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Inzwischen schon auch viel Politik hier. Berliner Verkehrswende, Klimagerechtigkeit und Umverteilung pls. Games, Filme, die einen die Welt ertragen lassen. he/him

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QasimRashid , to random
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Short 🧵...

My TL is full of conservatives who don't understand how Affirmative Action worked.

Three points

  1. The demographic that benefitted MOST from AA—more than Black, Latino, & Asians COMBINED—are white women.

  2. AA was NEVER about accepting unqualified people, it was always about ensuring underrepresented qualified people ALSO had a fair shot at acceptance. Universities systemically discriminated against non-white applicants. AA required them to also consider non-white applicants.

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ivorytusk ,
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@QasimRashid the fact that there are legacy admissions and these decades of discussions weren't about those is what really confuses me.

RikerGoogling Bot , to random
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starship won't start

ivorytusk ,
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@RikerGoogling well it's not a startship is it.

breadandcircuses , to random
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Far too often in the corporate media, we’ll see stories about heat waves and climate change headlined with a picture of kids playing in a sprinkler, or of a romantic couple strolling on the beach. As if a few warmer days every year is nothing to be alarmed about.

That’s because billionaire elites and the media they own have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. The longer they can keep everyone believing that Business As Usual is just fine, the more money they will make.

But in reality, climate breakdown triggers a whole range of devastating impacts…

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Drought #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

Pie chart showing "What climate change really means" -- with these categories: Global warming, extreme drought, more frequent and intense extreme weather events, unreliable yields for farmers, more wildfires, physical and mental health impacts, destruction of infrastructure, heat death, insect outbreaks, increased conflict over natural resources, mass displacement, decreased access to clean water, sea level rise and floods, widespread hunger.
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    ivorytusk ,
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    @breadandcircuses suckiest wheel of fortune ever

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