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#discriminates — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #discriminates, aggregated by home.social.

  1. #SCOTUS on Wednesday allowed #California to use a new voter-approved congressional map that is favorable to #Democrats in this year’s #elections, rejecting a last-ditch plea from state #Republicans & the #Trump admin.

    The justices had previously allowed #Texas’ Republican-friendly map to be used in 2026, despite a lower court ruling that it likely #discriminates on the basis of #race.

    #law
    apnews.com/article/supreme-cou

  2. The new order seeks to *use* [twist] federal #CivilRights laws to force schools to come into compliance w/ #conservative views on both subjects.

    Fed #law allows the #Education Dept to withhold funds from any school that #discriminates based on #race or #sex.… #Trump & allies argue lessons about #SystemicRacism amount to #discrimination, because they presume certain things about people based on race, such as that White Americans enjoy certain privileges based on their race.

    #USpol #Whitewashing

  3. #ADL's #JonathanGreenblatt advocates 'capturing' #TikTok & pushing '#extremists' (anti-hasbara editors) off #Wikipedia but says nothing about #META (whose internal audit says it #discriminates against #Palestinians) nor #X (which allows #Nazis to run amok while limiting the reach of pro-Palestine content).

  4. 1/n bit.ly/3QcEp6F Remember when #liberty won in the Appeals Court against South Wales constabulary's use of #FacialRecognition ? The court found the use of facial recognition technology breaches #privacyrights #DataProtection laws and #equalitylaws. Remember? We all cheered as we reflected on how 'The Court has agreed that this #dystopian #Surveillance tool violates our rights and threatens our liberties. [It] #discriminates against people of colour,...'? Remember?...