Affirmative Action helped get rid of all white classrooms and workplaces, it worked. Taking it away means we’re just going to go back to an all white America. I’m sorry to tell you this but people are not inherently good or bad, we have to make laws like AA otherwise things would never change. We had to force the South to desegregate at gun point
A deeply racist state like Texas is never going to have racial equality without being forced to, just like the South was never going to desegregate unless forced to
And in California where they got rid of AA in 1996, Black attendance in higher education immediately dropped and it hasn’t even recovered yet to what it was before 1996
I think there is a way to do a form of economic AA that factors in the applicant’s background in a way that doesn’t bucket them by race. It could still help historically marginalized groups without having to codify anything by race. Not saying I’m against AA, it was an important tool in partially fixing the systemic racism in America, but maybe there’s a different way of doing it?
AA worked by acknowledging systemic racism separately from economic issues, which is important when the racism is also a primary cause of economic issues when the government repeatedly destroyed black communities when they became successful.
You can't replace something that addresses racism by shifting it to economics. All that does is let the focus change to poor white people who also need help, but with a different solution because their economic hardships are not primarily caused by racism.
Wouldn’t the black communities that suffered the most economic injustice from racist policy benefit from an economic AA while limiting the benefit an affluent black applicant would have previously gotten over a poor Asian person, for example?
Wouldn't directly working to address the outcomes of racism as a whole be better than trying to make it about something else and trying to focus on the exceptions?
I mean the real solution here (putting some real fucking consequences on racist people in power) simply isn't going to happen in our lifetime so as much as I can see the flaws in AA, it isn't the worst equaliser either.
I’m not sure. I feel like it could address the outcomes of said historic racism without having rules codified by race. I admit this would benefit kids of other races that are poor through factors other than racism. Economic AA would also benefit another marginalized group, Native Americans, although I will admit that I’m ignorant to what extent AA had already benefited Native Americans.
The thing is, the white supremacists have had their thumb on the economic scales since the beginning of the country.
Rich white conservatives will actually spend more money making sure minorities fail, than they would earn if they worked with minorities for the common good.
The saying is, a raising tide lifts all boats, but the conservative addition is punching a hole in the minority boat, even if it stops the overall tide, just so their boat can be higher.
Do yall honestly have a problem with outlawing systemic racism?
Yes. They do. The specific problem is that some people in power really really want to be racist, and will try to find any possible way of enacting racist policies without being openly racist.
Want more black people picking cotton but can't because non-prisoner slave labour is illegal? Simple! Just quietly defund all public services from a majority-black area (except the police of course), and then start making arrests when people gotta commit crimes just to survive. Now you have your black people under ball and chain but it's okay, because he committed a crime!
Part of the reason why AA is so effective is because it partially defangs these more covert attempts at systemic racism. Because even if you do have these stealth-racism tactics, you can't stop, say 30% of university undergraduates from being African American
Conservatives are opposed to education and should be prohibited from participating in the administration of higher education. If we are allowed to make laws probibiting inclusion of vulnerable groups of people, we need laws probibiting the inclusion of conservatives as well.
Nearly every act of racism, bigotry, misogyny, homophobia and xenophobia in history has been committed by conservatives. Conservatism should be excluded from polite society and completely shunned by the intelligent among us. Do your part in your daily life by excluding conservatives. It is inappropriate and grotesque to do business with or engage in personal relationships with conservatives.
There’s a professor in another university who literally used to tweet about black people being subhuman and asian people too and routinely would tell them to go back to their countries on twitter, but she was never fired because SHE had tenure at a pretty well known law school
Brain fog is a common symptom of hypothyroidism and dysautonomia. I always wonder if the things that helped me with brain fog from those two things help people with long covid. Granted, I also take thyroid hormones at a replacement dose (meaning, my thyroid doesn't have to produce any of it's own hormones), but the biggest immediate help before I got on those hormones was a handful of vitamins. Specifically D3+K, methylated B-complex, magnesium. I dunno I just always feel like those are so accessible it's worth looking into. Interested in the study's findings.
Don’t let them tell you they care about “families,” that’s clearly bullshit. Your kid has a rash? None of my fucking business. My kid has gender dysphoria? None of your fucking business.
These bigots need to think hard about why they care so much about random kids private bits. It’s creepy.
The thing is, they don’t believe in gender dysphoria or a healthy way of being trans. In their (wrong) world view, a minor transitioning is being sexually abused by their parents for a fetish or a political belief. They believe they are protecting these kids from being mutilated and mentally groomed into being sex deviants by abusive parents who want to ban their kids being straight or cis for political brownie points. They think that being trans is a cross-dressing and humiliation fetish forced upon children due to the parents’ ideology.
Of course that point of view is utterly wrong, but it’s hard to argue privacy with them if, in their world view, it’s kids being mutilated and scarred for life.
This is simply to say that if the base assumptions are different, these arguments can lead nowhere. If their world view was correct (it isn’t), it would be entirely reasonable to ban such a cruel grooming and sexual abuse practice, and it would probably also justify all the hate and vitriol - we would probably do the same if the base assumption was correct, and it would be infuriating if the other side would excuse it with “none of your business I am abusing these children”.
The only difference is that their world view is ostensibly not correct, and being trans is not what they have been convinced it is.
That’s a very good point, and one that my own echo chamber makes it difficult to wrap my head around. There are so many little rebuttals that come to mind, like “you trust your doctor when they say your kid needs glasses, but not when they say puberty blockers might save their life?” But you’re totally right, if the base assumptions are so out of whack, then the argument itself won’t go anywhere. So what do we do?? I find that maaany (most?) folks who know a trans person quickly realize that it doesn’t cost them anything to be kind and tolerant. All this hatred must be so exhausting…
I think the best thing to do would simply be to bring the debate constantly back to challenging their base assumptions, not to moral arguments that assume your own world view. Anything that builds on both people having the same world view on the subject matter will fail automatically because that’s just not the case.
In the abortion debate for example, no person who is convinced that an abortion literally kills a living, conscious baby is ever going to accept the “my body my choice” argument or the “you just want to control women” one, because obviously bodily autonomy ends at murder, and they believe that these women willfully commit murder. That’s why that argument won’t go anywhere - no reasonable person would believe that anyone has the right to murder someone else on a whim due to their own “bad decisions”, let alone a baby.
That’s why, to truly convince people, you need to show or demonstrate how their base world view is wrong. This is very hard and nigh-impossible, but there is no other way. Someone who is convinced that trans people groom children to participate in their crossdressing fetish will never accept any arguments that are built on the view that trans people are ordinary people who just want to live their lives - because sexual abuse are crimes with victims.
They’re simply not talking with each other on similar grounds.
This is all not to say that you should tolerate or feel pity for these opinions - you shouldn’t - but if someone is actually set on convincing their political enemies of their side, they need to begin at the very base assumptions because they differ wildly.
First of all, this doesn't just happen in Australia, and there are plenty of examples of the same thing happening literally everywhere.
Second, child rapists generally get caught when a child finally tells an adult who believes them and reports it. After that, the flood gates usually open and more come forward. If you institute the death penalty for rape at all, but especially rape of a child, then the rapist has no reason (beyond continued access) to keep the kid alive after they've abused them.
The Texas state government stepping in and quashing a new university journalism department that would have been headed by an award-winning investigative journalist is very on-brand, given how many scandals the state produces in a given year.
It’s funny-sad to me that Taft was known for being obese, but compared to modern people, if you saw him on the street today, you wouldn’t even think twice.
It looks like it’s really uncomfortable though. I saw an older guy shaped like that in line at the bank the other day. He kept squatting down to rest each time the line advanced. It was odd to see someone squatting at the bank and odd to see an old man so able to squat and get up from a squat, but his body shape made it make sense.
Compared to other people of the day, he was pretty large, though not morbidly obese. It’s really a comment on modern people that this is considered slightly larger than usual.
Even there he looks fatter than he is due to the old-timey way of pulling your waistband over the belly, rather than letting it all hang down like a big meat apron.
As much as I despise the fat man and his tribe I can tell you did not read the news. It’s personal in nature it’s an ex-student of that school a Jewish person himself.
why would being jewish mean you vote for him, a majority of jews lean democrat and about half claim their political views to be liberal (according to pew research). a majority of jews also disapprove of trump. are you just trying to be racist?
Okay but he’s implying that because they’re Jewish, they would have voted for Trump. Which is more uncommon than not. It happens, but he’s saying that as a group Jews surely do it.
Article says he was driving a Dodge Ram when he was pulled over and shot. Maybe it’s because I live in California, but I don’t know any Dodge Ram drivers that didn’t vote for trump.
The problem is that if you get caught you can be charged a federal crime instead of with a state crime.
Federal crimes include mandatory minimum sentences/jail time in addition to fines.
Believe me, I have thought about making the trip elsewhere since my state will be the last to ever legalize. The closest legal place is 2.5 hours from my house.
Me getting caught would screw up multiple lives including my own, however. Instead, I have to settle for the poor man’s stuff (delta8, delta9, etc) and only get the real stuff when I travel. The poor man’s stuff helps a medical condition I have, but is nothing like the real thing.
I’ve had good results, but it’s really come down to finding a reliable place to buy and a good brand. Personally have been using Mellow Fellow’s carts, and they’ve been the best I’ve had outside of actual weed.
Flower has been harder, admittedly. Knew of one place that had really quality stuff, but they’re pretty much going out of business now and there’s currently no news about what’s being done with their farm.
I’ve tried all of their 4Mg dual-packs. The Picasso and Euphoria stuff. All of them are great combinations, either for swapping off mid session, or if you’re getting burnt out on the one you have running.
That will last me ~3 weeks, give or take a couple days.
We should legalize it federally and then only allow commercial growing in the states that have already legalized it. Dont let them boost their tax haul for something they decided they didnt like.
Funny considering the woman is an alcoholic drunk driver.
Even the medical ones for cataracts and arthritis are out. In Iowa, you can only have pot if you currently have cancer and/or are dying. That’s not completely true, but it is only for the most extreme medical conditions.
You think it’s weird in Iowa? Try Wisconsin! Literally every state it touches now has legal weed except for the tiny bit of Iowa we touch in the corner. Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan. All now have legal weed. But I still see the news reports in Wisconsin about “criminals” being caught with weed. It’s insane.
I heard huffing road salt can give you a pretty good high and there should be no shortage of it around Iowa. Also, boofing freshly shucked corn is supposed to induce quite the euphoric experience. You’re not completely out of options in rural Iowa.
This ancient Iowan practice is actually the origin of the game “corn hole.” Back in the day people used to compete to see who could get the most cobs down their friend’s hole. Whoever got the most won that year’s prized dairy cow.
I don’t think you can call people renters if they haven’t been paying their rent since the start of the pandemic. At some point they’re just squatters.
~40 months without paying rent has to be baller though, i’d have enough for a down payment of a home no problem.
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