Yeah maybe. I assumed he said it because he took issue with the concept of affirmative action in general and wanted to talk about that.

They said it’s because they are black, themselves.

Those specific women said that they wouldn’t have got where they are without affirmative action. He interpreted that to mean that they were admitting to being lesser qualified.

THEY said they only got there because of affirmative action. I assume Michelle Obama meant that her husband wouldn’t have been elected if not for affirmative action as well, which i disagree with.

He said that in context of a few specific women, not black women in general. Seriously, taking things out of context is so habitual that I can’t believe anything.

I’d say the same thing to right wingers celebrating the death of someone on the left. Wrong is wrong.

It’s different already, because people are celebrating it.

Yes, as long as people are willing to resort to murder in support of their ideology.

Except any countries that have what you are talking about have even lower birth rates.

Mifepristone is an abortion drug. It’s use for birth control is off label.

Well sure, it reduces risk of transmission to you, and then your transmission to kids, and subsequent transmissions to vulnerable adults. But how much does it reduce the risk. When you are talking about such low risks, then you need to start considering low risks associated with taking the vaccine in the first place. What’s the value, and is it worth it. At this point in the pandemic, covid is basically a non issue, so there isn’t sufficient urgency to justify emergency approval anymore.

The journal article also shows that the affect diminished over time, presumably because the covid variant reduced in severity compared to early versions. This reduces the affect on the population and reduces the need for a vaccine. Especially a vaccine meant for a group that was never high risk to begin with.

Better than I expected, tbh, but these aren’t very compelling conclusions. There are several major weaknesses in the study, and it’s only one among many that reached different conclusions. They acknowledge all of this and conclude that more study is needed. What i get from it is that there might be (may have been) some detriment to society from covid, and vaccines could possibly reduce that detriment slightly. With the benefit being pretty weak at this point in the trajectory of covid, it’s not surprising that the fda isn’t renewing the emergency use approval. It certainly doesn’t warrant the hand wringing from the guy I originally responded to.

What are you basing that on? That’s a pretty strong statement…

The good news is that her risk is very very low.

It sounded like maybe you were secretly happy about the murders, or sympathized a little bit. If not, that’s my mistake and I apologize.

I’m addressing the victim blaming apologists in this thread. If that isn’t you then carry on.

Free speech means being able to say and support things you believe in without the threat of being murdered for it. Any sympathy for the murderer undermines free speech and democratic society. This is not complicated…

Seems like a lot of victim blaming in here. It can be very simple. Don’t murder people you disagree with. Also, free speech needs to be protected culturally as well, and not just through the government. But the government must also protect free speech, and that includes protecting people from others. There doesn’t need to be a discussion about understanding motives at all. It’s wrong and needs to be condemned, full stop. Otherwise you don’t have a free country. You can’t hand wave it away or shrug just because you understand their motive.

It’s illogical to compare them from a moral perspective. You don’t get to just shoot people because they have a different perspective than you, because they were raised differently or get their news from different places than you do. It’s not exactly whataboutism though, it’s more of a false equivalence. Whatever the case, the gunman is not morally justified in murdering these two people. If you think he is, then you are blinded by ideology and shouldn’t be allowed to participate in democratic society.