pdcawley.bsky.social
Folk singer, carer, recovering programmer.
(they/him)
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Yeah, I can respect that.
If it helps, his stance is essentially: "Don't argue with racists – they don't listen and you don't need the stress. That said, here's the kind of tosh they come out with and why it's complete and utter bollocks."
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That's a fantastic description of it! His "How to Argue With A Racist" is similarly brilliant.
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Some book recommendations on the back of this:
The Pleasures of Counting by T.W. Körner – the chapter on Snow and the beginnings of statistics is quite brilliant. So's the rest of the book.
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford – skincrawlingly good.
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Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford is quite brilliant if you want to know just how awful Francis Galton and co were.
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Right? I only learned about John Snow's data from an almost throwaway comment in Tom Körner's "The Pleasures of Counting" (a book I cannot begin to recommend highly enough if you're remotely interested in mathematics).
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So much of the machinery of statistics was developed by truly terrible people trying to prop up eugenics.
John Snow's evidence that the Broad Street cholera outbreak was caused by water from a single pump wouldn't be considered statistically significant today.
That one blew my mind.
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Yeah, I think I remember that one. Mum has a bunch of original hardbacks (presumably not first editions) and I read most of them as a kid. The tonal shifts from book to book were gloriously weird. BERRY & CO has a very different vibe from, say, JONAH & CO, for instance.
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… and more than a dash of racism.
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… Blows dog whistles in all of his bloviating
Oh what a prick, GASTON!
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Apparently, I was named after one of his characters.
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Fucking hell!
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You can bet they know how to do it properly too. This is malicious compliance.
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Every single episode by the same writer too. That's even unusual in the UK these days.
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I mean… it's not the one I voted for either because even before the election it was clear they were the Wrong Party. Voted Green.
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If you’re a cis man worried that trans women will assault little girls if they’re allowed in the women’s restroom, you’re just telling on yourself, ya fuckin creeps.
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… or a verb. Or an adverb. Or "fuck".
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Loved that book, but if I never have to read another sex scene by Cory it will be too soon.
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Half of my friends have been girls/women my entire life. The structure to do that is called "friendship" and has always existed.
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Mmmm… toasty, toasty excuses!
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I'm told that pansexual minutes are way more fun, but I'm guessing straight minutes are all he can cope with.
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Crikey! That sounds like a horrible drug. Why would anyone choose to smoke that?
I mean, "I'm a grown-assed man who can help and reassure the kids in my life by showing that non-sexual friendship with women is great" gives a really great high. And it costs nothing.
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Yeah, no. If that was your point, you need to get *way* better at communicating that. Otherwise all you're saying is "yeah, kids! Your misogynistic rage is perfectly justified in today's society and there's nothing to be done!" but you're doing it in a manner that's plausibly deniable.
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What the fuck is that dude smoking? Even if he's right about that then the only answer that has a hope of working is to burn down the Patriarchy and there are more than enough reasons to be doing that anyway.
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I mean… I'd rather that than pussyfooting around the issue. Sometimes nuance isn't what's needed.
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Most recent chat in quiet time was 'congratulating' someone on getting male pattern baldness as part and parcel of their hormone therapy and sniggering about the fact we'd scared a transphobe away from the session without even trying.
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I honestly don't think that's what it was about, but you've proved it didn't necessarily read like that.
The chap who killed my schoolmates was seventeen or eighteen, by the way.
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It feels like I'd be being intrusive and othering them in that context – we're there to sing, after all.
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I mean… I'd be astonished if that wasn't the case. Trans folk *live* this stuff in ways I simply don't have to and I don't like to quiz the trans blokes of my acquaintance about it because we're usually in some upstairs room or another singing folk songs that are steeped in misogyny.
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Couldn't agree more. And from my position as uncle and step-grandfather to boys, I hope I've done the best I can there. Not sure what else I can do in the wider realm though. I reckon I'd be a walking "Hello fellow kids!" meme if I attempted to help kids I'm not related to.
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Thank you for not being liberal with the block button and sticking around long enough for me to (I hope) understand your point.
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Probably because I didn't quite understand where you were coming from when you switched from a thread about how there's nothing new about Tate's narrative to "We're talking about kids!" I thought you were trying to minimise or excuse the damage that's done by Tate's victims.
Clearly, I was wrong.
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Are you flirting with the TERFy "Male socialisation" bollocks?
We're living under Patriarchy. All the gender roles we're supposed to follow are toxic. We're all doing the best we can.
Believe me or not, I know I'm flawed and just trying to fuck up less.
I presume you know that about yourself too.
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is pointing out that the adult apologists, the '"Who can blame these kids, under all the pressures they are under, for listening to Tate?" wankers' are talking absolute bollocks.
It's you who insisted that we're talking about the kids, rather than those who prey on them and excuse the predators.
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while inside to recover from their abuse and be released with as much anonymity as possible and given an opportunity to build a new life distinct from what they did. That's just table stakes for a humane society.
Nobody, I think, is denying these kids are victims.
What they *are* doing…
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What on *earth* makes you think I'm either doing, or advocating withholding love from kids? Of course kids who kill influenced by Tate are going to end up with custodial sentences, just like the boys who killed James Bulger did, but also *of course* they should get all possible help…