"Systemic Bias"

[George K]

Four homes in a suburb of St. Paul received this letter:

Here's one of the offenders:

Yeah, a "welcoming community" to the exclusion of Christians.

[89th]

@George-K said in "Systemic Bias":

Yeah, a "welcoming community" to the exclusion of Christians.

Exactly. Tolerance except when it offends you.

[Doctor Phibes]

So, some nutter sends a letter to four people?

Presumably, this isn't official or anything?

[George K]

[Doctor Phibes]

Nutter was probably too strong.

Interfering busy-body was probably more accurate.

The same kind of people that think that getting drunk on Christmas Eve is disrespectful to teetotallers.

[Loki]

Doesn’t sound very friendly.

[Axtremus]

It’s rather prejudicial of the letter’s author to simply assume that the lightings are “Christmas lights.” S/he needs to be more openminded and consider the possibility that the lightings may not be religious in nature at all. Maybe the homeowners should put up more lights to clarify their messages?

[Doctor Phibes]

@Loki said in "Systemic Bias":

Doesn’t sound very friendly.

How can you possibly say that? The letter talks about 'we' a lot. It's inclusive.

I do however find the spelling of "colorful" to be pretty fucking offensive. The rest of the English-speaking world manages to use the 'u', after all.

[jodi]

Crazy. I put a ton of Christmas lights up this year. They are pretty and festive. And we aren’t religious. Lots of folks here have put up more lights than they normally do. They went up earlier too.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in "Systemic Bias":

rest of the English-speaking world

Well, the rest of the "English Speaking World" has English as it's first language to the tune of about 99M people, compared to the US 234M.

[Doctor Phibes]

@George-K said in "Systemic Bias":

@Doctor-Phibes said in "Systemic Bias":

rest of the English-speaking world

Well, the rest of the "English Speaking World" has English as it's first language to the tune of about 99M people, compared to the US 234M.

Three words: George Dubya Bush.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in "Systemic Bias":

Three words: George Dubya Bush.

Three Letters: BDS.

[Doctor Phibes]

I never said he was deranged, but to say his first language is English is a bit much. How many more of the 234 million people you quoted would fall into the same category?

[taiwan_girl]

Hopefully the letter was a joke!

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in "Systemic Bias":

I never said he was deranged, but to say his first language is English is a bit much. How many more of the 234 million people you quoted would fall into the same category?

Actually English isn't my first language either. Really.

[Doctor Phibes]

You grew up in a house that didn't speak English as first language?

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in "Systemic Bias":

You grew up in a house that didn't speak English as first language?

That's right.

[Klaus]

The word "systemic bias" is pretty much a giveaway for the rest. It suggests a whole set of beliefs I do not share.

[mark]

@George-K said in "Systemic Bias":

@Doctor-Phibes said in "Systemic Bias":

You grew up in a house that didn't speak English as first language?

That's right.

One would never know from just hearing your voice.

[George K]

@mark said in "Systemic Bias":

One would never know from just hearing your voice.

Mano gimtoji kalba buvo lietuviu kalba.