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  1. CDAK
    This is patently false. Quote my posts.
  2. CDAK
    Sure, it's in the second paragraph.
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    This is quippy and a good soundbite but I don't think it's reflective of what people are concerned about in K-12 schools. Can School be ‘Antiracist’? A New Superintendent in Evanston, Ill., Has a Plan - WSJ This school district outside Chicago prioritized in-person learning for black and brown kids, and special ed and LGBTQ+ kids. If you are white and straight, you learn remotely. If you're black or brown, you can come back to school. Is segregating kids by race and allowing them back in person based on their race what equality looks like and white people are just so used to privilege that it feels like oppression?
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    I'm not insisting that there are "CRT professors." I really don't care. "Professor," "doctor," "cosseted butterfly," whatever term you want to use is fine. This is tangential. I thought CRT was prevalent in DEI initiatives, at least at my company. You say, "that's impossible, by definition DEI initiatives cannot be based on CRT." I think you're drawing too fine (and blurry) a distinction. But, I'll use "antiracism" in lieu of CRT going forward when discussing the basis for certain DEI initiatives if that's allowed by the professors.
  5. CDAK
    This is false. Quote my comments insisting there are CRT professors. I'm happy to refer to professors that study how CRT can be applied to social situations with whatever language is appropriate. I still don't know what that is. It seems like there is no shorthand. I have to type "professor who studies how CRT can be applied to social situations" every time I want to reference a professor who is involved with CRT.
  6. CDAK
    You're being coy and pedantic. Is a "professor who studies CRT" acceptable nomenclature? What about a "professor who leverages CRT"? Twice compared it to philosophy and I think? it's fine to say "philosophy professor." But maybe that's incorrect terminology as well. In your opinion, is it possible for a DEI initiative to leverage or be based on CRT? Perhaps the answer is "no." Maybe I should have said some DEI initiatives are based on antiracism. That is, I should have used "antiracism" instead of "CRT." I feel like you really want to tell stories about Harvard or Penn or whatever school you named earlier and CLS. I actually find the anecdotes somewhat interesting, so please keep posting them. But, I have no idea why you're responding to my post to convey your anecdotes.
  7. CDAK
    Yeah, of course. I’m not sure how that’s relevant. I was just trying to answer the question posed to me - what DEI initiative was based on CRT.
  8. CDAK
    Bringing Kendi to talk to us and tell us about his philosophy and how we should adjust our behavior. I thought Kendi was a CRT professor. So, a DEI initiative to bring a CRT professor to instruct us on how to behave and his philosophy would be a DEI initiative based on CRT. If Kendi is not a CRT professor, great. In that case, I obviously don't understand the difference between antiracism, CRT, and how either one is reflected in DEI initiatives. We recently had a mandatory session on intersectionality that was taught by our HR dept. It seemed very familiar to the tenets of CRT that you and Donkey posted. But maybe there's a distinction that I'm missing. If there were clear distinctions someone could provide, that would probably help.
  9. CDAK
    Is there a clean distinction that you can provide? My company's HR/DEI team has brought Dr. Kendi to talk to us twice (virtually). Isn't he a CRT guy? I think my perspective is that DEI initiatives certainly can be based on something other than CRT. But at least some DEI initiatives are based on CRT and are in corporate HR departments.
  10. CDAK
    Wealth is built up over time and passed down over generations. Thus, discrimination yesterday can affect wealth today. I think historical discrimination probably plays a decent-sized role in the different wealth outcomes across race. Compare the wealth chart to the income chart. The differences across race are smaller. Whites aren't at the top, either by median income or mean income. Asians are at the top. Thus, I'd expect Asian wealth outcomes to increase year after year. I also think the primary reason Asian income outcomes are highest is cultural. I don't think there's systemic discrimination providing Asians a leg-up. But that's what people espousing "all racial group outcomes must be equal" would have you believe.
  11. CDAK
    That's probably true about the amount of comms via a screen. But language skills and the ability to read non-verbal facial cues is important (maybe just as important) when communicating via a screen for video comms.
  12. CDAK
    I realize it's easy to make fun of adults who will or won't wear a mask or care about whether others do or don't. My 3 year old has been wearing a mask for 8 hours a day at preschool for almost a year now. I don't see the mask requirement ending any time soon at her pre school. I worry that prolonged mask wearing will hamper her and other kids linguistic and social developments. Are they learning language just as well? Are they learning to read each others' non-verbal cues just as well? Will they have higher rates of social anxiety? I don't know the answer to these questions and I doubt there are any long term studies on them. But I do hope that the requirement to mask kids in schools and daycares disappears relatively soon as long as our negative health outcomes continue to go trend downward.
  13. CDAK
    Why can't states and localities respond to #2? They don't have control over the federal tax code but they certainly have control over the state and local tax codes.
  14. CDAK
    I didn't realize you were a "sheeple" and "msm" cover-up guy. I don't even know what a "kettle" is but I assume it's more evidence that you're a lunatic. On the off chance that you do have some semblance of mental faculties, however unlikely, you're very wrong about the lack of legal actions and discovery. Robocalling is an absolute hotbed of litigation. There have been literally tens of thousands of depositions, thousands of legal actions, and a plethora of discovery under the TCPA over the last 15 years or so.
  15. CDAK
    Look at the title of the thread
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    Disagree that I’m misframing. A few posters indicated that it was easy to identify and fine the companies making robocalls. We just need bigger fines and to get the FCC out of the clutches of the companies making robocalls. (Chicken, brisket, and XYZ). This is wrong and I pointed it out. People can sue directly for big damages. The FCC has no involvement in the suits. The robocallers are not easy to identify and fine. I don’t know the technical infrastructure solution. I won’t dispute that piece but it’s a different argument from what I responded to.
  17. CDAK
    You are letting your politics prevent you from understanding the issue. Corporate America, at least the ones with money that lobby the government, is not interested in spoofing numbers and making robocalls. You can sue any company that robocalls you directly. You are entitled to $500 or $1500 per robocall. Numerous attorneys will help you. The FCC has no involvement in the lawsuit. You may not care about people being able to receive calls from relatives and friends in India, the Philippines, etc. But a lot of Americans do care about being able to communicate with family and friends over there.
  18. CDAK
    Bats are alive tonight. France taking a break may be good for him. He was in quite the swoon.
  19. CDAK
    The TCPA has been around for years. Consumers can sue companies directly. There is a private right of action and high statutory damages. There are thousands of plaintiffs' attorneys who specialize in suing companies that get on the wrong side of the TCPA. If there is an actual company selling auto warranties and they have agents spoofing numbers to robocall people, those people can sue directly and there are attorneys incentivized to help them.
  20. CDAK
    Thanks, the carriers concern seems very legitimate. The rule requires foreign carriers, such as carriers in India, to better block robocalls to the U.S. The U.S. carriers say some foreign carriers, such as those in India, don't have the capacity to identify and block robocalls to the U.S. The result would be blocking too many calls from India. So Americans' relatives in India would have a tough time calling their family in the U.S. The FCC can't increase Indian carriers' ability to stop robocalls via fiat. If you think corporate America has captured the FCC to allow it to continue to make robocalls as you indicated earlier, you're delusional. Corporate America is not interested in spoofing numbers and robocalling people to scam them about auto warranties, pretending to be the IRS or SSA, etc. The people making these calls are not corporations lobbying government officials. They are crooks without FCC connections.
  21. CDAK
    Can you provide some specifics on this?
  22. CDAK
    It's actually not easy. This is not why robocalls are a problem. The robocalls are coming from fly-by-night companies, foreign scammers, and other neer-do-wells. It's difficult to identify and fine these people. Starbucks, Chase, Amazon, etc. have no interest in robocalling you about auto warranties. Think about what these calls are about - auto warranties and other bullshit scams. They come from spoofed numbers. Microsoft is not spoofing its number to robocall you about buying an Xbox.
  23. CDAK
    His post is reasonable. I live in Washington state. I became eligible 4/15. Every appointment within a 75 mile radius from me was booked within a second on 4/15. The earliest appointment I was able to get was 4/25. Had to drive about 30 mins to get it. Getting the second shot next week. Getting a shot before mid to late April was difficult for people in some states, unless they lied about their eligibility.
  24. CDAK
    We're roughing this guy up
  25. CDAK
    Agreed. I thought he looked decent and showed potential. Gave up a couple of homers which will make his stat line look rough. But his pitches looked lively and he was all over the strike zone.

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