mullet_head wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 3:36 am
Metal Sludge wrote: ↑Thu Sep 08, 2022 7:03 pm
Please link your info, I'd love to know that you have good information, and you're not just a racist asshole.
DiamondDog wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 2:03 am
If I may be serious for a moment (and state the obvious), "Right now there's a push..." is basically "I heard/I think/I believe". There is no source. You will never get this idiot to cite a credible, reputable source, ever.
He actually did link some sources, did you guys missed it?
I don't know how credible they are, and a war against whitey certainly seems like a stretch, but I'm not sure race based policies/programs such as the ones he mentioned are the way to go.
Yep, missed that. However, there are a couple of key points to take away (from an article in a paper with pretty low rep for credibility, but we'll get to that in a moment) that he didn't mention, because he's so eager for a race war. First of all, from the article:
"Under the agreement between the Minneapolis school district and the teachers union, minority instructors “
MAY be exempted from district-wide layoff[s] outside seniority order,”
Caps, bolding, and underlining mine.
Also, the rationale:
"The language of the contract reportedly states: “starting with the Spring 2023 Budget Tie-Out Cycle, if excessing [reducing] a teacher who is a member of a population underrepresented among licensed teachers in the site, the District shall excess the next least senior teacher, who is not a member of an underrepresented population.”
Given the history of the treatment of visible minorities in North America, I can't really say that that's...unearned, for lack of a better term.
As for the Post:
https://www.thefactual.com/blog/is-the- ... -reliable/
More key quotes:
"A Pace University survey of New Yorkers in 2004 found the New York Post to be the least-credible major news source in the city. As a tabloid-style paper, the Post has a reputation for sensationalized headlines, questionable journalistic practices, conservative bias, and influence from its ownership."
"Over a dataset of 1,000 articles, the New York Post scored an average Factual Grade of 51.9%. This is below the average of 61.9% for all 240 news sources that we analyzed. This places the site in the 12th percentile of our dataset.
These low overall scores are partially due to low-quality sourcing, a lack of author expertise, and sensationalized writing and headlines. Most articles only have intermittent links to supporting evidence, and many of those links point back to other internal articles, suggesting limited diversity in sourcing. "
So there's that.
Also, apologies for going all Lenny on everyone.