Timeline for Why is "The Loop" survey asking about race, age, and gender?
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| Dec 6, 2019 at 15:19 | comment | added | Marco13 | ""Fun"" fact: If you quoted more of this speech, you'd have to expect being banned or flagged for using the "second-worst 'n-word'". Apart from that: For nearly ten years, people have been judged on SO for the content of their (not character, but) answers. Suddenly, people started claiming that this was not the case, and that's when this whole thing started blowing up. It's a pity. | |
| Nov 30, 2019 at 20:40 | comment | added | Ask About Monica | "It's ok, we're the good kind of racist." | |
| Nov 29, 2019 at 16:13 | comment | added | Rounin | It's very useful to some in society that the conversation remains focused on identity narratives and does not consider economic realities. | |
| Nov 28, 2019 at 8:40 | comment | added | Luis Rico | Aren't those protected classes just people with low incomes or in difficult situations? If you classify people by race and then create "protected" classes you are assuming that certain races are going to do better than others | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 18:21 | comment | added | SCFi | The US at the very least has the concept of protected classes and it doesn't have to do with inheritance. It's meant for good reasons but never updated to reflect the changes in laws and policy that have been passed | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 16:04 | history | answered | Luis Rico | CC BY-SA 4.0 |