Everett True Comics

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A place to appreciate the twentieth century comic character Everett True of "The Outbursts of Everett True." Feel free to check out the sticky.

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Some losses are worth the principle (July 28, 1915) (midwest.social)

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[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is this an American thing? I (French) have never been asked for my police record when applying for a non-government job. Employers don't check for this.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In America it is almost a universal practice. If you have a criminal record, you might or might not have problems; if you have a felony, you’re fucked for almost every job.

If you want to learn a depressing amount about it, I have heard that the book “The New Jim Crow” makes a pretty compelling argument that the systems of criminal conviction, credit, educational qualifications, rent, bank loans, probation and parole, and what-have-you, have functionally brought back a good amount of the machinery of segregation into the modern era, because it creates effectively a two-tier system with most people who started out poor and a huge majority of minorities stuck into the second system.