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Civil rights ratings

lundi 26 février 2018 à 01:00

The NAACP scores members of the US Congress on how they voted on civil rights issues in 2017.

Purpose of education

lundi 26 février 2018 à 01:00

Measuring education in terms of increased income afterwards is missing the main point of education.

We used to acknowledge clearly that the purpose of education was to prepare people to be capable citizens of a democracy. The mere attempt to judge issues of education in narrow economic terms indicates a basic error.

Walmart jobs

lundi 26 février 2018 à 01:00

Walmart's profits and stock price are rising, so it is eliminating some 10,000 management jobs.

I refuse to shop at Walmart in the US; I don't like the way it pays most of its employees so little that they need public assistance.

Employees' sex lives

lundi 26 février 2018 à 01:00

A US appeals court ruled that government agencies can't fire employees over their private sex lives.

I hope that the Supreme Court eventually supports this decision, but I am not optimistic.

I refuse to criticize anyone for "adultery", because it consists of breaking a promise that many people find almost impossible to keep, and in many cases is bad for them. People make this promise because of social pressure that many do not see a way to resist. Under such circumstances, I refuse to criticize them for breaking it.

This is why I refuse to criticize the bully for having affairs with attractive celebrities.

The bully is doing tremendous harm to the US and the world. Let's not get distracted from this by peccadilloes.

Fascists in Italy

lundi 26 février 2018 à 01:00

People that overtly call themselves fascists have started a political party in Italy.

"No ideology, only rhetoric" — sounds a bit like the troll.