Russia bans transsexual and transgender people from obtaining driving licences

So Putin can no longer drive in his own country?

Everything he does is an exhibition of how great he and his great country is.
 
Putin doesn't drive.

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TheLegendOfMart said:
You'd think a forum full of tech minded people would be open minded and tolerant of the world, guess not.

Have never seen so many ignorant, arrogant, homophobic, racist, bigots in one place.
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Agreed. GD is so black and white sometimes it makes me grind my teeth.

FoxEye said:
Why would you think that? Any more than a group of plumbers, for example? :p
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Because educated people tend to lean towards liberalism. People who understand computers, program computers, build computers you'd assume to be on the right hand side of the intelligence bell curve and thus lean towards liberal views.
 
LordSplodge said:
Because educated people tend to lean towards liberalism. People who understand computers, program computers, build computers you'd assume to be on the right hand side of the intelligence bell curve and thus lean towards liberal views.
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first thing education =/= intelligence.

second thing people in the whole "computer" thing do tend to be more solitary and so less socially adjusted to these more unusual types of people and encounters.
 
I just don't understand why people can't just be left to live their lives. They aren't hurting anyone. I really do despair at times.
 
Tefal said:
first thing education =/= intelligence.

second thing people in the whole "computer" thing do tend to be more solitary and so less socially adjusted to these more unusual types of people and encounters.
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Indeed you get intelligent people who haven't had any formal higher education. You also have a fair share of people who are into 'computers' who aren't socially adept*.

Generally though educated/intelligent people fall on the liberal side of the spectrum. However here in GD there's a disproportionate amount of right wing or intolerant types.

* I'm curious as to how many of those who aren't socially adept who are into computers aren't educated to degree or higher level. All the computer science folks I've known or studied with had liberal views. However that would cause some slight confirmation bias on my part. Still studies say that intelligence/education leads towards more liberal views.
 
LordSplodge said:
I'm curious as to how many of those who aren't socially adept who are into computers aren't educated to degree or higher level. All the computer science folks I've known or studied with had liberal views. However that would cause some slight confirmation bias on my part. Still studies say that intelligence/education leads towards more liberal views. [/SIZE]
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I don't know, i've studied Physics at uni then went onto do IT as a Masters, i don't feel like i'm socially inept as i have a Fiancé who i'm getting married to, friends in and out of work and get along fine with all my family. I have been told repeatedly i have strong common sense and i have emotional intelligence as well as academic. I do generally have liberal views in some areas (freedom of speech and hate censorship) but consider myself strongly right-wing in others. There is no black and white, so when someone say right-wingers have lower intelligence they're just making themselves look more like idiots then anyone else.
 
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robgmun said:
I don't know, i've studied Physics at uni then went onto do IT as a Masters, i don't feel like i'm socially adept as i have a Fiancé who i'm getting married to, friends in and out of work and get along fine with all my family. .
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might want to Google the definition of adept :p
 
robgmun said:
There is no black and white, so when someone say right-wingers have lower intelligence they're just making themselves look more like idiots then anyone else.
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I am sure an educated and intelligent man would realise that the studies do not say only stupid people have right wing views but more that right wing views are more prevalent amongst those with lower intelligence.
 
RDM said:
I am sure an educated and intelligent man would realise that the studies do not say only stupid people have right wing views but more that right wing views are more prevalent amongst those with lower intelligence.
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right is it right wing, or is it authoritarian views that we're talking about as most of the time people seem top use the two interchangeably despite many left wing people being extremely authoritarian.
 
Tefal said:
right is it right wing, or is it authoritarian views that we're talking about as most of the time people seem top use the two interchangeably despite many left wing people being extremely authoritarian.
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No idea to be honest as I am not really a fan of the terms left and right but was more trying to explain set theory without a Venn Diagram :)
 
RDM said:
No idea to be honest as I am not really a fan of the terms left and right but was more trying to explain set theory without a Venn Diagram :)
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it is funny how left an right wing are not basically a catch all term for "people i don't like" for both sides and everyone in between.
 
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