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by testbot123 6y ago
The site isn't "cancelled" though. Google has chosen not to do business with another business because advertisers that pay Google don't want their ads to appear on ZeroHedge, whose comments section features language that
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by testbot123 6y ago
The Wikipedia link you're citing does not have data that refutes OPs claim. It mentions several studies that seem to refute it, but in the next sentence(s), shows further studies which refute those.
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by testbot123 6y ago
Links are below, with excerpts in case you don't have time to read the massive volumes of text produced by the government, NGOs, and journalists. Sorry it's out of order.
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by testbot123 6y ago
"Demographic Differences in Sentencing" [9] -- " Black male offenders continued to receive longer sentences than similarly situated White male offenders. Black male offenders received sentences on average 19.1 percent longe
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by testbot123 6y ago
"Study: ‘African-American Names’ 16% Less Likely to Be Approved for Airbnb Rentals" [3] "Black Preschoolers Far More Likely To Be Suspended" [4] -- "Here's what the education data show: kids who are suspend
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by testbot123 6y ago
"Black unemployment rate is consistently twice that of whites" [0] -- "One common explanation, as William A. Darity Jr. of Duke University told Salon in 2011, is that blacks are “the last to be hired in a good economy, and
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by testbot123 6y ago
> This is not the case now in the largest part of the country, nor is it true in most parts of Europe. In other words, had BLM been around in the 1950's they would have been 'in control of the discussion' as they would hav
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by testbot123 6y ago
Luckily, he made a very public post about it which is currently being discussed in one of the most influential tech news aggregators on the internet. If others are inspired and also leave the company, it will make an impact.
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by testbot123 6y ago
Facebook loses much more money with this employee's departure (if their salary is indeed 250k like you're claiming) -- the cost of recruiting, training, and keeping employees is incredibly high, especially in tech. Now imagine tha
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by testbot123 6y ago
I don't need to engage in politics in my workplace. I can work with people with differing political opinions in terms of activism and advocacy, though. "Liberal" and "conservative" aren't the only political fla
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by testbot123 6y ago
Don't have any commentary on the substance of this quote, but man that is some terrible writing.
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by testbot123 6y ago
"All lives matter" is divisive because "black lives matter" is a statement that black lives are largely devalued and forgotten in a system of institutionalized racism. "Black lives matter" leaves off the implie
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by testbot123 6y ago
I should also clarify that this history is focused on the Los Angeles area around 1960s-1990s, viewed from the lens of the drug war. Gangs had existed in the country for a long time before the 60s (and in LA, too -- Bloods and Crips), but t
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by testbot123 6y ago
> Right, that's another word for police. I guess we agree then: more police so we can stop targeting minorities in street-level busts and instead target the big offenders: white collar crime that destroys minority communities and ke
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by testbot123 6y ago
It's a demand for accountants, lawyers, and law enforcement that focuses on egregious offenders and systemic injustice, eliminating the root causes of crime. Not tear gas and tanks. You were speaking about crime in the 70s and 80s. Tha
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by testbot123 6y ago
You mean, like... Jefferey Epstein? We spend so much time defending the rights of police to use military-grade weaponry on individual citizens that we forget that the people who are actually looting this country and committing its most grie
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by testbot123 6y ago
I don't think they're advocating for disbanding the department completely (from the article): > I don’t know yet, though several of us on the council are working on finding out, what it would take to disband the MPD and start f
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by testbot123 6y ago
> To give you an example: if you have little personal contact to a specific minority, and over 50% of the people of that minority you see on TV are either criminals on local news, or musicians and actors playing gangsters, everyone who d
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by testbot123 6y ago
Minorities have been trying to prove their worth to the US since the inception of the country (which was built on their backs). It hasn't changed anything. And why isn't it that the non-minorities shouldn't be the ones who ar
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by testbot123 6y ago
Minorities are not responsible for the racism perpetuated against them. It's not a "marketing problem" that minorities need to solve, it's a racism problem that the perpetrators need to solve.
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by testbot123 6y ago
You're correct, I apologize.
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by testbot123 6y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. There is documented evidence of this: > "To see this - traffic blocking the main intersection of a level 1 trauma centre, blocking the entrance and exit to our hospital. Blocking patients fr
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by testbot123 6y ago
28 CFR § 0.100: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/0.100
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by testbot123 6y ago
Because the DEA has a special unit for it: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod/exclusive-u-s-dir...
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by testbot123 6y ago
> let people decide for themselves whether they want to be gay > By allowing gay marriage, you are forcing your views on everyone This is a straw man. People don't choose to be gay, and conservatives are depriving people of their
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by testbot123 6y ago
> Boloney. It is individuals, even if in positions of authority (and even if far too many of them), carrying out their own warped agenda, not that of the state. We'll have to agree to disagree. I believe that the justice system in t
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by testbot123 6y ago
Racist violence is political violence. It is agents of the state enforcing a racial order which is inextricable from (and perpetuated by) the politics of the state. > And, "it hasn't kill anyone yet" is a pretty weak count
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by testbot123 6y ago
Is it not political violence when a black man is killed in the street without due process, treated differently than a white person would be? I still haven't seen any evidence whatsoever that any homes have been looted or burned by prot
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by testbot123 6y ago
> Burning and looting homes I need evidence here. > and businesses Businesses like Target, who come into small communities, push out the mom-and-pops, then raise prices? > there are plenty of assaults and murders if you're not
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by testbot123 6y ago
Thanks, but I’ve been here a lot longer than my account age and I know how things work. Unfortunately, your behavior shows you to be a bad faith actor, and unfortunately for you a lot of the users on HN can recognize the gaslighting you’re

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