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The Black-White Wage Gap Is as Big as It Was in 1950
- Arnt 6y agoI wanted to post something snide about how you Americans might have concentrated more on the pay gap and less on relabelling dark skin once per decade. But I'm not sure whether that's correct, and not quite snide enough today to ignore the factual world. Fighting denigrating wording might be a harmful diversion from substantive issues such as the pay gap. Or it might be a helpful symbol, and symbols do matter. Do real studies of this exist?
- brudgers 6y agoPristina, Kosovo is closer to Oslo than Cedar Rapids, IA is to San Francisco. And so thinking about Norway in the way one has to think about the US would mean Norwegians taking national responsibility for the 1990's ethnic cleansing in the Balkans...and Berlin, yes, Berlin is closer to Oslo than Selma is to Cedar Rapids and so thinking about Norway in the way one needs to think about the US probably also means taking adult responsibility for the Holocaust. It was only 1200 km from Oslo to the gas chambers Auschwitz. And of course, Norway participated in and benefited from the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Because the trans-Atlantic slave trade was a European enterprise on a global scale. If you want a study, study history and geography.
- readarticle 6y agoAre the visualizations in the Who’s not Working? section... not working? I’ve tried requesting the desktop site and turning off content blockers to no avail, they’re just empty graphs of axes and labels with no data. And for anyone wondering whether they should read the article, it’s a rare, pop look at a wage gap that actually factors in non earners!