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#prejudice — Public Fediverse posts

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

  1. In which I continue to wrestle with #marktwain's famous comment that #travel is fatal to #prejudice. I can think of moments when that has been true (hello #malcolmx), but then there's Theodore Roosevelt. youtube.com/watch?v=vfX28aaIBWY

  2. Judge Paul A. Magnuson #dismissed the charges on Friday with #prejudice, meaning the case cannot be refiled.

    #ToddLyons, the acting director of #ICE, said in a statement Friday that 2 officers seemed to have provided “inaccurate testimony” [straight up #perjury].

    #FactCheck #TrumpLies #StateSponsoredTerrorism #law #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung

  3. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    Not for the first time she reflected that there were many drawbacks to being a swordswoman, not least of which was that men didn’t take you seriously until you’d actually killed them, by which time it didn’t really matter anyway.

    Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
    Discworld No. 2, The Light Fantastic (1986)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8163…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #acceptance #bias #chauvinism #feminism #fighter #hero #heroine #prejudice #sexism #takeseriously #sexdiscrimination #battleofthesexes