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Dont_mute_me_bro t1_je9c2ev wrote

Reply to Rockaway Beach's Jacob Riis bathhouse lands $47.5M for renovations | Crain's New York Business by mikeymiggz

I will always think less of Chick Schumer for not pressuring the NPS to fix Riis Park sooner. Here's the one of the most powerful leaders in the US Senate and a Federal Beach in NYC- the heart of his district; the region or his disgraced acolyte Congressman Anthony (Carlos Danger) Weiner that has been a dilapidated shambles for years. A Federal park in the Nation's biggest city, a city that pays more to the fed than it gets back...and it's crumbling!

Anyway..Let's see how long "The People's Beach" lasts in the shadows of gentrification. Once there's money and families worrying about "the children" it gets ugly.

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mowotlarx t1_je9bqlv wrote

Reply to comment by KaiDaiz in Surge in DWI dismissals under NY ‘discovery’ reform could lead to tragedy: cops by Brolic_Broccoli

>Let the judge decide if relevant

That's not how the justice system works. The judge isn't the one deciding what is relevant for the defense of a defendant before a trial has begun.

If a system relies only on the defense being left in the dark and not receiving all evidence against them in order for it to "run smoothly"- the system is broken.

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Dont_mute_me_bro t1_je9bjhj wrote

Reply to comment by AnacharsisIV in NYC teachers union’s workshop on ‘harmful effects of whiteness’ canceled after influx of ‘hate’ by someone_whoisthat

"Economics is a social construct. Ethics are a social construct. Business is a social construct. If all of these justify seminars, then why shouldn't the construct of whiteness? How else shall it be deconstructed? I'm going to leave it out that kissing your sister or mother- is almost universally prohibited, as is cannibalism. We can argue about small isolated communities in remote places practicing them, but in the overwhelming majority of the world, it's prohibited; taboo in fact. One could say that it's not a just social construct, but a universal truth.

Are there seminars on the evils of economics? The evils of ethics? The evils of Business? (maybe at the risible Young Socialists Club, but nowhere else).

Setting aside that I doubt that any French speaking Canadians (including Quebecois, who are different from Acadians or Metis) identify as "Latino"...If Quebecois are in fact "Latino", there are a lot of people in Upstate New York and New England of Quebecois ancestry who should be getting "diversity points" or at least changing their census designation.

And while we're at it...since I agree with you that "Hispanic" is an ethnolinguistic designation, why are there diversity points being added to a purely *Gallego (*pure European ancestry) person from Mexico, Argentina or Cuba? Turn on Univision and see- these people are not mestizo, Indio, or anything. They might be of a fairer complexion than a Greek/Latino such as yourself.

Why does language qualify? What has historically been done to the Brazilian community in the US? Why make a designation of "Latino" at all?

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Jimmy_kong253 t1_je8xkqs wrote

Reply to Cartel in Queens by Snoo_56388

Its obviously the cartel otherwise it would be the mob but the mob don't exist it's just a derogatory idea made up by the government to bother Italians who are in legit businesses like waste management or and construction. They even made up a government agency called the FBI which means forever bothering Italians

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