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Those Dell systems are "not for the general public, and had found their way to the website only inadvertently. The laptops are available only by custom order and only to military, …

As much as I appreciate the article trying to stem the tide of racism by pointing out the El Paso shooting, I don't think such arguments are fruitful. Firstly, that shooting doesn'…

The rise could be due to the bar for "hate crime" being so low that leaving tire marks on graffiti on a public road qualifies [1] (and an even lower standard is used in Canada [2])…

> British colonial rule Keep going. What makes "colonial rule" different from rule by an aristocrat that inherited lands, if people have no concept of nationhood, and one aristocra…

> Back then there was no concept of nations and nation-states, which only evolved a couple of centuries later. Just because the power structures didn't perfectly reflect nations, d…

> Its pretty explicit in the agreement terms that you need to separately click to agree on every purchase: It's okay to lie everywhere else, as long as they tell the truth somewher…

It's like a bad joke, isn't it? Ask for less immigration, get an expansion of the surveillance state instead.

> Europeans typically are not racialized and do not identify as white, instead as Italian, German, etc. This is obviously false, as shown by the different reactions in Europe to im…

> The following has no place. I don't follow. Why do the results of their study have no place in the abstract? And merely sarcastically re-stating the findings of the study is not …

That is precisely my point. The ability to prevent you from buying a loaf of bread will be used for control.

According to the article, the main problem of a financial police state where you cannot so much as buy a loaf of bread without permission and surveillance from the payment system, …

I don't think norms about politeness are comparable to expert public health recommendations.

White Americans are descended from Europeans, and the post was talking about being proud to be white, not "white American". Though I don't see why oppression is a requirement for p…

On the other hand, those US laws, if they carry comparable sentences as she is facing, are equally unjust. If this case is what it takes to realize how disproportionately cruel the…

No, only those they dislike, and only when they dislike them. They don't object to classifications when it comes to measuring oppression, for example.

That's odd. Their graph shows almost no reduction in immigration during 2016-2020. There's a dip in 2019, but it looks largely compensated by the spikes in years prior. I thought T…

> The idea of being "proud" to be white only conjures up one thought for even the most lightly informed about our nation's history. Twice defending Vienna from Ottoman sieges? Reta…

> While it is true that unsustainable tourism has skyrocketed since Hawaii has lifted COVID-19 regulations, the effects of settler colonialism are an insidious rot that spreads thr…