Education = lower recidivism, certainly, but we also have to factor in that these three men took steps to apply for the program and be accepted. Their motivation is a key factor. Applying that same education to the prison population as a whole wouldn’t have the same effect.

Because its whole purpose boils down to reverse discrimination. People should be hired based on merit, not race. I understand that the original idea behind affirmative action was to make sure that minorities were not turned away from jobs because of their race, but that’s not how it worked out. Now it’s just a way for…

Genuinely curious: What other word would be preferable? To me, “workers” means “people who work.” I don’t necessarily think there’s any implication of wages there. Obviously, the work done by slaves wasn’t done by their choice, but they were primarily (forcibly) brought over to (forcibly) work.

As a half Puerto Rican woman, I’m totally fine with retaking a look at affirmative action as soon as they ban legacy admissions. My dad (along with all the other Puerto Ricans in Williamsburg) was sent automatically to a trade high school to learn to fix radios while the white kids in the neighborhood got sent to a…

Asians utterly loath it because they are seriously negatively affected by affirmative action when getting university places. An Asian applicant needs an average of 140 more SAT points than a White kid to get a place at a private university whilst a Black kid needs 310 less. They even have a term for it as the Bamboo…

I don’t really find this story outrageous. Kudos for caring enough to search through dozens of bags of trash. It’s actually a pretty successful track-something-down story.

The idea for a new system is that every household would have a per-person allocation of water at the base rate and that use over that base rate costs more. So it’s effectively a tax on use that exceeds what’s typical or expected. And places that have done this say that some users will knowingly continue to overuse,…

I’m sure that taking Navy showers makes you feel like you are doing something, but you’re just being silly.

Did you really need to bring skin color into this?

And here I am losing my much-needed and very cherished eyesight to a degenerative condition. Fuck the lunatics that people this mudball of a planet. I swear...just burn and salt the whole thing already. ヽ( ಠ_ಠ)ノ

So it’s ok to lie if you are poor or if your job doesn’t pay well? If I go to my mechanic and he tries to bill me for work he didn’t do, should I still pay him for his imaginary work? Isn’t that fraud in both cases?

I have always suspected that I should have had a penis that I did not want and then subsequently cut off. So I’m good. I guess.

Or perhaps his name was Hazel Motes?

she went out and appropriated a disability.

This woman has a mental illness. That’s not something to mock, regardless of race, which is irrelevant here.

What type of psychologist does that?! Holy shit.

If his waiter lied and told him it it was city law, then whatever, fuck the waiter. I have my doubts that that is true though, sounds like just someone looking for an excuse to be a cheap bastard.

I will preface this by saying: I know and understand why it’s not the same thing, BUT: Germans play English people play Italians play Danes. It’s not reserved to just PoC. I have a huge problem when white actors play minority roles (though I understand that it usually happens because the white actor is a “name”, it’s…

I honestly was a little impressed that she knew he played Latino characters because I actually had no idea who this guy was. I've heard the name like a million times but I could never tell you what he was in or what he even looks like haha.

It’s rude to tell me how to eat my pizza.