Javier Milei Infuriates G-20 by Rejecting Call for Gender Equality

[carride]

Not a decent way to encourage investment from large enterprises based in the other 19 countries. Even Saudi Arabia signed.

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[BobbyHank]

Not a decent way to encourage investment from large enterprises based in the other 19 countries. Even Saudi Arabia signed.

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hmm, I'm not so sure about that... time will tell, but I imagine that if Milei continues on his current trajectory, that it won't be long before we all see quite a lot of foreign investment flooding in to Argentina. I'll be surprised if we don't see Elon Musks companies with a sizable footprint in Argentina soon. Seems to me that Argentina's well on it's way to becoming the new Galt's Gulch.

 

[Musicman]

Great news and please Milei make sure we dont have more than two genders in Argentina........no transgender, gender neutral, non-binary, agender, pangender, genderqueer, two-spirit, third gender, etc. Argentina is a 2 gender country only. Male & Female.......punto y basta.

 

[FrankPintor]

hmm, I'm not so sure about that... time will tell, but I imagine that if Milei continues on his current trajectory, that it won't be long before we all see quite a lot of foreign investment flooding in to Argentina. I'll be surprised if we don't see Elon Musks companies with a sizable footprint in Argentina soon. Seems to me that Argentina's well on it's way to becoming the new Galt's Gulch.

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Seems not to have gone well: https://web.archive.org/web/2023060...cambios-politicos/XJJ4R6ETEJHSZNSNBOA3RLACSA/ (the original is paywalled, I was also not able to translate it)

One of the founders was jailed for shooting people. What is it with US-Americans and guns?

I'm so glad I read The Lord of the Rings rather than Atlas Shrugged.

 

[LuckyLuke]

One of the founders was jailed for shooting people. What is it with US-Americans and guns?

My father is Belgian and after moving to the US, he bought many guns and both of us competed for years in long rifle. The country was founded on revolution, peasants shooting British soldiers. It's enshrined in their constitution as the second amendment. Some of the most popular children's toys are nerf guns, laser guns, BB guns, rubber band guns. Giving someone the "finger guns", where you turn your hand into a gun is a friendly gesture. Biceps are often referred to as guns. "First person shooters" are the dominant genre of video games. A popular rite of passage is shooting your first deer. The phrase "gun it" means accelerate quickly. Point is it's embedded in the culture and language. I purchased my last gun in Texas in less than an hour at a sporting goods store. They only requested that an employee escort the gun out the door so I don't load it in the store and shoot everyone dead before paying.

 

[GreenEgg]

He's doing the right thing. The politics of "equity and inclusion" have advanced very far in my country, Canada, and it's the reason I left. Buzzwords like "gender inclusion" are just euphemisms for radical left social policy.

 

[FrankPintor]

My father is Belgian and after moving to the US, he bought many guns and both of us competed for years in long rifle. The country was founded on revolution, peasants shooting British soldiers. It's enshrined in their constitution as the second amendment. Some of the most popular children's toys are nerf guns, laser guns, BB guns, rubber band guns. Giving someone the "finger guns", where you turn your hand into a gun is a friendly gesture. Biceps are often referred to as guns. "First person shooters" are the dominant genre of video games. A popular rite of passage is shooting your first deer. The phrase "gun it" means accelerate quickly. Point is it's embedded in the culture and language. I purchased my last gun in Texas in less than an hour at a sporting goods store. They only requested that an employee escort the gun out the door so I don't load it in the store and shoot everyone dead before paying.

Don’t take this the wrong way, I spent a lot of time in Holland when I was younger, and the Dutch consider the Belgians to be very odd indeed, in part because of their attitude to guns. Belgian permissivity with guns is an outlier in Europe, and they are at the top end of the statistics for gun deaths. They do have good chips, though.

As far as the rest of your post is concerned, 250 odd years is enough to get over a gun fixation. I can’t imagine pointing your finger like a gun is a friendly gesture, I certainly wouldn’t take it as such. But obviously our backgrounds are different, in my country the police don’t carry guns, neither do civilians, normally, and, personally, my closest experience with a gun was touching a rifle mounted on a plaque at an army recruitment fair. I kind of like that environment. No mass workplace, school, or just random shootings. YMMV.

 

[FrankPintor]

He's doing the right thing. The politics of "equity and inclusion" have advanced very far in my country, Canada, and it's the reason I left. Buzzwords like "gender inclusion" are just euphemisms for radical left social policy.

I’m wondering, did you find buzzwords like “gender inclusion” in the Bloomberg article?

 

[carride]

Great news and please Milei make sure we dont have more than two genders in Argentina........no transgender, gender neutral, non-binary, agender, pangender, genderqueer, two-spirit, third gender, etc. Argentina is a 2 gender country only. Male & Female.......punto y basta.

He's doing the right thing. The politics of "equity and inclusion" have advanced very far in my country, Canada, and it's the reason I left. Buzzwords like "gender inclusion" are just euphemisms for radical left social policy.

Oh, maybe Milei is as confused as you. The word Gender must be so terrifying, that people stop reading or fail to know the definition. The document is discussing equality for women.

The document signed by ministers in charge of gender issues of each country includes a list of issues women and girls face due to sexism and misogyny. It mentions gender-based violence, poverty, the pay gap, and the violation of their sexual and reproductive rights. The statement also included the commitments member countries are willing to make to end them. It should be noted that the G20 does not enforce compliance with these measures.

Argentina only G20 country that refuses to sign gender equality statement - Buenos Aires Herald

Current pro tempore G20 president Brazil called the decision ‘an advance of the far right’

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[GreenEgg]

Oh, maybe Milei is as confused as you. The word Gender must be so terrifying, that people stop reading or fail to know the definition. The document is discussing equality for women.

Argentina only G20 country that refuses to sign gender equality statement - Buenos Aires Herald

Current pro tempore G20 president Brazil called the decision ‘an advance of the far right’

buenosairesherald.com

I'll give one Canadian example of how the manipulation works. A local woman's shelter wants to tackle "gender based violence" by giving presentations to high school boys. Sounds reasonable. Who wouldn't want to help stop violence against women? But, when you go to the presentation, you find the speaker telling the boys that masculinity itself is the cause of violence against women. When you talk to the speaker afterwards, you find that he is a fan of radical feminists like bell hooks. So, the women's shelter are using the cause of "ending violence against women" as an underhanded way to inculcate radical feminism (which is anti-male and anti-western) in schools.

This is just one example, for the sake of illustration, that I saw with my own eyes during my six years as a reporter. I can give many, many more. All of our institutions in Canada, local and national, have been captured by social justice ideology. If you like that sort of thing, great. Maybe you should move to Canada. I just hope Argentina doesn't go down that road.