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by x86_64Ubuntu 3y ago
>...People should freely be able to have opinions on Twitter, Youtube, TikTok, CBS News, etc. and those opinions should not get them fired from their jobs just because some exec or some vocal group disagrees... as long as they're no
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by x86_64Ubuntu 3y ago
This is a strange comparison.
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by x86_64Ubuntu 3y ago
You probably don't want to use roofing as an example, it's one of the most dangerous jobs out there. I think not wanting to build an economy on piles of shattered 16-17 year old bodies.
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by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
Where does "wokeness" come into this? And why the diatribe about the slave trade?
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by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
And if they lose, they are facing an order of magnitude longer sentence on a single charge. That's by design. Prosecutors offer you a lesser list of charges for you to go to jail, or they stack charges so that getting a conviction on
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by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
Which rebellion? The Civil War? Yes, that was THE main issue that led to the Civil War, fullstop. >Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies t
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by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
That's an unworkable solution if much of the electorate actually enjoys the prosecution using such frivolous warrants to target the "wrong" kinds of people.
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by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
>...Every criminal case goes before a jury. No they don't. >..... If enough cases are decided despite the letter of the law, In the US, the process IS the punishment. So even if people are found not guilty, they still incur the
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by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
>... but is that just normal for a US police raid Yes, very much so. They don't even have to be on a raid, they can just be on patrol. After the Global War On Terror started, many police departments routinely cosplay as military.
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by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
That whole article reads like cope.
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by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
And those composites also get hot as HELL in the summer sun.
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by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
No one is going to split hairs about the history of the South and how it affects policies even till this day.
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by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
Drugs come in through the guards, not the mail.
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by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
They're saying it's "more complicated than that" as a way to get away from the truth which is the South has always had race and white supremacy as a cornerstone of it's society.
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by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
That picture really isn't that complex for the black population living under such a system.
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by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
So the countless accounts of blacks in the south concerning racism mean nothing? I say that as a black person who is in the South and whose family originates from there.
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by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
You don't hear about it, it's a term used by others to describe a set of ideals held by many white southerners. Just because you haven't heard of something doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
There is an entire civil religion called Lost Cause Ideology which has defending the chattel slave system as a cornerstone of it's beliefs. It's the reason that there were so many confederate statues created in the 1920s-1970s, w
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by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
Then why weren't black people pulling guns on him for "painting people in a bad light"? It's because in the South, the dominant white population has always hated any narrative that didn't show the chattel slave sys
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by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
That's what "moderates" have said about everything conservatives have sought to pass. That it's purely red meat for the base. And then when it does, they just shrug their shoulders.
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by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
What's a thought experiment in a philosophy class for some has horrible real world ramifications for the rest of us.
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by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
Nowhere to be seen, as expected. They've only been worried about authoritarian-lite ideas receiving poor play in the marketplace of ideas and sometimes even social consequences. But using the state and it's monopoly on violence
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by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
It's really not that difficult.
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by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
The qualified immunity we have today came from a ruling in the late 1960s, at the end of the Civil Rights Movement which also spawned a lot of other laws that gave the police more powers. So unless we think the US was absurd in the 60s, it
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by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
The fact of the matter is that we had a rule to prevent this that was rescinded by conservatives. Further implementation of safety rules will always and forever be hamstrung by conservatives due to their ideology concerning deregulation.
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by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
No one is going to disregard the source and their ideological tendencies when looking at their writings.
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by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
In defense of HN, the audience has been staunchly "libertarian" and all that entails for years. So being anti- something that seems to threaten the social power hierarchy is the norm. Before the every-day-anti-DEI posts, it was
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by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
For a few years, I would hear my mom call my name the second before I drifted off to sleep.
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by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
Us blacks only make up 7.4% of the tech industry. It's always amazing how if you were to take the anecdotes in DEI threads seriously, you would think there weren't any whites in the tech field as they had all been replaced by bla
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by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
This is the general course of any thread concerning DEI on HN. It's filled with concerns about reverse-racism, and how "skin color shouldn't matter" and whatnot. The history behind why such initiatives exist is intenti

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