I see. Thankfully, the comments are clowning on the article though.

How to piss off people 101.

Do you fail to remember how the tech world collectively cringe at one guy who intentionally injected malware into his own npm library to delete all data from Russia and Belarus?

Is the culture wars a unique phenomenon in the US? How significant is in the other parts of the West and the American satellite states? I’ve grown up in my country (Vietnam) my whole life and have never observe such bizarre phenomenon. When I was a student, all the students around me believed that feminism is a good thing, they believed that we must combat climate change. All the media and newspapers (save for US sponsored ones) have the same worldview. But when I getting better at English and exposing myself to English-speaking media, I was shocked.

I would stay away from culture war. These videos are designed to generate outrage and clicks.

Many Quora users have a habit of stating an opinion but word it as a question.

It could be that Piers’ employers and sponsors have enough of Benzion Mileikowsky’s^[1] shit.

Two days ago, I had the displeasure to come across a YouTube comment section full of European supremacists. They hated on socialism and immigrants. They even look down on the USA, saying that it was a failed empire and a failed culture because of “mixed race”. Needless to say, I’ve never felt more glad that America is hollowing out European industry.

SCP is a company? Do they sell anomalies for profit?

Either CIA funded or billionaire funded.

ByteDance (the maker of TikTok) is a for-profit company whose purpose is to make money. They are not some kind of altruistic organization that seeks to educate people.

Douyin looks good because local Chinese laws forces it to not to be garbage. If Americans want TikTok and social media to be good, make your own regulations. (Though it is more likely that big tech would lobby against it in the name of free speech or smth)

Who would win? A nation in the brink of starvation as a result of being cut off from the rest of the world or the rest of the world?

Thank you for your answer. It was both excellent and humbling. I realize now that my discipline in dialectical materialism has been lacking.

I had asked you guys to prove me wrong from the very first comment. Unfortunately, the answers I received are a bit unconvincing.

Maybe the document you provide can change my world view, but I must take my time to read it first.

Gender is a social construct often upheld by patriarchal societal standards. The being of a man or a woman comes with many societal expectations, and quite a lot of people don’t agree with that.

Do you mean “gender role”?

Patriarchal societies often have different expectations for people of different biological sex. A Confucian society would expect a man to follow the Son of Heaven and a woman to follow her father or husband. This is gender role, and gender equality means the abolishment of gender roles.

I don’t think I can agree with conflating the concept of “gender” and “gender role”.

Now, I only want to comment on the gender aspect as I am sure that you, master observer that you are, can acknowledge stuff like intersex people existing, who are born with both sets of genitals for example.

After some thought, I think I see your point. If one considers intersex a biological sex then their true gender should be separate from their sex. Is that what you were trying to convey?

Now, gender as we know it now has evolved in capitalist societies

Please tell me what the concept of gender was like in other societies. Be it Medieval Europe or Imperial China or whatever society you are familiar with.

Non binary people, for example, have been around since the beginning of mankind and have even been acknowledged by historic societies.

Please provide me documents. I may take my time to research them.

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Happiness and sadness are easy to comprehend because all humans experience it. Their biological mechanisms have also been studied and partially understood by science. “Gender feelings”, not so much. Let put it this way: How can a biological male, who was never a female, know the feeling he feels is that of a woman?

What is “feeling like a man”? What is “feeling like a woman”? What is the biological mechanism that determine these feelings?

I can observe a person who has near death experience telling me they met god. Should I take it as face value?

A person telling you, “I feel like a woman” today but next week telling you “I feel like a man” is something that can be observed.

I don’t think my society is willing to accept such fickleness, even if we are willing to accept transgender.

“72 genders” is incomprehensible to me too, and I believe that it is incomprehensible and illogical to most people in the world who are not familiar with the West.

The crux of the issue lies in the separation of the concept “gender” and “sex”. Wheras “sex” is material and observable, “gender” (as defined by Western leftists^[1]) is anything but. It is measured by having the person “identifies” themselves as one.

But if a concept is not observable and not material, how is it different from a god? Should we, who adhere to dialectical materialism and scientific principals, see it as anything of worth?

Or maybe I am wrong, maybe the fluid gender can be objectively measured as a material concept with observable effects. If you think I’m wrong, please explain.

It can deliver powerful anti communist propaganda and capitalist apologia disguised by the “word of god”.

This is very true. I have never seen any cult that isn’t anti-communist, be it Falun Gong, Unification Church, or others.

BTW, I recommend following @darrion_nguyen on Twitter if you want to know more about Vietnam, he is more knowledgeable than me regarding Vietnam and anything geopolitics.