, #Almodóvar!
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> _«Para enterarme de la #historia de un país, me baso más en las novelas y en las películas que veo, que en los #libros de historia. El mejor modo, no sé si de entender, pero desde luego de enterarse de cuál ha sido la historia de un lugar es a través de la ficción. […] La derecha trata de reescribir nuestra historia. Y contra eso aconsejo a la gente que se la lea: que lea libros de historia sobre la #GuerraCivil.»_
¿En qué quedamos, #Almodóvar?
https://mastodon.technology/@tripu/103271641405846648
https://mastodon.technology/@tripu/100068364102534925
👆 That's in a nutshell my own criticism of those advocating the end of #capitalism. WDTY?
Of course, I agree that capitalism has flaws and presents unique risks, and that it has to be regulated and improved ([eg](https://qoto.org/@tripu/104329974109905059), [eg](https://qoto.org/@tripu/104862990311853225)). But that's also true about so many great ideas and institutions we have, and yet calling for their _disappearance_ would be naïve and reckless.
Democracy can degenerate in populism or end up oppressing minorities, the Law may serve to enshrine discrimination or injustice, Science can bring about disasters or unethical developments… — yet there are no viable alternatives to those.
How are #privateproperty, #freemarkets, voluntary cooperation, and private contracts (ie, Capitalism) any different to the above? What would you replace them with?
@aral I agree with you: that's a scandal. #freespeech
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Two kinds of #authority, only one of which is the source of authority #bias:
1️⃣ **Social authority** earned because of a title or position of power or influence: a mayor, a policeman, a priest, a CEO, a rock star. They are, in principle, as fallible as anyone else.
2️⃣ **Intellectual authority** earned for having been right often in the past and for being specially good at reasoning, as evidenced by a concrete track record of useful interpretations and accurate predictions: #SamHarris, #StevenPinker, #BalajiSrinivasan, your chemistry teacher in high school, that journalist you follow, your friend's grandmother. All things being equal, it is totally rational to assign more weight to those people's opinions and advice than to any of the above's. No bias here.
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#ACX #meetup in #ElRetiro #park, #Madrid (#Spain). 25 Sep 2021.
#AstralCodexTen #SlateStarCodex #ScottAlexander #event
#AstralCodexTen #SlateStarCodex #ScottAlexander #event
“If [#wokeism] has been riding high since the 80s or even earlier, what’s changed? Zeal.”
This. If the #tech behemoths of our day, with more influence and 💵 resources than some nations, don't stand up for #democracy and basic #humanrights, WHO WILL?
@codewiz I was so sad when I moved out of my Tokyo apartment and the same happened to me… my furniture was very cheap but also ~1.5 years old only, and I was happy to give it away for free. No luck.
