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       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: antihellenistic
       Date: May 11, 2023, 8:54 pm
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       Euro-Nepotism
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       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: antihellenistic
       Date: May 11, 2023, 10:20 pm
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       Japanese girl's Euro-Nepotism
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       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: May 11, 2023, 10:34 pm
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       "Japanese girl's Euro-Nepotism"
       No, this is Eurocentrism, because she herself is non-"white".
       Her Twitter should be posted here:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/psychological-decolonization/
       instead. This topic is for "whites" doing favours for other
       "whites" only.
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepotism
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       > The term comes from Italian word nepotismo,[5][6] which is
       based on Latin root nepos meaning nephew.[7]
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       #Post#: 19492--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: antihellenistic
       Date: May 11, 2023, 11:12 pm
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       > No, this is Eurocentrism, because she herself is non-"white".
       Her Twitter should be posted here:
       >
       >
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/psychological-decolonization/
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       I'm already re-post it on the correct thread. You can erase my
       previous post
       #Post#: 20391--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: June 15, 2023, 8:31 pm
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       It's OK for managers to be "white":
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmmlrldjE8A
       Woke comments:
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       > White woman gets $25M and the 2 black men get to use a
       bathroom some place other than Starbucks. Totally fair.
       (Sarcasm)
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       > Her racism paid off
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       > Yep, sounds about white!
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       > Oh no....these poor white people who go through such
       oppression deserve to be rewarded for the unjust arrest of
       People of Color.
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       > That’s what you call white peoples being on code with each
       other
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       > She played to the crowd (White People).
       > More WF will play this game.
       > Now staff doesn’t have to follow orders. Starbucks told her to
       suspend the person and she said no. Wow
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       > she smart she gerrymandered 25 million by filing a law suit in
       whitest part of NJ and friends gave her the money
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       > That just sums it up. Black people in America MAY get
       compensation if they are racially profiled by a business or an
       organisation. A White owner sacked following the arrest of
       racially profiled customers cries "Poor White Female Over Here"
       and is made a multi-millionaire by a jury. You can shoot a 14
       year-old black boy in the stomache and kill him because he was
       accused of stealing a vape cigarette refill with no
       repercussions or damages awarded, but heaven forbid that a White
       woman should ever be sacked over facilitating the false arrest
       of two black men without being compensated with enough money to
       buy a Renaissance Villa in Italy.
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       #Post#: 20511--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: June 19, 2023, 7:30 pm
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       It's OK for legislation to be "white":
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-people-die-sc-laws-050000589.html
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       > When white people die, SC laws change. Why haven’t Black
       deaths led to state hate crimes law?
       >
       > While the deaths of white victims in recent years have spurred
       numerous changes in South Carolina law, the state’s refusal to
       pass a hate crimes law sends an “outrageous” message about the
       value placed on Black lives, some Black lawmakers say.
       >
       > Since 2016, three bills in South Carolina have become law
       following the death of a white person, including the Tucker
       Hipps Transparency Act, the Samantha L. Josephson Rideshare
       Safety Act and Gavin’s Law. Meanwhile, repeated calls for a hate
       crimes law — particularly after nine Black people, including a
       state senator, were killed in 2015 at Emanuel AME Church in
       Charleston — remain unanswered.
       >
       > “It doesn’t speak well for the state, nor of its elected
       officials,” said state Rep. Wendell Gilliard, D-Charleson, who
       for years has spearheaded several hate crimes measures. “When
       (Samantha Josephson) tragically lost her life, the Uber bill
       sailed through the House and Senate. Here we are in South
       Carolina, coming up on eight years since the (Mother Emanuel)
       tragedy, and we can’t even get (hate crimes) past the Senate.
       That is outrageous.”
       > ...
       > The legislature has passed several high-profile laws in direct
       response to deaths of white victims.
       >
       > Last month, Gov. Henry McMaster signed a bill — Gavin’s Law —
       that makes sexual extortion or “sextortion” a felony offense,
       which becomes aggravated if the victim is a minor.
       >
       > The measure was sponsored by freshman state Rep. Brandon
       Guffey, R-York, whose 17-year-old-son, Gavin, died by suicide
       last summer after falling victim to an online sextortion scheme.
       >
       > Guffey’s bill received bipartisan support, passing the House
       107-0 and the Senate 43-0.
       >
       > Guffey had previously voted against the hate crimes proposal
       > ...
       > With similar swiftness to the passing of Gavin’s Law,
       lawmakers in 2019 passed the Samantha L. Josephson Ridesharing
       Act after a University of South Carolina student got into what
       she thought was her Uber following a night out in Columbia’s
       Five Points district. The next day, Josephson was found stabbed
       to death in a rural part of Clarendon County.
       >
       > The Josephson act requires drivers working for rideshare
       companies, such as Uber and Lyft, to display license plate
       numbers in the front and back of their vehicles, aiming to make
       it easier for a rider to verify the driver’s identity. Complying
       with this requirement could be as simple as a driver penning
       their license tag number onto a sheet of paper and taping it to
       their windshields.
       >
       > The law also created misdemeanor penalties for anyone who
       misrepresent themselves as a rideshare driver — by, for example,
       displaying an illuminated sign — to commit a crime, including a
       $500 fine or 30 days in jail.
       >
       > That bill passed 99-1 in the House and 41-0 in the Senate.
       >
       > And in 2016, policymakers passed the Tucker Hipps Transparency
       Act after a Clemson University student died during an early
       morning run. His parents claimed the student died from hazing.
       The House passed the bill unanimously.
       >
       > The Hipps Act mandates four-year public colleges, with the
       exception of the Medical University of South Carolina and The
       Citadel, report violations related to drugs, alcohol, sexual
       assault, threats and hazing by Greek organizations to the
       institution’s website. Schools also were required to post
       violations dating back to January 2011.
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       Best comment:
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       > When white people die, Southerners jump into action. When
       black people die, Southerners have a cookout.
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       #Post#: 20523--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: June 20, 2023, 4:16 am
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  HTML https://finance.yahoo.com/news/spain-registers-record-asylum-claims-155055523.html
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       > Spain received 118,842 asylum requests last year, its highest
       ever and the third-highest number in the European Union.
       However, only 16.5% of applicants whose cases were decided were
       awarded protection
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       16.5% OF 118842 = 19609
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       > Separately, 161,037 Ukrainians were awarded temporary
       protection under an EU-wide program.
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       ::)
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       > Spain received 20% of all irregular arrivals to the EU last
       year, largely by boat. But the rate of acceptance for asylum,
       refugee status and other forms of protection varies hugely
       depending on nationality.
       >
       > Spain's historic and cultural ties with Latin America mean
       it's the destination of choice for many fleeing violence,
       political persecution and hunger in Venezuela, Colombia, Peru
       and Nicaragua. Applicants of these nationalities were turned
       away in their tens of thousands by Spain last year.
       >
       > The CEAR report states that 95% of Colombians and 96% of
       Peruvians were rejected by Spain from accessing any form of
       international protection in 2022.
       >
       > More than 36,000 Colombians filed applications for protection,
       with 16,187 of the cases reaching a final decision. Of those,
       Spain awarded 646 people of that nationality with refugee status
       in 2022, while a few dozen more received lesser forms of
       protection. Just four Venezuelans were granted refugee status
       last year among the 31,234 whose applications for any form of
       international protection were decided.''
       >
       > “All asylum-seekers are human beings,” Colombian human rights
       defender José Miguel Lobo told a news conference in Madrid,
       after fleeing his country because of death threats related to
       his work on the country's peace process.
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       Yeah, but not all asylum seekers are "white". And that's what
       Spain cares about.
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       > “Once again we demand the law be respected to offer
       protection," said Elena Muñoz, legal coordinator at CEAR.
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       Demanding is useless. You have to use WMDs.
       #Post#: 20580--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: June 21, 2023, 7:07 pm
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       It's OK for mayors to be "white":
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       #Post#: 20879--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 11, 2023, 5:08 pm
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       > Some British people are only concerned about the immigration
       of "brown people" but would open their homes to others, a bishop
       has said.
       > ...
       > Bishop Hudson-Wilkin, who was born in Jamaica and was the
       first black female bishop appointed by the Church of England,
       said some British people "do not understand their own history".
       >
       > "I love to remind the British that they were economic migrants
       when they went to Africa, when they went to Asia, when they
       travelled to the Caribbean," she said.
       >
       > "They wanted to improve their lives. That's what these people
       are doing."
       > ...
       > The government's Illegal Migration Bill, which is going
       through Parliament, has been proposed with the aim of giving
       ministers the power to remove anyone arriving in the UK
       illegally and then bar them from claiming asylum.
       >
       > Under the bill, illegal migrants would be detained and
       removed, either to Rwanda or another "safe country".
       >
       > Bishop Hudson-Wilkin said she was "appalled" by the
       government's plans as "since time immemorial, people have moved,
       people have picked themselves up, picked their families up and
       decided [to go] where life is better".
       >
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       #Post#: 20904--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ethnonepotism
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 12, 2023, 8:03 pm
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  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/asian-american-tech-worker-says-191824999.html
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       > A former Asian American employee is suing the Silicon Valley
       tech company Lumentum, alleging that a yearslong pattern of
       racism ended with his termination when he tried to speak out.
       > ...
       > Wong says that despite the fact that he pioneered the program,
       he was denied an executive role overseeing it and was instead
       subject to a revolving door of white managers.
       >
       > “These white managers, I had to train and introduce to my
       industry contacts, and that itself made me feel so frustrated,”
       he said. “I felt like I was banging my head against the door
       thinking, ‘What do I need to do?’”
       > ...
       > “After the interview process concluded, the management told
       the team that the white female was preferred because she was
       ‘not like us,’” the complaint said.
       >
       > But Wong says this wasn’t the first or most overt incident of
       discrimination he experienced at the company.
       >
       > When he was once preparing for a board meeting at which he had
       to make a presentation, a white executive ridiculed him about
       how he pronounced his R's, telling him to enunciate, according
       to the complaint. Wong said this seriously affected him.
       >
       > “He got fixated on my pronunciation of ‘program,’” he said.
       “That was all he cared about, he didn’t care about the content
       of my presentation. It completely shook me, I lost my
       confidence. When I had to give the board meeting shortly
       thereafter, I couldn’t even think about what I needed to
       present.”
       >
       > Management banned Chinese engineers from speaking Mandarin at
       work around 2015, Wong said. When employees expressed their
       concerns, they were ignored, he said.
       >
       > “At that time, I didn’t know what to do,” he said. “That was
       just one of many instances.”
       >
       > At a general meeting, he said, white managers also joked about
       whether employees were “steaming rice” at one of the company’s
       factories in China.
       > ...
       > He organized events open to everyone in the company, including
       one presentation in which he and others shared their personal
       stories of discrimination, he said. One of the slides also
       pushed management to hire a proportional number of Asian
       employees to higher-level positions, according to a copy of the
       presentation obtained by NBC News. He was later told by upper
       management the presentation “made white people feel bad,” he
       said.
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