#Discrimination

SK Rossi

S_K_Rossi

Good morning #mtleg! Boy do I have a #thread for you. Last night Biden signed the following Executive order: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-order-preventing-and-combating-discrimination-on

Unite in justice for the poor & oppressed

BreeNewsome

I’m so, so tired of folks pretending there’s no such thing as phenotypical blackness when it comes to definitions of race—it’s the entire basis of race—all while ppl are getting

𝚗𝚘𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛

rellortnocon

Of course computers cant be racist, but they also can’t do anything with initialization from a user. In the case of facial recognition tech, the algorithms that form the basis

Geopolitics101

geo_politic_101

In France, laïcité is the idea of protecting the state and public affairs from religious power. Catholicism and the French state (kingdoms, empires) made France effectively a theocracy where other

Mayor of London (gov.uk/coronavirus)

MayorofLondon

Gypsies, Roma and Travellers have lived, worked and travelled throughout Britain for over 500 years and have made a huge contribution to London and the UK, especially during this crisis.

Bea Jaspert 🕸

hogotheforsaken

If this is the level of discourse I'm not sure debate is a viable option.Still, I'll give it a try.1/https://twitter.com/CaptainBridget/status/1303825740895408128 2/ According to the tribunal report https://www.acat.act.gov.au/__dat

Dan Luu

danluu

A couple times a year, somebody will tell me they're surprised to learn that I didn't go to MIT.I've never attended an elite institution nor do I think I've ever

Notes on the Academy (NotA)

notesacad

An important article: Only 1/21 swarnajayanti fellowship awardees were women. Could it be a problem of resource availability & allocation problem, or is it just sexism? (1/4)https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/swarnajayanti-fellowsh

Patrick Lohlein

patricklohlein

Interesting claim by @Lorand_Bartels that the UK may have "a good case" against the EU at the WTO if it *continues* to deny long-term equivalence recognition for financial services.1/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/02/12

Elissa M. Redmiles, Ph.D.

eredmil1

A thread for those who may not be aware.@airbnb uses AI to detect whether a user is a sex worker, mentally ill, or otherwise "un-desirable". Based on this algorithm, #airbnb

Noah Berlatsky

nberlat

the Turner diaries are both incredibly, violently racist (advocating for extermination of Black people, POC, Jewish people) and also very much in line with the cancel culture playbook; the main

Ryan T. Anderson

RyanTAnd

Equality Act turns equality on its head. It sacrifices equality of women while privileging men who identify as women: They'd now have a civil right to spend the night in

ACLU of South Dakota

ACLUSouthDakota

Senate Bill 90, proposed by Sen. Nesiba and Reps. Healy, Duba and Keintz, would recognize hair discrimination as an unfair and discriminatory practice. We support #SB90 because hair texture discrimination

enough is enough

EmilyGorcenski

In all seriousness, the zoomer queer language cop discourse is a product of a failure to understand subordination theory in its entirety. This isn’t their fault, because millennials have taken

🐍Trouble 🐍

gilltheamazon

Do your medics take UTI meds out to the field with y’all? How about tampons that AREN’T the kind with painful cardboard applicators? Y’all got appropriate places to dispose of

Alexander McCoy

AlexanderMcCoy4

Just an observation about the media:We’ve gotten dozens of request from political reporters asking to be connected with veterans who became right-wing extremists.But we’ve gotten zero interest in the perspective

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