Different Than<p>In case it's useful: <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Context" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Context</span></a> is critical. The way a group of people behave is always, always heavily context dependent. This seems relevant to some things people say on the internet...</p><p>"Trans people have higher rates of stress-related mental illnesses" - Right now, yes, while most of our societies demonize them and work to take away their basic rights. Let's try full LGBTQIA+ equality and see how trans people do.</p><p>"Only X% of people say they have nonbinary gender, trans identity, non-straight sexuality, or other LGBTQIA+ identity/experiences" - OK, yes, while nearly every person on earth lives in a society that marginalizes or demonizes sexual/gender minorities (I've seen X quoted as "under 5%", "under 10%", etc.). Thhose numbers will change as we make the world safer for people to express identities outside the prescribed dominant categories.</p><p>"Fascism has an advantage in economic downturns" - For now, when extractive/exploitative capitalist systems dominate the world. I wonder if this will still be true when we make all of our governments more humane.</p><p>"UBI is amazingly successful" - For now, yes, while small groups receive UBI in the context of mostly capitalist systems. Let's guarantee everyone a living income and then see.</p><p>"Women have better outcomes as political and corporate leaders" - Maybe. They certainly seem to right now, while most women (and eveyrone else) are raised in patriarchal cultures. Let's make equality actually happen and then see.</p><p>"Women are more interested in social issues while men are more interested in physical and power-dynamic issues" - Possibly true only while we acculturate women this way (there's actually cool empirical evidence suggesting this is not innate)</p><p>"Brown, Black, female, and queer people focus on community and justice while cis/het white male people focus on 'the bottom line' and 'concrete' outcomes" - Evidence that this stops being true when various kinds of inequality stop being the norm.</p><p>And so on. </p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BigThoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigThoughts</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/lgbtqia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lgbtqia</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>race</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/socialJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialJustice</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ubi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ubi</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/feminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>feminism</span></a></p>