The article making you feel bad is called sparking empathy, and it’s generally considered an aspect of good writing. This isn’t a demand to ban the game, it’s a story about how a group of Pokemon fans are experiencing the new game.

any of those who don’t have the motor functions to play PC/Console games and have never raised an issue about it since the beginning of video gaming...

Why? The article doesn’t say that Niantic was wrong to make the game or that the game should be shut down. It’s relaying the experiences of some of the Pokemon fanbase.

Huzzah

Wow. Amazing interview.

Personal service is so dumb. Who had the brilliant idea of making glorified tag a fundamental part of the justice system?

Disabled people are people. Fetuses aren’t.

I'm specifically thinking about the controversy over the RAINN letter a couple years back

“What rubs me the wrong way as an actor and as somebody with a disability living in the real world is not that this story is being told. It’s that so frequently this is the only story of disability that is told.”

The evidence isn’t clear on that. You’re probably referring to the Lisak and Miller study but a more recent and larger study found much higher rates of ever committing a form sexual assault and lower rates of repeat offense. See this article for a general discussion, but Lisak’s claim that 90% of campus rapes are…

Shocker, actually investigating crimes leads to convictions.

Did the people making negative comments actually read the whole essay?

I don’t really get what you’re trying to say. I was wrong. This was five years ago or so, and I was mistaken about how common and blatant racism was. We’re not talking about racist greek life (which I’d seen), we’re talking about managers who knew about the possibility of fair housing testers at ordinary apartment…

No, I was thinking the racism would be more hidden or deniable. I thought a racist leasing manager might do things like call white applicants back first or ‘forget’ to mention promotions to non-white applicants. That happened too, but I was still shocked at finding managers who straight up lied about availability.

(I have two properties that I rent through the service)

Nope. It’s a basic Title II and FHA claim under the theory that Airbnb is a “inn, hotel, motel or other establishment which provides lodging to transient guests” (paragraph 25 of the complaint) and that Airbnb host was an “agent, representative or employee.” (Paragraph 10 of the complaint).

I would be surprised if the FHA claim goes forward since it only covers “dwellings” not short term stays. For the Title II claim, the applicable exemption is in 42 USC 2000a (b)(1).

I did fair housing testing, and it was a real eye-opener. I hadn’t realized just how much blatant discrimination still existed. I had expected the discrimination to be apartment managers to be unfriendly or discouraging, I hadn’t expected people to straight up tell one person there were no open apartments and tell me…

Rules that were changed by a voice vote that took place thirty minutes early while people were still registering as delegates.

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