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Because affirmative action has worked so well for the US to fix racial and gender issues. The US has become a model of racial and gender equality and harmony.

If it worked equally well for models, the result would be this: modelling companies would have a quota of bigger sizes (only a minute amount would get this…

Because American solutions based on that axiom have a long track of not working.

As long as she didn’t lose her job, this isn’t a shameful error. A happy accident, if anything. She made a mistake and someone else’s day became much better for it. As long as she didn’t lose her job, the only people who lost are the ones that pay for the prizes, and they both can afford it and are insured.

So, no…

Would that really be so bad? It's not as if they don't cast Americans as Germans or Spaniards, and viceversa, all the time, we also had our differences during WWII.

But Mulan was supposed to be Northern Wei.

Casting a Japanese or Korean to play a Chinese wouldn't be unlike casting a British actor to play a Frenchman, which is perfectly fine. I think it's splitting hairs.

Seeing how decent human beings are a vanishingly small minority among humans, i'd think that starting to give them pats on the back is a good idea.

ugh... too much effort for a jezebel comment...

What joke?

You must have not grown up with parents where every question is a trick question.

I've read that thing you said many times, but in my experience the difference between "ultimatum" and "stating what you want" is like the difference between threat and warning: it depends on whether you are receiving it or giving it.

init?

I am on the other hand. I'm very much on board with this, i'd expand it to make it mandatory to everybody. The GPS tracking data should be made secret until crime was suspected, obviously, but i can only see the positive sides to the widespread use of this technology.

If i had a drone at my service that allowed me to do the s..tuff that Navi allows Link to do, i'd be willing to take all the "Hey! Listen!"s.

Might be easier if you melt the metal of the coins first ;)

Well, in the end the idea is that Israel* doesn't want to live together with the Palestinians, and they have the means to do so. It's like the old colonialism, just now.

I don't think it's a character fault, but a reasoning fault, or a strategic fault. You can't use violence against a social group you intend to live together with, because it comes back at you. If you resort to violence, you must have figured out that you won't have to deal with that social group anymore after the…

If he was a separatist, then it makes sense.

It's a fault if he didn't intend for black people to live in their own country, creating a separatist movement.