Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II, the U.S. government sent those of Japanese ancestry to internment camps in remote areas. Eighty years later, many see troubling echoes of that time. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/04/japan/wwii-japanese-americans-internment-history/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wwii #japaneseamericans #internment #discrimination
BON le personnel de l'Eurostar est vraiment pas sympa ! Le contrôleur vient d'envoyer salement bouler un touriste perdu qui voulait un renseignement. Un autre m'a sèchement fait savoir que je devais mettre mon vélo à l'autre bout du train et plus vite que ça svp. Et maintenant ils refusent qu'un gars en fauteuil roulant s'installe à la place prévue parce que ça risque de retarder le départ. Dans l'immédiat je ne sais pas trop quoi faire, mais on peut signaler ça à qui ?
After marrying an Australian serviceman in the aftermath of World War II, Akiko Kirkham moved to Australia, where she faced discrimination to the point she changed her name and stopped speaking Japanese. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/20/japan/japanese-bride-in-australia-postwar-hardships/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #wwii #australiajapanrelations #australia #immigration #discrimination
A growing number of women-only co-living spaces in China are providing their exclusive clientele with a haven from social pressures and male judgment. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/18/asia-pacific/society/china-women-only-communities/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #society #china #discrimination #women039sissues
American neo-Nazis point to Trump’s rhetoric — his attacks on diversity initiatives, his hard-line stance on immigration and his invocation of "Western values” — as driving a surge in interest and recruitment. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/11/world/politics/american-nazis-aryan-freedom-network-trump/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #nazis #wwii #adolfhitler #holocaust #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs #republicans #hatespeech #discrimination #aryanfreedomnetwork #daltonhenrystout
WNBA Incidents Expose Misogyny in Sports Culture
As a coach, an uncle, and a son, I believe we must speak out against the normalization of misogyny. This is bigger than sports—it’s about the dignity and humanity of every woman.
Silence teaches the next generation that power means domination.
#culture #discrimination#Equality #SportsNews #womenrights#WNBA #fitnessindustry #coaching#Boston #athletes #equity #misogyny #business #personaltrainer #womeninsports #genderequality
In early July, the top official at the U.S. Embassy in South Africa asked Washington if nonwhites could apply for a refugee program geared toward white South Africans if they met other requirements. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/26/world/politics/us-nonwhites-trump-south-african-refugees/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #southafrica #us #donaldtrump #discrimination #race #refugees #immigration
ProPublica
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Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities from #Chicago to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods.
Now, under Trump, the agency plans to drop the cases.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-hud-drop-housing-discrimination-cases-housing-pollution?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities from #Chicago to Memphis to Corpus Christi for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods.
Now, under Trump, the agency plans to drop the cases.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-hud-drop-housing-discrimination-cases-housing-pollution?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
The field of artificial intelligence is dominated by white men — and that lack of diversity is reflected in the systems being built. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/12/tech/ai-diversity-crisis/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #ai #women039sissues #jobs #race #discrimination
https://19thnews.org/2025/07/black-women-unemployment-jobs-warning-sign/
I've seen the past exonerative tense before, but the present continuous exonerative tense is special!
"Black women's unemployment is rising."🤡
All by itself? Magically?
The entire US, Dem and GOP, is going on close to 24 months straight of being publicly and loudly anti-civil rights (anti-DEI).
"Black women are more likely to work in the departments targeted by DOGE."
is like saying,
"Harbor seals are more likely to be found swimming in the water that happens to be rushing into a great white shark's rapidly opening mouth."🤡
Dudes have been open and vocal about their desire to drive Black women out of leadership positions in the federal government, higher education, and private industry. That's their goal.
And yet, we still talk about these outcomes as if they're just an unfortunate side effect of generalized downturns.
@mekkaokereke How exactly is this rising unemployment of Black women (another others) happening and what countermoves are being made? Unbreaking has a page for that: https://unbreaking.org/issues/equality-at-work-decimating-the-federal-workforce/
#DEI#FederalWorkers#USpol#BlackWomen#LGBTQIA#Women #discrimination #civilrights
To ensure that lessons learned from misguided policy are passed on to future generations, former Hansen's disease patients are speaking up about their experiences of discrimination. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/07/japan/japan-hansens-disease-discrimination-history/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #leprosy #health #discrimination #akita
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told Pride organizers in late February not to bother preparing for the parade, with parliament then passing a bill banning such events. The organizers decided to rebel. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/07/world/society/budapest-pride-organizers-orban/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #budapest #viktororban #lgbtq #europe #eu #discrimination
The Meta Pixel makes the situation worse.
The Pixel is embedded in other websites and sends data about their visitors back to Meta to be used for ad targeting.
So people with problematic gambling habits could be flooded with gambling ads.
Find out more ⬇️
#meta #adtech #privacy #discrimination #facebook #instagram #ukpolitics #ukpol #surveillancecapitalism #gambling #advertising
Your data, your choice ✊
In a recent case against Meta's surveillance advertising model, they conceded that users have the right to object to their personal data being used for targeted ads.
Use our tool to tell Meta #StopStalkerAds ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/meta-opt-out
#meta #adtech #privacy #discrimination #facebook #instagram #ukpolitics #ukpol #surveillancecapitalism
Meta's murky ad system uses your personal data to sell adverts 💸
What we know about how ads are targeted isn't consistent. This means advertisers can use proxy data on the DL that can cause discrimination against users.
Read our latest report ⬇️
#meta #adtech #privacy #discrimination #facebook #instagram #threads #ukpolitics #ukpol #surveillancecapitalism #advertising
Proxies can be created by training an algorithm with historical data about user activity.
So associated characteristics can stand in for one that an advertiser wants to target.
This can reveal data which is protected by anti-discrimination and data processing laws.
#meta #adtech #privacy #discrimination #facebook #instagram #threads #ukpolitics #ukpol #surveillancecapitalism #advertising
There are many examples of discrimination and harm caused by profiling and ad targeting.
They include:
🔴 Gender discrimination in who sees job ads.
🔴 Racial discrimination in housing and education ads.
🔴 Predatory data collection and targeting by online gambling sites.
🔴 Inappropriate products promoted to under 18s.
🔴 Discriminatory and predatory advertising of credit.
Plus more.
#meta #adtech #privacy #discrimination #facebook #instagram #threads #ukpolitics #ukpol
There are some targeting restrictions on special category adverts, such as political ads and ‘Financial Products and Services’ ads.
But mainstream ads, including gambling ads, have fewer restrictions. This lack of transparency on Meta's Ad Library means discriminatory practices can fly under the radar.
There must be more rigorous levels of transparency so Meta and advertisers can be held to account.
#StopStalkerAds #meta #adtech #privacy #discrimination #facebook #instagram #ukpolitics #ukpol
Proxies can be created by training an algorithm with historical data about user activity.
So associated characteristics can stand in for one that an advertiser wants to target.
This can reveal data which is protected by anti-discrimination and data processing laws.
#meta #adtech #privacy #discrimination #facebook #instagram #threads #ukpolitics #ukpol #surveillancecapitalism #advertising
There are many examples of discrimination and harm caused by profiling and ad targeting.
They include:
🔴 Gender discrimination in who sees job ads.
🔴 Racial discrimination in housing and education ads.
🔴 Predatory data collection and targeting by online gambling sites.
🔴 Inappropriate products promoted to under 18s.
🔴 Discriminatory and predatory advertising of credit.
Plus more.
#meta #adtech #privacy #discrimination #facebook #instagram #threads #ukpolitics #ukpol
There are some targeting restrictions on special category adverts, such as political ads and ‘Financial Products and Services’ ads.
But mainstream ads, including gambling ads, have fewer restrictions. This lack of transparency on Meta's Ad Library means discriminatory practices can fly under the radar.
There must be more rigorous levels of transparency so Meta and advertisers can be held to account.
#StopStalkerAds #meta #adtech #privacy #discrimination #facebook #instagram #ukpolitics #ukpol
The Meta Pixel makes the situation worse.
The Pixel is embedded in other websites and sends data about their visitors back to Meta to be used for ad targeting.
So people with problematic gambling habits could be flooded with gambling ads.
Find out more ⬇️
#meta #adtech #privacy #discrimination #facebook #instagram #ukpolitics #ukpol #surveillancecapitalism #gambling #advertising
Meta's murky ad system uses your personal data to sell adverts 💸
What we know about how ads are targeted isn't consistent. This means advertisers can use proxy data on the DL that can cause discrimination against users.
Read our latest report ⬇️
#meta #adtech #privacy #discrimination #facebook #instagram #threads #ukpolitics #ukpol #surveillancecapitalism #advertising
Jim Killock
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Bring ads out of the shadows!
ORG’s new report reveals that we know less about gambling ads than anti-gambling ads on Meta.
In a surveillance advertising system that collects and processes tons of personal data to target users with ads, this secrecy puts people at risk of discrimination.
Read our latest report ⬇️
#adtech #meta #surveillancecapitalism #discrimination #facebook #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol