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Does not liking affirmative action make you racist? Isn't affirmative action or equivalent considered illegal in the UK(and perhaps EU in general but I'm not s

Does not liking affirmative action make you racist? Isn't affirmative action or equivalent considered illegal in the UK(and perhaps EU in general but I'm not sure) Is the UK more racist than the US?

m_ke 6y ago
I'm not claiming that he's a racist but it takes a special kind of person to write a book against multiculturalism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG9iG0cSjbc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG9iG0cSjbc
- mansion7 6y ago
  An observant one?
- cameronbrown 6y ago
  It's just an opinion. Like literally _everything_ in life, multiculturalism has pros and cons that must be studied and analysed for us to understand the effects. FWIW I've not read the book, but the existence of such a book isn't necessarily racist.
  - m_ke 6y ago
    Has to be a really strongly held opinion to write a book about it. He's probably not racist though, just like Rabois wasn't a homophobe when he was shouting anti gay slurs [1]. I interpret it as a typical conservative distraction, same thing that Tucker Carlson pulls every night on fox news: "protecting western values", "defending freedom of speech", "woke liberals", "antifa", "seattle taken over by radical leftist terrorists", etc. He's a brilliant entrepreneur, an opportunist funding divisive politics to build and protect his wealth. I didn't intend to label him a racist but to point out that one of their most prominent board members is a big player in right wing politics and has clearly used the platform to help elect the president, which might be the reason why Facebook has not banned political advertising and is allowing the president to violate their terms of service. (I personally don't believe that they should censor him) [1] https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2013/01/rabois-odd-anti-gay-slurs-at-stanford.html https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2013/01/rabois...

Does not liking affirmative action make you racist? Isn't affirmative action or equivalent considered illegal in the UK(and perhaps EU in general but I'm not sure) Is the UK more racist than the US?

m_ke 6y ago

I'm not claiming that he's a racist but it takes a special kind of person to write a book against multiculturalism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG9iG0cSjbc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG9iG0cSjbc

mansion7 6y ago
An observant one?
cameronbrown 6y ago
It's just an opinion. Like literally _everything_ in life, multiculturalism has pros and cons that must be studied and analysed for us to understand the effects. FWIW I've not read the book, but the existence of such a book isn't necessarily racist.
- m_ke 6y ago
  Has to be a really strongly held opinion to write a book about it. He's probably not racist though, just like Rabois wasn't a homophobe when he was shouting anti gay slurs [1]. I interpret it as a typical conservative distraction, same thing that Tucker Carlson pulls every night on fox news: "protecting western values", "defending freedom of speech", "woke liberals", "antifa", "seattle taken over by radical leftist terrorists", etc. He's a brilliant entrepreneur, an opportunist funding divisive politics to build and protect his wealth. I didn't intend to label him a racist but to point out that one of their most prominent board members is a big player in right wing politics and has clearly used the platform to help elect the president, which might be the reason why Facebook has not banned political advertising and is allowing the president to violate their terms of service. (I personally don't believe that they should censor him) [1] https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2013/01/rabois-odd-anti-gay-slurs-at-stanford.html https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2013/01/rabois...