• ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    4 hours ago

    if it’s anything other than meritocratic, then by definition it is not.

    it’s like saying there’s free speech, but only a select group of people can have it.

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      3 hours ago

      Lol if you rigidly define things binarily in a way that doesn’t reflect real world systems, then sure they’re binary.

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        3 hours ago

        likewise, if you bend words to mean what you want them to mean we don’t have much reason to even be discussing it.

        if something doesn’t get primarily awarded by merit, it’s simply not meritocratic.

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          17 minutes ago

          Lmao, it’s binary cause you say it’s binary.

          Bro grow up. The world is not black and white. Literally not a single award on the planet is meritocratic if you insist on dealing in absolutes. Every award is awarded by some committee and there is some room left for human judgement, which leaves room for human bias, which makes it not perfectly meritocratic.

          If you want to go an unhinged rant that no one wants to listen to then email the nobel association directly, don’t waste federated server time.