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Post by rgs318 on Apr 28, 2021 9:47:28 GMT -5
I also support more legal immigration. This is especially important since the original national quotas were based on the results of an IQ test administered only in English. Looking at the results, it is clear the numbers for Asian countries are so low but so high for those from English speaking countries. I believe, however, in holding those who seek to benefit from this country accountable if they break our laws to do so. Give priority whenever possible to those who have followed "the rules" are are awaiting permission to enter.
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Post by newfieguy74 on Apr 28, 2021 15:30:45 GMT -5
My first instinct with respect to the WSJ article by Jason Riley is to respond with the sarcasm it deserves. He doesn't point out that Mr. Kaufman of the Manhattan Institute (a conservative think tank) is a colleague. Mr. Riley is a senior fellow at the MI. Racism, like the coronavirus, changes and adapts, but its adaptations are always at the expense of black people. He blames the media for overstating the existence and effects of racism. The media doesn't need to do this as black intellectuals, black leaders, and everyday black people will tell anyone willing to listen that racism is pervasive in America. Even if his "facts" are correct they don't make his case. If 999 people were killed by the police in 2019 and 252 were black, that represents 25% of those killed or twice the black population (13%). This article is intellectually dishonest and fatuous.
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Post by purplehaze on Apr 28, 2021 15:51:09 GMT -5
Did you prejudge this article before you read it - can't there be legitimate positions on both sides of this issue ? -Mr. Riley is a serious and thoughtful African-American journalist
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Apr 28, 2021 16:38:12 GMT -5
My first instinct with respect to the WSJ article by Jason Riley is to respond with the sarcasm it deserves. He doesn't point out that Mr. Kaufman of the Manhattan Institute (a conservative think tank) is a colleague. Mr. Riley is a senior fellow at the MI. Racism, like the coronavirus, changes and adapts, but its adaptations are always at the expense of black people. He blames the media for overstating the existence and effects of racism. The media doesn't need to do this as black intellectuals, black leaders, and everyday black people will tell anyone willing to listen that racism is pervasive in America. Even if his "facts" are correct they don't make his case. If 999 people were killed by the police in 2019 and 252 were black, that represents 25% of those killed or twice the black population (13%). This article is intellectually dishonest and fatuous. Yikes.
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Post by princetoncrusader on Apr 28, 2021 18:53:07 GMT -5
There are other black intellectuals like Tom Sowell, Shelby Steele and Carol Swain, as well as the late Walter Williams, all of whom grew up poor and experienced discrimination early in life, that America is not a systemically racist country.
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Post by td128 on Apr 29, 2021 6:10:21 GMT -5
ICYMI . . . on the thread relating to honoring our fellow Crusader alum, I left a link to a 2013 article from Fortune magazine. Given that the Fortune piece was behind a paywall, I also provided a link to a site that carried the extensive commentary entitled Dirty Medicine. Regrettably, nobody seemed to pick up on or did not want to comment on the passage within that post relating to a shocking display of racism on a massive level over a protracted period.
In the spirit of pursuing truth that lies at the core of our Jesuit education, I welcome relinking to that commentary and not make anybody actually have to dig for the details. Rather remarkably, the details very easily could be included in 3 separate threads within this category.
For a frame of reference, the individual referenced (Dinesh Thakur) was in charge of the data analysis at this pharmaceutical company Ranbaxy Labs and blew the whistle on the distribution of adulterated medicines produced by the company that went predominantly into African nations.
www.rauhpsychiatry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Dirty-medicine-Fortune-Features-copy-4.pdf
"It's just blacks dying." Throughout the summer of 2005, Thakur tried to convince himself that the company's medicine was no longer his problem. He was jobless and piecing together haphazard consulting work. He feared for his family's safety. The company had a "reputation for threatening people, bullying people," he recalls. Thakur hired a security company, which posted a guard outside his home 24 hours a day.
On fitful nights, he lay awake with a map of the world in his head. It contained each of Ranbaxy's markets and the substandard drugs the company had made. He mentally reviewed the graphs he had prepared, each spelling out a hazard to patients that was almost certainly continuing. Not only had the FDA approved the company's PEPFAR drugs. In August, the WHO restored the company's ARVs to its prequalified list.
Thakur knew the drugs weren't good. They had high impurities, degraded easily, and would be useless at best in hot, humid conditions. They would be taken by the world's poorest patients in sub-Saharan Africa, who had almost no medical infrastructure and no recourse for complaints. The injustice made him livid.
Ranbaxy executives didn't care, says Kathy Spreen, and made little effort to conceal it. In a conference call with a dozen company executives, one brushed aside her fears about the quality of the AIDS medicine Ranbaxy was supplying for Africa. "Who cares?" he said, according to Spreen. "It's just blacks dying."
Some might think that this level of criminal activity would qualify as crimes against humanity. I certainly do.
I would assume that the more highly educated in the audience are familiar with the program known as PEPFAR and the organization known as WHO and the agency that goes by FDA. For the benefit of everybody else, PEPFAR is the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief launched in 2002 by GWB. WHO is the World Health Organization. FDA is Food and Drug Administration. Who more than any other single individual influences the WHO? The same individual who after the USA provides the greatest degree of funding for the organization. Yep, none other than Bill Gates.
Those practices distributing adulterated meds went on for years. What happens when people take an adulterated medicine for a virus such as HIV? One builds up a resistance to the drugs being used and the virus spreads doing long lasting damage to countless people and nations in the process. This is not some sort of fictitious script. This is real life in the developing world where the people are provided little to no protection from the big money predatory forces of major pharmaceutical companies in bed with ineffectual if not fully corrupt regulatory agencies including those based here in the United States.
What transpired is real racism. I might imagine that most here including those like myself who might be counted among the lesser educated, stupid, idiotic and ugly can connect the dots across the selected threads in this category.
The folks at FDA, NIH, NIAID, and DOJ should be called on the carpet for why and how this activity within Ranbaxy persisted for so long.
Navigate accordingly.
P.S. For the overachievers in the audience who might care to read about the long term health and economic impacts of drug resistance, I welcome sharing this link from a site known as Review on Antimicrobial Resistance: amr-review.org/home.html
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