Reaching Out to the Right

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Originally Posted by donquixote99

First, looking at your statistical source, your math is way wrong. They said they found a rate of 2.1 surgeries per 100,000 minors aged 15 to 17. The total number of children of that age in the study group was 3,835,726. Divide that total by 100,000 to get how many 100,000s are in that population. You get 38.35726. Now multiply by the rate per 100,000, which is 2.1. You get about 81 surgeries. 81, not 500,000. That's your crisis.

And if you want me to be sweetly considerate of your desire to throw callous cruel denegration at these 81 minors, well, you're going to have a long wait.

You've been had, man. They made a moral panic out of about nothing, and you signed on. There is no threat to the children here, there's just a tiny minority of special cases being used to whip people like you up.

I see what I did wrong - I used "22 827 194 minors who were insured" then used the 2.1 per 100,000 for the whole lot AND THEN divided by 100 not 100,000 :/ Once again, my apologies, and I am relieved.

I stand corrected. However I haven't been 'had' - I don't understand why 'we' collectively must say it's OK to encourage and /or sign off on these lifestyles.

And 'callous cruel denegration' - lol. Although after some thought surgical flesh costume is a more accurate description I believe.

No comment on the other points (perhaps the right isn't the only one using this issue to throw shade).

If all cultures are equally good, why aren't we accepting of Sharia law? The blood libel? Polygamy? How about the current Chinese practice of money over anything (state sponsored intellectual property theft, cheating any way you can)? Child marriages?

And not one comment on equality of outcome.

Here's another one - when there were more boys than girls graduating college it was considered a marker of gender inequality. Now however girls are far more likely to graduate college than boys. What does that mean?

Pete