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Transwomen have been competing in women's sports for decades with no complaint right up until the right wing needed an excuse to go after them, self id has no effect on anything other the beaurocracy around changing legal documents.

Neither are a good excuse to push for repealing the GRA.

To them we're idiotic sheep shaggers, whose language is at once not real and/or dead while at the same time being something we use to gossip about them while they're still in the room. Welsh language on the signs isn't because we have people who speak the language but rather a trap designed to confuse and befuddle the saes. The Welsh alphabet isn't real and Welsh is functionally inseparable from dyslexia.

Without England's paternal leadership we'd still be living in "wattle and daub"ed roundhouses.

No one in Wales genuinely wants to work and the sky-high unemployment comes from a lack of work ethic by "benefit sponges". The fact that the majority of the population lives in former industrial strongholds that were gutted of all industry by Thatcherism doesn't factor into it at all.

Fake news. The town is built on top of a giant bull.

Thank you.

At the risk of sounding optimistic, the culture shock of our respective instances federating feels like it's starting to die down now and folks can finally get on with more respectful discussion.

So is this article another one that uses Radio Free Asia as a source?

'cos I don't know shit about North Korea but I don't trust any news source that is owned and run by the CIA.

Edit:

Radio Free Asia, a broadcasting service which aims to get the bottom of propaganda put out by totalitarian countries, interviewed an anonymous resident.

Called it.

Hexbear user here so I've no say in whether you defed or not.

Just wanted to say, I appreciate how level headed you've been in this post and with defederation as a whole even though your previous interaction with Hexbear users has made you the target of comments that were heated (to say the least).

I feel that my comment was a little ambiguous.

The Bell Curve mentioned isn't the graph distribution, but rather the book by the same name that uses misrepresented data from IQ tests to push the idea that there is a genetic factor that makes black people inherently less intelligent than anyone else.

Sorry for any misunderstandings.

I'm going to talk about a specific event to try to highlight my point if you don't mind.

In 1998, (ex-)Dr Andrew J Wakefield published an article in the lancet that used sketchy methodology to push the idea that the MMR vaccine was the primary cause of autism.

Peer review would eventually lead to the lancet retracting the study and evidence of his tampering with collected data and other unscientific processes lead to him resigning from the hospital he worked at in 2001 and losing his medical license in 2010.

Despite all this, British media platformed him as an alternative voice that had been silenced by big pharma.

During this coverage, MMR vaccination rates in the UK dropped from ~92% to ~73% between 1998 and 2008 and only returned to pre-coverage rates (in England, Scotland and Wales recovered a lot quicker but notably had less coverage of Wakefield's study prior to its retraction) in 2021. In some London boroughs it dropped as low as ~50% and is recovering at a much slower rate.

For reference WHO targets for MMR inoculation is a vaccination rate of ~95%.

British media essentially took an entire decade off progress to eliminate Measles, Mumps, and Rubella.

Sure he gives a voice to cranks, but he also gives voice to people across the spectrum

That's the problem though isn't it? By giving the same platform to cranks as he would people with expertise in their field while offering very little pushback, he signals to his audience that these fringe, nonsensical ideas are just different opinions being debated.

It's coverage like that across the media, that has allowed unscientific views like antivax to fester.

Reddit and ~~twitter~~ X, racing to see who can burn their company to ash the quickest.

The folks with takes on how the fire bombing of Dresden was a war crime never seem to feel quite the same way about the Nazis carpet bombing strategically insignificant locations like Cwmparc.

For anyone who hasn't watched it this video is an excellent breakdown of the racist history of both The Bell Curve and of IQ tests.