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Benjamin Buchholz
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Thought experiment: how about a 10 year moratorium where men cannot be voted or appointed to office? Sounds drastic but it’s what women endured until recently, other minorities too. And might be the best way to change our culture of patriarchy and misogyny.
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Rather than say “race and sex” having nothing to do with the problem, how about we start with the assumption that they have everything to do with it, though they’re symptomatic of othering in general.
A bit of chimananda ngozi adiche’s “We Should All Be Feminists” that plays up the idea a little:
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Benjamin Buchholz
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I’ve thought about, fought against, and written a lot on radicalization, applying Eric Hoffer’s theory on mass movements to Radical Islam. My article “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements” lays out some of this. usacac.army.mil/CAC2/MilitaryR…
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Thought experiment time. Imagine that you're a funder, and you can only ask a funding applicant three questions. After the third answer, you're going to have to make a funding decision, yes or no. What three questions would you ask?
Delighted to see so many people in the mood for a thought experiment tonight!

It's only just occurred to me that if I was a mad [data] scientist your replies would make for a promising training set for my machine learning model 😀
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WOMEN //a thread//

I was raised by all women.

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