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Re:John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google
on Friday February 02, 2018 @12:08AM (#16288561)
If they hadn't sold it in 2005, it would be worth $3.6B now (10x in 12 years), more than 10% of Stanford's total endowment.
Re:How does ‘class-passing’ actually work?
on Thursday February 01, 2018 @03:52PM (#16285766)
Duck Dynasty's audience was not substantially less rural / blue collar than the cast.
There's a glut of "urban white collar porn": Nearly all mainstream television sitcoms and dramas.
Re:How does ‘class-passing’ actually work?
on Thursday February 01, 2018 @03:49PM (#16285736)
You don't have to look to greed or malice, but simply the fact that people carry their unexamined biases with them when they speak their opinions.
> > > it took me many years to realize that the posters who upvote and share these articles are not only aware of the heavy fog, but are able to read though the fog
They aren't aware of the fog, they have the same subconscious biased perspective that makes the fog look like normal to them.
Re:What Does It Mean to Die?
on Thursday February 01, 2018 @03:44PM (#16285681)
The McMath family are (as far as I can see) not biostatisticians. The author's belief may or may not be accurate, but it is based on their experience in life. By your comment's reasoning, You are as "casually racist" as they are if you do not gather the statistics that you instruct the author to gather.
"Casual racism" is what the author perceives based on living their life and observing their surroundings; it is not their giving voice to their interpretation.