Re:Ajit Pai confirmed as new head of the FCC
by croon on Monday January 23, 2017 @06:41PM
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Or that they are of the acceptable echelon of immigrants. I wish I was joking.
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Re:Ajit Pai confirmed as new head of the FCC
by woofyman on Monday January 23, 2017 @06:56PM
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I don't know about the others, but Mr Pai was born in Buffalo NY.
Edit: Nikki Haley isn't an immigrant either.
Re:Ajit Pai confirmed as new head of the FCC
by Apocryphon on Monday January 23, 2017 @08:07PM
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And Judge Gonzalo Curiel was born in Indiana. In the U.S., people who are of clear immigrant ancestry are often lumped in with first generation immigrants in these controversies. To pretend otherwise is to feign ignorance.
Re:Ajit Pai confirmed as new head of the FCC
by woofyman on Monday January 23, 2017 @08:11PM
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I'm a second generation Jew.
>To pretend otherwise is to feign ignorance.
I wasn't pretending otherwise. You're making a big assumption about my intent.
Edit: Trumps comments about the judge were overt racism.
Re:Ajit Pai confirmed as new head of the FCC
by Apocryphon on Monday January 23, 2017 @08:36PM
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I didn't mean to attack you specifically, but a lot of times these debates split fine hairs over truisms like "Mexican is not a race", "Islam is not a race", etc., as if bigotry is always well-informed on taxonomy and anthropology. So while pointing out conservative Indian-Americans such as Haley, Pai, Jindal, Ponnuru, were born in the U.S. is true, it's incidental to the main issues of how non-white populations are perceived/treated in this country.
Re:Ajit Pai confirmed as new head of the FCC
by woofyman on Monday January 23, 2017 @08:41PM
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>it's incidental to the main issues of how non-white populations are perceived/treated in this country.
I totally agree.
Re:Ajit Pai confirmed as new head of the FCC
by bluthru on Monday January 23, 2017 @09:11PM
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>Edit: Trumps comments about the judge were overt racism.
How were those comments any different than the comments about the white male judge in the Stanford swimmer sexual assault case? Or how about comments regarding the racial makeup of a jury? The fact is that humans do bring personal biases into the legal system. It doesn't seem like the political press is holding everyone to the same standards.