#Fairness

Today, contemplating what to me is a dispiriting political scene in America, I've been thinking of Dinesh D'Souza. He said something brilliantly insightful in conversation with me several years ago.

Gigi, a registered nurse, returned from work exhausted to the tiny room she was renting in a Toronto home last Monday night. About 45 minutes later, Toronto police were knocking

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Wait, @davidfrum @JoeNBC lmao at calling for a “sense of fairness” between two parties where Dems win in 2020? You’re acting as if trump is the only problem in the

Lorin Hochstein

OK, here's why I found weak fairness confusing, a thread that nobody will care about except possibly @hillelogram https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1279103160045404161 I'll probably get something technically incorrect in this t

Attention seeking Peminist

Y'all I'm honestly tired but here we go again. Watching those fairness ads just hit me so hard because so many women have gone through that experience. Specially with weddings,

The populist left has an extremely myopic and uninformed view of the American electorate. They believe (incorrectly) that a majority of Americans support progressive policies and that once a sufficiently

For what it's worth, @DaniArgTG I think this is a good and interesting question. I agree with the big majority of people who say no, but I'm grateful to you

Colorism and how it has been integrated into our lives, both subtly and not so subtly. ~A thread. Fairness creams is at the top of the ladder. We create demand

Marisa Thompson

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How is it not discrimination to allow some students to choose to get “a GPA boost” because they HAVE (some or all of) the privilege of enough devices, reliable internet,

Day One Project

THREAD: AI is increasingly being used to make decisions about human welfare. In a new Day One proposal, Kevin Wei proposes three key actions that the Federal Government can take

Natalie Buske Thomas

I trust no medical facility anywhere.At any time, they could have this attitude, choosing which human lives are worth saving.And I doubt it would be mine.https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1330876831696908294 We must advocate for

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Pain and pleasure are orthogonal to good and evil. There are good and evil pains, there are good and evil pleasures. Conflating them is the greatest fallacy of the moralist

Too much of the climate movement of the past was about what climate change is doing to us, and not about what climate action will do for us. Taking action

As we live our strange, stretched lives under covid-19, this has been released: https://eqcinquiry.govt.nz/inquiry-reports/ So many in ChCh will find versions of their stories here, but for the rest of

(Thread)Follow up comments from yesterday's thread on Hierarchy, Democracy, and the limits of Sadopopulism.The thread got long so I'll start over.(I'll add to this as I look through comments) InterestingIt's

This gets at exactly what bugs me about public Econ. The hand wringing over tax incidence and counterintuitive “unintended consequences” is so disproportionate to the concern over the common sense