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Post by rick49 on Mar 26, 2021 1:57:33 GMT
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Post by ootlg on Mar 26, 2021 7:11:58 GMT
Should have 3 non-white ugly sisters.
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Post by mids on Mar 26, 2021 10:36:26 GMT
Whitey. Ew. "I’ve said, here and elsewhere, that one of the principal benefits of the pandemic is how I’ve been able to exclude racism and whiteness generally from my day-to-day life. Over the past year, I have, of course, still had to interact with white people on Zoom or watch them on television or worry about whether they would succeed in reelecting a white-supremacist president. But white people aren’t in my face all of the time." www.thenation.com/article/society/after-covid-racism/
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Post by rick49 on Mar 27, 2021 1:19:50 GMT
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Post by rick49 on Mar 27, 2021 12:01:55 GMT
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Post by rick49 on Apr 2, 2021 0:18:09 GMT
never ends, does it? When did roads and railways become racist?"Improving roads and railways is pretty uncontroversial, right? Wrong." "President Joe Biden is under pressure not to place too much focus on infrastructure projects in his new economic plan, according to the Washington Post. The reason – you may or may not have guessed – is that it’s racist." "Apparently, ‘sources close to the White House’ believe that favouring physical infrastructure projects represents ‘a dated nostalgia for a kind of white, working-class male worker’." www.spiked-online.com/2021/04/01/when-did-roads-and-railways-become-racist/i assume improving/updating our power lines is also racist.
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Post by flatandy on Apr 2, 2021 1:22:08 GMT
If it was really racist Donald Trump would have found a way to actually improve infrastructure rather than just let everything rot.
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Post by mids on Apr 2, 2021 7:58:33 GMT
He had plans to get a bunch of coolies to build stuff but Biden's cancelled it.
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Post by rick49 on Apr 3, 2021 12:25:16 GMT
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Post by Repat Van on Apr 3, 2021 12:37:59 GMT
Once again Rick’s summary does not match the article.
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Post by Repat Van on Apr 3, 2021 12:40:11 GMT
never ends, does it? When did roads and railways become racist?"Improving roads and railways is pretty uncontroversial, right? Wrong." "President Joe Biden is under pressure not to place too much focus on infrastructure projects in his new economic plan, according to the Washington Post. The reason – you may or may not have guessed – is that it’s racist." "Apparently, ‘sources close to the White House’ believe that favouring physical infrastructure projects represents ‘a dated nostalgia for a kind of white, working-class male worker’." www.spiked-online.com/2021/04/01/when-did-roads-and-railways-become-racist/i assume improving/updating our power lines is also racist. “ Union leader Mary Kay Henry is on the case, telling the powers that be to keep their commitment to spending on the ‘care economy’. She has highlighted that a disproportionate number of low-wage service workers are women and / or ethnic minorities, saying ‘we’re up against a gender and racial bias that this work is not worth as much as the rubber, steel and auto work of the past century’.” I mean definitely that bit is true. Our societies massively undervalue the caring economy, largely because it’s mainly done by women. That said large scale infrastructure spending is always a good thing. Good to see Spiked supporting that.
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Post by reverend on Apr 3, 2021 13:13:36 GMT
never ends, does it? When did roads and railways become racist?"Improving roads and railways is pretty uncontroversial, right? Wrong." "President Joe Biden is under pressure not to place too much focus on infrastructure projects in his new economic plan, according to the Washington Post. The reason – you may or may not have guessed – is that it’s racist." "Apparently, ‘sources close to the White House’ believe that favouring physical infrastructure projects represents ‘a dated nostalgia for a kind of white, working-class male worker’." www.spiked-online.com/2021/04/01/when-did-roads-and-railways-become-racist/i assume improving/updating our power lines is also racist. “ Union leader Mary Kay Henry is on the case, telling the powers that be to keep their commitment to spending on the ‘care economy’. She has highlighted that a disproportionate number of low-wage service workers are women and / or ethnic minorities, saying ‘we’re up against a gender and racial bias that this work is not worth as much as the rubber, steel and auto work of the past century’.” I mean definitely that bit is true. Our societies massively undervalue the caring economy, largely because it’s mainly done by women.That said large scale infrastructure spending is always a good thing. Good to see Spiked supporting that. Opinion piece I take it? any proof, or is it market forces at work, including for the men who work in the sector!
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Post by ootlg on Apr 3, 2021 13:23:01 GMT
One of our family, a young white male just out of uni, is working in the care economy. He's almost starving on the money they pay him. But it's his choice.
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Post by reverend on Apr 3, 2021 13:33:31 GMT
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Post by ootlg on Apr 3, 2021 13:41:26 GMT
+ve discrimination mate. There's a whole industry thriving on faux racial attitudes, encouraging the negative to increase their workload.
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Post by voice on Apr 3, 2021 15:08:33 GMT
“ Union leader Mary Kay Henry is on the case, telling the powers that be to keep their commitment to spending on the ‘care economy’. She has highlighted that a disproportionate number of low-wage service workers are women and / or ethnic minorities, saying ‘we’re up against a gender and racial bias that this work is not worth as much as the rubber, steel and auto work of the past century’.” I mean definitely that bit is true. Our societies massively undervalue the caring economy, largely because it’s mainly done by women.That said large scale infrastructure spending is always a good thing. Good to see Spiked supporting that. Opinion piece I take it? any proof, or is it market forces at work, including for the men who work in the sector! Last I checked only 10 to 15% of nurses are male, care aids it's about 5%. Though I suppose if you lump Dr's in it bends the figures slightly, but only a simpleton would suggest the care sector is not overwhelmingly female. And you'll also find a very high % of minorities doing the work of care aids, it's low skill low pay, but physically and mentally difficult
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Post by Repat Van on Apr 3, 2021 15:59:02 GMT
“ Union leader Mary Kay Henry is on the case, telling the powers that be to keep their commitment to spending on the ‘care economy’. She has highlighted that a disproportionate number of low-wage service workers are women and / or ethnic minorities, saying ‘we’re up against a gender and racial bias that this work is not worth as much as the rubber, steel and auto work of the past century’.” I mean definitely that bit is true. Our societies massively undervalue the caring economy, largely because it’s mainly done by women.That said large scale infrastructure spending is always a good thing. Good to see Spiked supporting that. Opinion piece I take it? any proof, or is it market forces at work, including for the men who work in the sector! It’s not an opinion piece it’s true. It’s one of the drivers of the gender earnings gap. (Also it’s weird you think that work being undervalued and market forces at work are mutually exclusive - how odd. It’s one and the same.)
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Post by rick49 on Apr 8, 2021 1:38:03 GMT
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Post by reverend on Apr 8, 2021 15:30:04 GMT
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Post by ootlg on Apr 8, 2021 16:30:49 GMT
Neatly summed up rev.
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