I brought this up in a post a while back..over a year…and wasn’t believed…until I posted a Wash Post link to the story about a guy using niggardly in a meeting and being suspended/fired.
Please tell me this isn’t going to be one of those threads where folks point to a guy who called his white co-workers cheapskates but found an archaic synonym that sounds like an ethnic slur for his black co-worker, and say “this proves liberals are wrong”
Actually, he said it to a group of black people and one took offense. Demands were made. He was fired. He was offered his job back when the “full investigation” determined that he used the word “niggardly” not “the n word”. It’s a nice intersection of ignorance, racism, bloated outrage, and entitlement politics. Your nation’s capital.
Funny thing is I can totally see a city naming it after real rape, cause you know, all those indigenous peoples getting raped a killed during the white migration and such…
Don’t you mean because they keep on raping the women now? There are funny laws about Indian property, and there’s more than one small town thinks they got the right to rape women.
Oh, no, the bastards weren’t too happy when someone decided to set up a women’s shelter. So unhappy they dared to burn the place down…
They should change rape to rapeseed to clarify for all they poorly educated folks out there. It’s sad that folks have been dumbed down so much. It’s also sad that Canada isn’t immune from this growing phenomenon.
This is not a "challenging" piece. It's just ridiculous propaganda. You've lost me as a reader; Fox News has just as much concern for the truth and better production values.
This is true for urgent life saving care. But that isn't the only kind of medical care and people can & do behave as if a market exists if things aren't critical.
Some people behave that way even when it is about life saving treatment.
Perhaps this is the problem, that we tend to want all medical care to be desperately necessary, when only a certain segment of it is. Even when we talk about senior care, how much is life saving as opposed to just the most expedient way to make a person comfortable?
+ This: The reporting was thorough, continuous, and in depth. is both right and wrong. There was a lot of reporting on the issue. However, much [. . .]
The reporting was thorough, continuous, and in depth.
is both right and wrong. There was a lot of reporting on the issue. However, much of it was false, and I suspect it was journalists plagiarizing other journalists. Dave Cullen wrote a book titled Columbine in 2009 and in it, he debunked many of the popular stories. (I haven't read the book, but I've heard/read interviews with him and the details stuck with me; it's on my reading list.) The killers weren't unpopular kids--they both had friends, attended parties, etc. They didn't listen to Marilyn Manson. One of them was a sociopath and that was the cause.
National School Walkout Day, 19 years after Columbine
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+ Michele Kerr: Of course it is. Your definitions of privilege and systemic racism aren’t shared, and even when they are, solutions aren’t. How is that anything but [. . .]
Of course it is. Your definitions of privilege and systemic racism aren’t shared, and even when they are, solutions aren’t. How is that anything but political?
I have transgender students too, and I don’t care where they pee. It’s not my problem, it’s the administrator’s issue. I hope they resolve it satisfactorily for the student. But yes, saying “you should be allowed to pee in the bathroom you want to” is a political opinion.
First I'll respectfully disagree. The definition of Privilege is pretty well defined in most social science circles now. About the only people I see arguing against that definition are white and themselves the beneficiaries of most privilege. Casually, it is simply the benefit of not being blocked from access by part of your identity. As an able bodied adult, I'm not blocked from access to a store if it lacks a wheel chair ramp. That is one privilege I have. As a white, I am more likely to get an Air BNB request answered. That has been shown in studies.
As to the "where to pee", I think you're misunderstanding. It's not a matter of where he wants to. As a transgender boy, he identifies as boy and should be afforded all of the same basic courtesies we show a boy. Which is to say, use the boy's bathroom to pee.
What frightens me about your answer, though, as a fellow educator is that the hand wave you've made: Of course it's political.
Would you have said that 40 years ago when the idea of a girl taking a science class was also a "political" stance? Would you have stood up for a girl who wanted to study physics but the school said "no, that's a boy's class"? Or would you defer to others and say "It's not my place to say a girl should take science"?
Likewise, would you have sat and deferred comment when asked if those black students sat at the wrong lunch counter? "Segregation? Oh that's a political thing."
What we do now, is what we would have done 50 years ago. Would we take pride in our actions looking back 50 years in the future?
Health care violates one of the rules of the efficient market mechanism, that there’s a price that the demand is unwilling to pay and will withdraw from the market.
Food. Water. Shelter. Education.
The alternative to food is different food. The alternative to some doctor should be some other doctor.
The HC market is broken because of regulatory capture, i.e. we basically don't have a market since there are no prices published. We also have issues with 3rd party pays, and some other issues.
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Don’t plant the seeds of bad jokes.
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“Can’t POSSIBLY be true”, I thought.
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We could call them the washington strawmen in honor of your nonsensical post.
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There are funny laws about Indian property, and there’s more than one small town thinks they got the right to rape women.
Oh, no, the bastards weren’t too happy when someone decided to set up a women’s shelter.
So unhappy they dared to burn the place down…
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It made it into the final round, it did.
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Canola and rape are not the same. Canola is rape that has been bred so that its oil has different properties.
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