[Ads-l] _racially-discriminate_ v.

[Neal Whitman]

Yes, but shouldn't they have written "...drivers racial-discriminate"?

> On Nov 5, 2016, at 10:08 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> "Study Finds Some Uber and Lyft Drivers _Racially Discriminate_"
> 
> goo.gl/lsvpXp
> 
> This is an improvement, I reckon. Once upon a time, the headline would have
> read simply,
> 
> "Study Finds Uber and Lyft Drivers Discriminate"
> 
> There would have been no need to add "racially." In fact, there would never
> have been any such study done, in the first place. There would have been no
> need.
> 
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