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  • The disconnect is that you’re equating Race, in CRT, with the Ethnicity that gets listed from an ancestry test.

    From Merriam-Webster, “Today race refers to a group sharing some outward physical characteristics and some commonalities of culture and history. Ethnicity refers to markers acquired from the group with which one shares cultural, traditional, and familial bonds.”

    Cultural and Historic similarities are social by nature. Italians, Greeks, and Egyptians all have periods where their histories are intertwined, but no one would claim their the same race. Irish & British fall under “white” people and have cultural similarities but are distinct on ancestry tests.

    Different words mean different things.










  • Dantpool@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlWhat is the most "Thankless" job?
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    Street/Parking Lot Cleaners.

    Every night, I clean up:

    • Styrofoam cups/cans/plastic cups & bottles
    • tossed out left over fast food
    • dirty diapers that someone couldn’t walk 7 feet through the Walmart parking lot to throw in an actual trash can
    • empty boxes for: flat-screen TVs, Car seats, memory foam mattresses, or Amazon purchases
    • disposable vapes
    • trash bags that someone decided needed to be left in a parking lot instead of in a dumpster
    • So. Many. Plastic. Hangers.
    • receipts
    • grocery bags
    • candy wrappers
    • Edit shattered glass, but it makes that gravel in a vacuum sound when the truck sucks it up, so that’s nice.

    And the only time I get thanked is when my employer asks me to do extra work because there was a storm, another driver was out sick, another driver needed help on a site, or there was a big event that needed to be cleaned for/after.