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Lucky for us supermarket chains, food companies, and agribusiness, are very transparent when it comes to their costs and profit, so this is easy to verify. /s
https://web.archive.org/web/20210802152519/https://newspunch...
Some of the first grammar resources for previously unwritten languages were created by Christian missionaries in order to translate the Bible and proselytize to indigenous peoples worldwide. History is rife with examples of colonial subjects who were forced to learn the languages of their colonizers, often facing punishment for speaking in their native languages.
Surely any reasonable person would see that translating books into a language promotes, not suppresses, that language. Yet she links one to the other without missing a beat.
I'd like to see a similar analysis made for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
Prevent screenshots, prevent skipping ads, prevent recording (remember VHS recorders?), enforce region locking.. so many legal activities can be effectively made illegal, since manufacturers cannot both support DRM, and offer these options.
Moving away from anecdote, black males receive on average 19% longer sentences for similar crimes compared to white males [2]. 0% would be better, but 19% does not strike me as over-the-top racist as we are told the system is. For comparison:
Black female offenders and Other Race female offenders also received shorter sentences than White male offenders during the Post-Report period, at 29.7 percent and 35.4 percent shorter respectively - page 9 of the report.
That's considerably more than the black-white male disparity. But is this piece of data going to convince you the justice system's anti-male bias is a bigger problem than its anti-black bias? Is it going to affect you at all? The next time someone brings up how viciously racist the system is, will you correct them and say it's only 19% racist, compared to ~30% misandrist?
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28020253
[2] https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/demographic-d...
I believe the outrage originates from believing that he should not have been told to shut-up in the first place.
And when Asians had lower mortality than whites [2], the cause was..?
[1] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/e...
But to answer your question, consumers can be harmed through loss of choice, as Amazon forces out other businesses.
I'd also caution against focusing exclusively on harm to consumers. The harm to businesses is just as real, and something governments are justified in trying to prevent. Their citizens, business-owner and consumer alike, will not thrive in an environment where a handful of companies dominate, crushing or absorbing any competitors through underhanded means. Businesses and consumers do not live in separate worlds.
"Temporary" workers tend to turn into permanent immigrants, and we should stop pretending otherwise. Either grant permanent resident status at the start, or forbid entry entirely, instead of this "guest worker" farce that always turns to emotional blackmail to let them stay, as if no-one could predict they'd start families.
I'm sure the Stasi also used fingerprints, yet no-one is asking German police to give those up. Perhaps the goals, rather than methods, are what should be under greater scrutiny - going after dissidents is not a thing of the past, they're just not called such:
Germany’s existing Network Enforcement Act (aka the NetzDG law) came into force in the country in 2017, putting an obligation on social network platforms to remote hate speech within set deadlines as tight as 24 hours for easy cases — with fines of up to €50M should they fail to comply. - https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/19/germany-tightens-online-ha...
Germany's domestic intelligence agency hopes to place the entire Alternative for Germany party under surveillance. - https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/monitoring-the-...
[1] https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2019/tab...
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This implies the influencers did not disclose that those messages were government-sponsored. Is secret government-funded astroturfing legal?
HR only appears to have power because they are going along with the prevailing political trends [1,2,3]. If they tried to oppose them, or go in the opposite direction, you would quickly see how empty their power is.
[1] White men must be stopped: The very future of mankind depends on it - https://www.salon.com/2015/12/22/white_men_must_be_stopped_t...
[2] the diversity trainers led a “free association” exercise, asking the Lockheed employees to list connotations for the term “white men.” The trainers wrote down “old,” “racist,” “privileged,” “anti-women,” “angry,” “Aryan Nation,” “KKK,” “Founding fathers,” “guns,” “guilty,” and “can’t jump.” - https://www.city-journal.org/lockheed-martins-woke-industria...
[3] Another slide suggests “try to be less white” with tips including “be less oppressive,” “listen,” “believe” and “break with white solidarity.” - https://nypost.com/2021/02/23/coca-cola-diversity-training-u...
In how many countries* has this even happened? It's also notable how many qualifiers he uses to filter out non-white ethnocentric countries. Doing so allows him to pretend whites are the only ones that act ethnocentrically, given the opportunity.
The article makes frequent references to anti-Semitism. So let's see what the ADL's opinion is on this topic:
It is unrealistic and unacceptable to expect the State of Israel to voluntarily subvert its own sovereign existence and nationalist identity and become a vulnerable minority within what was once its own territory. - https://web.archive.org/web/20210519103412/https://www.adl.o...
*Using "country" instead of "community", because the latter could mean anything. Notably, it includes communities that don't have the sovereignty or power required to implement ethnocentric policies.
If you'd continue reading, the following two sentences explain that "influence":
Despite their small numbers in the population (less than 3 percent), they make large campaign donations to candidates from both parties. The Washington Post once estimated that Democratic presidential candidates “depend on Jewish supporters to supply as much as 60 percent of the money.”
The bottom line is that AIPAC, which is a de facto agent for a foreign government, has a stranglehold on the U.S. Congress. Open debate about U.S. policy towards Israel does not occur there, even though that policy has important consequences for the entire world. Thus, one of the three main branches of the U.S. government is firmly committed to supporting Israel. As former Senator Ernest Hollings (D-SC) noted as he was leaving office, “You can’t have an Israeli policy other than what AIPAC gives you around here.” Small wonder that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon once told an American audience. “When people ask me how they can help Israel, I tell them—Help AIPAC.”
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The Lobby also has significant leverage over the Executive branch. That power derives in part from the influence Jewish voters have on presidential elections. Despite their small numbers in the population (less than 3 percent), they make large campaign donations to candidates from both parties. The Washington Post once estimated that Democratic presidential candidates “depend on Jewish supporters to supply as much as 60 percent of the money.”
Are you sure the lobbying didn't come first? From the linked report:
Second, the Lobby strives to ensure that public discourse about Israel portrays it in a positive light, by repeating myths about Israel and its founding and by publicizing Israel’s side in the policy debates of the day. The goal is to prevent critical commentary about Israel from getting a fair hearing in the political arena. Controlling the debate is essential to guaranteeing U.S. support, because a candid discussion of U.S.‐Israeli relations might lead Americans to favor a different policy.
While the article does offer some rebuttal to that claim, I'd like to give a stronger one*: California is 31% white, University of California students are 25% white - they are underrepresented.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California#Stude...
*Edit: On second thought, grardb is correct: Comparing with K-12 demographics, as the article does, is better.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/partner-c...
I sure am glad we have Facebook, a foreign company in this case, setting the bounds of acceptable discussion for politicians.
I didn't hear about this. Care to explain?
What rights infringements? Aren't the copyrights for those works long expired?
> “In Italy, the cultural heritage code provides that in order to use images of a museum, compressed works for commercial purposes, it is necessary to have the permission, which regulates the methods and sets the relative fee to be paid. All this obviously if the museum grants the authorization which, for example, would hardly have been issued in this case.”
How does local law affect foreign corporations outside Italy? As I understand, copyright is internationally reciprocated by treaties such as the Berne convention. Does it include exceptions for "images of a museum" that would give this law international jurisdiction?
I am only highlighting that the oft-repeated claim that America was conceived as a nation of non-discriminatory immigration is a lie. It only moved in that direction with the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.