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Nicaraguan refugees in Costa Rica

mercredi 8 août 2018 à 02:00

23000 Nicaraguans have fled as refugees to Costa Rica.

Votes to leave the EU

mercredi 8 août 2018 à 02:00

In parts of the UK where Tory dooH ninoR policies did the most harm, more people voted to leave the EU.

Putting imprisoned refugee minors to work

mercredi 8 août 2018 à 02:00

(Satire): Ivanka Trump complains that imprisoned refugee minors are not given sewing machines so they can work for a sweatshop.

Reducing discrimination

mardi 7 août 2018 à 02:00

Some activists demand to impose every possible kind of discrimination on theater and cinema, making each part the property of some specific group.

I understand that performers in some groups face discrimination which is an obstacle to their careers. There are two ways to deal with that: less discrimination or more discrimination.

The demand being made is to maximize discrimination in a world of hundreds of crosscutting quotas. How many parts will be open to a female-to-male transsexual of mixed Tibetan and Vietnamese ancestry? None, I suppose.

To accept some discrimination as legitimate would poison the goal of ending discrimination. We must not make that terrible mistake. Therefore, I demand less discrimination, not more. If audiences can accept seeing a caucasian play a character that was "Asian", as the makers of Hellboy expect, then audiences can learn to accept seeing an "Asian" actor portray a character that wasn't "Asian".

I put "Asian" in quotes because many disparate ethnic and racial groups come from Asia.

Cruel food delivery company

mardi 7 août 2018 à 02:00

An Australian food delivery company was especially cruel to its staff, making them compete for rewards and punishing the losers. But it has been driven out of business. Hooray!

Now make a law so that no company can do this.