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testbot123

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About testbot123

Likes: JavaScript, React

Dislikes: Police brutality

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    Comment #23547105

    The site isn't "cancelled" though. Google has chosen not to do business with another business because advertisers that pay Google don't want their ads to appear on ZeroHedge, whose…

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    Comment #23545673

    The Wikipedia link you're citing does not have data that refutes OPs claim. It mentions several studies that seem to refute it, but in the next sentence(s), shows further studies w…

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    Comment #23423584

    Links are below, with excerpts in case you don't have time to read the massive volumes of text produced by the government, NGOs, and journalists. Sorry it's out of order.

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    Comment #23423560

    "Demographic Differences in Sentencing" [9] -- " Black male offenders continued to receive longer sentences than similarly situated White male offenders. Black male offenders recei…

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    Comment #23423554

    "Study: ‘African-American Names’ 16% Less Likely to Be Approved for Airbnb Rentals" [3] "Black Preschoolers Far More Likely To Be Suspended" [4] -- "Here's what the education data …

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    Comment #23423549

    "Black unemployment rate is consistently twice that of whites" [0] -- "One common explanation, as William A. Darity Jr. of Duke University told Salon in 2011, is that blacks are “t…

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    Comment #23418858

    > This is not the case now in the largest part of the country, nor is it true in most parts of Europe. In other words, had BLM been around in the 1950's they would have been 'in co…

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    Comment #23418157

    Luckily, he made a very public post about it which is currently being discussed in one of the most influential tech news aggregators on the internet. If others are inspired and als…

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    Comment #23417869

    Facebook loses much more money with this employee's departure (if their salary is indeed 250k like you're claiming) -- the cost of recruiting, training, and keeping employees is in…

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    Comment #23417432

    I don't need to engage in politics in my workplace. I can work with people with differing political opinions in terms of activism and advocacy, though. "Liberal" and "conservative"…

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    Comment #23417159

    Don't have any commentary on the substance of this quote, but man that is some terrible writing.

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    Comment #23414250

    "All lives matter" is divisive because "black lives matter" is a statement that black lives are largely devalued and forgotten in a system of institutionalized racism. "Black lives…

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    Comment #23414082

    I should also clarify that this history is focused on the Los Angeles area around 1960s-1990s, viewed from the lens of the drug war. Gangs had existed in the country for a long tim…

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    Comment #23413016

    > Right, that's another word for police. I guess we agree then: more police so we can stop targeting minorities in street-level busts and instead target the big offenders: white co…

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    Comment #23412318

    It's a demand for accountants, lawyers, and law enforcement that focuses on egregious offenders and systemic injustice, eliminating the root causes of crime. Not tear gas and tanks…

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    Comment #23411703

    You mean, like... Jefferey Epstein? We spend so much time defending the rights of police to use military-grade weaponry on individual citizens that we forget that the people who ar…

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    Comment #23409946

    I don't think they're advocating for disbanding the department completely (from the article): > I don’t know yet, though several of us on the council are working on finding out, wh…

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    Comment #23407597

    > To give you an example: if you have little personal contact to a specific minority, and over 50% of the people of that minority you see on TV are either criminals on local news, …

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    Comment #23406742

    Minorities have been trying to prove their worth to the US since the inception of the country (which was built on their backs). It hasn't changed anything. And why isn't it that th…

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    Comment #23405477

    Minorities are not responsible for the racism perpetuated against them. It's not a "marketing problem" that minorities need to solve, it's a racism problem that the perpetrators ne…

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    Comment #23399362

    You're correct, I apologize.

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    Comment #23398602

    Not sure why you're being downvoted. There is documented evidence of this: > "To see this - traffic blocking the main intersection of a level 1 trauma centre, blocking the entrance…

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    Comment #23398522

    28 CFR § 0.100: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/0.100

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    Comment #23398345

    Because the DEA has a special unit for it: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod/exclusive-u-s-dir...