Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

You have an inherently exclusionary enterprise in which the top competitors necessarily have “unfair” advantages relative to normal people. Lines about eligibility need to be defined, and there is bound to be some arbitrariness to it. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 22, 2022 Hibernated

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One reason this keeps going off the rails is that while both “fairness” and “inclusiveness” are good values, neither are particularly applicable to high-level competitive sports. — PolitiTweet.org

"Should the primary aim of elite sports be competitive fairness? Or does maintaining integrity mean that inclusiven… https://t.co/hV3XXp6uum

Posted June 22, 2022 Hibernated

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A swim meet is inherently a zero-sum competition, so you can’t resolve the conflict over where to draw the line with recourse to normal ideas about how cooperation and inclusion will make us all better off. After all if that applied we wouldn’t gender-segregate at all. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 22, 2022 Hibernated