#VoterID in #England led to #racial and #disability #discrimination, report finds

All-party report on rules governing 2023 local elections calls voter ID system a ‘poisoned cure
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/11/voter-id-in-england-led-to-racial-and-disability-discrimination-report-finds
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryCorruption

Its now clear that #VoterID requirements in local election caused impediments to #voting along #racial lines & also impeded voting by the #disabled.

The review suggests Voter ID is a 'poisoned cure' to a minor problem; but of course, this was not a bug, but a feature of the policy.

As I said, #RishiSunak is criticising #China for interfering with #democracy in the UK, mainly because that's the #Tories job!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/11/voter-id-in-england-led-to-racial-and-disability-discrimination-report-finds

#Americans are divided on whether society overlooks #racial #discrimination or sees it where it doesn’t exist
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/08/25/americans-are-divided-on-whether-society-overlooks-racial-discrimination-or-sees-it-where-it-doesnt-exist/

#Racist #RoadRager Caught On Camera Near #ATL;
A man flashing a “crazy ass white boy” tattoo was caught on video hurling #racial #slurs at a #Black man.
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/victim-road-rage-video-recalls-incident-dekalb-county/TTIV5SOQUVGHPP33EJAWT4XWQQ/
https://www.theroot.com/racist-road-rager-caught-on-camera-near-atl-1850768098
https://www.thedailybeast.com/greenwatt-development-denies-employing-man-caught-in-racist-road-rage-video-in-georgia

Some good news from the #Midwest : Lawrence, #Kansas will be the first city in Kansas to pass legislation to protect Black people and others from #racial #discrimination based on hair type and texture, based on the #CROWNact

Read more at: https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article278338144.html#storylink=cpy

Survey: Nearly 40% of #Republicans believe #racialequality efforts have gone 'too far' --
Sixty years after the March on Washington, a new survey offers fresh insight into #Americans' views of progress on #racial #equality.
https://news.yahoo.com/survey-republicans-racial-equality-efforts-too-far-pew-politics-gop-140037495.html

@nedhamson

The thing is, those aren't @Conservatives they're #Racial #Nihilists.

They literally want to see the world burn.

#laurencefox is an odious unpleasant individual. Supposed to be on holiday but spending his time making #homophobic #transphobic #racial remarks and conflating those with climate change denial which he calls ‘global boiling’.

@engarneering

Because "a reaction" to #Racial concerns, destroyed #Tulsa, #Eatonville, #Rosewood, ..., I can't list them all. Not sure we have documentated them all.

But here's a start: https://www.blackpast.org/special-features/racial-violence-united-states-1660/

#TIL

"#Woke" is a culturally appropriated term. It's use & creation was spawned in the #Black #community. It was used to talk about #racial #injustice.

FF to now. #White #people have co-opted it to feel better about themselves or use it as a dirty word meant to insult & belittle.

You're not woke.

#blm #blacklivesmatter #racism #liberals

Lawrence W. Britt: 14 Characteristics of #Fascism

"Historian Lawrence Britt studied the fascist regimes of #Hitler (Germany), #Mussolini (Italy), #Franco (Spain), #Suharto (Indonesia), and #Pinochet (Chile) and found they had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism.

1. Powerful and Continuing #Nationalism
Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of #patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. #Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.

2. Disdain for the Recognition of #HumanRights
Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, and long incarcerations of prisoners.

3. Identification of #Enemies/#Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: #racial, #ethnic or #religious #minorities; #liberals; #communists; #socialists, #terrorists…

4. Supremacy of the #Military
Even when there are widespread #domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.

5. Rampant #Sexism
The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional #gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is #homophobia and anti-#gay legislation.

6. Controlled #MassMedia
Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation or by sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Government #censorship and #secrecy especially in war time, are very common.

7. Obsession with #NationalSecurity
Fear of hostile foreign powers is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.

8. #Religion and Government are Intertwined
Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions.

9. Protection of #Corporate Power
The #industrial and business #aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.

10. Suppression of #Labor Power
Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor #unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.

11. Disdain for #Intellectuals and the #Arts
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to #HigherEducation and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.

12. Obsession with #Crime and #Punishment
Under fascist regimes, the #police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.

13. Rampant #Cronyism and #Corruption
Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.

14. #Fraudulent #Elections
Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by #SmearCampaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control #voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.

This post is a summary of Fascism, Anyone? by Lawrence W. Britt published in 2003 by Free Inquiry magazine."

https://voxpopulisphere.com/2017/08/23/lawrence-britt-14-characteristics-of-fascism/

Woman Gets 9 Years For Mailing #Threats, #Racial #Slurs To Neighbors
https://youtu.be/FCxePQt7qWg
https://www.wdrb.com/news/crime-reports/kentucky-woman-convicted-of-mailing-threats-racial-slurs-to-neighbors-sentenced-by-judge/article_bce6e4f8-2cf3-11ee-8391-4fc5136fe656.html

"#French riots show how entrenched #inequalities have become. The gulf between #immigrants and those born in the country is larger than in almost any other developed nation.
Imagine two countries. The first is proudly Christian, it allowed racial #segregation in living memory and #racism is mentioned more frequently in its media than anywhere else in the developed world. The second is strictly secular and legally prohibits the collection of #data on people’s race, a conscious effort by its leaders to avoid using #ethnicity to differentiate or divide.
Which do you think would offer people from diverse #racial and religious backgrounds the best prospects of success? Of becoming equal participants in society? The answers revealed in the data are surprising."
10 charts showing greater inequalities in #France compared to #UK, #Germany and sometimes #US.
Depicted chart : "Black and brown people are disproportionately likely to be stopped by police across the west, but the disparities are truly huge in France."
Chance of being stopped and searched by #police, relative to #white people in #London is ×2 or ×3 for #black people, compared to ×6 in #Paris and even more than ×7 for #arabs.
https://www.ft.com/content/25eda9f0-8bd3-41e1-948c-89cc7c0ec66e

This month, Muse™ Grenoble in partnership with @AlexandreMartin, looks at the place of #ethics in #ArtificialIntelligence, and more specifically in #algorithms and #data.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ia-muses_ethics-artificialintelligence-algorithms-activity-7078982744445206528-3zVn

Enjoy your reading 🙂

#gender #sexism #misogynistic #stereotype #discrimination #bias #racism #racial #CodeBias #EquitableAI #AccountableAI #InclusiveAI #algoethics #responsibleai #dataethics #aiethics #ethicalai #ethicaldesign #techethics #blackbox #algorithmicbias #bigdata #datalake #dataprivacy

How #Alabama Defied the #SupremeCourt on #Racial #Gerrymandering
https://newrepublic.com/article/174530/alabama-defied-supreme-court-racial-gerrymandering

An impressive analysis of #racial bias in predictive algorithms used in #healthcare, which under-estimate Black patients' need for care management support as the estimate is based on $ spent (which historically is low for Blacks due to underspending). https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aax2342

https://prospect.org/justice/2023-07-12-gorsuch-opinion-303-creative-dangerous/

The #corruptcourt is: drawn toward broad and dangerous specifications that can only be applied selectively to benefit claimants whom the judges happen to like.

#PurchasedJustice #PlantationCourt #corruptconservativescotus
#WhitePrivaledge #structural #racial #inequality

...aus der beliebten Serie
"Another Satisfying #Racial Moment"

👮‍♂️😎 👮‍♂️

https://youtube.com/shorts/DvCOQE4xvtA?feature=share3

Audit found there is a “high likelihood” hundreds of Connecticut State #Police troopers collectively falsified tens of thousands traffic ticket records over much of the past decade.

The findings allege systemic violations of state law and that the misreporting skewed #racial profiling data making it appear #troopers ticketed more white drivers and fewer minority motorists than they really did.

https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/ct-state-police-troopers-false-tickets-18162917.php

BBC News - How #African migrants survived #racial attacks in #Tunisia
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-66157259