Lemmy is a worse platform for women than Reddit was EDIT this link is an OLD POST that contains my thesis on the state of lemmy and is not the context of the much more recent comment in the screenshot. sorry for any confusion caused by this juxtaposition, my main goal with having this linked is to expose how nothing has improved

  • Darorad@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    The posted comment doesn’t argue against that though, it’s a random correct statement that isn’t relevant to what they were talking about.

    Say someone in the 2008 dem primary was arguing for Clinton saying america was too racist to elect a black man. Responding by arguing that race has nothing to do with how good a job someone can do as president is a bad response because

    1. it doesn’t address the argument that person was making

    2. it doesn’t address the racism in denying someone an attempt because of how you think others will respond to their race.

    What’s the purpose of a sex strike? To push people to accept different politics.

    The comment it’s in reply to is making an argument that it’s a bad strategy, but at no point indicates they don’t think women shouldn’t be free to make the decision. They’re arguing about efficacy.

    Replying to that with a completely different argument does mean people downvoting it for relevance would be justified. There’s a deeper conversation about the type of harmful ideas that argument promotes, but this is a surface level response that doesn’t do that.

        • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
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          3 days ago

          Here’s the most crucial part of the moderated comment by Darorad:

          Say someone in the 2008 dem primary was arguing for Clinton saying america was too racist to elect a black man. Responding by arguing that race has nothing to do with how good a job someone can do as president is a bad response because 1) it doesn’t address the argument that person was making 2) it doesn’t address the racism in denying someone an attempt because of how you think others will respond to their race.