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keanzu commented on Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]   public.econ.duke.edu/~psa... · Posted by u/undefined1
augustt · 6 years ago
Not that useful when they see your name (and face usually).
keanzu · 6 years ago
Elizabeth Warren would disagree.
keanzu commented on Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]   public.econ.duke.edu/~psa... · Posted by u/undefined1
slowdog · 6 years ago
Part of the problem is Asians don’t vote as a block, so who will protect them? If for a group of people, votes are split, who will look out for their needs?
keanzu · 6 years ago
African Americans don't vote as a block either: https://time.com/5821170/georgia-democrat-vernon-jones-trump...
keanzu commented on Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]   public.econ.duke.edu/~psa... · Posted by u/undefined1
mydongle · 6 years ago
It's really not just academia where this occurs. In Hollywood and in everyday life, it seems to be acceptable for people to make fun of/mock Asian cultures, whereas they wouldn't (or they would think twice about it) do the same with most other minorities. I think the problem is that there's no repercussions to shit talking and stereotyping people who generally avoid trouble. What will it take for people to respect Asian Americans the same way that other minorities are respected?
keanzu · 6 years ago
Better to be part of mainstream society.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiJ_2q3RzM4

keanzu commented on Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]   public.econ.duke.edu/~psa... · Posted by u/undefined1
petilon · 6 years ago
It is weird how racial diversity is given so much higher weight than other forms of diversity.

We are different in economic and social class, religion, politics, urban/rural, interest in sports, interest in music, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity and race.

And yet, when we talk about diversity race trumps all other forms of diversity. It is the most visible (other than gender) form of diversity. All other forms of diversity requires getting to know the person.

When it comes to discrimination, again, the most visible form of difference is the most common basis for discrimination.

keanzu · 6 years ago
Back in 2017 the Heterodox Academy was ranking colleges on viewpoint diversity but they seem to have taken it down. I was only able to find it on web archive. Could be out of date/invalid. 2017 data.

https://web.archive.org/web/20171111053903/https://heterodox...

keanzu commented on Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]   public.econ.duke.edu/~psa... · Posted by u/undefined1
BadassFractal · 6 years ago
Wasn't that study mostly debunked? My understanding was that journalists took some inconclusive data and blew it out of proportion and it became a self-perpetuating meme, disconnected from the original source.
keanzu · 6 years ago
Yes it was: https://reason.com/2019/10/22/orchestra-study-blind-audition...

Also no: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-02/that-b...

Either pick the source that best fits your pre-existing bias or do your own study.

keanzu commented on What is interesting about Factorio   fuseki.net/home/WhatIsInt... · Posted by u/ivee
squiffy · 6 years ago
Would you have a small list of recommended mods for someone like me with ~50 hours in Factorio? Thanks.
keanzu commented on What is interesting about Factorio   fuseki.net/home/WhatIsInt... · Posted by u/ivee
orangefarm · 6 years ago
Their blog posts are great. They sometimes blog about really obscure parts of game development. It’s interesting to read even if you are not building games.
keanzu · 6 years ago
...and here they are: https://factorio.com/blog/
keanzu commented on WHO says cut in funding by the U.S. will affect Africa greatly   africafeeds.com/2020/04/1... · Posted by u/isaac1
jeroenhd · 6 years ago
Welcome to politics, where the WHO would rather estrange a disputed island nation than one if the biggest world powers.

If we get the governments of the world to acknowledge Taiwan then yes, the WHO should follow suit. However, barely any countries acknowledge Taiwan as a nation and the WHO is part of the UN.

The person being interviewed handled the situation very badly, but it's stupid to expect Taiwan to be part of the WHO until at least the United States, the EU and Russia officially acknowledge it as well.

keanzu · 6 years ago
^ This is the correct answer. Too difficult for the WHO to come up with apparently, their rep thought the smart move was to hang up.
keanzu commented on Amazon employees plan ‘online walkout’ to protest treatment of warehouse workers   cnbc.com/2020/04/16/amazo... · Posted by u/claudeganon
tick_tock_tick · 6 years ago
I disagree that it works. Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter are two movements that lost most of their power and presence due to muddling their core message.
keanzu · 6 years ago
Intersectionality is a theoretical framework for understanding how aspects of one's social and political identities (gender, race, class, sexuality, ability, etc.) might combine to create unique modes of discrimination. It aims to broaden the agenda of the first waves of feminism, which largely focused on the experiences of white, middle-class women.

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

keanzu commented on WHO says cut in funding by the U.S. will affect Africa greatly   africafeeds.com/2020/04/1... · Posted by u/isaac1
_y5hn · 6 years ago
Please provide links to back up your allegations with facts then.
keanzu · 6 years ago
Bruce Aylward, assistant director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), has disappeared among the list of leaders on the organization's website a day after awkwardly refusing to answer a question about Taiwan's exclusion from the UN agency.

During a video interview with Radio Television Hong Kong journalist Yvonne Tong (唐若韞) on Saturday (March 28), Aylward claimed not to have heard her question about whether the WHO would consider Taiwan’s membership. When the journalist tried to repeat the question, the WHO official asked her to "move on to another one."

After Tong insisted on getting Aylward’s comment on the Taiwan issue, the advisor appears to have ended the call without notice.

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3906962

u/keanzu

KarmaCake day931May 5, 2019View Original