Legal definition of woman is based on biological sex, UK supreme court rules

[ZiprHead]

When you see it...

No, it’s not photoshop.

While Eric Schmitt complains about DEI, his staff created a graphic with the word “miltary” written for all to see…

I don’t see any women or Black folks represented…a little DEI may have avoided this blunder.

 

[Tigers!]

Once they are finished with DEI perhaps could start with spelling?

 

[Bomb#20]

Am I misunderstanding the word previously here? (emphasis mine)

(snip)
That's not what's been going on here, though. That's a self-congratulatory myth progressivism trains its believers to tell themselves about their interactions with the infidel. What you and other progressives here have been posting in support of, and what others have posted in opposition to, are not basic human rights. Where do you think you are, a same-sex-marriage thread? This is a thread about Affirmative Action. I.e., it's a squabble over the merits of progressives' prevailing practice of putting their thumb on the scale when individuals are being compared for purposes of selecting candidates for jobs, slots in colleges, contracts and so forth, in order to make up for the disadvantages candidates in selected groups face as a result of the lingering effects of other thumb-on-the-scale actions that had been previously taken against those groups.
(snip)

Looks like you're misunderstanding "in order to". I was making a claim about the apparent psychology of the people enacting and implementing affirmative action practices, not a claim about whether racism is ongoing. As far as I can tell from progressives' lines of argument and observed behavior, whether the people of some group are currently being discriminated against forms no part of progressives' typical criteria for deciding whether AA measures on its behalf are warranted. Racism against blacks and sexism against women could end tomorrow and it would have a negligible effect on most progressives' enthusiasm for AA, imho. Quite the reverse -- the whole "structural racism" discourse that's become so fashionable lately is engineered to justify AA without depending on exhibiting any actual bigot who actually discriminated against a proposed AA beneficiary.

There are demonstrable harms that are done against people who aren't white cis het able males

Certainly.

and DEIA is an attempt to redress those harms.

That doesn't follow.

 

[Bomb#20]

When you see it...

View attachment 50342

No, it’s not photoshop.

While Eric Schmitt complains about DEI, his staff created a graphic with the word “miltary” written for all to see…

I don’t see any women or Black folks represented…a little DEI may have avoided this blunder.

You're assuming it says "miltary" and that it's a misspelling of "military". Actually it says "MILTARY". It's an acronym. It stands for

Show

Mothers I'd Like To Accost Really Young.

That isn't better, is it?

 

[ZiprHead]

Actual equality of opportunity does not mean second-class citizenship for white males,

True. But so-called "affirmative action" and "DEI" policies are antithetical to "actual equality of opportunity". That's the whole point of the criticism of them.

 

[ZiprHead]

Looks like most people support DEI.

 

[Arctish]

I recently listed to a really interesting broadcast of the This American Life radio program. The episode is titled Museum of Now, and it's framed as though the listener was touring the exhibits in a museum of modern history.

Exhibit 3 (starting at minute 37:15, just past the map of the Gulf of America) is about a court hearing on the Trump administration’s executive order and new policy banning transgender people from serving in the military.

The judge is determined to get a straight answer from a lawyer determined to avoid answering a question. It's very entertaining.

 

[Politesse]

When you see it...

View attachment 50342

No, it’s not photoshop.

While Eric Schmitt complains about DEI, his staff created a graphic with the word “miltary” written for all to see…

I don’t see any women or Black folks represented…a little DEI may have avoided this blunder.

That aide in the back looks like he just noticed it too, and he was the one tasked with writing the presentation.

 

[Bomb#20]

She's a redbone.

You should write the Racist Thesaurus, so that those of us unfamiliar with C19th Confederate racist slang can understand your posts without having to Google.

What's your evidence that it's 19th-century Confederate racist slang? According to my googling it's southern African-American slang; and the only site I found that said how old the word is dated it to circa 1910.

 

[bilby]

She's a redbone.

You should write the Racist Thesaurus, so that those of us unfamiliar with C19th Confederate racist slang can understand your posts without having to Google.

What's your evidence that it's 19th-century Confederate racist slang? According to my googling it's southern African-American slang; and the only site I found that said how old the word is dated it to circa 1910.

According to my googling it's C19th Confederate racist slang, which is all I know about the word, which I had never seen before, hence my choice to Google it.

 

[Bomb#20]

What did Harris do wrong,

Plenty of things:
- called for banning all fracking and offshore drilling
- attacked Biden over the stupid 70s forced bussing policies
- tweeted that Michael Brown was "murdered" when, as a prosecutor, she must have known better
- overspent during her 2020 campaign so that it went broke early despite great initial fundraising

Here are a few more:
- When she was AG she defied a court order to release prisoners because the state needed them to fight wildfires.
- She said the First Amendment doesn't apply to misinformation.
- When asked about her flipflops, the best she could come up with was that her values hadn't changed. Yes, that's what concerned people.

 

[Spacetime Inhabitant]

What did Harris do wrong,

Plenty of things:
- called for banning all fracking and offshore drilling
- attacked Biden over the stupid 70s forced bussing policies
- tweeted that Michael Brown was "murdered" when, as a prosecutor, she must have known better
- overspent during her 2020 campaign so that it went broke early despite great initial fundraising

Here are a few more:
- When she was AG she defied a court order to release prisoners because the state needed them to fight wildfires.
- She said the First Amendment doesn't apply to misinformation.
- When asked about her flipflops, the best she could come up with was that her values hadn't changed. Yes, that's what concerned people.

Do you really want untrained people fighting fires? Especially wildfires that are notorious for their semi-unpredictable behaviour.
What were the circumstances regarding the First Amendment situation? When USA becomes a truly civilized nation, then maybe misinformation will not have FA protection.

 

[Bomb#20]

It IS equality now (that is the point). ALL persons are considered for positions. Not just white, cis-gen males. How do you NOT see this? That in many instances the best choice is NOT A WHITE MALE. NO ONE is excluding white men - they are just considering ALL options and choosing the best one. In Biden's case, that was a black woman. Why is this so hard for you to comprehend?

... Harris was the best possible candidate? She was the ONLY candidate. She didn't even make it a full year in her 2020 campaign, and she polling in the single digits by that point. The Democratic Party didn't take a look around to see who had the best chance at winning; they chose someone based on their ideology.
...

No one ever said Harris was the ONLY candidate it she was apparently good enough that Biden won. ...

It looks like CS meant Harris was the only candidate in 2024, when she was selected without a primary. It was in 2020 that she wasn't the only candidate and was good enough that Biden won.

 

[pood]

by 1886 in American English in reference to a type of hound bred in the South, with a red or red and tan coat, used especially to hunt raccoons and fugitives. The name probably has some connection to the term Redbone as used in 19c. southern U.S. to denote a mulatto or mixed-race culture.

From here.

Bold by me.

And here, in the 21st century, we have Derec using the word to describe … the woman who ran for president.

How pathetic. And how utterly unsurprising.

 

[pood]

This fits perfectly with orangebone saying, during the election, that he didn’t know Harris was black.

And Derec claims we have a fixation skin color.

 

[Elixir]

Do you really want untrained people fighting fires?

Wildland firefighters I have spoken to (not at great length) about that very question, are not fans.
Curiously, their first concern was having to look after the untrained people’s safety. They felt that untrained personnel in the lines were a danger to themselves and to the firefighters. One mentioned that he thought one of the cons assigned to his unit was a firebug!
So no, from what I’m told it’s not a good idea in most situations.

 

[Elixir]

And Derec claims we have a fixation skin color.

We have a fixation with racism, and skin color is a proxy. Racists don’t fixate on color or race, they just want white people (themselves) to remain supreme.

 

[thebeave]

What did Harris do wrong,

Plenty of things:
- called for banning all fracking and offshore drilling
- attacked Biden over the stupid 70s forced bussing policies
- tweeted that Michael Brown was "murdered" when, as a prosecutor, she must have known better
- overspent during her 2020 campaign so that it went broke early despite great initial fundraising

Here are a few more:
- When she was AG she defied a court order to release prisoners because the state needed them to fight wildfires.
- She said the First Amendment doesn't apply to misinformation.
- When asked about her flipflops, the best she could come up with was that her values hadn't changed. Yes, that's what concerned people.

Do you really want untrained people fighting fires? Especially wildfires that are notorious for their semi-unpredictable behaviour.
What were the circumstances regarding the First Amendment situation? When USA becomes a truly civilized nation, then maybe misinformation will not have FA protection.

Generally, they are not untrained:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Conservation_Camp_Program

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) runs 44 conservation camps (also called fire camps) jointly with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) and the Los Angeles County Fire Department. The mission of the Conservation Camp program is to "support state, local and federal government agencies as they respond to emergencies such as fires, floods, and other natural or manmade disasters." Over 3,000 incarcerated people work at the conservation camps each year, including men, women, and juveniles, all of whom have volunteered for the program. All volunteers receive the same entry-level training as CAL FIRE's seasonal firefighters.

That said, they are volunteers. If they have, or will have, served their sentence in full, they should not be held back to fight fires against their will by an AG or anyone else. They should be given the option, though, to help fight the wildfires (at standard pay rates, not prison pay rates) as the state is often severely understaffed in wildfire season. When a forestland property in my family (2025 is our 100 year anniversary as owners) was overrun by a wildfire in 2020, some of the firefighting crew were prisoners and they were instrumental in helping to save our little cabin amidst the chaos. We are grateful to them.

 

[Patooka]

Here are a few more:
- When she was AG she defied a court order to release prisoners because the state needed them to fight wildfires.
- She said the First Amendment doesn't apply to misinformation.
- When asked about her flipflops, the best she could come up with was that her values hadn't changed. Yes, that's what concerned people.

Pretty certain you don't give a flying fuck about any of those things. You're not fooling anyone redcap.

 

[Bomb#20]

Here are a few more:
- When she was AG she defied a court order to release prisoners because the state needed them to fight wildfires.
- She said the First Amendment doesn't apply to misinformation.
- When asked about her flipflops, the best she could come up with was that her values hadn't changed. Yes, that's what concerned people.

Pretty certain you don't give a flying ... about any of those things.

Pretty certain the reason you're pretty certain of that is because I'm an unbeliever in your dogma. Can you explain why it is that you don't give a damn whether the things you say about unbelievers are true?

You're not fooling anyone redcap.

I'm guessing you don't mean I'm one of these...