

Nice to see the Scouse dialect get a mention! But sadly I have to inform you that we nicked that particular one from the Irish.


Nice to see the Scouse dialect get a mention! But sadly I have to inform you that we nicked that particular one from the Irish.


Molests Any Gender and Age
Here’s a good one. As a white cis guy, you will be part of private conversations where people are transphobic, because there’s no trans people about. You’ll be trusted to laugh and agree. Instead, challenge their behaviour. It’s a great way to use your privilege for good.
This also works for any kind of privilege.
Don’t be ridiculous, it’s a hypothetical. Chicken pox parties were the only path to immunity before vaccines were introduced and it’s simply a good example of parents exposing their children to a little evil for their own protection. Clearly the example was chosen because of its applicability to a cogent point, and not because of its specifics.
However, instead of focusing on the salient argument, you’ve decided to engage in pedantry for what, the sake of argument? Would you have preferred it if I added the qualifier “in the 60’s”?
Or is this just a ridiculous attempt to frame this as an anti-vaccine argument? You’ll get no mileage there, because, again, it was just a fitting example.
Yes it is, and parents have a duty to prepare their children for the world, evil as it is. It’s very difficult to navigate. For example, there’s some credibility to the argument that raising a machiavellian child is in their own best interests and therefore moral. A more trivial example is purposefully infecting your child with chickenpox for future immune protection. Somewhere between those two (probably) lies the moral ideal, if such a thing exists.
I’ve found my people! Maybe this isn’t so controversial on lemmy but in the whole of global society, I think it is. No way I’m saying something like this over a family dinner or an office coffee.


I did make up my mind on this before Reddit was invented, so a swing and a miss there.
It’s reductive because nobody wants to read a 600-page treatise in a comments section, which is why I forgive your equally reductive hand-waving about unspecified other faiths. The word “indoctrination” is key here. Teaching your child philosophy is not indoctrination. The abuse is choosing for them before they are sufficiently complex consciousnesses to choose for themselves. This occurs most commonly, and is most socially acceptable when it comes to gender and religion.


Religious indoctrination is child abuse.
Sending your kids to places of worship or a religious school, or telling them “this is our religion”, is child abuse.
This includes christofascists and oppressed minorities.
I’m on the fence as to whether telling your child they are a girl or a boy is similarly harmful.


You know what’s even more of an… interesting choice?
Using precision-guided munitions to destroy a school full of little girls when there was a military target right next door.


Nobody would, you’re right. And yet a whole lot of people do hate ICE. It’s a thinker, that one, for sure.


They’re all the same person for sure. I’m not sure if that person is you though.


I think people attacking you as “pro-genocide” is exactly as reasonable as the German standard disallowing comparison of Nazism, which is funny.
The existence of a field of study which purports to compare genocide doesn’t validate your assertion that Israel is less evil than the third Reich. I still don’t think you can make this point.
The German law around speech comparing anything to Nazism sounds complex and subtle. I would argue that it’s a matter for the courts to decide, rather than for unqualified moderators to overcomply in advance.


what [Netenyahu’s Israel is] doing is still not on the same level of evil as Nazi Germany.
Very difficult to say this for sure. Some of the acts we’ve seen are on the same level, frankly. And how could you possibly measure this, objectively?
I don’t think this can be argued meaningfully, and so should be removed from your argument.
As to the German law:
Is that applicable here on Lemmy?
Is it up to the mods to interpret German law and apply it?
We’re all some degree of Irish here, even if just honorary.