"Systemic Bias"
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wrote on 9 Dec 2020, 12:17 last edited by
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.
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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.
wrote on 9 Dec 2020, 12:20 last edited by@George-K said in "Systemic Bias":
Yeah, a "welcoming community" to the exclusion of Christians.
Exactly. Tolerance except when it offends you.
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wrote on 9 Dec 2020, 12:21 last edited by Doctor Phibes 12 Sept 2020, 12:22
So, some nutter sends a letter to four people?
Presumably, this isn't official or anything?
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wrote on 9 Dec 2020, 12:22 last edited by
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wrote on 9 Dec 2020, 12:25 last edited by Doctor Phibes 12 Sept 2020, 12:25
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.
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wrote on 9 Dec 2020, 12:32 last edited by Loki 12 Sept 2020, 12:33
Doesn’t sound very friendly.
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wrote on 9 Dec 2020, 12:41 last edited by
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?
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wrote on 9 Dec 2020, 12:42 last edited by
@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.
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wrote on 9 Dec 2020, 12:48 last edited by
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.
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@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.
wrote on 9 Dec 2020, 12:55 last edited by@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.
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@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.
wrote on 9 Dec 2020, 13:19 last edited by@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.
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@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.
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wrote on 9 Dec 2020, 13:23 last edited by
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?
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wrote on 9 Dec 2020, 13:30 last edited by
Hopefully the letter was a joke!
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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?
wrote on 9 Dec 2020, 13:48 last edited by George K 12 Sept 2020, 13:48@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.
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wrote on 9 Dec 2020, 13:50 last edited by
You grew up in a house that didn't speak English as first language?
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You grew up in a house that didn't speak English as first language?
wrote on 9 Dec 2020, 14:10 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in "Systemic Bias":
You grew up in a house that didn't speak English as first language?
That's right.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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wrote on 9 Dec 2020, 14:11 last edited by
The word "systemic bias" is pretty much a giveaway for the rest. It suggests a whole set of beliefs I do not share.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in "Systemic Bias":
You grew up in a house that didn't speak English as first language?
That's right.
wrote on 9 Dec 2020, 14:19 last edited by@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.
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@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.
wrote on 9 Dec 2020, 14:25 last edited by@mark said in "Systemic Bias":
One would never know from just hearing your voice.
Mano gimtoji kalba buvo lietuviu kalba.
