Comments by "Hanna Cook" (@hannacook859) on "TED" channel.

  1. I hate bias and want to find a way to fix it but I agree with you. Also, from my experience these methods are used by the strong toward the weak and truly discriminated against. A privileged, rich, well educated, body able white man is more likely to know and use these methods to strengthen his privilege than any other group. (I am sure one must be waving a flag right now) We need to not let any person make up rules and just look at statistics, facts and proof and stop discrimination and bias. Assuming a woman with darker skin is there to file away papers instead of leading the company is clearly bias. Asking someone for lunch and being told off because you had no idea what their religion is and what day in their religion it is, is a few miles too far. Pretending that blindness is a difference instead of an unpleasant challenge and then not being allowed to use the phrase blind spot is just mocking the visually impaired and their struggles, as well as belittling them instead of just showing them respect as capable equal people that are dealing with an issue of not seeing. Very sorry, but blind people can not see. It is not bias it is the definition. And a blind spot it an area you can not see. Now... Can we find a real way to stop discrimination and can we start with ideas of how to stop American police people from killing/abusing darker skinned people and stop things like women being subjected to domestic abuse and sexual violence at alarming rates? Or are we busy waving flags?
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  2.  @JustsomeSteve  as long as they are not cannibals, it should not be offensive.
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  3. Seriously.. We have darker skinned people abused by police, we have women subjected to domestic abuse and sexual violence, we have Jewish people needing to be guarded against antisemitism, we have gay people assulted with no reason but their sexual orientation and we should be waving flags that are only respected by the people that are not doing any of those horrible things, how is that going to help? How? Can't we stop the real problems? And can't we start talking about the painful real issues? And please, the people that are willing to play a flag game are not the problem, they are not out there raping women, beating other ethnic groups or refusing to hire or pay fairly any group which is clearly a protected (or clearly should be) group. Please, there are people literally dying out there. This is not woke. This is deep asleep. Wake up.
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  4.  @l0g1cseer47  red flag
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  5. If someone asks me if they are fat and they are,.I hereby declare that I WILL LIE. I will start with trying to say how lovely their eyes are (or anything else that is not fat) and if that doesn't get me off the hock and they keep at it, I absolutely intended to tell them they are not fat. Sue me. Not planning to be honest about that. I will try to get out of the subject first, maybe pretend to see a squirrel (yet another lie) just to not have to lie to their face. Oh, and another honest thing about lying, I tell my 4 year old that if she doesn't brush her teeth, she will not be able to whistle. I don't lie to her about things that are serious, I do keep a lot from her (she is 4, some things need more maturity) but yeah, I tell her that she needs to brush her teeth so she can whistle and that Santa is real (I hope she doesn't actually believe that, I don't want her to be ok with Intruders) I will never knowingly lie to her about anything that is serious (look, she was not brushing her teeth properly and I was desperate and nothing else worked) but I plan to use the whistle thing until she is used to brushing well. Oh, and yesterday when she put a popcorn seed under her pillow, when she said a fairy will come to give her a gift for it (she has a friend that lost a tooth) I did tell her it is not how it works, but then tell her she can try because she looked so disappointed and I wanted to encourage creativity (and because I was starting to loss my ability not to smile and it might hurt her sweet feelings) So I let her put a popcorn seed under her pillow and experiment with a fairy who I know will not come (there are just too many popcorn seeds and mummy is not made of money)
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  6. Thanks!
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