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Re:Google says employees flouting vaccination rules will eve... by bellyfullofbac on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @10:16AM (#29567042)
Ah yeah, anti-vaxxers (I'm not calling you one) grasping at straws including calling the vax mandates racist because of the low vax uptake from Black people.

If it was a policy that's based on something that the Black people can't change about them (e.g. refusal to entry to a club based on your address, with majority black areas of town being in that list), and it disadvantages them, yes that'd be racist. But in this case, the Black people (or whoever) can easily change it by getting vaxed...

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Re:Google says employees flouting vaccination rules will eve... by ethbr0 on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @10:36AM (#29567347)
Racism by intent and racism by outcome are both racism.

Regarding the latter, it's not difficult to create a policy that's non-racist in construction, but has reliably racist results. Correlated parameters, etc. Whether anything can or should be done about it is a thornier question.

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Re:Google says employees flouting vaccination rules will eve... by Karsteski on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @10:19AM (#29567077)
It's important to keep in mind that black people have very many reasons to distrust government.
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