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Define your goals, see through believing eyes, purify your mind, discard negative thoughts, believe you are insurmountable, choose to rise against all odds, let life's resistance weaken at your constant pump of positivity and faith; you're a conqueror. Act like it this new year!
— \u1eccM\u1eccLADE (@Vickie___O) December 31, 2020
It also doesn’t remotely suggest that it is something that has never happened before. The Bible clearly states that there is nothing new under the sun. I take it as a question bordering on personal responsibility as corroborated by the doctrine of “New Year Resolution.”
Which you will agree with me is the most abused and disrespected concept in the history of man. Same old patterns are often repeated over & over again. Same old rituals since human beings are creatures of habit. So let us all take this as a question. Will this year truly be New?
Will we allow our brains to be freed from its conditioning, toxic opinions, callous judgements and unjust conclusions and convictions? Can we start anew? This is the actual charge that is suggested when people wish you Happy New Year. They hope to see you do things differently.
Our lives can be shallow, superficial with very little meaning without purpose and education (indoctrination mostly) is also a hinderance. Can we recalculate our coordinates and change our trajectory for good beginning from this day or are we condemned forever to primitivism?
The Equality & Diversity Monitoring form in your job application asks for the 'gender' of the applicant with options:
Male
Female.
However...
https://t.co/Did1oeP6tH
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'Gender' is not a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010 and is not defined in the Act.
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Sex is the protected characteristic and the only two possible options for sex are 'Female' and 'Male' as defined in the Act and consistent with biology, but you don't ask for that.
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'Gender' is not a synonym for sex.
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'Gender' relies on demeaning, regressive stereotypical notions of societal roles for the two sexes, concepts that I'm sure you would not wish to be associated with.
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Asking about a personal characteristic such as 'gender' that is not a protected characteristic under the Act, may be in breach of the GDPR by processing personal - and potentially Special Category - data without a lawful basis.
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A new study found that giving low-income workers money upfront in their work period helped alleviate the mental burden of their financial problems and allowed them to be more productive \u2014 echoing other findings on the psychological impacts of poverty.https://t.co/zdxItTLDLZ
— NPR (@NPR) February 3, 2021
“Giving money to people in poverty solves poverty” is an obvious truth, which needs (another) study for proof, for the same reason that this finding will be ignored (again).
We don’t want to fix poverty, even if doing so helps everyone—not if it means life for the “undeserving.”
It’s not about saving money.
There's a great fear in this country that a single dollar might go to someone who might not deserve it; or that a single given dollar might be spent on something we deem unworthy.
We'll spend five dollars to prevent the waste of that one dollar.
The manifestations are everywhere. From the overt, gleefully cruel hostility of conservatism toward people in poverty, of course. But also hidden in almost everyone's assumptions.
Our use of charity as a way of controlling who gets helped, for example.
Charity isn't primarily an act.
— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) November 10, 2019
Before the act comes an alignment.
Charity is the natural fruit of a deep alignment with the virtue of generosity.
It sure shouldn't be a delivery mechanism for one's own beliefs about worthiness.
Even the reversal—a desire to prevent aid from going to "undeserving" wealthy who don't need it (true)—leads us to create obstacles to aid people in poverty often can't overcome, but wealthy people can.
Which is why wealthy people like means
Whenever someone proposes a means-testing solution, it's an indication they've internalized the lie, foundational to the United States, that some people deserve life and others don't.
— A.R. Moxon (@JuliusGoat) December 18, 2020
It's an expensive lie.