Re: Straight White male? Pay full price. Black or gay or female? It's free.

On 3/22/2024 4:08 PM, Joel wrote:

Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:

On 2024-03-21, Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:

DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
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"To help members of groups underrepresented in technology develop and
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we’re offering 500 annual scholarships giving recipients full access to
the O’Reilly learning platform. Learn more about how O’Reilly is
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The O’Reilly DEIJ scholarship is for those from groups underrepresented
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I told O'Reilly to stuff it.  I'll NEVER buy anything from them again.

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What's your problem?  They're just trying to open up their business to
more people.  You presumably have your own resources, anyway, I
wouldn't learn from them, but from reference materials themselves.

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Hmm, so racial discimination and unequal treatment is OK now?  As long
as we can make a business case for it?
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I hope you were drunk when you wrote that.

  Caucasians don't persuade me easily about being the victims of "racial
discrimination",

That's 'cause you're black and racist and don't care about White people.

particularly when it is in the form of inclusive
programs for others.

Excluding straight, White males isn't every inclusive.