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Loss of manufacturing jobs

jeudi 24 décembre 2015 à 01:00

The loss of manufacturing jobs in the US is not inevitable. It is the result of political choices.

Exxon's global heating research

jeudi 24 décembre 2015 à 01:00

Exxon shared its global heating research with other major oil companies as far back as 1980.

They have all been knowingly working to make sure the US government does not avoid disaster.

The atmosphere as public trust

jeudi 24 décembre 2015 à 01:00

Officially designating the atmosphere as a public trust might help get some countries to act against global heating.

Poland's Christianist extremist government

jeudi 24 décembre 2015 à 01:00

Poland's Christianist extremist government is undermining the Supreme Court, apparently to facilitate a total ban on abortions.

I support ending subsidies for IVF; the world has an excess of human babies and it makes no sense at all to spend public funds on making more.

Once babies are born, we must make sure they get good food, medical care, education, and a good home with parents that are not stressed about a lack of money.

Naturally, the right-wing government plans to cut that. Christianist extremist don't care about real babies.

Wearing makeup to appear Asian (or black)

jeudi 24 décembre 2015 à 01:00

Is it wrong for Caucasian actors to wear makeup to appear Asian (or black)?

The article presents an incoherent mixture of percieved insult, lack of Asian role models on TV, and loss of work for Asian actors. Any or all of those issues might be valid, but they are all different, and mixing them up produces only confusion.

If it is a matter of work discrimination, how about making up nonwhite actors up to appear Caucasian? All actors' race would cease to matter.

If it is a matter of visible role models on TV, that's a matter of appearance only. Why does it matter what the actor's real skin color or appearance is, beneath the makeup?

If you feel insulted, please explain why an actor's makeup constitutes a statement about Asians, because I don't see that.