Ausage
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The use of a bullshit statistic is the more egregious action though. Booting out the student could be justified or not based on stuff we can't really know.
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The American Politics thread
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Spark
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Maybe. The article is really sensationalised though, buries the context way down in the article and makes it sound like they just booted him simply for objecting to the stat.
Meanwhile, this graph is probably the best encapsulation of the GOP being absolutely toxic to non-white voters than these two charts:
https://twitter.com/mariachong/status/1072699555093733376
In particular the entry at the bottom. Vietnamese-Americans should be voting GOP in huge margins, like they were a generation ago, quite literally every single think about them as a community other than race tilts them towards a traditional conservative party: wealthy, socially conservative in every sense (esp family structure + tradition wise), religious (disproportionately Catholic), strong cultural focus on work ethic and self-reliance, and fiercely anti-Communist. But the simple perception that the GOP is hostile towards non-whites at an existential level is enough to completely obviate all of that.
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Top_Cat
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The 20% statistic is eminently questionable and in his emails, he brings up a couple of a couple of studies and is pretty reasonable in his objections so he's done his Googling. Problem is he focusses on surface stuff the n size and conspicuously makes no mention of the big enchilada in any crime vs fear of crime debate, that being the report rate. The studies themselves are often self-report hence there's plenty of fertile ground for critique but you're hard-pressed to expect a second-year uni student to provide a detailed analysis of the lit nor understand study designs in depth.
That said, baldly saying 'rape culture doesn't exist' just doesn't follow from the evidence or statistics. That he started with a statistic talking about all sexual assaults but talked solely about rape in his emails as some slippery slope thing is egregious. You're a uni student and all the info is at your fingertips, do some ****ing homework before walking into class or show some humility about your position. This is aside from whether he was acting out after being informed that there were possible victims in the class.
In the job, the only people who are happy with lower stats are the hierarchy. A lower report rate is actually terrible news. Anyone citing crime stats without mentioning this is acting in bad faith.
That said, baldly saying 'rape culture doesn't exist' just doesn't follow from the evidence or statistics. That he started with a statistic talking about all sexual assaults but talked solely about rape in his emails as some slippery slope thing is egregious. You're a uni student and all the info is at your fingertips, do some ****ing homework before walking into class or show some humility about your position. This is aside from whether he was acting out after being informed that there were possible victims in the class.
In the job, the only people who are happy with lower stats are the hierarchy. A lower report rate is actually terrible news. Anyone citing crime stats without mentioning this is acting in bad faith.
Ausage
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Equating abortion with murder eh? This is an improvement from you Flem. We'll make a Christian Conservative out of you yet.
GoodAreasShane
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It's almost as bad as "School of Hard Knocks" imo
NZTailender
I can't believe I ate the whole thing
common theme on Tinder:
full time mummy
school of hard knocks
university of life
all in caps of course.
NZTailender
I can't believe I ate the whole thing
Athlai, Professor of Philosophy from said University of Life.
Niall
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" No such thing as a typical Friday night".....
Ok tell me more...
"I'm either out on the town or at home watching Netflix"
Fascinating.
Shri
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Multiple kids?
Shri
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Also, be 5'0" and 100 kgs+ "I really enjoy rock climbing and camping!"" No such thing as a typical Friday night".....
Ok tell me more...
"I'm either out on the town or at home watching Netflix"
Fascinating.
Bitch, you are a mountain. Knock it off.
Burgey
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No mirrors at your joint mate?
Grasshopper
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Spark
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https://t.co/LrppuIj4af
Many of these people are conservative Catholics who helped US forces during the war. Obvs though they've been found guilty by Captain Bone Spurs of being non-white and will be summarily judged as such.
Many of these people are conservative Catholics who helped US forces during the war. Obvs though they've been found guilty by Captain Bone Spurs of being non-white and will be summarily judged as such.
Shri
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I am 5'8" and 80.