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New comment by steveeq1 in "Significant sex differences in Covid-19 immune response"

steveeq1 — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 18:34:58 +0000

You're playing with semantics.

New comment by steveeq1 in "The Four Quadrants of Conformism"

steveeq1 — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 15:03:16 +0000

I feel that the "systemic racist" is overplayed, yes. And the graph is sourced.

New comment by steveeq1 in "The Four Quadrants of Conformism"

steveeq1 — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 14:36:03 +0000

It's overplayed: https://i.stack.imgur.com/WogKi.png

New comment by steveeq1 in "Internet mob justice can easily destroy innocent lives (2019)"

steveeq1 — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 23:33:23 +0000

In the same way that gangsta rap music is protected, yes.

New comment by steveeq1 in "How Did Vim Become So Popular?"

steveeq1 — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 23:47:44 +0000

25 years ago was 1995

New comment by steveeq1 in "YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer for hate speech"

steveeq1 — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 21:34:56 +0000

Not youtube, apparently.

New comment by steveeq1 in "YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer for hate speech"

steveeq1 — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 21:07:08 +0000

Ok, what if this person were a thug and he advocates for a "thug life" (as an arbitrary example, a gangsta rapper)? And let's say he committed a lot of crime and physical harm to other people?

Would you issue the same behavior towards him? Would you be very vocal about it?

New comment by steveeq1 in "YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer for hate speech"

steveeq1 — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 20:50:22 +0000

So youtube is going to ban gangsta rap music for the same reasons, right?

New comment by steveeq1 in "Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing boycott"

steveeq1 — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 03:32:46 +0000

It's a perfectly valid argument and one that I like to make. The "hate speech" crowd rarely, if ever, protests over rap music and for the life of me I never understood why.

New comment by steveeq1 in "Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing boycott"

steveeq1 — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 02:56:49 +0000

It's a perfectly valid comment to people who want to get rid of "hate speech" but say nothing about the popularity of gangsta rap within this same crowd.

I never understood this.

New comment by steveeq1 in "Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing boycott"

steveeq1 — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 02:45:35 +0000

Do what?

New comment by steveeq1 in "Police have been spying on black reporters and activists for years"

steveeq1 — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 06:52:02 +0000

The data does not back that claim: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/163/274/fbf...

And this includes ALL white people, much less "white people who happen to be police officers". My argument is not saying police brutality doesn't "exist", I'm saying it's "overblown".

Finally, I am a "person of color" myself and I don't find the police behave to me in the way you describe. They don't act that way towards my father either, not even once in his life. Or any of my person-of-color friends for that matter. Admittedly, this is anecdotal, but my main point is the overall data does not point towards your premise.

New comment by steveeq1 in "Police have been spying on black reporters and activists for years"

steveeq1 — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 06:45:04 +0000

It's a new account with not much activity that's reporting outrage material. I don't know, I can't prove it or anything, but it seems shilly. I notice this a lot on /r/cryptocurrencies as well.

New comment by steveeq1 in "Police have been spying on black reporters and activists for years"

steveeq1 — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 06:00:42 +0000

Yeah, but that's availability bias. That's my point. There's a lot of shill accounts on reddit posting this stuff with plenty of upvotes, but the comments are critical of the piece. These are obviously shill/bot accounts promoting this, probably by some PR firm out there.

The thing is, police brutality is heavily promoted on the news right now because, well, it outrages people, that's the point. It generates more ad revenue that way.

But if you hear it and see this every day, and someone says the word "police", your mind immediately thinks of "brutality". Not that it doesn't exist, but availability bias makes the issue seem much bigger than it actually is. This is why it's a bias.

And to put the danger of racist white police officers into perspective: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/163/274/fbf...

Yes, racists are a problem, but not a very big one.

New comment by steveeq1 in "Police have been spying on black reporters and activists for years"

steveeq1 — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 05:40:03 +0000

Guys, this might be a shill account. I've noticed a lot of shill/bot accounts on reddit lately. /r/losangeles and and /r/pics are super-super-super anti-cop right now, to the point of ridiculousness.

Are there PR firms out there trying to set public perception?

New comment by steveeq1 in "Amazon refuses to sell book on Covid-19 and lockdowns"

steveeq1 — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 21:11:28 +0000

> Reddit is the ultimate cesspool of extreme-left right now in almost every city/state/country sub. It's absolutely insane and people who do not agree with official narratives are constantly downvoted to oblivion.

I thought I was the only person thinking this. It really is scary how much mono-thinking is going on in the world

New comment by steveeq1 in "Some coronavirus patients haven't gotten their senses of smell or taste back yet"

steveeq1 — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 13:31:55 +0000

"some"

New comment by steveeq1 in "Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”"

steveeq1 — Fri, 29 May 2020 16:39:49 +0000

So they're going to not allow posts from gangsta rappers then, right? With avid public approval?

New comment by steveeq1 in "'Finally, a virus got me’: Scientist who fought Ebola and HIV reflects"

steveeq1 — Sat, 09 May 2020 19:46:11 +0000

The vast vast majority of the cases are mild if you are strong and healthy.

New comment by steveeq1 in "'Finally, a virus got me’: Scientist who fought Ebola and HIV reflects"

steveeq1 — Sat, 09 May 2020 19:40:09 +0000

Straw man. No one thinks the media should "cover it up". However, It would be more responsible for the media to not present the public with so much obvious misinformation about the virus.