Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by benreesman 1457 days ago
You can call it a “defense” or not as you like.

People and organizations have been putting money ahead of enlightened ideals as long as there’s been money or ideals.

I’m not trying to let Amazon off the hook here per se, but a cursory reading of history shows that such calls are on average, basically everyone ever.

We venerate King and Milk and Ghandi and others because they stand out.

This is business as usual not for Amazon, it’s business as usual in recorded history.
1 comments
4gotunameagain 1457 days ago
Enlightened ideals were the suffragettes. Was the abolition of slavery.

Don't you think calling this LGBT craze an enlightened ideal is a bit overselling it ?

link
sgift 1457 days ago
No. Also: Suffragettes and abolition of slavery were both called crazy in their time.
link
ZeroGravitas 1457 days ago
The word "Suffragette" was originally an insult:

https://www.nps.gov/articles/suffragistvssuffragette.htm

(As was the word “scientist“).

link
4gotunameagain 1457 days ago
In their time triple distilled water containing radium was sold as an energy drink, they thought bathing was unhealthy, and they ate mercury.

I will go out on a limb and say we can judge things a bit better now.

Sure, right now we accept plastic and plasticisers everywhere around us. Which is crazy. And quite probably contributes to the great hormonal disruption and the trans craze.

link
andsoitis 1457 days ago
> Sure, right now we accept plastic and plasticisers everywhere around us. Which is crazy. And quite probably contributes to the great hormonal disruption and the trans craze.

Interesting intuition. Do you know of any research suggesting a causal link between plastics and more trans visibility?

link
sweetheart 1457 days ago
This type of transphobia would be hilarious if it wasn’t so harmful.

Reducing the entire history of transgenderism down to a “craze” is a perfect culmination of your ignorance and fear.

link
benreesman 1457 days ago
From my reading of history, blacks, women, and gays have been treated like shit in appalling numbers as far as the books go back.

From my observation of the present: plenty of that still going around.

What makes suffrage or abolitionism any more or less worthy a case than the LGBT “craze”?

Seems to me all this prejudice is fucking unhappy shit.

link