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Above is today’s polling from YouGov on the compulsory wearing of face masks when at work. As can be seen there’s a relatively tight split, within the margin of error, on whether those sampled back or oppose the idea.
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Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, is making face coverings mandatory for shoppers in all its stores from Monday.
Politically quite significant in the US, I think.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/jul/15/coronavirus-live-news-update-covid-19-cases-latest-updates-india-lockdown (at 16:46)
Con -7
Lab +2
LD -5
SNP +10
https://tinyurl.com/ybk6nkr5
All those Uyghurs in the re-socialisation campuses in China need work to help them rejoin society, after all.
I have said I expect a uturn will come on the compulsion and I think those percentages make it look more likely as it's people more likely to vote tory that appear to reject compulsion
Truly bizarre
https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1283372233730203651?s=20
John Harris is a national treasure. George Mondibot can be entertaining if you don’t take him too seriously. I also enjoy Richard Williams, especially when he writes about other than sport. I forget her name but the girl that does “how to cook the perfect...” is great magazine style journalism.
But then you have the downsides. Polly is tiresome, predictable and boring. And Owen Jones offensive and painful to my mental faculties.
It’s a shame because the Graun is at times capable of world class investigative journalism but has such a chip on its shoulder that its content is mostly unreadable dirge. Too many on its payroll have insufficiently few grey hairs and world views so narrow their output reads like parody.
The most irritating thing is the online comments section when you accidentally scroll below the article. Not that the Mail is better of course but at least they are self aware enough to give the audience some T&A (and curiously have an excellent science / technology editor).
Woke is just Weird
THE VAST LEFT WING CONSPIRACY:
The Untold Story of How Democratic Operatives, Eccentric Billionaires, Liberal Activists, and Assorted Celebrities Tried to Bring Down a President - and Why They'll Try Even Harder Next Time.
It's genuine. See here
https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/whiteness
R just above 1. Reported cases no longer decreasing. That's the negative.
Incidence very low (except for some known hotspots). That's the positive.
Managing this will need a lot of thought and care!
Non-public workplaces (esp. industrial, food) - 33%
Domestic transmission within household - 38%
Domestic transmission inter household (including a small contribution from at home care work and private transport) - 6%
Pubs, restaurants, hospitality Inc staff - 6%
Public transport Inc staff / taxis - 5%
Hospital, mefical and care settings Inc staff - 3% (if it were still greater, deaths would still be higher)
Retail and public facing service Inc staff but exc education - 4%
Education and childcare settings - 2%
Open air settings - 1%
Contracted abroad - 1%
Thoughts please.
As it is it will be judged entirely on what race the author was.
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1283434043867049985?s=20
https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/whiteness
and it is a genuine contribution to a tricky discussion (my opinion as a white, centre right liberal male) including, naturally, lots to disagree with.
Woke has gone so far it has entered a parallel universe outwith my comprehension. I am not jesting. I don't get it.
It was asked why China has suddenly decided to come out all nasty to the world. I think the answer is that it has placed its bets on a Biden win in November and takes the view that, if he wins, Biden will be essentially Obama Mark 2, namely will want to avoid conflict and so will bend over backwards to do anything to calm China down. So China is probably thinking that the more it sabre rattles, the more Biden (or his successor) will look to give give aways.
And I don't know why you're trying to read into it more than what it says. You're the one who's putting this "white = bad" narriative on it
I don't know whether he has sought advice from anyone, but if he has, it's not from his friends.
Not very culturally aware, really.
Your buttons are so easily pushed.
http://www.cascadia.edu/discover/about/diversity/documents/Some Aspects and Assumptions of White Culture in the United States.pdf
She seems to be a fringe academic/author, who has been writing about this since the late 70s.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/White-Awareness-Judy-H-Katz/dp/0806114665
So obscure amazon gives the wrong info on her book
The difference is that this fringe position has now moved mainstream, and is being pumped out by a respected and important US museum
Self reliance
Planning for the future
Nuclear families
The avoidance of conflict
Politeness
Hard work
Working before playing
Respect for authority
Giving kids their own rooms, so they can be independent
Punctuality
Objective and rational thinking
Protection of property
Belief in cause and effect
That's what is says "characterises most American white people"
Is it really that shocking. for example, to claim that the protestant work ethic a) is culturally dominant in the US and b) primarily originated with white settlers? Is it fair to characterise that claim as saying that only white people work hard?
Steak and potatoes: “bland is best”
Anyhoo. After chucking that cat at you pigeons, I must go do some hard protestant work. Peace to all
This also goes the other way. I'm sure many shop owners are worried that requiring masks will hurt any recovery in sales and the longer this drags on and job losses bite there may a revolt against those pushing for ever more restrictions.
https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/1283130468871876608
Would you like to know what EYE sense you are?
* by which they don't actually seem to mean white, they've equated skin colour with the culture of a subset of northern European settlers, but we'll let that racist logical error pass
The point missing going on here is absolutely spectacular. Truly jaw droppingly stunning.
I don't even necessarily agree with the thesis but at least I have the decency to understand it before slating it for things it isn't saying.
"work(s) like a ..."
I won't complete the sentence, for obvious reasons, but the word wasn't "Protestant" or "Korean".
Planning for the future
The avoidance of conflict
Politeness
Respect for authority
Objective and rational thinking
Belief in cause and effect
Because I don't....
http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
The mixing and meshing of different cultures is something to celebrate.
Frank Furedi"
https://www.spiked-online.com/2016/02/15/in-praise-of-cultural-appropriation/
If it's an extremist, one is well advised to treat with caution and seek the reasons why the bald content is misleading and the message is false.
And if ye so seek, ye shall usually find.
If only more would take a leaf instead of doing the Pavlov's dogs routine.
Former Travis County GOP chair and B-list Austin crank Robert Morrow has suffered a stinging defeat in his bid to serve on the State Board of Education. GOP voters were apparently not in the mood for Morrow’s ideas for Texas schoolchildren, including pole-dancing classes for high-schoolers and teaching that Lyndon Johnson assassinated John Kennedy.
Morrow is losing 78-22 to Lani Popp, who has a lovely name and seems wisely to have stayed off Twitter, her challenger’s preferred medium for anime porn. Current Travis County GOP chair Matt Mackowiak must be relieved that he will not have to follow through on his promise to “light [himself] on fire” if Morrow wins.
Basically, the argument is a simple one: by accepting slightly more onerous restrictions now, you avoid a hard lock down (either de facto or de jure).