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Unseen, sometimes the server is simply having a bad day. I mean if your livelihood depends on how the customer perceives you it is in your best interest to put on a show. And if you can’t it may be an aberration. Although i am reminded of a server at a Chinese restaurant who was unbelievably rude. I used to go there hoping to get him just cuz i…[Read more]

Autumn, you have hit on a big topic in day to day life. NORMALIZED ETIQUETTE.

There is so much to it. So much so that i imagine that moderns who used a time machine to live among the Ancient Greeks, 18th century Commanche, medieval British Peasants would at first be lost.

We all know when someone is not towing the line. Some of the stuff is…[Read more]

Autumn, that works for me.

But a great many people seem to be all about the people around them even when they are strangers. For instance if i am at a restaurant and i enjoy the food-that is all i care about. On the other hand too often i am with someone for whom the experienced is ruined if the server is cold/aloof. (something less than what i…[Read more]

I will cop to not wanting a culture in which you have to constantly be on guard against saying something offensive.

What we say among friends, family, loved ones is one thing. In public it is another. When out any obvious derogatory shit against marginilized groups or racist-speak is never ok in my estimation. But always knowing the right terms?…[Read more]

Rickles was funny.

Unseen, isn’t that about political correctness? Are the terms interchangeable or overlapping?

I am not particularly well informed in the woke-spoke debate.

However it is my impression that the woke-haters are really most pissed about the uppity-out groups having power. Cancellation is not cool. It is however the human way. Religions are the greatest force for cancellation. No need to elaborate. Any kind of totalitarian government…[Read more]

Autumn’s: I agree. But while you pointed out a fairly overt case, realistically any and all of us are susceptible. Even when we try to adopt a state of objectivity and impartiality, the potential for bias has to be accounted for in many areas of study.

SPOT ON

Autumn, the problem with science is not science. It is scientists. I have shared this already but it struck me how Jane Goodall was disparaged as a young woman when she first shared her observations about chimps with older White male scientists. “Oh she is just being anthropomorphic, the dear and naive girl…

Her perspective was borne of…[Read more]

If you are an alien and seeking kinship and connection with another group of aliens and you first discover that they have gods and need to protect free speech ya best turn your ship in the direction of another planet or wherever intelligent life is developing.

How pathetic is it that we need to balance consequences of free speech with the value…[Read more]

I am guessing most of us on AZ think there are hereditary traits, proclivities,susceptibility to illness/disease, tendencies in intelligence and aptitudes. That is not to deny the relationship between nature and nurture.

There should be no issue in studying, describing and publishing those findings. But i think the notion that we are not equal or…[Read more]

Simon that is a hypothesis with Ashkenazi. My dad is 100 percent. And he is a freak of intelligence-or he was before his brain tumors. His two brothers also. I grew up wondering about genetics and intelligence cuz it punched in my the face over and over.

I may have indicated this one other time but one thing that is obvious to me is that perceived superiority and inferiority ought to have no place in justifying exploitation, genocide, oppression or marginilization. How is that nobody says this? Lets hope aliens intent on visiting or our burgeoning AI are more advanced than the troglodytes we are.…[Read more]

When ya bandy about highly contentious, ambiguous, amorphous, politicized ideological terms ya gotta define it or it is useless discourse. Scoring cheap dog whistle points is the last bastion to unfasten and requires redaction to achieve satisfaction.

“Oh i am not religious but i am highly spiritual.” I would probably conclude that i am talking…[Read more]