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Quote from: Iceblaster on January 06, 2017, 10:44:54 am

I have never seen a problem with unisex bathrooms. I think it's kinda ridiculous people are so fed up with bathrooms. Especially people who are against it. Like. Are you so insecure in yourself that someone of the opposite sex is using the bathroom?

I mean. The imagined scenarios of a bearded guy in drag raping a poor defenseless woman in the bathrooms are never going to happen. I dunno, maybe I'm just weird in thinking that. because, as I said, I have no idea why it's such a big deal.

I wish it were the case but certainly over here there is a really fucking annoying problem with cottaging and cruising

Surely that's still be a problem regardless of who's allowed to use the bathroom?

I have absolutely no problem with a single-person bathroom being unisex, but I do have a problem with multi-person bathrooms being unisex.
This happened at a movie theatre I went to where the ladies restroom had been flooded, so everybody went in the mens, and there ended up being two lines with men and women alternating who goes in. Nobody wanted to do at the same time.

If the only problem is "I don't want a member of the opposite sex hear me tinkle" then people need to get over themselves.

If people are worried about being raped, how likely do you think the symbol on the door being a woman would stop someone wanting to do that anyway?

Staff the bathroom if people are worried. It's not rocket surgery.

I disagree. If you let someone into a complex course with terrible SATs just because they're really, really from a poor background, then the same problems that held them back on the SATs are going to hold them back in your course.

What you should be doing is funding more bridging courses for people from a poor background. Pretending they did better on tests than they actually did helps nobody.

Fund new courses that are aimed at the level of educational achievement that they actually got, don't put poor-performers into a high-performer course for "fairness", because you're actually fucking them over in the long run.

I didn't mean to imply ignoring test scores and such as it would be silly to accept someone into a course they can't necessarily do.

Anyhow, SATs are totes racist, regardless

Jay Rosner, executive director of the Princeton Review Foundation, once analyzed rarely disclosed “item-level” data from old SATs and found a troubling pattern. The College Board drops questions if they tend to be answered incorrectly by students who otherwise do well on the test—or if they tend to be answered correctly by students who otherwise do poorly. That seems like an admirable attempt to control quality, but it reinforces the status quo: Questions that white and Asian males don’t do particularly well on are systematically shorn from the tests.

It is like a minimum wage for races, when you think about it.

So what happens when there is a minimum wage? Everyone uses it.

I wouldn't assign that particular equivalency, since the minimum wage doesn't discriminate - 'cept for full-time versus part-time, maybe - and you need to have a job before you can get it.

I think it's more you're trying to draw a picture, but someone says you need to use so much of a particular colour or technique before it's acceptable, else you'll get penalised.

It's not really a long-term solution, and it's probably the easiest and least expensive thing for a governing body to enact, is AA. It might be better to provide training or something of the like for minorities, at least for employment opportunities.

The issue then being that if that training isn't open to white folk it's still racist.

Is it possible for racism to be good..? Like, for everyone?

Edit for autocorrect.

I thought I had missed AGDQ, but it starts on Sunday.

Survived getting the Black Death!

Then proceeded to get a kingdom title after 2 centuries of eating away at my liege's vassals, and waiting for them to stop being at war after I was independent to usurp that kingdom title.

Trying to get the Zoroastrian faith up and running. Probably won't happen, given that every bastard round me is Sunni so it takes ages to get claims and I'm about a century away from getting blasted by Mongols... we'll see how it goes.

Well, those are the only ones I can think of.There may be some arcane laws in some counties or soething.

Racism isn't just an active thing, cha know. It can happen in more passive and complex ways.

Non-whites don't have much representation in politics, they don't achieve as highly as white folks in education, don't have as much access to quality healthcare, to name but three. These are also down to institutional racism.

Where are you getting that Sony got hacked? A (very) quick search for "Sony hack" gets hits from 2014, and again in 2015 recapping 2014.