I really must continue to stress how utterly detached from reality it is to insist that businesses never follow illegal practices. This discussion really shouldn't need to continue beyond this incredibly obvious fact, but sure, let's follow up on your hypothetical law firm for a minute.

So we're starting from the premise that Mary makes less money than John. Let's assume Mary discovers this fact and takes it to her boss, asking why she, a woman working just as long and as hard as her male co-worker, is making less money. Do you think that Rich (excellent choice of name, by the way) is going to say "it's because you're a woman and he's a man", or do you think he's going to make up some other excuse? Perhaps something about John's "winning attitude", or Mary's occasional choice of "distracting wardrobe"? But Mary is suspicious, so the burden is now on her to prove that Rich is discriminating against her on the basis of sex. But how can she prove that someone is biased, especially when they themselves might not even realize it consciously? She can't, of course. All she can do is add her salary numbers to the statistics that continue to show a clear and present pay gap between men and women.

But what about an alternate timeline, where the difference in salary can be easily attributed to differences in hours or merit between Mary and John? Now, it's one thing to say that a particular woman works less hard or for less time than a particular man, but for this to be the sole explainer of the pay gap, then we must hold that women IN GENERAL work less hard, and/or for less time than men in general. To what, then, do we attribute this difference in work habits? Are women simply lazier? Less capable? I don't think so, personally. Are they all off being mothers? Perhaps, but then we run into the question of why it's generally women, and not men, who are staying home to look after children, and we have to confront the fact that society holds different expectations for women. In this case, those expectations are causing women to earn less money, and one might even go so far as to call a system which relies on such expectations "sexist".



You see it's actually not very difficult to dismantle these arguments if you follow them through to their logical conclusions. The reason I describe movements like red-pill or alt-right with the terminology of magic tricks is because that's how they're designed: to be crowd-pleasers. They tell people that they don't need to think critically, or expand their understandings of new topics or problems, because that stuff is hard work, and with a wave of a magic wand, all that heavy effort can be transformed into lightweight, passive resentment for SJWs, or immigrants, or gays, or whoever's around for us to blame for everything we don't understand. But, like any magic trick, the sheen tends to fade away when you actually think about how or why it's being performed.



Perfect example, your insistence that the difference in population numbers doesn't matter show that you either don't understand how statistics work, or you're knowingly downplaying the disparity. Just to be sure there can be no more confusion, let me explain it in the most grade-school terms possible. According to the census, whites are about 63% of the US population. Blacks are about 12%. For simplicity in this example, let's round down and say that I have 60 pieces of white chocolate on my kitchen table, and 10 pieces of dark chocolate. Now let's say that every time I go to my kitchen, I eat two pieces of white and one piece of dark. Assuming you don't want to get eaten, which color would you rather be?



On another matter, I have to admit, part of my motive in asking to exchange reading (or viewing) material was in the hopes that I would, through you, find some hidden fountain of actual wisdom from the other side. The fact that your first source is from everyone's least favorite functionally-illiterate nazi apologist is... disappointing.

If you don't know where I'm coming from, I guess I'll once again turn to Shaun and Jen to help explain it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9E2iE…

