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[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I mean yeah, colonialism and capitalism are tied together at the hip, and Palestinians resisting the settler state of Israel is pretty directly related to resisting capitalist violence.

Throwing in the standard disclaimer of "my family was affected by the holocaust and I know several anti-zionist israelis who think Israel doesn't have a right to exist" because some people get really weird about this opinion.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

"Capitalism does not work because people are selfish, and selfish people are incentivized to harm their fellow man by capitalist structures. Under socialism, selfish people will work toward the common good because working toward the common good is the easiest way to earn recognition and status"

"People are selfish, and it is in 99 percent of peoples self interest to overthrow capitalism in order to improve their material conditions"

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -3 points 2 years ago

Henry Kissinger won a nobel peace prize lmao

Capitalist awards often mean you are bad at the thing they're commending you for

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Now do the home ownership rate in socialist countries

(Hint, the "American dream" of owning a home is much easier under socialism)

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -5 points 2 years ago

Do you mean that just like we have defined inch the length that is exactly 25.4mm (where mm is the length light travels in 1/299792458 seconds in a vacuum, seconds being whatever the fuck they are), we have also defined animals with XX chromosome females, and if they’re human, women, while recognizing that there are rare exceptions?

Two things:

A) you're not thinking procedurally. Doctors do not generally check chromosomes when they determining sex generally. So it would be more accurate to say "in infants, doctors define sex by looking at genitals, in adults, by looking at a variety of characteristics. We use chromosomes in medical circumstances to look for potential conditions that may explain symptoms, and sometimes we can use that as a category in determining sex" The definition you are using is really most applicable in people who are doing research, not clinical work, or interacting with human beings in a social context.

B) cool, so we've established that is what you think sex is. Other communities define sex differently. You can't claim inches are some universal innate biological truth and those heathens over there using centimeters are wrong and need to accept the wisdom of inches. And while inches might be more useful to you, centimeters may be more useful to them.

I would really suggest that you read “Bodies that matter, on the discursive limits of Sex” from Judith Butler. She literally has a PhD in philosophy and has devoted her life to analysis of the way we as a society conceptualize sex.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago

Yes, but we disagree on whether that makes him a communist. He is a leader of a very capitalist country.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

If he was a communist and had control of Russia than Russia wouldn't be the way it was.

It may surprise you that some capitalism supporters got into power in the soviet union before Yeltsin ordered the parliament to be bombarded with tanks, dissolving the socialist democracy and bringing about capitalism in former soviet states.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -4 points 2 years ago

Some figures claim that 1.7 percent of the population is some form of intersex, which is more common than having red hair I believe.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Before people start thinking there is an innately male or female brain, please remember that environmental conditions including social ones influence the way the brain is structured due to neuroplasticity.

And think about how boys are encouraged to eat and girls are encouraged to watch their weight, and how child body growth relies on building up periodic fat reserves in order to happen, and you need to eat a lot of protein when building muscle mass, and what the physical implications for that are and how it contributes to our social definition of sex. And how that contributes to cis women being more vulnerable to physical violence.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I would suggest reading “Bodies that matter, on the discursive limits of Sex” from Judith Butler.

Pointing out how intersex people don't fit into the constructed binary is easy to dismiss, sex essentialists just call those people defective men and women.

(Which gets into how if you can't have kids or you can but you don't look a certain way you're "defective", which is a value judgement and doesn't have some universal or biological basis)

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That isnt the primary mode by which the assignment of sex happens in our society. Stop being an idealist around what sex is, and actually grapple with how sex classification practically happens within our society.

When doctors mutilate intersex babies they don't wait for a chromosome test.

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