Did take companies long to stop pretending like they care.
I think they care, I just think they care more about maximum profits. A lot of people believe that maximizing profits and meeting our climate goals are not incompatible goals. Personally, I’m skeptical, to say the least. Regardless of my skepticism, however, the world’s leaders, many of the world’s experts, and most people have decided we should proceed as though the two goals are not mutually exclusive. I guess only time will tell if they’re right or not.
Getting an actual guilty plea out of a company and not a settlement would be something of a big step legally. Which means they probably won’t take it still.
There’s always room for colored workers at the back of the bus or the front of the chain gang. Segregation has been a tool for dividing and conquering the working class, by shoving a minority of the population down and telling everyone else they’re next if they resist.
Very true, but what I’m saying it’s a chain where it goes from ‘diverse employees are bad’ to ‘white employees in front, black employees in the stockroom’ to ‘white customers get to use the front door, black customers go to the loading dock’ to ‘white customers only.’ And that is the end goal.
There are more than a few spots in my home state of Texas that are functionally “Whites Only” already. Go in there as a poc and you won’t get served. You might not even be allowed through the front door. “Kung Fu Saloon” down in Houston (most diverse city in the country!) has had reputation for not letting brown people in for years.
The DEI shit is about inflaming the white nationalists who think even their little pockets of outright segregation aren’t enough. We’re approaching the idea that any place which isn’t “whites only” is somehow stealing something from a white person.
it never went away, it was just removed from sight.
But the people who segregated water fountains and chose where people should live based on their skin color? They’re still alive and kickin’ and making laws and business policies and decisions that impact us all. They have learned how to change their language but they have the same exact values that they did decades ago, or the same attitudes and values that their parents did. They have learned to hide in plain sight while also making sure that we remain divided and afraid and deeply obsessed with the superficial appearances of society.
America is funny, we tend to forget anything beyond about a 5-year window when events are still current, otherwise a lot of people here think that women and people of color have had rights here for like, a century or more. To the average liberal American, the idea that there are full-on, hateful nazis living next door to them seems radically unthinkable, and this is why they’re getting so comfortable taking off their hoods.
Boeing introduces: “free range seating!” It’s just a fully padded area where they cram 150 ppl into what should be 100. Tickets for seats are raised 30%.
What do you think the odds are of us getting people who refuse to take the Covid vaccine to take the bird flu vaccine?
Unvaccinated people become mutation factories and the disease mutates so that the vaccine is no longer effective, that’s why it’s important to have everyone vaccinated to prevent the outbreak from worsening.
If only 1/2 of people get the vaccine, we’re fucked.
I firmly believe when it comes to serious medical issues like this, personal freedom of choice can just go fuck itself.
You don’t want to be vaccinated? Too bad, we’ll tie you down and give it to you anyway.
How much would it mutate before it was through getting through those people to the point that the vaccine loses effectiveness? They’re a danger to us too.
Viruses evolve, some quite quickly. The flu isn't the fastest (looking at you, HIV), but it's up there. Over time, existing vaccines train your body to fight something that doesn't quite match what's in the wild (i.e. efficacy goes down with time). That's why there's a different seasonal flu vaccine every year.
They create flu vaccines on a yearly cycle, and a pandemic can kick off in a matter of weeks and months, so if it doesn't match the preplanned cycle, they'll have to invest more resources to creating the most up to date vaccine off-cycle.
I don’t know if it’s like other influenza vaccines, but their effectiveness could be a lot higher. That might be easier when we’re just talking about one specific strain. I don’t really know enough about the science.
I vote against. Walking those wasted streets is a hammer blow, I don’t have words. People need to see those empty streets, foundation outlines, sidewalks. A monument will only take away from that blasted, desolate landscape.
Anyway, they’ll put something up, people will get out of their car, read some words on a plaque and say, “Gosh! That was terrible!” and drive away.
What a bizarre take. How do you expect people to learn about what happened?
Should we not have memorials to people who were lynched? Because the NAACP spent years trying to get one put up in this town for a man who was lynched in fucking 1901.
It went up in 2019. Multiple generations of George Ward’s descendants attended. Some of them spoke and spoke eloquently. People can now look out at the location of the bridge where George was hanged (it’s been replaced) and picture the horror of that night. How terrified George Ward must have been with an angry mob out for vengeance, knowing he was about to be murdered, an innocent man.
America was, is and will be a very ugly place. Especially for people of color. And everyone needs to be reminded of that as often as possible until it stops being that way. And if it never stops being that way, people still need to be reminded of that as often as possible in the hopes it won’t get worse.
Sure, some people will do what you say. Others will learn something. Still others will be connected with something that reflects the horrors of their own experience as a person of color in America. For that last group alone, monuments like these are essential. They need to show their children. We all do, but they do more than anyone.
When one side is being violent and racist against innocent people and then some other people start being violent and racist against innocent people on the “other side” to counterbalance, that’s not a calm or welcoming development for anyone concerned
Saying that it's okay if one group of people that someone tried to wipe out, does whatever they want, because of course they're the victims after all, is exactly how we got to this situation where Israel is creating on Earth a for-real biblical apocalypse and people are trying to defend their right to do so.
Anti-Semitic people would wipe out Jewish people in Israel if the United States withdrew its support of Israel. That doesn’t in any way justify Israel targeting civilians or engaging in genocide, but it’s disingenuous to claim only one side is threatened with annihilation. Nor does it imply that both the threat and the action are “totally the same thing.” Nobody is suggesting that.
I’m concerned with the one causing genocide at the moment, how about you? One seems to be a bit more unchecked and the other seems.to be the buzz word for anyone who dares to question Zionism.
I’m not as stupid as to believe that bigotry and hatred towards jews doesn’t exist.
That’s literally what this article is about. Antisemitism in America.
But Jews are not causing genocide. Israelis, most of which are Jews, are the ones responsible for the genocide.
Jews in the other 194 countries in the world aren’t generally taking part.
Would you say a Chinese person born in Belfast was responsible for the genocide of the Uyghurs? Is a Muslim with Saudi grandparents born in Tokyo responsible for 9/11? Of course not.
Less than half of the world’s Jewish population is Israeli.
Yes. And then you suggested it was still Jews and not Israelis that are committing genocide, so thank you for proving my point above. It doesn’t matter how much I am against Israel or how much work I’ve done with Jewish Voices for Peace. I have a big nose and curly hair and no foreskin and that’s enough.
Because there are 195 countries, most of them have Jews in them, more Jews live outside of Israel than inside it, so saying that Jews who are not American are causing genocide is blaming a whole fuckload of people who have probably never even been to Israel.
Sharply more Americans than 20 years ago say antisemitism is a very serious problem, as Jewish Americans’ reports of poor treatment exceed those of other faith groups.
This is very deeply concerning, especially since Jewish-Americans, statistically speaking, are more likely to be friendly to the Palestinian cause and critical of the Israeli government than non-Jewish Americans. It suggests that there’s more than just the element of “CRITICISM OF ISRAEL IS ANTISEMITISM” peddled by Israeli simps.
I don’t know where you are getting the notion that American Jews are likely to support the Palestinian cause.
The polling shows that a large majority of (62%) American Jews think the response by Israel is acceptable. They also support funding weapons to Israel to carry out the atrocities against Palestinians.
Based on the exchange I am having on Fediverse, these American jews supporting Palestine appear to be doing it as gesture because they see how untenable supporting Israel publicly is getting.
Actions speak louder than words and this comment section speaks for itself.
Sharply more Americans than 20 years ago say antisemitism is a very serious problem, as Jewish Americans’ reports of poor treatment exceed those of other faith groups.
It seems like the Jewish Americans are just reporting it more.
The number of hate crimes reported to police in the nation’s 10 largest cities rose again in 2023, according to preliminary data released Friday from the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University.
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New York and Los Angeles saw some of the largest increases in anti-Jewish hate crimes, rising 12.6% and 48% respectively, while Los Angeles and Chicago saw 40% and 300% increases in anti-Muslim hate crimes, according to the study.
The number of hate crimes reported to police in the nation’s 10 largest cities rose again in 2023, according to preliminary data released Friday from the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University.
The annual study found at least 2,184 hate crimes were reported across New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, and Austin last year, an increase of nearly 13% from 2022 driven in part by upticks in anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim attacks amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. A larger analysis of 25 American cities found hate crimes increased an average of 17% from 2022, according to the study.
“The top 10 cities generally match what’s going to happen nationally,” said Brian Levin, professor emeritus and founder of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.
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New York and Los Angeles saw some of the largest increases in anti-Jewish hate crimes, rising 12.6% and 48% respectively, while Los Angeles and Chicago saw 40% and 300% increases in anti-Muslim hate crimes, according to the study.
“It just explodes after October 7,” Levin said, referencing the day Hamas-led militants killed 1,200 Israelis and took more than 240 hostages.
Levin said the data indicates national FBI hate crime data will also likely show a record number of anti-Jewish hate crimes when it is released later in the year. He said anti-Muslim hate crimes could also reach their highest levels since the last peak between 2015 and 2017.
The earlier the warning of a jump to humans, the sooner global health officials can take steps to protect people by launching vaccine development, wide-scale testing and containment measures.
If you feel that way, then I’m sorry for giving the wrong impression. But I assure you it’s not the case.
Otherwise, my reaction from now on will just be to repeatedly tell you to go away and stop harassing me.
The better way to get me to stop responding to you is to simply not respond to me; I’m not going to respond to the same post over and over again until you respond. If we are having a back-and-forth, I would hardly call that “harassment.”
Oh right, so not the actual gun toting fuckheads with a Union Jack flag running around out there in sundown towns. Or the drug lords. Or the rapists out there protecting their livelihoods and given too much power.
So is the only reason you’re siding with the drag queens in this situation because they aren’t actual women and therefore scare you less? Cuz you should side with them here but not because you’re just that much more scared of women. Wrong lead to be taking here.
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