@Chris_arnade If the US had a more functional system where both parties recognize the importance of an abundance agenda, then the distinction should be that dems stand for abundance of public good while the GOP stands for abundance of private good
@realBurhanAzeem Thank you for all your work!! As an academic on the verge of being priced out of the area, this is amazing to hear. Now if only we could also get Paris style public transit!
@timurkuran Funding for these "Canada research chair" is from the federal government, as is the language for the identity categories, which is why they all include "two-spirited". These are not university initiatives. Unfortunately there is a dire lack of voices speaking out against it.
@NielsHoven After moving to a city with a difficult rental market, I came to realize that it's dehumanizing to be perfectly qualified for an apartment but still subjected to arbitrary preferences of the landlord (e.g. for people with higher income).
@NielsHoven Seattle has strong tenent protection laws in general. Apartment listings all contain requirements for credit score and income, and nicer places will have stricter criteria, which imo sufficiently limits their risks.
@wesyang isn't this survivorship bias? lots of minorities don't have, for the lack of a better word, "immigrant" values and don't ascend through the education system. The claimed goal of the woke elites is to help these people, at the detriment of those who work to make it themselves