A British colonel says that a company fighting in Afghanistan regularly dehumanized Afghan civilians and subjected them to violence for no reason, and said this was the fault of the commanders of the larger unit.

Americans are protesting with slings and crutches at their representatives offices, and convincing some Republicans to block the Ryan-Trump medical care crash.

The term "people of color" endorses a racist outlook towards humanity by treating "color" as as a matter of essence, of the substance a person is made of, rather than as a superficial detail.

The distinctions we call "racial" are grab-bags of various details, each of which correlates more or less with certain ancestral groups. They are real differences, but not particularly important unless people make them so. So let's avoid using essentialist language to refer to them.

I am looking for people to write site-specific Firefox extensions or local scripts to operate specific web sites.

A European appeals court ruled that companies can order employees not to wear any visible symbols of personal beliefs (religious or otherwise). However, if the company is selective about which symbols to allow, this can be considered discrimination.

The decision seems correct to me.