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Мэр города West Hollywood испустила “Guidelines for White People” перед демонстрацией ( Read more... ) -
Such a lovely place (c)
California Bill Would Punish Stores With Separate Boys And Girls Departments
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Newspeak
The words “felon,” “offender,” “convict,” “addict” and “juvenile delinquent” would be part of the past in official San Francisco parlance under new “person first” language guidelines adopted by the Board of Supervisors.
Going forward, what was once called a convicted felon or an offender released from jail will be a “formerly incarcerated person,” ( Read more... ) -
НЕ ПОКЛАДАЯ РУК
Воспитание нового человека в СССР Калифорнии:
In an effort to be more inclusive, the Berkeley City Council adopted an ordinance Tuesday to replace gendered language in the city’s municipal code with neutral terms. Personal pronouns like “she,” “he,” “her” and “him” will change to “they” and “them.”“Fireman” or “firewoman” will become “firefighter ( Read more... ) -
Бумеранг
Claire Wasserman quit her job in marketing to start Ladies Get Paid. But two events in California refused to admit men, so they filed an anti-discrimination lawsuit
In August 2016, Claire Wasserman started an organization, Ladies Get Paid, based in New York City, for women to swap career and leadership tips.
“The lack of women in leadership roles ( Read more... ) -
На кофе покусились
Coffee sold in California must carry a cancer warning, a court has ruled.
The judge in Los Angeles said Starbucks and about 90 other coffee sellers had failed to warn customers about a potentially toxic compound that is produced during the roasting process.
The firms were sued by a California-based non profit-group over the chemical acrylamide.
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Все интереснее и интереснее
An Oklahoma Congressman who visited an Army base being used to house illegal immigrant children now wonders what the federal government is hiding after he was denied access to the facility.
Amid rising concern over a surge of young immigrants crossing the border illegally, flag-waving protesters blocked three busloads of detainees in Riverside ( Read more... ) -
Legitimate question
At UC Berkeley, the ratio of Democrats to Republicans even in the hard sciences had grown to 10 to 1 in 2004, many times what it was 30 years ago. In the humanities and social sciences the ratios were 17 to 1 and 21 to 1, respectively.
Even in science classes, the political bias seems unavoidable. A student in Berkeley's Computer Science 61AC wrote ( Read more... )