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The Labour Party is unelectable and will remain so as long as it chants the “trans women are women”…
By: Jade Song
Tags: Gender Identity, Labour Leadership, Gender, Labour Party, Transgender

The Labour Party is unelectable and will remain so as long as it chants the “trans women are women” nonsensical mantra. Be a trans woman and live a full life, but even you must accept that you are NOT FEMALE, and you never will be. Your sex is not your gender. Women (the female variety) need sex-based rights to protect them from males. Please try very hard to understand. This is reality. Stop writing nonsense in support of men’s rights, and act more like a woman.
Google Is Under Fire With Recent Reports of Discrimination
By: Grey Journal Staff
Tags: Cap Leimamo Kanaeholo, African American, Learn Culture, Black Lives Matter, Discrimination

Google Is Under Fire With Recent Reports of Discrimination

Google. We all know this large tech company that, over the years, has completely implemented itself into our daily lives. From using their search engine to using their products, Google is one of the most popular large corporations in the world — no one can deny that. But what don’t we know about Google? What things do they like to keep behind closed doors?

It turns out that the company is currently under some heat due to a recent termination of one of their employees. Timnit Gebru was a Black researcher and co-leader for the company’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence team where she researched technology that could make discrimination worse. She says that Google wanted the work that she was doing, but they didn’t want her because she was very vocal about discrimination, black people, women, and marginalization. Many colleagues of hers wrote a letter to Google’s CEO, saying that firing Gebru had put a “demoralizing effect on the whole of [their] team.” And when they suggested Gebru coming back, Google declined.

Apparently, this isn’t the first time they demoted or fired people because of the way they spoke out. In 2018, Google handled other issues like sexual harassment by pushing the workers out of the company. Regardless of their policy “if you see something that you think isn’t right — speak up,” Google uses a hypocritical approach to problem solving with issues they have with their employees.

The saddest part of it all is that Google does not want to speak on the matter. They are choosing to keep it behind closed doors while their ex-employees are threatening to open them. Not only is the firing of Gebru an act of discrimination over the very thing that is helping Google release non-discriminative information, but it is a disservice to those who want to speak out but now feel like they cannot. What are your thoughts on Google’s recent scandal? Let us know down below?

This article originally published on GREY Journal.

This article originally published on GREY Journal: https://greyjournal.net/play/learn-culture/google-is-under-fire-with-recent-reports-of-discrimination/
Examining Harmony
By: Nivedita Shori
Tags: One Line, Discrimination, Critical Thinking, Oppression, Injustice

What looks harmonious might not be so, even if it might have ‘looked’ that way since forever.

Peer closely, dissect the harmony, think critically, become your own judge.

Many thanks to Francine Fallara for inspiring this necessary thought through your prompt!
A message we should all follow...
Tags: Christmas, Discrimination, Respect, Faith, Merry Christmas

A Conversation

King: "What is this religion which you have introduced for yourself and which has served to cut you off from the religion of your people? You also did not enter my religion nor the religion of any other community."

Answer: O king, we were a people in a state of ignorance and immorality, worshipping idols and eating the flesh of dead animals, committing all sorts of abomination and shameful deeds, breaking the ties of kinship, treating guests badly and the strong among us exploited the weak.

We remained in this state until God sent us a Prophet (peace be upon him), one of our own people whose lineage, truthfulness, trustworthiness and integrity were well-known to us...Thereupon, O king, our people attacked us, visited the severest punishment on us to make us renounce our religion and take us back to the old immorality and the worship of idols.

They oppressed us, made life intolerable for us and obstructed us from observing our religion...

The king was impressed and wanted to know more, so he asked something about his religion. The answer impressed him more.

Before I continue, on who the king was and what was the answer and whom did he questioned... I would like to give you all a message that this incident holds for all of our faiths...

Let’s respect each other for whatever we believe in. Let others follow what they want to, and stop making fun of each other or bullying. It’s not just about faith, let’s respect overall. And in times of need, we should be there to help each other out.

Now, this was the answer to King's second question...

(These verses were read to the king...)

"He said: "I am just a message-bearer of your Lord, I have come to grant you a most pure boy.Mary said: "How can a boy be born to me when no man has even touched me, nor have I ever been unchaste?"... Then she came to her people, carrying her baby. They said: "O Mary! You have committed a monstrous thing...Thereupon Mary pointed to the child. They exclaimed: "How can we speak to one who is in the cradle, a mere child?"The child cried out: "Verily I am Allah's servant. He has granted me the Book and has made me a Prophet..."

The King replied there was only a fine line between your religion and ours. The King was from Abyssinia, a Christian, Najashi.

For details you may follow the link below:

https://www.arabnews.com/news/546951

Happy Holidays and Happy Christmas 🎄
. . . The Mass Genocide
Tags: Poetry, Discrimination, Muslim, Poem, Equality

. . . The Mass Genocide

. they drive around the park,

looking for “that kind”.

they abduct her in the dark,

they always cross the line.

. she goes running around the block,

screaming for help.

now they play hide and seek,

running from the shark.

. she’s screaming, she’s crying,

but they grab her by the hair.

her little brothers in the van,

unconscious, they don’t care.

. there’s men in blue suits,

you can smell the death.

this is their little game,

there’s no rights just left.

. it goes, “bubblegum bubblegum

in a dish”.

“you’d better go hide, because

you’ll be my new b*tch”.

. her hijab’s ripped off,

she’s tortured and killed,

the men are left working,

who’ll be their next “exhilarating thrill”?

. SAVE THE MUSLIMS IN CHINA!! They are put into concentration camps and are abused. This is their life. I’m a 14 year old poet, please give back any feedback, it would be nice to hear what everyone has to say.
You Aren’t Owed An Audience For Your Feedback
By: Kent Beck
Tags: Discrimination, Geek

As a recovering misogynist geek asshole I want to address my fellow assholes regarding “feedback”.

You aren’t owed a respectful hearing for your feedback because, If you feel the impulse to give “feedback” to a random person with less structural power than you it’s likely just a badly disguised power play, instead Own your shit

Here’s how I read the original incident — dude was uncomfortable with his own self during Ms. Willis’ talk. Maybe the topic was something he wanted to understand and it was clear she understood it better than he did. Rather than deal with his own discomfort, he figured if he could make Ms. Willis feel bad about talking then he’d feel (temporarily) better about himself.

Why am I making this all about gender (or other structural power differentials)? I’m not. Dude is. He passive aggressively approached a woman in a way no dude has ever approached me.

I’ve had plenty of listeners come up to me upset after a talk. Never with this approach. Dude does this with women and not with men, he’s making it about gender.

In the thread on Twitter, Dude 2 soon weighed in reinforcing the “feedback as power play” message:

“Wonder what it was” — what a load of bollocks. Dude 2 is uncomfortable that a mere woman would ignore a man and is attempting to shame Ms. Willis for not caving. Dude, she doesn’t need to see the list because it’s bullshit. It’s about Dude 1’s feelings, not about the presentation.

Am I sure that Dudes 1 & 2 aren’t sincere & just awkward? Yes I am, because I’ve seen it too many times (and perpetrated it myself in younger years).

The mildest consequence of this behavior, put-in-placing criticism disguised as “feedback”, is that geeks without structural power have a harder time reaching their geeky potential. Many are driven right out of geekdom altogether, a loss to all. And all so dudes can temporarily stave off feelings of inadequacy.

Own your shit, dudes. The First Feedback Filter applies both ways. When receiving feedback, ask, “What of this is about me and what of this is about them?” When you feel compelled to give unsolicited feedback to those with less structural power than you, ask, “What of this is about me and my feelings of inadequacy/self-loathing/insecurity and what is about them?” And then keep that “feedback” to yourself and work on your self-image.

You, work on your self-image. It’s no one’s responsibility but yours. (Hint: the more upset you would be if the feedback was rejected, the more it’s actually about you & the more you should keep it to yourself.)

I dream of a day when all geeks are free to fully geek in ways that support & do not diminish others. Slinging criticism turds coated in feedback frosting postpones that day. Knock it the hell off. Own your shit.

Oh, my response to Dude 2:

Some folks aren’t able to see the embedded tweets. Here they are in order:
Google’s Firing of Dr. Timnit Gebru by the Documents
Tags: Believeblackwomen, Google, Timnit Gebru, Discrimination

I #BelieveBlackWomen. I especially know that when such an accomplished and respected black woman has the courage to share publicly what’s happened to her, and people still don’t believe her despite her reputation, that it is more extremely important than ever to support her wholeheartedly. So to me when she and the people on her team and the people who have experienced similar things with Google make statements then I personally believe it to be the truth and I will characterize it and refer to it as such here.

What I know to be true is that there were a complicated combination of circumstances and Google followed it’s abusive, probably illegal, patterns. The core documents involved are: a) an email Dr. Gebru wrote to the Google Brain Women and Allies group, b) a research paper Dr. Gebru co-wrote, c) feedback [I think it was written] Dr. Gebru received about her research paper, and d) an email Dr. Gebru wrote to Google giving two conditions she wanted them to meet otherwise she would quit.

For context, Dr. Gebru’s email to Brain Women and Allies is :fire:. It is one of the best things I’ve read all year, something I’ll reference for years to come — just the honest truth as I’ve painfully learned in the 20+ years I’ve been writing code. To summarize, she said stop doing the diversity work at Google (“writing documents”) because it hasn’t and won’t make a difference but, if you really want to do something, do work to make leaders be held accountable.

Let’s go to the research paper(b). It had been “pubapprove “approved”” by Google which means approved. Also, Google has a history of not punishing people who don’t go through the internal research review process. The process, is by the way, designed to keep corporate secrets not to do peer review. Then she wrote the email to Brain Women and Allies(b) after which she received anonymous feedback routed to her through the paper review team(c) about problems with citations in her co-authored paper(b). She wanted to know who was giving that feedback (secret feedback trick), she wanted to address them. They wouldn’t tell her who wrote them. She wrote an email to Google(d) saying she’d take her name off the research paper if they could meet 2 conditions, otherwise she would work with them on a last day at Google. Condition 1 was that they tell her who was newly critiquing her paper. Condition 2 wasn’t publicly known as of the last time I checked.

Which brings us to the email Google sent Dr. Gebru where they claim she resigned and that they had decided to make it effective immediately. I say Google because her boss didn’t know she’d been fired. They specifically mention in their email(d) that her email to Brain Women and Allies(b) “is behavior that is inconsistent with the expectations of a Google manager.” Talking about this as an issue with her paper(b) is just disingenuous [as Jeff Dean, SVP of Research at Google tried to/is trying? to do]. It’s also a double standard compared to how Google treats white men as this Googler notes.
Important to note that it’s the neighbourhood which’s labelled as “low-income" and the…
By: Amina Rashid
Tags: Labels, Responses, Discrimination

Important to note that it’s the neighbourhood which’s labelled as “low-income" and the neighbourhood doesn’t necessarily say anything about the people living in it at any point in time.

The label could’ve been given to said neighbourhood when people who earned “low incomes" indeed lived in it.

(By whose standards though? And whoever said we must accept someone else’s standards as our own?)

However, it’s crucial to remember the possibility of change in any given person’s life situation and financial circumstances at any point in time.

Could be anyone, everyone or no one in said “low-income” neighbourhood started earning a “high income" and they just didn’t bother to show it off for others.

They didn’t bother flaunting their changed-for-the-better-financial-circumstances because they stopped being affected by the ill or unsubstantiatedly dumb opinions of others.

Could be, no?

P.S. Loving the article BTW. Thank you for writing it, dear writer (I can’t recall your name at the moment, but I’m enjoying reading and engaging w/ your writing a lot. Thank you!).
The Brownface Culture Of Bollywood
By: Outspoken And Opinionated
Tags: BlackLivesMatter, Discrimination, Colorism, Bollywood, Brownface

Do you recollect how in Gully Boy Murad is a darker looking individual notwithstanding Ranveer Singh being a genuinely fair looking person? Or then again how in Super 30, Hrithik Roshan, local Greek God, plays an earthy coloured Anand Kumar? Furthermore, how in Bala, Bhumi Pednekar as Latika Tiwari seems, by all accounts, to be a terrible parody of every dark-skinned woman in the nation? Also how a reasonably fair Alia Bhatt playing Bihari labourer has a stunning tan in Udta Punjab? That is brownface. It is the way of life of utilizing a humiliating measure of face paint to shading an individual’s skin hazier than what it truly is.

Bollywood today utilizes brownface to explicitly depict a character from a hindered foundation. Colourism, as it so exists, at that point additionally influences all different qualities of that character-their garments, way of talking, everyday environments, everything. Take Gully Boy, for example, since it is the one with most awards. Murad is a hopeful rapper living in the ghetto paths of Dharavi in Mumbai. To give him “that” look, Singh’s face was misleadingly sautéed to coordinate the character’s experience. If Murad were a widely acclaimed vocalist, his face would have been fair and beautiful. India is a tropical nation where a considerable share of ladies have a hazier appearance. However, it is continually suggested that lighter looking young ladies are better. Young ladies are alluded as ‘gori’ and ‘goriya’ in various melodies.

If you think this is awful, allow me to introduce you old-school Bollywood. In 1963, a film called Meri Surat Teri Aankhen was delivered. A turn on the maxim “excellence lies subjective depending on each person’s preferences”, it indicated Ashok Kumar as a vampire, with a “scary” face painted all-dark, living with Muslim guardians. There was just bigotry and religionism entirely subjective.

One may contend that it’s just normal for directors to project the best entertainers and shape them as per the job. That is the very idea of driving movies. Yet, this becomes dangerous when it starts to pigeonhole things. Brownface, for example, tries to connect a specific character with a specific foundation. In a nation like India which shuns dull individuals and where colourism is widespread, utilizing brownface in any event, with the end goal of portrayal accomplishes more mischief than anything.

Furthermore, we know it’s false that helpless Bollywood with its kind nature needs the best for brown-skinned individuals with storylines that try to elevate them. On the off chance that if these are the true colours of Bollywood then it would have augmented its variety and not gatekept dark-skinned actors from becoming mainstream.

The brownface issue goes beyond Bollywood’s photoshop abilities. It is extremely profound established in the Indian psyche to be tackled by a simple plot point in a film. In any case, it would do well for the business to take care of its brown paints for quite a while. Maybe for eternity.
Are You Sure You’re Not Racist?
By: Amelia Devall
Tags: Racism, Society, Discrimination, Equality, Race

Where do we draw the line? At actions, words, or thoughts?

Photo by Alex Motoc on Unsplash

We the people(s) gave Nazis a green light once. Hatred escalated and scarred us deeply. Let it remain in history as a shameful exception.

Have you never discriminated?

The side of racism that we can see is the one built with actions and words. An image of brutality and utter disdain. At times swept under the rug or, on the contrary, displayed proudly as a core belief. By people like you and me. But actions and words are so easy to control…

It’s not that hard to act in a non-racist manner, really. It’s not that hard to refrain from saying hurtful things based on skin color, ethnicity, gender, or sexual preference. Because racism isn’t the only plague. All discrimination is, even a positive one. Two wrongs don’t make a right, although we might find positive discrimination useful as a counterbalance in this early attempt to correct the negative one.

Do we not have a mechanism to pause our train of thought before voicing it? A speed bump for thoughts is the first thing we need. Because the main culprit, the invisible executioner, the root of all suffering lies in our thoughts. Thoughts that have been molded by our interactions since early childhood. Thoughts that have been wrongfully planted in non-discerning minds and later on validated by others just like us.

Yes, thoughts lead to those discriminatory words and actions in the first place. So, let’s reframe them!
La reconnaissance faciale, une technologie incroyable avec des risques qui le sont tout autant
By: Guillaume Besson
Tags: Data Science, Machine Learning, Reconnaissance Faciale, Intelligence Artificielle, Discrimination

Data & AI professional, sharing about Data Science and Artificial Intelligence news and innovations under a business perspective | @GuillaumeBess13
The Trump Administration Is Going After Facebook
By: Ambient Reads
Tags: USA, Law, Politics, Discrimination, Facebook

The Trump Administration Is Going After Facebook

Facebook is no stranger to controversy regarding its policies, but Trump’s Administration proves not even the Department of Justice is above political errands. Ambient Reads Dec 7, 2020·4 min read

On December 4th, the Department of Justice announced that it was suing Facebook for allegedly discriminating against US workers in favor of H-1B visa workers and other temporary visa holders.

While there are legitimate concerns surrounding Facebook such as the practice of user information collection, privacy, censorship, and false information — the DOJ targeting immigrants seemed to come at a time when the administration they’ve been accused of helping is currently spiraling under control due to Trump’s loss to President-elect Joe Biden.

The Complaint Laid Out By The Department of Justice

There are two complaints laid out by the DOJ.

The first complaint

The DOJ alleges that Facebook created permanent positions that is open only to that temporary visa holder.

Facebook then implemented a recruitment process intentionally designed to deter U.S. workers from applying.

For these positions reserved for temporary visa holders, Facebook does not advertise the positions on its website, does not accept applications online, and requires candidates to mail in their applications.

Facebook often gets zero applications for these advertised positions. And even when U.S. workers do apply, Facebook will not consider them for the advertised positions.

Instead, Facebook fills these positions exclusively with temporary visa holders. Simply put, Facebook reserves these positions for temporary visa holders.

The second complaint

The DOJ goes on to say, “Not only do Facebook’s alleged practices discriminate against U.S. workers, they have adverse consequences on temporary visa holders by creating an employment relationship that is not on equal terms. An employer that engages in the practices alleged in the lawsuit against Facebook can expect more temporary visa holders to apply for positions and increased retention post-hire. Such temporary visa holders often have limited job mobility and thus are likely to remain with their company until they can adjust status, which for some can be decades.”
Your Voice Counts! — STOP AGEISM NOW!
Tags: Advocacy, Discrimination, Culture Change, Elder Abuse, Agesim

Change often starts with the power of one. Your voice will influence many others.

I am asking for your support to help me raise awareness about America’s:

Rapidly aging 60-plus population

Reluctance to prepare for or embrace this significant societal change

Discriminatory practice of Ageism

More widespread than racism or sexism, ageism is prejudice against a person based simply upon their chronological age or the wrinkles on their face.

The consequences of age discrimination play out at home, in the workplace, and communities every day.

Until elected and appointed leaders, at all levels, and on both sides of the political aisle, are willing to acknowledge pervasive ageism or recognize global aging, maintaining quality of life will continue to prove difficult for our parents, grandparents, and future selves.

My intention is to gather endorsements and comments from as many of my friends and colleagues, and their friends and colleagues, as possible between now and January 31st.

Join me in raising awareness. Take a moment and do so now. www.change.org/Stop-Ageism
Is Facebook for businesses?
By: Edward W Hackett
Tags: Writing, Discrimination, Social Media, Facebook, Equality

Photo by Green Chameleon on Unsplash

Have you as a writer had problems?

Personally, I dislike FB. I have a very small FB page which I seldom use. I think that Mark Zuckenberg is only interested in money and will publish whatever crap he can if it increases his income.

To allow outright lies to remain and say it has to do with 1st amendment considerations is total B.S. He could leave the post, but label it or put a black box around it to call attention to a post that flies in the face of science or generally accepted facts.

The general public is easily led and they believe what they want to believe. We all have our biases, but outright lies need to be labeled for the benefit of those too lazy to verify the information.

When they ban someone without a prior warning or an explanation, it tells me it is time to leave.

I have read several authors that I follow on Medium say that to protect your work you should have your own website. Even publishing on Substack is no guarantee that they won’t go out of business or change their rules so your presence is curtailed or eliminated.

With your own website, you own your content and set your own rules. You can still publish on Medium and point to your website. People who follow you on your website will get expanded stories and access to your coaching programs if they pay you on Patreon or if you accept payments on your site.

I generally write about economics and events that have a political bent. Recently, I have been very busy with my job, but I would much rather have my income derived from something that I can control, rather than working for someone else.

I am interested in your coaching programs and I would like to have your input about which of your programs would benefit me the most. Would you be acting as an editor or proofreader? Would you be able to direct me in some direction that is more productive than another — building a following more quickly?

Let me know your thoughts and let all of know what your next steps will be.
This Just In, Comrade: a commodifiable trend is all this ‘social justice’ exercise in…
By: Ron Collins
Tags: Misogyny, Workplace, Discrimination, Hasan Minhaj, Patriot Act

….social justice as a trend you can commodify rather than a way of (re)building the world

This Just In, Comrade: a commodifiable trend is all this ‘social justice’ exercise in self-promotion has ever been.

Even though not a single one of the endless names dropped in the above rings a bell with me, nor had I ever heard of this ‘show’ thingy (given your account of it, looks like I never missed much), it does continue to amaze me when I read these weird and confused struggle-session litanies from left-wingers, trying to absorb the waves of cognitive dissonance washing over them when they begin to decode, albeit at glacial velocity, that these ‘social justice’ posers are and always have been a pack of dysfunctional opportunistic con-artists whose worst dread is to ever have to earn a legitimate living, who treat each like lower than dogs, and are mostly just looking to leverage some career track by intoning all the right slogans to the right crowds. Whom they mostly fear, almost as much as they despise.

Do the math, tavarisch: even when this ‘social justice’ nonsense now and then manages to produce some legislation or create some sort of ‘programs’, what does it turn into, every single time? High taxes, endless regulations, armies of inept bureaucrats out to steal everything that isn’t nailed down at the office while they cut deals on the side with their cronies; or, in other words, just a new brand name stamped over the same old civil-servant shit:

business as usual.

If I had not read some Marx and some history of communist revolutionary movements, I would have a hard time grasping why these campus-leftists who never did an honest days’ work in their lives simply assume that the way to procure this ‘social justice’ is to make regimes bigger and more powerful than ever, and then hope, apparently, that the emotional resonance of some hypnotic cues and liturgical slogans, which may have inspired a few cheering crowds of fellow travelers down at the quad, go on and take hold as some kind of moral code in the everyday running of dispensaries of government handouts.

Here’s a clue: the bureaucrat has yet to be born who ever gave a rat’s ass about anything but their own career.

So, unless you’re one of the dozen-and-a-half true believers in the world who actually think ‘social justice’ can be achieved, and the human condition solved, with taxes and bureaucracy, and the windfall graft and shameless favoritism that inevitably come along with them, then I have to conclude that this author is every bit as much the inauthentic pretender as all those she mentions in the article above.

Or, is there some other pathway to this ‘social justice’ that I hadn’t heard of yet, other than to keep reciting ‘from each according to their ability, to each according to their need’, so many times that sooner or later it stops sounding like the naive carte blanche extended to power-grabbers and kingpins that it so plainly is?
The formation of gender discrimination in childhood
By: Efstratios Papanis
Tags: Childhood, Discrimination, Gender

The formation of gender discrimination in childhood

Children’s gender socialization in the family and at school involves values, perceptions, stereotypes, etc. that contribute to “producing” / shaping and reproducing of hierarchical gender discrimination. This paper examines how the family and the school contribute to forming the child’s gender identity and reproducing gendered discrimination. The questionnaire was used as a means of collecting the data, adding standardized vignettes, which concerned everyday family and school practices. The results of the research show that students in the family and at school carry out daily activities that incorporate gender-based characteristics, thus contributing both to performing gender identity and (re-) producing gender discrimination. As legitimized and physicalized, gendered stereotypes are reproduced daily in all aspects of the social life.

Key words: gender identity, gender discrimination, family, school, stereotypes, childhood

Efstratios Papanis,

Permanent Assistant Professor, University of the Aegean

Andromachi Bouna,

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of the Aegean

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How Social Media May Leave me Broke for Christmas
By: Sam H Arnold
Tags: Writing, Discrimination, Social Media, Facebook, Equality

As many of you know I run some writing groups on Facebook. This morning I logged on to discover I had been banned from posting to Facebook groups for a week. If you experienced this when posting links, this can make a huge difference to your earnings, especially from Medium. I effectively have no way of posting links to the groups that support my work.

The strange thing about this ban is that I am only banned from groups, both my profile and page are still active and I can post to them.

There is always a workaround

A very close friend of mine has taken over posting the daily threads so the group can still run. My writers will still be able to advertise their posts. I will also be reading all the work posted there and hoping that my followers will search my work out on my page or Medium and keep reading my work.

So what was the violation?

From what I can gather it is one of two posts that has been responsible for the ban. The reason given is that I broke COVID laws. So the first is this post that I shared with my profile.

However, I am doubtful it is this post as it is still on my profile. I never posted it to any groups so, why ban me from Facebook groups?

It is more likely to be this article that I shared yesterday.

For anyone who read it, they will see, that it does not mention COVID at all. It supports the fact that we need to embrace the new way Christmas will be this year.

The Problem With Facebook

This is my major problem with this ban, it is unsupported. There is no reason for it, I have appealed I won’t hold my breath. I run three businesses through Facebook, so this has quite literally affected my income. At the time of the year when I need all the extra cash, I can get.

For many months, I have been considering moving my business off Facebook to another platform. I am fed up with the practices and the attitude it has towards its customers. Which is essentially what we are.

My best option appears to be to set a group up on LinkedIn. Would you be interested if this was the case? Can you also think of other platforms I can use to transfer my group too?
EEOC Issues Final Rule for Online Filing in Discrimination Cases
By: Scholley Bubenik
Tags: Human Resources, Discrimination, HR, Hrtech, Compliance

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In a final ruling dated October 15, 2020, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) expanded a pilot program that began in 2015 to allow the EEOC and private employers to electronically submit documents and communicate with the agency online.

The EEOC enforces federal laws that prohibit employment discrimination, including the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

What does the Final Rule Include?

The final ruling improves communication in determination letters to charging parties and respondents about the EEOC’s decision to close an investigation.

The final ruling also maintains its commitment to preserving the confidentiality of charge-related information and is bound by strict confidentiality requirements…which make it unlawful for commission employees to make public any charge-related information prior to the institution of a lawsuit involving the information. Additionally, the final rule memorializes changes that have been occurring over the past several years as the EEOC has made significant strides in providing digital services.

What do Employers Need to Know?

When the EEOC receives a bias claim from a worker, it sends a notice to the employer. The EEOC suggests that employers review charge notices carefully and follow directions. Employers may be asked to provide a response to the charge, which gives them an opportunity to explain why the claims may be incorrect or not illegal. The EEOC recommends that employers consider resolving claims through mediation.

Once the claim is investigated by the EEOC, the agency will send a form to the charging employee if no cause for a discrimination claim was found. Employees still have the right to file a lawsuit in court after such a determination, and the final rule adds language to EEOC regulations stating that a dismissal will include notice of the employee’s statutory right to file a lawsuit. The final rule also adds language clarifying that a “no cause” determination and dismissal does not mean the claims have no merit.

For more information visit, EEOC Issues Final Rule for Online Filing in Discrimination Cases.

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Racism in Healthcare in the United States
By: Nia On Air
Tags: Racism, Discrimination, Awareness, Healthcare, Systemic Racism

An issue that I have wanted to speak on for years. A silent problem that people of color deal with, affecting their care. Now that healthcare is trending, the time is now. We have openly talked about police brutality for months, rightfully so. However, during the middle of a pandemic, health care officials are faced with decisions. Would you trust your provider to make the best decision for you? Speaking from the perspective of a black woman who has worked in healthcare, along with receiving care, my opinions are from experience. While I was pregnant with my youngest son back in 2018, I ended up with heart palpations towards the end of my second trimester.

At the time, I was living in the state of Wyoming. My doctors were extremely racist. “Why not go to another facility?” you ask. Well, this was the only hospital in town. The other hospital was in a Sundown Town. If you aren’t aware of what a Sundown Town is, please check out my article or podcast touching on these topics. To add insult to injury, this was my only option. A doctor initially causes pain just because he did not want to hear my concerns. I developed a terrible toothache during my second trimester. I went to see a dentist at Davis Dental that I thought would go pretty easy. However, his suggestion was immediately pulling my teeth without even addressing the problem. I objected because that is not at all what I came to get done to my tooth. That same day I scheduled with another provider. My second opinion provided debunked Davis Dental diagnosis on having my teeth removed. Instead, it was a simple fix. A simple filling was all that was needed. I could go on an one with injustice I have received the patient and the co-worker.

Have you experienced racism or discrimination while either being a receiver of healthcare services or an employee? We all know that if you work in the field, there are groups that stick together. The doctors mainly stay with each other, the gangs of healthcare. Do you have any ideas that we could team up to take a chance? America is for all those who come seeking equality. Of course, never forgetting black and brown women who judged. According to BBC NEWS statistics support Maternal death rates in the UK, 2014 to 2016 states: 40 per 100,000 pregnancies of black women died from “complications.” Studies show sixteen per 100,000 mixed race women have experienced maternal death. 8 per 100,000 white women died during or up to six weeks after pregnancy. The history of making people of the color matter last now needs to be addressed. Have you experienced any discrimination? Rather, being uncomfortable with blatantly disrespectful behavior. We need to start bringing this issue more to the forefront.

Reference:

Why are black mothers at more risk of dying?

Racism in healthcare: What you need to know

Alarming Racial Differences in Maternal Mortality

Black Americans see a health-care system infected by racism, new poll shows
11.16.20
By: Bubbbles Media
Tags: Perspective, Discrimination, Life Lessons, Humanity, Human Nature

Hello world! Here’s your recommended daily allowance of perspective, fresh as mountain air and piping hot from our servers. It’s November 16, 2020 here on planet earth. Today’s topic is “Discrimination.”

Humanity’s score on the Intergalactic Species Assessment Scale (ISAS) continues to decline, as it has since around 300 BCE.

This micro dose of perspective is designed to elevate humanity’s ISAS score. Please use liberally as you go about your day. Little acts and attitudes make big differences, especially when we work together. Most of the time, we are our own worst enemy, but we don’t have to be. It’s up to you and me.
Life without apophenia?
By: Ankit Koul
Tags: Science, Apophenia, Shadow, Discrimination

We never really see others, instead, we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Age, disability, sexual orientation, status as a parent, religion, national origin, pregnancy, race, colour, gender, reprisal/retaliation is what we impinge on others, of course considering the wave nature of our facets. According to physics, the meteorological synthesis of reflection, refraction and dispersion results into a beautiful phenomenon that earthlings call Rainbow. Similarly, when mortals are subjected to discriminations the water droplets in their eyes project a spectrum of personas seeable to only those with a tolerant visual perception.

Every individual wears a mirror through life, as unique and infeasible to get rid of as their shadow. In moments of despair, this mirror makes them doubt their capability to exist in a so called “real world” because they are cursed and their nights of fantasy are followed by horrid moments of sobering. Losing the sense of proportion between the real and ethereal is a subsequent consequence of the gaze in that very mirror. When life diffuses into dreams and visions, the dreary and mundane processes are nothing but a hindrance to growth because renewal and transition extrapolates meaning from the existence.

Apophenia is the psychological tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things. Yes, you know this feeling, remember detecting shapes in clouds? Likewise, actively or passively supporting the correlation between gender and the salary offered? Context is very essential for this part of the blog because apophenia related to clouds is easy to comprehend but when defined within discrimination, the accused fails to introspect and acknowledge the dichotomy. Not convinced? Oxytocin, the love hormone, makes us more pro social towards “ourselves” and worse to everyone else. That’s not generic pro sociality but ethnocentrism and xenophobia. In other words, the actions of the neuropeptides depend dramatically on context — who you are, your environment, and who the other subject is. There is a reason why our automatic, intuitive moral judgments tend to be impractical or non-utilitarian and that reason is that our moral brains evolved to help us spread our genes, not to maximize our collective happiness.

Ever since its conception, morality came with a varying annex written by individuals that claimed to know more about themselves and others, and yet we often find it easy to believe them rather than our instincts. Well, there are several grounds for that and it is a discussion for another time but what is important here is to understand that our actions and our feelings are based on stimulus response theory. Therefore, when you express hatred and lack of empathy towards others you are not only the response but also the stimuli. Your perception, which seems meaningful, exists in your fantasy and the justification of it causes apophenia which is harmful and harmless depending on the context. So when see others, we see only shadows of ourselves falling on them.
I admire your courage to speak out so publicly about such injustice.
Tags: Prejudice, Discrimination, India, Rascism, Assam

I admire your courage to speak out so publicly about such injustice. As a person of Indian origin I can confirm growing up with all these ingrained prejudices that you speak about and it’s true that Indian society is an extremely judgemental and rascist society. You talk about being from the North East but I think the problem for dark skinned Indians is even worse. As a fair Indian I find it remarkable how much attention being fair is given. We haven’t learn the lessons from colonialism. It’s deep rooted in our society and it’s going to take a long time to weed out. Think bollywood, entertainment and how few dark skinned or north eastern or any other ethnic groups in India are prevalent there. On the positive side and to end , I think Indian society is changing and education will change these embedded stereotypes and rascist upbringings.
Asylum Seekers or Criminals?. a critic on the handling of asylum…
By: Louis Dennis
Tags: Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Society, Discrimination, Australian Politics

“My country and my religion is a target for Taliban. There were many bomb blasts and always big wars and terrible attacks. Shia people have arms, legs, noses hacked off, necks slashed, plus there is rocket fire and missiles. This is because I am Shia. All this means no one is safe and now because I escaped. I am in detention.”

(Unaccompanied child, Nauru Regional Processing Centre, May 2014)

“I didn’t want to live in this world any more. I don’t want to be alive the next day. I didn’t want to get up. I didn’t want to open my eyes. No hope. Disappointed. Even I couldn’t bear my family. My children, my husband. I didn’t want to see them. I couldn’t bear to hear them. I was embarrassed in front of my children because I felt guilty because I did something horrible to my children [by bringing them to Australia].”

An asylum seeker living with breast cancer on Nauru.

“You can never imagine how people live here. Sometimes we are unable to buy drinking water and so we drink the bathroom water. Three days ago I had a stomach problem. Sometimes I run out of money for food and I don’t eat for days.”

An asylum seeker from Somalia, who sought refuge after the murder of her husband, abduction of child and being held hostage for five years.
On Being a ‘Minority’
By: Amateur Tattletale
Tags: Emotional Intelligence, White Privilege, Empathy, Discrimination, Microaggressions

…the tiny semblance of a feeling to which you sufferers of white privilege may be able to relate.

And of course, I have no idea if you’ve ever experienced this particular feeling, but I do think it is a feeling with which anyone can empathize simply by understanding the context inside which this example exists. And it is a feeling with which I (and others like me, but I haven’t done any legwork on this as I am a self-labeled ‘amateur’) am very familiar and have to deal with on a regular basis.

Imagine you’re invited to dinner, therefore, you must attend. You arrive, and you are greeted, friendly enough, and people see you and acknowledge your existence, but then, when everyone moves to sit in the dining room, there’s no place for you, and there’s clearly no room to set up an extra place. The host apologizes and hopes you will understand that there’s simply not enough food for you because you didn’t rsvp on time, so they’re really sorry that you can’t stay for the dinner part. You gently state that you did rsvp, and that the host had said they’d received it when you saw them last Tuesday. The host shakes their head as if trying to remember something and finally states that that can’t be right. It is, but who are you to make a fuss about free dinner.

And then, all of the other guests merrily sit down and begin eating in front of you as you have not quite left the room (or the house) yet to head home.

Oh, and you are the crazy one if you show even a whiff of anger.
While I understand the imagery of a turtle on its back, and I understand that Donald Trump is…
By: Gina Sideris
Tags: Anderson Cooper, Journalism, Obesity, Discrimination

While I understand the imagery of a turtle on its back, and I understand that Donald Trump is significantly overweight, Anderson Cooper’s remarks were clearly discriminatory toward obese Americans, who are not all ineffectual and immobile. I frankly expected better professional ethics and comportment of an award-winning journalist than to resort to cheap stereotypes.

Because Donald Trump is a white cisgender straight male of considerable financial means, his weight is a social vulnerability that is an easy target, but very unnecessary, given Mr. Trump’s track record in both politics and business. This is not just about obese people. Anyone who is not white, not cisgender, not straight, not male, and not of considerable means should be appalled at such derogatory speech, as it is likely they’ve been on the receiving end of it at some point.
Compassionate Tears
By: Randy Shingler
Tags: Compassion, Poetry, Discrimination, Poetry Sunday, Suffering

Sadness felt for many fellow beings

Compassionate tears I shed for them

Seeing sufferings too many experience,

Hungary faces seen haunting food lines

Fearful for welfare of children they have.

Minorities often still have rights abused

Racial prejudices foster discriminations

Growing acceptance but not near equality,

Taunts and hecklings from men with guns

Dangerous conditions in lives being lived.

Mothers trying to nurture infant children

Breast feeding some, teaching older ones

Desiring they thrive and become successful

Dreaming of better days past and in future

Critical for progress seeming to be thwarted.

Loving kindness from my heart of humanity

Compassionate tears as I see more suffering,

People without homes, often no place to go,

Should not be tolerated in our abundant society.
Chaos A Poem
By: Pierre Trudel
Tags: Discrimination, Religion, Theequest, Culture, Chaos Theory

Thee Quest-Poetry Prompt “Chaos”

Every ripple sends its own wave, fleeing to gain power. When moments occur that create havoc, we feel chaos deep within our soul.

Death brings immediate breakage of common sense, the logic that builds a layer of ripples that often needs years to understand.

Living with it threatens to create upheaval that might kill emotions, making you doubt your belief system.