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The Firebird reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread Goodman Games: Our Efforts Have Been Mischaracterized with
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I fully agree that unintentional racism in the form of disparate impact is real. However, I disagree with you- as I did with my... -
The Firebird reacted to Gradine's post in the thread Goodman Games: Our Efforts Have Been Mischaracterized with Like.
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...
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The Firebird reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread Goodman Games: Our Efforts Have Been Mischaracterized with Like.
On a Venn diagram, classism and racism* should properly be distinct circles, but the overlap would be very large. * or more...
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The Firebird reacted to trappedslider's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with
Haha.
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The Firebird replied to the thread Goodman Games: Our Efforts Have Been Mischaracterized.The definition that is now in vogue is fuzzy because it interacts with other systems in nonobvious ways. For example, what if the...
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The Firebird reacted to AnotherGuy's post in the thread Goodman Games: Our Efforts Have Been Mischaracterized with Like.
I'm not sure if you read my second post where I state the reasons for why 2 persons (and please note I'm not a town planner, architect...
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The Firebird reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread Goodman Games: Our Efforts Have Been Mischaracterized with Like.
It does, but I still see some quirks in my community’s discussions of racism that indicate a drive to frame it as a distinct and...
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The Firebird reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread Goodman Games: Our Efforts Have Been Mischaracterized with Like.
There ARE a lot of oddities in the discussion about the nature of racism, no question.
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The Firebird reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread Goodman Games: Our Efforts Have Been Mischaracterized with Like.
While I agree with that analysis, I’ll point out that such things exist with other forms of bigotry as well. A classic example would be...
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The Firebird reacted to Umbran's post in the thread Goodman Games: Our Efforts Have Been Mischaracterized with Like.
To be clear: I do not make the claim that there's no bigotry in the Northeast.
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The Firebird reacted to Voadam's post in the thread Goodman Games: Our Efforts Have Been Mischaracterized with Like.
I grew up in small town Massachusetts with bussing (20% of my public school was from inner city Boston) and thought oh it was because...
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The Firebird reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread Goodman Games: Our Efforts Have Been Mischaracterized with Like.
It's subtler, but it absolutely exists up here too. One of my friends here in New England had his eyes opened wide to it when he got...
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The Firebird reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
There's an old joke that American isn't so much a country as it is a bunch of states in a trenchcoat pretending to be a country...
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The Firebird reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
That’s on a school-by-school basis. Some private school teachers are very well compensated indeed.
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The Firebird reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Ahhhh, state schools! Did you know that in most states, the highest-paid state employees was a coach or athletic director...