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  • Saying the USA has been a democracy for 248 years is a bit of a stretch. when:

    White men who didn’t own land didn’t get to vote everywhere in the USA until 1868.
    Main-land Native American males who left their tribes and lived like white people could start to vote in 1887.
    The above but for Alaska in 1915. In 1925, they needed to also be able to pass an English literacy test to vote.
    Women were allowed to vote in the 1920’s.
    Black people were allowed to vote in the 1960’s.
    The act that prohibits racial discrimination for voting rights was passed in 1965.
    Alaska Natives were able to vote without taking an English literacy test, a language which they may not speak, in 1970.







  • DerisionConsulting@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlTW : The most vicious crime
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    contributed to make pedophilia the #1 vicious crime, surpassing rape in most consciences

    It is rape. Children are not able to consent.

    What makes the rape of a child seen as worse as the rape of an adult, is that children are vulnerable in every sense of the word; physically, emotionally, financially, and sexually.
    Everyone has been a child so they are able to empathize, and we are “programmed” to want to protect them.

    Edit: I am talking about people who act on their pedophilia by abusing children.





  • It’s generally the difference between using it as a descriptor, and a noun. Noun bad.

    Compare “I really like watching the female football game” and “I really like watching the women’s football game”
    “Female” isn’t trans-inclusive, but people aren’t going to look at you weird either way you say it.

    Now compare that to:
    “I really like watching the females play football.” and “I really like watching the women play football.”
    “Females” here makes you sound like you’re getting sexual gratification from watching the players, or that you see them as nothing more than a vagina, “women” sounds like you might like the game.