allows him to be blameless.

Oh he’s definitely heard it, otherwise he wouldn’t have said it, but the rest of what you said is just a series of armchair assertions that may or may not be reasonable, but definitely aren’t the product of time tested study of human behavior making it an authoritative truth.

I’ve always imagined that the weird, bizarre and even cruel behavior of self-help coaches is traced to the fact that they must live with such a profound degree of cognitive dissonance that it screws with their heads.

Maybe, but I assume right now there are legions of white knights plumbing the depths of his prior online life right now to discover if those examples exist, and that if they do, we’ll find out about it. If we don’t hear about it, then I’m not willing to assume anything.

The problem with that theory is that if this guy really is as gamery a gamer dude as he says he is alongside of being a basketball player, I actually could believe he has never actually heard that slur in any context that isn’t a 12 year old shouting words they don’t understand into a hot mic while playing an FPS…

“Should” doesn’t mean most people do in practice though, and the question of how much harm a single ignorant usage does is one that I think parts of the internet are getting wildly wrong in 2021.

What do we actually learn from all of this?

What his ignorance demonstrates is that people can indeed go through life without hearing that particular slur in any sort of context that reveals it as something more than an insult.

Why? 

This is correct, though I would say the gig economy aspect is small potatoes compared to how distorted larger tech companies and VC backers in the area who employ a lot more workers have made the city.

Right okay so when Mayor Breed opens her mouth you don’t hear faint echoes of Ron Conway’s voice?

I’m not sure where you’re getting that the new leadership doesn’t like them.

Who won an election of 500 votes? 

Who cares? Probably the people who raised it and the people who contributed it?

They are moving their money everywhere. That’s one of the problems of so much wealth accumulating to such a small number of people.

Show me some evidence that the Sanders/Progressive wing of the party contributed a meaningful amount of that and you might be making the compelling argument you think you are. But come on, you’re not going to argue that Sanders/Progressives were contributing to the party’s election warchest, are you?

But on average understates how disparate the distribution of athletic talent is. This is especially the case when dealing with people of both sexes who are actually athletes. Women at the highest end of the distribution can compete with average and maybe even some better than average males, but when you start to talk…

Huh?

You keep citing COVID year information as if that means something.

Any time I think about state party politics in caucus states I am grateful I don’t live in a caucus state.