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This is such an important concept, and relates strongly to what I was saying earlier. The analogy that I've always found apt is that when you step on somebody's foot by accident, that is unintentional. However, if you then refuse to move your foot off of theirs, then it becomes intentional.

Somehow, Anakin returned

I mean, we've reached a point in our society where "truth" can be flexible or entirely irrelevant; those who find the truth an inconvenience at best are unlikely to suddenly start caring about it now

That's the thing; can the impact be directly tied to the specific policy? Are there other factors (such as, say, similar demographic shifts in the larger community) that are more likely to be the source of the impact?

I didn't address the "reasons for why" because they are genuinely unimportant; intention is literally irrelevant, only the impact is. That's not my opinion, by the way (although I do agree with it); that's the legal definition of racial discrimination (at least in my country of origin, anyway)...

Does it result in fewer PoC applicants and/or more PoC families denied/evicted, in comparison to white families in the same complex? If yes, then yeah, that's a racist policy. The intent behind it is irrelevant; if the impact leads to statistically significant differences in outcomes on the...

It's Brandon Sanderson. He's written a novel in the time it's taken me to write this post. Also, this is a thing that really happened (paraphrased): Brandon: So you know that really awful time where we we were all stuck in our homes worried when or even if society would ever return to normal...

American racism is pretty particular and specific, but yeah, Europe is going through a pretty big anti-immigrant/refugee thing right now, but even back when they were pretending to be better they've had their issues. See also: Canada has the exact same meme but replace "Romani" with "Indigenous"

I would hope so; how else would it run?

They literally put the joke in the trailer:

Oh no, they are more than happy to speak those agendas out loud, at least on the blogs and the Tubes. They're only left unspoken here because speaking them runs them afoul of moderation. This is correct in all cases except for Bethesda

In more He-Man news today, there are a contingent of very serious people who are extremely upset because... because... They're mad because... They're mad because they gave He-Man... they give him pronouns

I stopped watching Season 4 I think mostly because the character of Eddie was extremely overhyped and I found him to be such an incredibly insufferable cliche that it spoiled everything else for it. Season 2 gave us babysitter Steve and Season 3 gave us Steve & Robin (a reminder that the show...