Because they care about money, not harming children. This is why we live in a world where there isn’t enough effort put into keeping children safe by rich people, because they prefer money to chlidren.

Thank you for restating what I said, I appreciate it.

Every person is presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.

No. I don’t need to take you to court to prove that you can’t spell ‘escape’ in your username, for example. It’s just an obvious fact.

You can’t reduce reality to legal issues and then the fact of having committed an unpleasant actions to legal outcomes. Israel could literally blow up courts which start proceedings in terms of international law against the country, for example, that wouldn’t alter the reality of the evidence against Israel.

If you hit me with your car and I die, and there are witness, you did wrong regardless of what the court says.

People who tell their own government to stop killing innocent people make the world better.

industry

An industry that utilises real resources and to make… nothing?

The gradual loss of the childful optimism and joy.

When I was a (hungry and impoverished) child, I was optimistic that hunger and poverty could be solved.

As an adult who teaches the study of humans, it is quite clear that the solutions are convenient enough, so will not be attempted.

Hungry children it is.

Most people want social media to read and talk about the mundane things that are interesting to them (like sports, or their hobbies, or some new cool bar they want to go on, or some interesting places to travel)…

Hey, more evidence that most people aren’t worth talking to, nice.

I never watch any Fox News content, because I don’t hate myself.

In fact, I avoid video footage of Trump in general. He’s creepy and gross, with a whiny annoying voice.

I’m not interested in what content you are interested in.

Yes, this is the kind of thing a terminally boring person says.

Interesting that you think that I may be interested in Threads content.

Yes. Hatred is not logical.

Why are US ‘pro-Israel’ groups boosting a far-right, anti-Muslim UK extremist?

And, remember, there were German Jews who supported Hitler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews

I really don’t agree with your last sentence though. “Fixing” problems before they arise is exactly why we, particularly governments, already spend millions on the promotion of wellbeing and heathy lifestyles in order to prevent health issues in later life.

I’m pretty familiar with the differences in life expectancy statistics caused by health inequality. I’m not sure that you can truly promote wellbeing in a world where people are treated like they’re vastly less valuable.

Because being hypnotised prophylactically can easily come across as creepy and controlling, even if it’s well-meaning.

Let’s give an example that is both well-meaning and at least a little overbearing: “Hey, let’s hypnotise our kids to really want to try hard at school.”

Freedom means the freedom to be unhappy, make mistakes, and differ from others, as well as the freedom to be happy, succeed, and conform.

If you want prophylactic hypnosis, maybe try self-hypnosis? However, from everything I have read and tried myself in that field, it’s still used reactively. You realise your thoughts and behaviour cause a problem (e.g. over indulging in some vice), and you try to hypnotise yourself to not. Imagining potential problems and trying to fix them ahead of time could be based on poor assumptions, and lead to you trying to change your thoughts and behaviours in maladaptive ways. Fixing a problem before diagnosing it doesn’t make much sense to me.

So, a visible difference that some other people react to with prejudice is not like racism. Got it.

You ask: “Why assume they react to your VISIBLE ETHNIC DIFFERENCES in particular?”

1. The VISIBLE DIFFERENCES are visible.
2. People have made fun of me for having those VISIBLE DIFFERENCES before.
3. I can see facial expressions when people perceive THOSE VISIBLE DIFFERENCES, and notice features of judgemental reaction in their speech and behaviour after.

I’m sure you can comprehend why removing the controversial topic of ethnic differences [controversial because e.g. some people want to claim racism is does not happen any longer, or is not of any importance when it does because ‘it’s illegal to discriminate’] to replace it with another visible difference made it a suitable metaphor. I’m sure that you knew this, in fact, when you called it ‘dumb’.
Your annoyance is, therefore, possibly more at me saying that a woman is allowed to believe she is being targeted for racist reasons, and that such a woman should be listened to fairly. Feel free to clarify on that, if you wish. As for me, I logically believe that racism exists, as I have seen it. And that people can intuit when it is happening, as I have seen it. And that other people can disagree with it, because they profit from racism being ignored, as I have seen it.

It’s about as likely as someone starting and ending all of their writing with ellipses, with some of those ellipses being incomplete.

I have a birthmark that reads ‘VAGINA’ on my face.
Some people treat me differently from the moment I meet them.
I say, “I think that those people are reacting to my birthmark.”

You ask: “Why assume they react to your VAGINA birthmark in particular?”

1. The VAGINA birthmark is visible.
2. People have made fun of me for having it before.
3. I can see facial expressions when people perceive it, and notice features of judgemental reaction in their speech and behaviour after.

Now, apply this to OP’s wife. OP says this about her:

If I hadn’t seen the blatant discrimination she’s faced job hunting, I’d be more skeptical. She’s Filipino, but that’s “Mexican” to many. When I say blatant, I mean to say heads would roll if we had some of this on camera. She’s mostly unhurt by these things, just figures that’s the way of the world. But damn. One lady asked if she was Asian and was visibly appalled. Another said she would have to attend their church, and barely stopped short of asking her to renounce Catholicism. There’s much more I’m not remembering ATM.

I’m heavily autistic. I’ve figured this all out logically, as a person who has experience discrimination myself. It wasn’t easy, because I don’t grasp social cues natively. I thought I’d been doing something wrong for a long long time when people initially appraised me as ‘other’, but it turned out they were just being judgemental assholes. If you’re not heavily autistic, I believe it should be easier for you to figure all this out, right?

I don’t know if they’re all bastards

As it’s not likely that all people who work in HR have unmarried parents, it’s probably less literal language that labels them as belonging to a group of people who would harm you if it suited their interests.

All the HR people I’ve known who were not like that eventually left their job, because what they were asked to do went beyond their moral boundaries. Leaving HR to be the ones who were, indeed, those who didn’t feel such qualms.

No one else at this company requested such. Was he way out of line?

People who experience discrimination develop a sense for when someone is othering them. It’s not always correct, because it involves intuition, and you can misread people. But will still develop a sense for it.

Now, apply this to OP’s wife. OP says this about her:

If I hadn’t seen the blatant discrimination she’s faced job hunting, I’d be more skeptical. She’s Filipino, but that’s “Mexican” to many. When I say blatant, I mean to say heads would roll if we had some of this on camera. She’s mostly unhurt by these things, just figures that’s the way of the world. But damn. One lady asked if she was Asian and was visibly appalled. Another said she would have to attend their church, and barely stopped short of asking her to renounce Catholicism. There’s much more I’m not remembering ATM.

I initially read it as someone saying ‘Arab’ in a stereotypical Southern drawl, and I was confused.

I was a little bent when she told me he had asked her to remove her blur filter “to have a look at her working environment, make sure it’s not cluttered” (something along those lines).

Creepy.