Questions tagged [discrimination]
for questions about claims based on discrimination.
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Do Americans in Russia typically get sentenced to nine years in prison for offenses that local Russians typically get only a one year sentence?
Trevor Reed says that is the case, but he only offers a sample of two Americans (himself and Griner). He says that Russians would "usually receive a year, two years maybe" for the same ...
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Is a woman more likely than a man to be seriously injured in a car crash of similar severity?
This article makes a number of interesting points about the potential dangers faced by women in a world "designed for men", but I want to ask specifically about this claim:
But when a woman ...
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Is the abortion hanger a myth?
Recently protesters against the overturning of U.S.abortion law have often shown the “coat hanger” as the symbolic image of illegal abortion.
An extract from Wikipedia reads:
In a letter to The New ...
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Is there currently an epidemic of crimes against Asian Americans?
There's a common belief that we're seeing an epidemic of crimes against Asian Americans. Claims are too numerous to cite comprehensively so I'll just cite President Biden's tweet:
We can’t be silent ...
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Are neo-Nazis calling for the murder and torture of Stack Exchange members?
Earlier today, a question was posted on the Meta Stack Exchange site. Here is an excerpt from that question:
Several right-wing websites have started reporting and thus directed attention of far-...
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Does USA imprison people of color at a higher rate than whites for the same crime convictions?
The Ben & Jerry's website says:
America locks people up at a higher rate than any other country, and bias is baked right in. If you’re a person of color or struggling to make ends meet, you’re ...
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Do women in all-women shops earn less then men in all-men shops? [closed]
Many women & men raise issues of equal pay for equal work, but a recent analysis of Uber Drivers showed that women earned less because of working less or driving slowly; Uber Payment system did ...
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Do women earn less than men for the same exact work? [duplicate]
Previous questions on the site such as this one and this one, as well as the answers and their sources address the gender pay gap on a broad scale, comparing the careers of all men to the careers of ...
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Is the BBC gender pay gap due to discrimination?
The BBC has recently been reporting on it's own gender pay gap. In July 2017 it was revealed that Chris Evans tops list of best-paid stars with the top 7 being male. The next day the BBC announced ...
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Are 4 out of 5 people persecuted for their religion, Christians?
A CitizenGo petition for aiding persecuted Christians claims that
Christians are the most persecuted people in the world, with 4 out of
5 persecuted people identifying as Christians
Are there ...
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Did a lawyer representing the Charlottesville flamethrower man say to kill little babies?
According the article Black nationalist lawyer accused of anti-Semitic remarks to investigate response to rally:
In addition to the allegations of promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, the ...
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Are 91 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs in the United States white men?
Laura Mather wrote on Huff Post:
Let’s start with the numbers: women represent about 5 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs. Minorities represent approximately 4 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs. Therefore, only ...
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Are fat people kidnapped less frequently?
This has been on T-shirts, in a Minions meme, and even some Q&A sites:
Fat people are hard to kidnap.
While the B-flick method of kidnapping (knock 'em unconscious and then carry the mark) is ...
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Minorities and Prejudice. [closed]
I watched an episode of Real Time with Bill Maher Show and
made me wondering:
If you are majority (race, gender, caste or whatever) you always have to watch what you say about minorities otherwise ...
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Is it legal to hire only beautiful people?
Josephine Fairley wrote a column in the Telegraph claims that it is perfectly legal to hire only beautiful people.
But while it's illegal to discriminate on the grounds of gender, sex, race, religion,...
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Do full-time working women earn 77 cents for every dollar a man earns?
The White House claims that:
On average, full-time working women earn just 77 cents for every dollar a man earns.
Is it the case?
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Was it illegal to discriminate on the basis of intelligence in the United States?
Paul Graham wrote the following in March 2005:
One advantage startups have over established companies is that there
are no discrimination laws about starting businesses. For example, I
would be ...
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Do (or did) post offices in Singapore have a policy of attending to men with long hair last?
I recently saw this photo on Facebook. Is the contained claim true, that post offices in Singapore will attend to men with long hair last?
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Was the NAACP slow in acting for the rights of Sherman Ware?
In What the NAACP can learn from George Zimmerman, George Zimmerman's brother Robert Zimmerman Jr. claimed that the organization was slow to act on the beating of homeless African-American Sherman ...
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Did a Florida woman get 20 years jail for firing warning shots in the air?
In the wake of the recent Zimmerman trial, Shan Diddy (@shannycat81) posted a tweet that was retweeted over 7,000 times, including by noted skeptic, Paul Provenza.
Meanwhile, ALSO in Florida, a Black ...
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Is professional software development discriminatory?
It's quite a common experience that there are fewer women and African (-American) people in programming as warranted by the natural proportions. It is not so obvious whether this is due to ...
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Is the gender pay gap evidence of discrimination?
(I've asked this before but people had troubling separating the question from just the gender pay gap. This is a way I was suggested to ask it, so I am giving it a try)
No one can deny the gender pay ...
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Are women underpaid relative to men?
Many articles, such as this one, report a significant wage gap between men and women of 15% or more as evidence of discrimination. On the other hand, some sources, such as this one, claim that the gap ...
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