How long have you been under cover?

I tend to believe that it is possible to vent without resorting to racism. Especially when things like culture and ethnicity are used as distractions from the actual problems that make people’s lives worse. It is the exact same kind of distraction as “the job market is bad because Mexicans are stealing all the jobs!” -> then some people start “venting” about the “lazy job stealing Mexicans”.

If you want to vent, vent about the actual problems. Like “capitalism is the worst” or “I hate corrupt politicians”, or whatever.

Similarly with gender, the patriarchy - the oppressive system of power, is the problem, not the actual gender that the people pushing that system tend to have. It is misdirected rage.

I don’t think so, because it is inversed. “Black lives matter” focuses on a very real societal problem, but it does not actually imply that other lives do not matter. It is not discrimination, it just focuses on black lives. So people arguing against this are not arguing against discrimination, they are effectively arguing against the value of black lives, even if they try to pretend they are not.

However in the reverse, something like “men are terrible” is discriminatory. Someone arguing against this is not actually arguing against women or anyone else, they are just arguing against the discrimination.

I also think in this case discrimination is not actually what is meant, but language matters, as many other comments in this thread have already said.

Where can I get this, specifically the Songs of Solomon cassette

Did you try making a list for checking your lists?

Yeah, I could imagine there being some kind distinction in a language, such that it is always clear when one is making a metaphor as opposed to being literal. I also don’t know if that actually applies to Hebrew.

But what baffled me was more that even if this were true, holding a belief that goes against pretty much all evidence, based purely on a grammatical quirk of an ancient culture. It’s quite a stretch 😅

So I grew up around creationists. When I presented this idea, the only attempt at a justification I heard was something like “in the original Hebrew the word for a literal day was used, that’s how we know creation happened in literal 6 days”

Which baffled me enough to shut me up, so that guy probably thinks he convinced me.

The Federation would never publish fake data, so it must be true!

Ironically, I think the ability to be content single is a fairly attractive trait.