• @paddirn
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    2410 days ago

    It’s so dumb, like of all the challenges facing us as a species now, THAT’S the shit that people are getting worked up about? Life on Earth for humanity is in the process of going through a set of major environmental changes that we’re probably not ready for and is going to have catastrophic results for some… and there’s people out there getting bent out of shape about pronouns and sexual orientation. We need to be doing alot more preparing for what’s coming over the next few years and a lot less bitching about things that don’t personally affect us. It seemed like we had made some big strides for awhile there, and that seemingly got erased within the past 8 years.

    • zout
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      410 days ago

      But those other things is stuff which askes a sacrifice of you personally, while someone else’s sexual orientation only needs you pointing at them. In the Netherlands where I live it’s a lot less about sexual orientation (but still some), and a lot more about foreigners, be it asylum seekers or people of Moroccan descent who’s grandparents were brought over in 1960’s because of labour shortages.

    • @TubularTittyFrog
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      10 days ago

      human brains are dumb.

      takes a lot of effort and work to train your brain to not be dumb.

      just like it takes lots of effort to keep your body fit and healthy.

      cognitive biases are very very hard to overcome for highly educated people, let alone uneducated ones.