FCC Chair Brendan Carr is letting ISPs merge–as long as they end DEI programs

Re:FCC Chair Brendan Carr is letting ISPs merge–as long as t... by mmooss on Monday May 19, 2025 @07:18PM (#44036023)

> We have very effectively “educated the shit out of our kids” for decades about this.

Maybe kids and others who disagree with you aren't indoctrinated, but form their own opinions, and the great majority have seen the research (in college) and the very obvious reality, and concluded there is discrimination. I don't know how you can say otherwise in the face of reality.

'Decades' ago there was even more open racism. It didn't take much education to say that white-only hotels and restaurants, and lynchings indicated there was racism.

Many people today, since 2016, openly embrace racism. What do you say to them?

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Re:FCC Chair Brendan Carr is letting ISPs merge–as long as t... by dgfitz on Monday May 19, 2025 @10:51PM (#44037299)

Sincerely, I have no idea how to respond to any of that. I’m kind of at a loss… hasn’t the messaging been that it takes a generation or so to make an effective change in the mindset of a population? Aren’t we bearing the fruits of that?

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Re:FCC Chair Brendan Carr is letting ISPs merge–as long as t... by mmooss on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @02:27AM (#44038404)

> hasn’t the messaging been that it takes a generation or so to make an effective change in the mindset of a population? Aren’t we bearing the fruits of that?

I'm not quite sure what you mean here. Do you mean, it's not changing faster because it takes a generation? The US has been addressing racism for many generations; the civil rights era - which was not the start of the issue - peaked in the 1960s. The US had the Abolitionist movement in the 19th century and maybe before. The US Civil War was in the 19th century.

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