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Black activists destroy offensive objects from the past on Emancipation Day(cbc.ca)
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"We want to bring back the past regarding ecosystem integrity. We want to move forward with unsustainable fishing and oil drilling." Because they don't say "bring back the past wholesale" - you are twisting their wo
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I see. So for example, India's government revoking Kashmir's independence and imposing demographic change on it [1] is progressive, and resisting it is conservative. Likewise, unifying China is progressive, while ethno-religious r
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It's unethical for companies to try to exert control of where or how their goods are used, since that infringes on basic user autonomy. That includes importing a (paid-for!) stream from one country to another. Resistance to this trend
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They could have used any number of other criteria for "arbitrary" weeding. Academic or research record, number and impact of publications, years of experience... Regardless of how arbitrary you claim the filtering is, the effect i
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And antibiotics? And anti-X-ray? There's a million different medical advances, you can always find someone against (or suspicious of) a few of them. That doesn't mean all of conservatism is against all of them, as woodruffw would
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Here is more information on the City Journal story, which is attributed to public record requests: https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/07/seattle-trains-white-e... They shared these public record documents with Fox
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You should update your assumptions. This is the current composition of the Ivy League: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30339041 You can take a guess how good your chances of passing the diversity filter are, if your ma
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> Oh right, because a token gesture that you throw on your CV and took 0.05% of the time you'd otherwise spend on writing grant proposals Sure enough, a report on Berkeley's diversity initiative—recently publicized by Jerry Co
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You can do anything if you control the definitions: Ethno-nationalists want to progress into a world where conflict is avoided by clear borders between naturally antagonistic groups, while globalists want to revert to a time before clea
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> Nooo, it's the statements, which were invented as a non-solution that requires nobody to sacrifice anything, changes nothing, but can be a great taking point. They require candidates to show a track record promoting diversity. Mer
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> which country do you think enjoys more autonomy, the U.S. or North Korea? The US practiced plenty of protectionism to nurture its economy. And looking beyond the global exception of North Korea for a moment, China, Taiwan, Japan, and S
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Simple. Workplace complaints and management priorities have changed, and Dilbert followed. When Dilbert started, the government wasn't yet training employees how to "interrupt whiteness" [1], or Coca-Cola how to "be less
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> lots of people asked so we looked into it. And what did they find? That the term was routinely used within the LGBT community and never remarked on as offensive [1,2]? Or did they neglect to apply even the minimum of scrutiny, and simp
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There sure are many articles popping up trying to persuade the US that protecting their strategic industries - what every economy in the East has done and is doing - is a bad idea. Do prosperity and autonomy lie in letting your industries
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There have been many discrimination lawsuits in the past. You're free to look up what the precedent is, and what standard of proof is required to defend against a claim of discrimination. The only thing that would change is that now al
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If the student group wins, Harvard will have to jump through the same hoops to prove they are not discriminating against whites and Asians, as every private company currently has to jump through to prove they are not discriminating against
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> The group, Students for Fair Admissions, alleges that Asian-American applicants have been illegally targeted by Harvard and rejected at a disproportionately higher rate in violation of Supreme Court precedent and the students' con
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On the other hand, this is a green light for other companies to pull shady tricks to reach market dominance, knowing they will only get a slap on the wrist if caught, while benefiting massively from the position their fraud afforded them.
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Well if this was so widely know since 2003, it's odd how it took 17 years before any politician took objection to it, until that confirmation hearing, isn't it? That was the exact moment everyone got the memo? Call it a "go
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> LGBTQ community's longstanding objection to the implications of "sexual preference" So longstanding that not a peep of complaint is heard when Democracts use it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsYGOAVqmQ
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Let this be a lesson: if you don't control your devices or apps, the smallest convenience can be sold back to you. It would be impossible to be this user-hostile if Spotify just sold mp3's.
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Sometimes that change is more sudden than others. On September 28th, 2020 (the closest preceding archive) it was not yet offensive. On October 13th, she used "sexual preference" in her congressional hearing. The very next day, on
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It's fascinating how far this unison reaches. Merriam-Webster changed its definition of "sexual preference" to mark it as offensive after Amy Coney Barret used the term in a congressional hearing. Not even dictionaries are sa
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The US should subsidize its foreign competition? What a bizarre idea. Did South Korea subsidize Intel when it held the lead, or did they help their own companies?
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> That's what I mean when I say nobody knows how to build it. During China's 13th Five-Year Plan period from 2016 to 2020, the country built 20 new nuclear power generators with a total capacity of 23.44 million kilowatts -
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If you watch the video, they do say stop (in Italian). And the attack itself looks easy to mistake for non-fatal from afar. Here is a similar attack, with far more people around, where also nobody stops the attacker: https://tw
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> A few days after Mario Draghi confirmed his resignation as prime minister on 21 July, members and leaders of the coalition began preparing their electoral campaign by posting on Twitter news of crimes and rapes allegedly committed by “
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One thing the video gets wrong (or omits) is the implication that ads only care about how we think about their brand. But advertising agencies are made up of people with their own goals and ideals, that like to slip their own message in. Th
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So native-born are discriminated against for startup funding? I mean, discrimination is what we conclude in other cases of dis-proportionality, so why apply different logic here?

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