b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 1 It's time to complete the revolution we started
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/25/its-time-to-complete-
the-revolution-we-started
This task will not be easy. Today, we have more income and wealth inequality
than at any time since the 1920s, and the three wealthiest Americans own
more wealth than the bottom half of our country.
Despite relatively low unemployment, millions of people work multiple jobs
because they earn starvation wages, 34 million Americans have no health
insu... 阅读全帖 |
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b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 2 Norma Rae, Martin Ritt, 1979 - Union Sign Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8ulYIVcCeY
40 Years Ago, Norma Rae Understood How Corporations Weaponized Race
The most enduring image of the film Norma Rae, which was released 40 years
ago, is surely Sally Field’s titular character silently standing on a table
, holding up a cardboard sign with the word union scrawled on it. One by one
, her fellow factory workers shut off their deafening textile machines in
solidarity. The climactic scene sugges... 阅读全帖 |
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g*****1
发帖数: 666 | 3 马来国家主要靠石油，有点的加工工业基本掌握在华人手中。
Economic inequalities exist between different ethnic groups. The Chinese
make up about one-quarter of the population, but accounts for 70 per cent of
the country's market capitalisation.[181] Chinese businesses in Malaysia
are part of the larger bamboo network, a network of overseas Chinese
businesses in the Southeast Asian market sharing common family and cultural
ties.[182] |
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发帖数: 1 | 5 By Wayne Ma
Nov. 19, 2019 7:01 AM PST
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Georgetown address about free speech last
month drew skeptical commentary from many quarters. But for one group of
Facebook workers—its community of Chinese employees—his comments touched a
particularly sensitive nerve. Zuckerberg’s criticism of Chinese video app
TikTok and China’s censorship of the internet renewed long-standing
complaints that Facebook’s management is biased against China, according to
one employee who saw me... 阅读全帖 |
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a*******m
发帖数: 14194 | 6 高盛前CEO，资产有12亿美元的Lloyd Blankfein， 在记者问他，美国CEO的工资
是不是太高了点了？ 他直接怼回去，你们记者工资才拿的太多了， 你们根本不配。
这矛盾根本没法调和呀。
Lloyd Blankfein defends CEO pay on CNBC: ‘Do you think television reporters
make too much money? I do’
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/19/lloyd-blankfein-defends-ceo-pay-on-cnbc-
compares-to-tv-reporters.html
Lloyd Blankfein, former Goldman Sachs CEO, says the pay disparity between
CEOs and rank-and-file employees is really no different from what on-air TV
personalities get paid compared with behind-t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 7 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: wsbioguy2 (postdog), 信区: USANews
标 题: 伯克利Drop SAT/ACT as requirement for admission
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Nov 24 12:26:34 2019, 美东)
发信人: wudadan (dandan), 信区: Faculty
标 题: 伯克利Drop SAT/ACT as requirement for admission
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Nov 24 12:20:34 2019, 美东)
UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol T. Christ and UC Provost Michael Brown said at
a forum on college admissions Friday that research has convinced them that
performance on the SAT and ACT is so strongly influenced b... 阅读全帖 |
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M***6
发帖数: 895 | 8 你觉得样本要大到多少才合适？
你是只掌握了点皮毛吧。Hoeffding's inequality不就是专门算这个的吗 |
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M***6
发帖数: 895 | 9 我觉得用Hoeffding's inequality算抽样数据反应的情况（1.358%）与实际感染率之间
的差距的概率。 |
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C*I
发帖数: 4736 | 10 病毒发生一来，西雅图的性产业受到严重打击。 由于嫖客们担心被传染病毒，找妓女
的兴趣大减。这使得很多妓女抱怨长期的老客人现在不来了，新客人几乎没有。 因此
收入枯竭而导致一些付不起房租，有些几乎沦落成为无家可归者。
home base 妓女说，现在打电话来的几乎都是cancelation；而street base 妓女说满
大街都找不到一个客户。日子实在是没法过下去了。
同时，为了防止传染，妓女和嫖客在开始干之前需要先进行体温测试，并建立有“不亲
嘴”制度/no-kissing policy，以保护双方的安全。
Coronavirus Fears Are Decimating The Sex Industry
Michael Hobbes
HuffPost March 12, 2020 2&
#8206;:45 AM
SEATTLE — In the epicenter of America’s coronavirus outbreak, sex... 阅读全帖 |
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m******1
发帖数: 19713 | 11 a comment from advocate.com
Name: Steve
Date posted: 1/28/2010 7:07:04 PM
Hometown: Los Angeles
Comment:
How many more decades do we have to endure this insanity? I'm an old man. I
don't have many years left to live. All I want is my foreign lover to come
to the U.S. where I want to marry him and share my remaining years with him.
Why do we in the LGBT community endure this inequality? Enough of promises
and good words! I don't want promises. I DEMAND ACTION NOW TO END DOMA AND
ALLOW ME TO SPONS |
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m******1
发帖数: 19713 | 12 Google to Cover Gay Tax Inequality
By Julie Bolcer
Googlex390 (Getty) | Advocate.com
The list of benefits that make Google one of the world’s most attractive
employers just grew again, this time for gay and lesbian employees. The
company announced Thursday that it would begin to cover the extra costs gay
and lesbian employees must pay compared to straight employees when their
partners receive domestic partner health benefits.
The increased compensation will be retroactive to the beginning of the |
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m******1
发帖数: 19713 | 13 White House Not Budging on Gay Marriage
By Kerry Eleveld
MELODY BARNES X390 (GETTY IMAGES) | ADVOCATE.COM
In a wide-ranging interview with LGBT journalists and bloggers, White House
domestic policy adviser Melody Barnes said President Barack Obama had chosen
to take steps at the agency level to eliminate inequities for same-sex
couples and gave no indication he would move toward supporting full marital
rights.
Asked if the president would go beyond incremental fixes to address a lack
of marital |
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g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 14 Name: Dean
Date posted: 7/7/2010 2:11:47 PM
Hometown: Los Angeles
Comment:
Call the Hawaii Tourism Authority and tell them you are canceling your plans
to visit until civil unions or marriage equality is passed. Inequality is
against the Aloha spirit! Tel: 1-808-973-2255.
Name: Rudy
Date posted: 7/7/2010 1:46:00 PM
Hometown: Los Angeles
Comment:
BOYCOTT! BOYCOTT! BOYCOTT! It worked for CA hotels that supported Prop 8 and
the MLK Holiday recognition in AZ. If any of your friends are even THINKING |
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m******1
发帖数: 19713 | 15 Gay Couples Sue Alaska Over Tax Inequity
By Advocate.com Editors
alaska
Three same-sex couples have sued the state of Alaska and the municipality of
Anchorage for denying them equal access to property tax exemptions afforded
to senior citizens and disabled veterans.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska, which filed the suit, said
that same-sex couples who are seniors or disabled vets currently receive a
fraction of property tax exemptions totaling $150,000 available to married
couples in |
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f********g
发帖数: 770 | 16 关于左派和右派的一些看法。
美国左派和右派的区别，从经济的角度讲，右派主张新自由主义（neoliberalism),也
就是完全自由的市场经济，市场调节一切社会关系。人作为独立的个体（enterprise)
参与市场竞争，而人的自由和独立都通过自由市场交换得到体现和保证。从政府来说，
他们反对福利国家（welfare state）制度，主张小政府，政府的职责就是确保每个人
都具有最起码的进入市场竞争的资格，即不会饿死，病死等。所以他们关注的是绝对贫
困，低于这个绝对贫困线以下的人会进行帮助。但是对于一些社会公共服务，如教育，
医疗，公共交通等，全部交给市场。Neoliberallism理论源于David Ricardo,Adam
Smith，最早实施是由Pinochet（1973）in Chile，Thatcher（1979）in UK, Reagan
（1980）in US.
而美国左派则坚持凯恩斯主义，支持welfare state，例如罗斯福的新政。由国家统一
计划安排公共服务，关注相对贫困以及缩小社会贫富差距。
在政治制度上，美国左派和右派都坚持自由和平等，主张人都具有基本人权... 阅读全帖 |
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g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 17 Posted on Advocate.com January 25, 2011
Obama: Mum on Marriage
By Andrew Harmon
Despite increased pressure from gay and lesbian advocates to “evolve” his
position on marriage equality a little sooner, President Barack Obama did
not delve into the issue for his Tuesday evening State of the Union address,
one that focused heavily on strengthening the economy and fostering
innovation in the face of a fiercely competitive global market.
The prepared remarks of Obama’s 6,757-word speech made mention ... 阅读全帖 |
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g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 18 Posted on Advocate.com June 08, 2011 06:50:00 PM ET
Queens United, Almost, for Marriage Equality
By Julie Bolcer
A substantial contingent of elected officials, labor leaders, and other
advocates hosted a press conference Wednesday to show support for marriage
equality in Queens, N.Y., a borough represented by two undecided state
senators key to passage of the legislation.
The event, which brought together federal, state, and local leaders,
signaled the start of the final, intensified push for ma... 阅读全帖 |
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n*******t
发帖数: 7254 | 19 对科学研究的东西还是尽量不要断章取义的好，很多结论是有前提的，就算结论是正确
的，也不该有过多引伸的解读。
比如IQ and the values of nations, published on journal of biosocial science有
这么这段“
Macro-level analyses show that nations with higher average intelligence are
more liberal (have greater highest marginal individual tax rate and, as a re
sult, lower
income inequality), less religious (a smaller proportion of the population
believes in God or considers themselves religious) and more monogamous.
The average intelligence of a population appears to b... 阅读全帖 |
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g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 20 Posted on Advocate.com August 15, 2011 09:40:00 AM ET
The Most Important LGBT Group You’ve Never Heard Of
By Andrew Harmon
How to conduct an accurate count of the American population — an estimate
that controls congressional seat allocation and the disbursement of billions
in federal dollars to cash-strapped states and municipalities — is a
reliable flashpoint of controversy when the U.S. Census rolls around every
10 years.
What seems to have drawn little controversy in the release of the 2010
C... 阅读全帖 |
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g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 21 Posted on Advocate.com September 06, 2011 01:45:00 PM ET
Glenn Close Drawing Raves For New Cross-Dressing Film
By Jeremy Kinser
Glenn Close's performance as a 19th-century cross-dressing waiter in the
forthcoming film Albert Nobbs is already being touted as Oscar-caliber, but
an incident in her childhood may have helped her understand the character.
Close plays an abused Irish woman who passes as a male waiter "in order to
combat rampant gender and class inequality in 19th-century Dublin." The
c... 阅读全帖 |
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m******8
发帖数: 2153 | 22 Anti-gay bullying is a serious problem in Northern Ireland schools, a new
report says.
The Rainbow Project report, Left out of the Equation, says gay, lesbian and
bisexual pupils suffer severe inequality.
Problems include bullying, teachers failing to tackle homophobic abuse, poor
sexual health information and schools’ failure to teach about stable and
fulfilling relationships.
Young LGB people are left to “suffer in silence” because they fear coming
out, the charity says.
The report says: “LGB ... 阅读全帖 |
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g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 23 LAS VEGAS -- The gay advocacy group that successfully lobbied to repeal the
military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy plans to file a lawsuit in federal
court by the end of October that would challenge the constitutionality of
federal laws that make married same-sex couples ineligible for the same
benefits as their straight counterparts.
The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network will argue that the federal Defense
of Marriage Act violates the Fifth Amendment right to due process, in what
the grou... 阅读全帖 |
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g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 24 http://www.theroot.com/views/should-president-obama-endorse-mar
With President Obama's sights set on his re-election, some decisions must be
made about how the campaign can re-energize his base.
One segment, the gay community and their allies, has been frustrated with
Obama and his "evolving" (at a snail's pace) stance on marriage equality.
While the administration made good on its campaign promise on important
issues such as the repeal of "Don't ask, don't tell," failing to support
full marriag... 阅读全帖 |
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L*******e
发帖数: 2202 | 25 卫报的这篇报道也很有意思，当然作者的挺中色彩挺浓的。
Last week's dismissal of Bo Xilai, the party secretary of Chongqing province
, casts this autumn's Chinese Communist party congress, with the anticipated
replacement of President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao by Xi Jinping and
Li Keqiang, in a dramatic new light.
Bo Xilai, son of a former Communist party leader and veteran of the Long
March, has been exploiting his office for a thinly veiled campaign for a
place on the party's nine-member standing committee that run... 阅读全帖 |
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m******8
发帖数: 2153 | 26 Civil Marriage vs. Civil Unions
What is marriage?
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Marriage is a unique legal status conferred by and recognized by governments
all over the world. It brings with it a host of reciprocal obligations,
rights and protections. It is also a cultural institution. No other word has
that power and no other status can provide that protection.
Married couples have 1,138 federal rights, protections and responsibilities
such as:
Social Security bene... 阅读全帖 |
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g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 27 By: Michelle Garcia
Mon, 2012-04-09 16:42
http://www.shewired.com/lifestyle/2012/04/09/want-better-work-l
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg says gender inequity doesn't only exist at work
, but also at home -- reason enough for more women to simply marry other
women to their heart's content.
"In America, if a couple works full-time, the woman does three times the
amount of childcare and two times the amount of house care the man does, and
that's if they both work full time," she said according to Jez... 阅读全帖 |
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g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 28 Posted by Chris Geidner |
April 10, 2012 6:15 AM | Permalink
Today, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund took what one of its lawyers
calls "a strategic step" in the national effort to advance marriage equality
by filing a federal lawsuit in Nevada seeking equal marriage rights for
eight same-sex couples in the state.
The lawsuit, Sevcik v. Sandoval, marks the first time that Lambda Legal has
sought equal marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples in federal court,
although a staff attorney ... 阅读全帖 |
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y*****g
发帖数: 1822 | 29 http://www.gay.net/news/2012/04/05/god-gays-and-need-love-thy-n
Helminiak's book examines the Bible in its original historical and cultural
context, rather than the literal interpretation one sees from conservative
believers who pick and choose passages to meet their personal or political
needs. He explains how the sin of Sodom (where the word "sodomy" originates)
was inhospitality, not homosexuality. He also discusses those five biblical
passages in detail: Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, Romans 1:2... 阅读全帖 |
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X*******H
发帖数: 720 | 30 节选，“I wish my moderate Republican friends would simply be honest. They
all say they're voting for Romney because of his economic policies (tenuous
and ill-formed as they are), and that they disagree with him on gay rights.
Fine. Then look me in the eye, speak with a level clear voice, and say, "My
taxes and take-home pay mean more than your fundamental civil rights, the
sanctity of your marriage, your right to visit an ailing spouse in the
hospital, your dignity as a citizen of this country, you... 阅读全帖 |
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D**S
发帖数: 24887 | 31 http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judge-strikes-down-pennsylv
A federal judge Tuesday declared Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage
unconstitutional, the fourth such ruling on a state ban in the past three
weeks.
Judge John Jones III ruled in favor of 23 Pennsylvania residents who
challenged the law.
"The issue we resolve today is a divisive one. Some of our citizens are made
deeply uncomfortable by the notion of same-sex marriage. However, that same
-sex marriage causes discomfort in some ... 阅读全帖 |
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g******4
发帖数: 6339 | 32 【 以下文字转载自 History 讨论区 】
发信人: gogo2004 (挑灯看剑), 信区: History
标 题: 王绍光：坚守方向、探索道路——中国社会主义实践60年
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Jan 14 19:31:18 2012, 美东)
“一个幽灵，共产主义的幽灵，在欧洲徘徊”。当《共产党宣言》最初用德文在1848
年出版时，“共产主义同盟”还是一个秘密团体，其影响局限在英、法等欧洲国家。过
了半个世纪，到19世纪末叶，这个“幽灵”出现在中华广袤的大地上。又过了半个世纪
，到20世纪中叶，社会主义已经变成滚滚洪流，席卷全球。以共产主义为最终奋斗目标
的中国共产党也在此时夺取了全国政权，神州大地开始英姿勃发地迈向社会主义。再过
半个世纪，到20世纪末叶，一度红红火火的社会主义陷入前所未有低谷，以至有人大胆
断言：历史已经终结，人类社会只有资本主义一途，别无选择。
在过去二十多年里，“市场原教旨主义”甚嚣尘上。它的许诺很简单、也很诱人：只要
将财产权交给私人，将决策权交给追求自身利益最大化的私人业主，将政府干预减至最
低程度，市场这只“看不见的手”就会源... 阅读全帖 |
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J*V
发帖数: 3150 | 33 http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2011/05/27/The-Secret-Kn
Chap. 1: "We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor
improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed
through the production of goods and services necessary or attractive to the
mass. A financial system which allows this leads to inequality; one that
does not leads to mass starvation."
Chap 2: "I will now quote two Chicago writers on the subject, the first,
William Shakespeare, who wr... 阅读全帖 |
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k**L
发帖数: 3630 | 35 道理谁不会说? 问题是说是一回事,做不做得到就是另一回事了.
well developed sysem of government culture, and way of life ? 这WELL是谁定的
标准? 西方国家靠的是几百年来剥削其他落后国家的资源才能达到它现在的经济环境的
.比如美国是靠屠杀印第安人,黑奴,英国靠殖民,舰队. 哪一样都是"uncivilized".你又
怎么说?
" treats the people who live there fairly",最搞笑了,到现在,inequality还是
经常听到的,金字塔上5%的人控制着大比例的社会资源,对底层的绝大多数人fair么?
用？ |
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k**L
发帖数: 3630 | 36 道理谁不会说? 问题是说是一回事,做不做得到就是另一回事了.
well developed sysem of government culture, and way of life ? 这WELL是谁定的
标准? 西方国家靠的是几百年来剥削其他落后国家的资源才能达到它现在的经济环境的
.比如美国是靠屠杀印第安人,黑奴,英国靠殖民,舰队. 哪一样都是"uncivilized".你又
怎么说?
" treats the people who live there fairly",最搞笑了,到现在,inequality还是
经常听到的,金字塔上5%的人控制着大比例的社会资源,对底层的绝大多数人fair么?
用？ |
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b**********l
发帖数: 3 | 37 Thank you for posting this article. I read this
article this morning and felt very upset about the
severe inequality in China. I think our government has
to take full responsibility when such a thing happens.
This is the outcome of the implementation of the
ill-advised policy of "jiaoyu chanyehua" and other
money-driven policies. It is such a shame that the
education input in China is still so low. The 50th celebration of the Founding
of P.R.C. cost billions of dollars, just to allow national le |
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a**r
发帖数: 5444 | 38 China's Divisive Development
Growing Urban-Rural Inequality Bodes Trouble by Joshua Levin
Disease, Vol. 23 (3) - Fall 2001 Issue
JOSHUA LEVIN is a Staff Writer at the Harvard International Review.
In an August 1999 incident reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution,
Chinese farmers rampaged through government offices and pillaged the
homes of the rich in Jiangxi province. Two thousand People’s Armed
Police called in to stomp out the rebellion confronted 20,000 peasants.
Ironically, Jiangxi is the o |
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l*******g
发帖数: 28502 | 39 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
payan (沛岩) 于 (Sun Aug 1 20:50:46 2004) 提到:
【 以下文字转载自 ChinaNews 讨论区,原文如下 】
发信人: payan (沛岩), 信区: ChinaNews
标 题: 中国繁荣，却没人给年青的庆明 一只援助的手[FWD]
发信站: Unknown Space - 未名空间 (Sun Aug 1 20:50:19 2004) WWW-POST
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/01/international/01CHIN.html
中国繁荣，却没人给年青的庆明 一只援助的手
作者：约瑟夫.凯，吉姆.亚德莱 (纽约时报)
普加(译音)，中国 - 80美元的债逼他上了绝路。如果他是中国城市精英中的一员，
这点钱郑庆明(译音)买一个新潮的手机还不够。但他是数千万远离中国财富的农民
中的一个。他读公立高中的学费就花去了他家每年收入的一大部分。
他想读大学，但那意味着他首先得参加高校入学考试。六月四日，高考前三天，一
个潮... 阅读全帖 |
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l****c
发帖数: 30 | 40 这次游行华人表现出我们不是暖柿子，这是一个小胜利。你如果真的很在乎这次事件，
麻烦请你看下yahoo的那两万新闻评语，你就会看到主流美国人对这次事件的看法-十分
负面。
有个评语提出最可怕的不是有人抗议，而是这么多人认为自己是中国人。我只想说jk电
视上所播出的节目影响最大的是在美华人。如果华人抗议inequality与discrimination
，我们有一个legitimate cause。如果你以中国人的立场去抗议，只会令美国人集体支
持jk。请你自己换位思考。
目前yahoo上的评语许多都是觉得华人抗议是以中国人的立场去的，这是一个很不好的
现象。说实话，我觉得这次事件后美国大众许多都觉得华人无理取闹。媒体并未为我们
澄清到底发生了什么事，只是片面mislead大众以为这次抗议是因为小孩子所说的。
如果你觉得举一面五星红旗可以让事件解决，那你真是太天真了。你听着，对国内同胞
来讲，这件事情可以当成一个joke。对美国华人来说，这是一个赤裸裸的威胁与挑衅。
当你不知道自己立场为何的时候请你不要妨害整个华裔在美的前进。因为许多人的家庭
都在美国，我们得为自己后代考虑。
你非要让大众... 阅读全帖 |
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w****n
发帖数: 25644 | 41 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: pokerpro (专业的), 信区: Military
标 题: 美宣部出最新指示了 I am not Charlie Hebdo
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Jan 10 20:50:05 2015, 美东)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/opinion/david-brooks-i-am-not
I Am Not Charlie Hebdo
David Brooks
The journalists at Charlie Hebdo are now rightly being celebrated as martyrs
on behalf of freedom of expression, but let’s face it: If they had tried
to publish their satirical newspaper on any American university campus over
the last two decades it wouldn... 阅读全帖 |
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w******u
发帖数: 157 | 42 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: wuxinglu (大窗户), 信区: Military
标 题: 中国人IQ世界第一！
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Sep 7 15:02:41 2009, 美东)
From "IQ and Global Inequality" (2006),by Dr. Richard Lynn, Professor
Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, and Dr
. Tatu Vanhanen, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University
of Tampere, Tampere, Finland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_Global_Inequality |
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j**n
发帖数: 13789 | 44 How Will China Democratize?
The so-called third wave of democracy (a expression coined by the political
scientist Samuel P. Huntington), which began in 1974 with the
democratization of Portugal, continued through the breakup of the Soviet
Union and the dissolution of communism in East Europe beginning in the late
1980s, and continues through to today, has given us, Gilley says, ample
information on how democracy can emerge and ample data on which to base
predictions of democratic transitions.
Th... 阅读全帖 |
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B*V
发帖数: 3365 | 45 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/07/opinion/nocera-will-digital-n
January 6, 2014
Will Digital Networks Ruin Us?
By JOE NOCERA
The most important book I read in 2013 was Jaron Lanier’s “Who Owns the
Future?” Though it was published in May, I came to it late in the year. But
this turned out to be fortuitous timing. With unemployment seemingly
stalled out at around 7 percent in the aftermath of the Great Recession,
with the leak of thousands of National Security Agency documents making news
almost d... 阅读全帖 |
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E*V
发帖数: 17544 | 46 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=206331546
WASHINGTON (AP) — Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near
-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of
deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream.
Survey data exclusive to The Associated Press points to an increasingly
globalized U.S. economy, the widening gap between rich and poor, and the
loss of good-paying manufacturing jobs as reasons for the trend.
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g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 47 Calicat, I recommend the first story of the movie “If these walls could
talk 2” if you are interested. A woman has to leave the home that she and
her partner have shared for 30 years after her partner suddenly dies. The
house was in her partner’s name although she contributed equally to the
mortgage. This powerful story speaks to the need for legal rights for same
sex couples and a need for understanding.
It happened in 1961. Today, almost half a century later, the inequality
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p***i
发帖数: 2119 | 48 Hehe, yes you can. Working class is hurting the most from what? Inequality
and poverty, stupid! You are prescribing a wrong drug for their problems.
Even in booming times, the working class has not enjoyed the benefit of
growth either.
All the tea party does is chanting half-baked slogans, shouting racial
epithets, and getting drunk. You call that a viable third party. I beg to
differ.
Democratic |
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t********t
发帖数: 432 | 49 You just know evolutionism, but have no idea about relativism.
What's your definition of "loser"? It is a relative concept. Losers exist in
any society, which do not merely for individual reason, but for socially
structural reason as well. The redistribution system is an approach to even
this kind of socially constructed inequality.
Productivity is not the only priority for the whole society.
If you just work for work, what's the point?
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