And, sadly, sometimes parents refuse the vaccine that would help.

"For Peace" for Americans, everyone else can bomb each other to death.

And by 'Americans', he only means those who support him. Those who don't get bombed, too.

An interesting study into how people can rationalise any harmful action as justified when motivated to swallow enough complete bullshit.

I'm an academic working to analyse hate speech, with a particular focus on online misogyny. As bigotry is illogical, common features of communications of that hatred is stuff that is wholly made up. This include the idea that men are being short-changed by a medical industry which prioritise female health. This is factually untrue, in terms of gender differences in health outcomes.

If knowing about the truth makes me a 'sad sack', fine. Maybe being correct and 'sad' is more important than being incorrect yet happy.

It’s a good thing we invented this straw person

So, neither misogynists nor anti-vaxxers exist?

I can find you evidence of men complaining about free period products. I am certain there will be men complaining that female cancers are getting cures, and not male ones.

You seem to be having a bad day. Maybe taking it out on strangers will help?

If you believe in not hurting people, you don't hurt people.

While the reasons for the decline are not immediately clear, researchers and those on the frontlines believe it is driven by changes in the drug supply as well as improved access to treatment and harm reduction programs. [...]

But she also highlighted the continued – and increasingly unequal – death toll from the overdose crisis when it comes to who in society is affected the most.

“It’s also important to acknowledge that progress has not been equal for all groups,” she said. “Unfortunately, for the most affected groups, namely Native Americans and Black American men, the death rates are not decreasing and are at the highest recorded levels.”

Fuck em, essentially.

Yes, that's the attitude that people have as they make the world worse. It's not the best attitude.

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What if someone trusts an insane conspiracy theorist?

I would not even be surprised if an Israeli official said something like this: "You see, this is for humanitarian reasons. If we kill health workers and destroy health facilities, the so-called 'people' in Gaza will die of natural causes. Then we won't have to bomb them any longer."

Sadly for them, and for me, I think that people in Gaza are actually living beings worthy of the same compassion afforded to all other living beings, so this situation is intolerable to me.

Was "Those weak French, amirite?" trolling, or was it making fun of people who falsely call French people 'weak' as a form of nationalistic bigotry?

I read it as the latter. "The French are still weak," would be clear bigotry, the 'amirite?' makes me lean more towards making fun of them.

Of course, we can't definitively say due to the lack of clear tone in written language.

This is great news. Yet, sadly, I am drawn to wondering who will complain about this the loudest. Will it be misogynists who say "they're not helping men with their cancer", or anti-vaxxers saying "this vaccine will actually CAUSE cancer"?

What about people who are both misogynist and anti-vaccine?

On the contrary: blaming all of humanity doesn’t help anyone in any way.

Why would I try to help humanity? You're human, right? And are you someone who I want to talk to?

You're calling me 'bigoted' for being autistic and seeing the world objectively. It is objectively the case that human actions have consequences, and those human actions are fault. You pretend to make the world better by being unpleasant. It's sad, and I want no part of it.

But her bed doesn't have a nail.

Judging any population by the actions of 1-10% of its worst members is bad statistics

I judge humanity by the outcomes of human actions. And it's not looking good. You blame who you want, it won't stop your descendants from being harmed.

Making fake money by burning real hydrocarbons is a loud business, Maureen. So loud I can't hear you complaining over the noise of all this binary industry.

This is a lie: "Yes, I hate people, but I don't let it influence me."

This is because: Hate is how you see other people.

If I see you as less than human, I will treat you as less than human.

Ah, of course, the beans website, but it's in a tomato sauce.

I prefer clean room to dirty room, so I clean room. Thankfully, this is true even when I am depressed.