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WCDT 28-32 March 2011 (1891-1895)
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: ysth on 29 Mar 2011, 21:46 ---Pornographic xkcd tonight.
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I don't think that passes for pornography anywhere. However, there is a distinct possibility that Randall Munroe has, accidentally, clicked a link leading to Oglaf. Then again, the oil spill didn't start running around.
Tergon:
There's a difference between religious discrminination and simply barring specific religious practices. Lots of modern mainstream religions once endorsed sacrificing animals on high holy days in times long past, until that fell out of practice. You wouldn't be allowd to kill a goat in your apartment simply by claiming you're an old-school follower of your faith. Hell, if you get a job on weekends, you can't demand paid Sundays off because it's the Sabbath. Whatever your faith is, no law in Western society allows you to damage people or property in the practice of it. Take that as positive or negative as you will.
That's one hell of an apartment, though. Upstairs and downstairs areas, spacious living room, apparently decent-sized kitchen... either Dora's actually renting a house and not an apartment, or it's a big damn apartment. Perhaps she's actually financially better off than last time she was stressing about her income at CoD?
Shadic:
--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 29 Mar 2011, 20:03 ---
--- Quote from: Shadic on 29 Mar 2011, 17:41 ---
--- Quote from: Xader on 29 Mar 2011, 09:25 ---I live in Oregon.
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O hai. :-D Portlander here.
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No, you are not.
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Pardon?
cesariojpn:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 29 Mar 2011, 23:36 ---I'm sure it has more to do with the fact that the carpet needed replacing and the walls needed painting...
Those scorch marks and bloodstains are really hard to get out!
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That, or it ws one HELL of a D&D party/LARP.
akronnick:
--- Quote from: Tergon on 30 Mar 2011, 00:33 ---There's a difference between religious discrminination and simply barring specific religious practices. Lots of modern mainstream religions once endorsed sacrificing animals on high holy days in times long past, until that fell out of practice. You wouldn't be allowd to kill a goat in your apartment simply by claiming you're an old-school follower of your faith. Hell, if you get a job on weekends, you can't demand paid Sundays off because it's the Sabbath. Whatever your faith is, no law in Western society allows you to damage people or property in the practice of it. Take that as positive or negative as you will.
That's one hell of an apartment, though. Upstairs and downstairs areas, spacious living room, apparently decent-sized kitchen... either Dora's actually renting a house and not an apartment, or it's a big damn apartment. Perhaps she's actually financially better off than last time she was stressing about her income at CoD?
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You're right, but the way the lady asked was discriminatory. She asked "...you're not...?" not "...you don't...?"
If I were Jewish, I could might accept a job knowing full well that I would be required to work on Saturday, and fully willing to do so, but it would be illegal for an employer to not hire me simply for because I was Jewish expecting that I would not be able to work on the Sabbath.
In the US, it is in fact illegal for a prospective landlord to even ask what she asked, a violation of the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968, which prohibits discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, and as of 1974, gender. WHile it is debateble whether the practice of sorcery itself is a religion, not renting to someone because they are a Wiccan is a big no-no, and even asking such a casual question opens up a huge legal can of worms.
Unfortunately, it is still perfectly legal to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientaion in many areas of the U.S. (although not in Massachusetts.)
Housing discrimination in the U.S. has a long and dark history, I'm afraid.
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