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Hey, guys. So, I have a big favor to ask. Pitch in $1 if you can to help my friend keep his YouTube channel up. Because of YouTube’s new wave of demonetizing videos, many independent outlets on YouTube are suffering. This was originally meant to target accounts that spew hate and bigotry from getting ad revenue, but because many media outlets talk about important things that might not seem pleasant like racism, sexism, income inequality, drugs, and war, it’s gotten harder for them to keep up with the bills. Because of these awful accounts that have three subscribers or something, accounts with a bigger following and do serious content aren’t getting the income they deserve since YouTube is demonetizing their videos. No more ads before videos means no more income from those YouTubers. Please, help my friend Jeff. He’s a pretty good guy and looks at issues from all angles.
If you have to be racist in order to do a feminist thing then there’s probably no true benefit to your feminist thing, and the harm you do outweighs everything.
Let’s get more specific, actually, to showcase how fucked up this is. If, in 2017, you, being a rich, often employed white US actress have to participate in race erasure in order to earn lots of money by acting in a remake of a movie that already had a female protagonist who was not white, and that will in turn make lots of money for the US studio that produces it…
…and you claim you’re doing it for the feminism
…and you claim your whitewashing was necessary to support that feminism
…then I don’t have a polite conclusion to this post, I’m sorry, I just don’t.
The question before the Supreme Court comes down to whether the family of a Mexican citizen shot on Mexican soil has the right to sue under the U.S. Constitution.
In June 2010, 15-year-old Sergio Hernandez and his friends were playing chicken at the U.S.-Mexico border, daring each other to run up and touch the tall border fence separating Juarez, Mexico, from El Paso, Texas.
At some point during their game, U.S. border patrol agent Jesus Mesa arrived on a bicycle. He detained one of the kids on the U.S. side while the others ran away. Hernandez hid behind a pillar beneath a bridge on the Mexican side of the border. A cellphone video shows the boy peeking out from behind the column, before Mesa shoots and kills him.
NPR’s Nina Totenberg reports that Mesa claims he was being surrounded by the boys, and that they were throwing rocks at him. But as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments Tuesday, the question in this case actually doesn’t come down to whether Mesa acted in self-defense.
The Justice Department decided against prosecuting Mesa because the department said it did not have jurisdiction on the Mexico side of the border. Mexico charged the agent with murder, but the U.S. refused to extradite him, so the prosecution could not move forward.
The Hernandez family sued Mesa for damages, saying that the border agent violated their son’s rights — and this is the question that the Supreme Court faces: Can foreigners sue for damages under the U.S. Constitution?
The government said in its court filing that the right to sue “should not be extended to aliens injured abroad.” Mesa’s lawyer says a ruling in favor of the Hernandez family would mean foreigners could also sue over drone attacks.
In an interview with Steve Inskeep in 2014, the head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Gil Kerlikowske acknowledged that the agency had a problem with transparency around the use of force. But he also said that he found the decision by an appellate court that the Hernandez family could sue for damages “chilling.”
When asked if he thought that federal law applied when agents shot across the border, Kerlikowske said it would depend on the circumstances — but that border patrol rules for using force always applied.
“Frankly, we need to be better at admitting when we’re wrong or where we’ve made a mistake,” Kerlikowske told Inskeep. “There is a certain sense in law enforcement that if we just keep our heads down, all of this will go away — meaning media scrutiny and nongovernmental organizations. That doesn’t happen.”
A 2013 report commissioned by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and written by an outside group had faulted the agency for insufficiently investigating the 67 shootings that took place from 2010 to 2012 and questioned the use of force in some of those cases. Since March of 2014 the CBP says there has been a decline in the number of use of force incidents.
Over 100 workers lost jobs after striking on ‘Day Without Immigrants’
More than 100 workers nationwide were terminated from their positions for taking place in the Feb. 16 “Day Without Immigrants” protest.
Across the U.S., media reported a number of mass firings, as well as resignations in response to those firings.
Encore Boat Builders LLC in Lexington, South Carolina, fired 21 workers, KHOU reported.
Meanwhile, ABC 2 reported that in Nashville, Tennessee, Bradley Coatings, Inc. terminated 18 people for taking part in the protests.
Thirty more lost their jobs in Denver, Colorado, after JVS Masonry owner Jim Serowski fired them, though he said the employees who took the day off could re-apply for their positions.
Orange and Blue in Miami, Florida, fired four workers, prompting 17 others to quit their jobs. Read more (2/19/17 8:40 PM)
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