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Oh yeah, 'cause those feminist movements totally don't exist in cultures with no gender equality. Oh no wait, that's total bullshit and you're pulling shit out of your ass to continue justifying your sexist BS.

House of Lies, Parks and Rec, Community, The Toast, Black Jesus -- if you think you can only be funny by punching down, you have a serious lack of imagination. Or dare I say, a limited sense of humor. So therefore it's okay to take that choice away from those who do? Like, what's your point...

I'm sure there were. Of course, no one is advocating for forbidding anyone from being a housewife if they want to. The point is that in the past and to a lesser extent in the present, many women don't actually have a real choice in the matter. That's the point. See, "SJW's" (apostrophes don't...

@Atomkilla: You are conflating war refugees with current economic migrants (these are not refugees and are not treated as such). The war refugees of the 1990s have largely returned, and we should expect exactly the same thing to happen with the Syrian refugees right now. Whether there will...

You are mistaken. Again: three quarters of those displaced have since returned, and that's not including those hundreds of thousands who are still internally displaced. That's simple fact. Your intuitive feelings and anecdotal evidence do not trump data. Emigration does not stop when war is...

Actually, we have no indications that this is not true and a lot of indications that it is true. Not only is this a line consistently repeated by Syrian refugees, it is also what has historically happened with war refugees (as recently as the second Iraq war). What is ludicrous is disbelieving...

When you use "they're different" to then argue that they don't deserve the same rights and prosperity as you while simultaneously comparing them to mice and talking about letting "30 of them" loose in your house, you are absolutely dehumanizing an entire group of people in an effort to justify...

Interviews with refugees. Speaking of Syrian refugees, obviously -- they're fleeing war. They would not be fleeing their homes if they could stay there without being bombed to death. There's also the historical record of migration, both economic migration (which in my opinion is just as valid)...

Oh, I know you're mostly on my side. But all I ever really see you do in threads like these is mock those to your left with glib shit like the above. As if the people changing the logo don't realize that providing for refugees is a lot more important than a logo. But that one thing is more...

No, you choose you because you are human. Because everyone is human, and people don't like to give up what they have for anyone, let alone those they don't know. I'd argue that's a basic failing of cultural empathy but that's neither here nor there and it doesn't make you racist, merely a human...

@ChildServices: Yes, what you are describing is pretty much fascism. Ugly, nationalist fascism. The kind that makes you compare other people to mice, and basically state outright that a Syrian is less of a human being than you. That would be the kind of racist bullshit that has repeatedly led to...

Correct. Everything is a social construct. Human culture is extremely variable and malleable. That is my point. Yet instead of acting like human beings are human beings and no one is more deserving of prosperity than anyone else based on an accident of birth, we get proto-fascists like you that...

I didn't see anyone asking that question. But here's the trivially true answer: being born on one side or the other of a border does not make a human being different. Human beings have no control over where they are born. So right now, and throughout the ~100-year history of borders the way we...

The amount of money spent on welfare and other poverty relief in the United States is far, far below the level it should be. I completely agree with that. However, it absolutely dwarf the commitments to helping those abroad -- 1% of the federal budget goes to foreign aid compared to 48% to...

Yes, who cares about human beings that weren't accidentally born within the same random lines drawn on a map as you were, amirite? Humanity, what's that?

Because war has only active participants, and not massive civilian populations bearing the brunt of destruction.

It is moreover bullshit because we don't actually know what our ancestral environment looked like, nor do we really know what human societies in the ancestral environments looked like, nor do we have any real clue about the ways in which gender influenced an individual's role in society. Nor do...

Gender segregation of tasks is almost certainly highly suboptimal and uncomfortable, given the huge variability within and between genders. Which is exactly why your spiel about happiness is nonsense.

Women weren't pregnant all the time or even all that frequently, for the same reason that periods weren't all that frequent. And women can certainly be active late into their pregnancy. Biology is not a social construct, but gender and especially gender roles are. Those who seek to justify...

Yes, those countries that adopted Western modes of living adopted Western modes of living. This does not mean it is the best let alone only way to live under modern capitalism, nor does it mean it should be our aspiration, nor does it mean that the *reason* we're economically successful is our...