John Oliver's Last Week Tonight

I normally like John Oliver but segregation is not the word for it when you go to the closest school regardless of your skin color. This is a school funding issue, not a race issue.

It's both. Policies that enable school integration were challenged by racists who don't want their beautiful white kids attending schools with those dirty n-words. You can't isolate the phenomena: they stem from the same basic source.

If everyone goes to the closest school, and that results in a system that mirrors segregation, how is it different from segregation?

The way to solve it would be different.

Racism decreases when societies are integrated. We have proof. So, forcing integration solves both problems simultaneously. Fixing the distribution of education money to schools would help, too, but it's a consequence of systemic inequality, which addressing racism will help to solve.

edited 1st Nov '16 2:38:20 PM by Fighteer

It's segregation because the places people live are segregated, not by laws but by explicitly racist policies designed to keep racial minorities moving into certain areas.

The scholastic are segregated because where people live is segregated, so yes on a level it's a problem that should be dealt with by adressing the problem of racialy segregated housing, but that's still a segregation issue.

Oh, lord, I bet the MLM sheeple are raving in the comments.

edited 14th Nov '16 12:44:11 AM by terumokou

As a Frenchman, I can honestly say that 2015 was way worse than 2016. 2016 kinda sucked too, but not in such epic proportions as 2015.

At this point I'm getting worried 2016 may only the prologue to 2017

I don't know - this was pretty bad. At the very least, I think it merits more than a "kinda sucked".

What made 2015 worse?

The Paris attacks last year.

Yes, those. Sure, there was the Nice attack this summer, but its impact was nowhere near as huge as both Charlie Hebdo and the Paris attacks last november. Also we got regional elections where a large part of France turned conservative.

Ah, yes.

I suppose I'm wondering, though, which year was worse for the world at large?

2016 gave us Brexit and Trump, which... are honestly both pretty bad for the world as a whole.

... but the Cubs won the world series. Which, now that I'm thinking about it, surely must be related.

edited 14th Nov '16 10:55:01 AM by Larkmarn

Trump might be a serious thing, but honestly, I don't think Brexit will impact much beyond the UK and Europe.

It affects every country that Britain trades with, and to a lesser extent, the EU's trading partners. International agreements have a snowball effect like that, but I don't know whether that affects the average person enough to count as a negative.

edited 14th Nov '16 12:25:59 PM by frosty

Has Brexit actually officially happened yet? Last I checked there was still talk that the party might be able to ignore the referendum. I know that didn't happen, but just for context.

The referendum was nonbinding, but the party in power wants to put it in motion quickly.

Weird I don't usually get the "not available in your country" notice for these.

There has been a lot of those donate things recently, but I don't know what people who don't have spare money are supposed to do, to help.

edited 14th Nov '16 9:44:20 PM by phantom1

Brexit becomes real once articule 50 is envoys, which will be next year at some point, maybe right around the time of Trump's inauguration.

2016 also had the Philipines voting to keep Duterte so... overall it was a shitty year for social progress.

I think that's one of the reasons Trump winning makes me so sad. I can't imagine a bigger statement that we've actually taken a step backwards in terms of acceptance and equality.