Are you sure? It’s a Romance language, I’d expect it to be similar to other Romance languages. I just checked google translate and he is “el” while she is “ea”, though both also translate to it (which seems to imply there’s no word for it).
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It’s frankly embarrassing to witness first hand how much remedial stuff needs to happen at that level.
25 years ago, my graduate quantum mechanics class was right after a remedial math class for freshmen. While waiting for our class to start we could listen in… For a class of math nerds like us, that was like watching a car wreck I guess.
But since our graduate class in chemical physics was 80% foreigners, there was also a bit of incredulity that this was a college campus, a so-called institute of higher learning where these kids were paying through the nose to get taught 5th grade math again. To be fair, most ethnic groups were represented in that remedial class. I never wondered then what their SAT math scores may have been, but looking back, that was pretty pathetic that these kids were considered good enough to be admitted.
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Greenwald on Democrats censorious tendencies these days
The data proving a deeply radical authoritarian strain in Trump-era Democratic Party politics is ample and have been extensively reported here. Democrats overwhelmingly trust and love the FBI and CIA. Polls show they overwhelmingly favor censorship of the internet not only by Big Tech oligarchs but also by the state . Leading Democratic Party politicians have repeatedly subpoenaed social media executives and explicitly threatened them with legal and regulatory reprisals if they do not censor more aggressively — a likely violation of the First Amendment given decades of case law ruling that state officials are barred from coercing private actors to censor for them, in ways the Constitution prohibits them from doing directly.
Every week brings news of a newly banished heretic. Liberals cheered the news last week that Google’s YouTube permanently banned the extremely popular video channel of conservative commentator Dan Bongino. His permanent ban was imposed for the crime of announcing that, moving forward, he would post all of his videos exclusively on the free speech video platform Rumble after he received a seven-day suspension from Google’s overlords for spreading supposed COVID “disinformation.” What was Bongino’s prohibited view that prompted that suspension? He claimed cloth masks do not work to stop the spread of COVID, a view shared by numerous expertsand, at least in part, by the CDC. When Bongino disobeyed the seven-day suspension by using an alternative YouTube channel to announce his move to Rumble, liberals cheered Google’s permanent ban because the only thing liberals hate more than platforms that allow diverse views are people failing to obey rules imposed by corporate authorities.
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I just wish those crying about “disinformation” were actually concerned about disinformation.
However, the standard is not being applied to the information, it’s being applied to the conclusions resulting from information. As long as your conclusion is acceptible (“Covid is scary, vaccines are our savior”), it doesnt matter how flimsy, nuanced, or outright fabricated the information used to reach that conclusion may be. But if your conclusion is heresy (“no, the sky is not falling”), then it is summarily denounced as disinformation, no matter how much real and accurate data and information you are using to arrive at that conclusion.
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It’s not a matter of your conclusion. It’s a matter of what you base it on. I hear a lot of people on the right saying the pandemic is over–yet last week a friend took their mother to the ER–which was full of already-seen patients because they didn’t have beds for them.
Most of what I see from the right is taken out of context or outright fabrications. That’s the stuff that is being objected to.
I hear a lot of people on the right saying the pandemic is over
please give references for your assertions. Who do you hear saying the pandemic is over and where is it published?
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Looks like the snowflakes at Spotify took this covid opportunity to remove most of Rogan’s older interviews with anyone right of Bernie.
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My understanding is that they’re removing ones that use the n-word.
And you really need to consider your sources more carefully–The Babylon Bee isn’t a news source at all!
Sometimes the best commentary on recent news comes from news satire 
Here’s a site that tracks the JRE episodes they removed.
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Are you one of those people concerned about others posting satire because a tiny minority of internet rubes (which includes people on both sides) don’t know it’s satire?
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What the hell is a “protective [hair] style”?
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It protects and strengthens an ethnic identity to which they cling fervently and proudly. It protects them from ever possibly being confused with “whitey”.
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I don’t think your parents beat you enough.
His explanation makes as much sense as anything else I could come up with. Do you have a better answer?
From what I can tell it is simply more misappropriation of the english language, to try to make selfish tantrums appear more reasonable. Much like the fact I’ve never seen anyone who’s hair grows already braided, as a truly “natural” hairstyle would require.
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I had to look it up as I have never heard the term in my life. There were a lot of terms, slang, etc. I had never heard, that once I became a police officer in a city with a beat in a mostly minority area I heard, but this is one that I still never heard.
according to this page, the definition is something along the lines of:
a protective style is any hairstyle that protects your hair from physical, chemical, or environmental damage. Some common protective styles are box braids, crochet braids or twists, cornrows, flat twists, weaves, or twists.
this page says:
Protective styles include things like wigs, buns, two-strand twists, box braids or cornrows, but the styles are honestly endless.
emphasis mine
So depending on who you talk to, employers should have no right to regulate the hairstyles of their black employees that work front facing jobs with the public as long as what they are doing to their hair can be claimed in any way to “protect” it from… well… anything.
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Perhaps it’s being used to distinguish from hairstyles that are not “protective,” like… the spike mohawk.
That wasn’t an explanation, but rather a display of ignorance or apathy. Shin is mocking it, but it’s perfectly normal and natural to be proud of who or what you are. Demonstrating this pride is justified, lest you be oppressed by a tyrannical majority that does not share the same features.
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But it’s entirely about expressing that pride in your identity when you are representing someone else as their employee.
It’s not ignorance or apathy, it’s about there being a time and place. I always appreciated “unique” hairstyles. But that was my choice; I’ll be damned if anyone tries to force me to accept their hair do, when I’m paying them to represent me in my business.
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I suspect you might feel different if you ever had to deal with ethnic hair (your own or someone you cared about). Perhaps you associate certain hairstyles with some image that is, in your mind, negative. Like rappers and gangsters from the 70’s and 80’s movies or MTV clips, I don’t know. Perhaps that negative association is something that you (and anyone else who feels that way) need to work on. DEI training may help.
If the employee’s hair (or any other feature really) doesn’t create a hazard at the workplace, doesn’t make the employee less productive, and isn’t really a distraction, the style should be none of the employer’s business.
I agree totally
Not a chance I ever would submit to such self-evident bulls***. Better for YOU to adjust YOUR viewpoints to our traditional American values. Your new-age SoCal ways of looking at the world are ridiculous at best, annoying and offensive without question. Millions of us out here will never embrace your asinine values and ways of thinking. Deal with it. And stop with the senseless BS.
Also consider voting for Trump next time. If more of your kind had done so prior maybe America would not be coming apart at the seams today while you blindly celebrate your victory.