Man, and I have to go in 25 minutes...
I disagree. These biases come from our culture, and we can change our culture, but only if we want to.
These biases are opinions, held by individuals. Nobody can force someone else to change their opinion. My culture is something specific to me, something that someone will have to socially torture and abuse me to take away.
Why should anyone take inequality and injustice sitting down? And please tell me what "strict, often unfair policies" she is introducing? Be specific. What is she doing to restrict your opinion or your expression of it?
At the core, the states she dislikes the concept of rigorous Engineering, and maybe even the word Rigor. She is stating that an art and skill that I love and wish to master should be irreversibly changed because it requires a large amount of effort to perfect. Nobody should take inequality and injustice sitting down, but my point is that this isn't inequality or injustice on a reparable level. It's innate, and in our modern day, minor opinions held by individuals.
What do you mean by that, specifically "the balancing act of fair treatment"?
I am stating that so long as whatever is done, if it's what I specifically want to be done or not, I am alright with it so long as it doesn't switch the problem around on me. I never discriminated against anyone, and I don't think it's fair that I might have to be punished for the crimes of people that just happened to be the same colour or gender as I. It would be becoming the monster I seek to defeat, and is the core of my egalitarian beliefs.
What solution would be damaging to whom?
Where is Professor Riley trying to make anything illegal? Is she campaigning to repeal the 1st Amendment? I must have missed that part. And what the hell is wrongthink? Why would you want to be wrong?
Wrongthink is a reference to George Orwell's 1984. It's the concept of an opinion that is innately wrong regardless of debate, solely because it opposes a specific narrative. Keep in mind, I am trying to speak more in general to situations like this, but in this case, she is trying to put drastic action (possibly completely rewriting the field of engineering) into a non-issue (the fact that engineering is a rigorous and time consuming study).
Who is they? I thought you were criticizing Professor Riley?
I didn't hear Riley talk about the pure and right side of history. Who or what are you talking about?
I am criticizing Riley, as well as every other SJW out there. They campaign about how they are fighting inequality in our civilization, and how their opinions are the sole opinions to a brighter tomorrow. They act as if someone who disagrees with them must be a monster, because no good person would try to argue against what is so obviously freedom.
What wholesome values were quietly reclassified as ugly prejudices? Be specific.
The idea that anybody with any idea may just very well have a valid opinion?
What speech has made you a criminal? Again, be specific. Include the relevant statutes, regulations, etc.
There are more than one types of criminal. I think what he is referring to is thought crime (same thing as wrongthink). Anything that goes against someone else's narrative.
Who's going to exclude you for using the wrong pronoun? I know I"m being repetitive, but be specific.
I know many places where if I were to walk in, and intentionally call a few specific peoples by an assumed or wrong pronoun, I would be immediately kicked out of the building, if not banned from the group or organization. It's happened before.
Your presence is no longer required? Who is planning to remove anyone from society? (Yes, be specific.)
This was somewhat of a metaphor on his part. He was stating that a lot of arguments made, a lot of ideas presented, in fact exactly like the one Riley has made, seeks to kick out people who hold traditional values on Engineering, like the idea of putting effort into your work.
Who's telling you you can't speak? I'm arguing with you, sure. I'm exercising MY RIGHT to free speech. But I'm not saying you can't speak.
Again, there are people who have blocked me, reported me, tried to get me banned off websites because my opinions didn't match theirs, and they couldn't handle the fact that I presented rational arguments and they didn't.
Who believes that hurting someone's feelings is on par with cracking a skull? (BE SPECIFIC! WHERE DID ANYONE SAY THIS?)
Besides the classic "Misgendering someone is violence", find it yourself, I have to go in like 7 minutes, I have known people who have taken mundane things as personal insults that requires instant removal of my personal life from this world.
What petititions are circulating to shut you up or down? Or anybody?
Have you been to change.org recently?
What law protects feelings?
Social law. Break it and it may be even worse than going to prison.
Were you banned from social media? And is someone actually purging dangerous fascist throwbacks from society? (BE SPECIFIC!)
I've had minor suspensions for saying something, but I know people who have been banned off the platform simply for taking a somewhat unpopular opinion.
Now I've got to go, feel free to make a v2 and I will ping it right back.