Baden

You did make your point about being against violence several times. Now, can I ask you: Why is systemic racism happening and what can be done about it...

Why the fuck are we talking about Ted Bundy? @"BitconnectCarlos" The topic is "Systemic racism in the US: Why is it happening and what can be done?" I...

Seems like a silly question. Are you intimidated by white people with bandannas and loud clothes? Do you wake up from sweaty nightmares where you're b...

"Happiness" is a stupid word anyway and should never be used in any context requiring thought. Just say "pleasure", "self-esteem", "satisfaction", "eu...

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Tomorrow, I'll realize happiness is neither about desire nor suppressing desire but self-knowledge and will.

If you get an embolism or something from it, please let me know so that doesn't happen to me. :victory:

I desire some heroin. Who'd have thunk it was so easy. Happiness here I come. :party:

Ah, cool. I'm just near the end of chapter 4 now. :party: That and more, I think. I started the hypoxic running today. Weird to run while feeling like...

I suppose you're trying to be funny, but if Froot Loop=homosexual where you come from, it's the first I've heard of it.

True. The debates were quite fun on old PF. And for some reason we've let it slip here.

Pretty much. I don't accept that targets like property or even civilians are absolutely out-of-bounds in a conflict situation, especially the one desc...

I don't know. It's possible. You'd have to ask them. But to me any flag is only as important and valuable as it's recognized as being so across differ...

American symbols like the flag or anthem don't have a sacred right to survive in perpetuity. They either represent Americans as a whole or they don't....

When one aspect of systemic racism is disproportionate levels of violent state oppression against a given community then, failing other methods, more ...

The question was meant to tease out whether you'd answer morally or strategically. I guess it's both, but especially in light of the example of the Je...

Also reading. :up: Read that. Yeah, fascinating. Have my doubts about some of the science in the book but an idea definitely worth pursuing.

Got to say I still don't get how after 400 years of slavery, 100 of Jim Crow, and over 50 of systemic racism, all some posters here have to say to tho...

Why not? I think we both know that's a caricature of my position. Without committing to "anything goes" (not something I've advocated either), do you ...

I'm sure we agree on the egregious nature of racism, but if we don't agree on standard terms, we're just going to end up talking past each other. I ca...

It's not opposition to spout thoughtless low-quality rubbish. You are just too stupid for this thread and refuse to deal with the actual OP. Others wh...

Stop filling the thread with stupidity and go elsewhere.

Incidentally, I think the proper response in future to those who wish to complain about rioting etc. is to say that if your moral gears are so clogged...

No, that's what the word means and how it's used in academia and elsewhere. And as it can happily co-exist with explicit racism, it by no means obscur...

@"NOS4A2" having nothing original, interesting or remotely sophisticated to say just pops up every couple of days to repeat the party (White House) li...

You can't justifiably, or even coherently, mount an argument that is inferred from the founding principles or dominant ideology of a particular societ...

Not buying that he drank a whole glass of water; like the stadium, I bet the glass was only half full.

Not to hand, but in lieu of that, perhaps you could educate me on your state's closest neighbour. I've always been fascinated by Azerbaijan.

Yes, stuff like this: is mind-bogglingly bad reasoning bordering on parody.

Silliness factor too high. Moving to lounge.

Nah, Bay-den like the town in Germany. Don't know where @"andrewk" went. Good guy. Good mod.

You lost me as to why I lost you. Maybe my definition of 'racist' is stricter than yours, but I have no intention of being down the wrong end of the p...

:lol: You can have the last word, Harry. Like I said, it's off-topic and posters can make up their own minds on which one of us is the Froot Loop here...

@"Hanover" Oh, sorry, did I break a rule??

Policies don't have beliefs. Positive discrimination is a policy. By your own logic, it can't be racist. Of course it's not in any case, it's reparati...

That I don't draw an equivalence re racism between racist cops and those who know about them but don't protest them (whether they be other cops or not...

No, because there would be a conflation with actively being racist and not trying to prevent racism. Being apathetic about racism doesn't equate to ra...

One unfortunate result of denying systemic racism in policing is it puts the blame solely on individual police officers rather than on processes over ...

American citizens are entitled not to have a systemically racist and regularly brutal police force. The US is supposed to be a modern democracy not an...

Because there's nothing contradictory about it. If you see a contradiction, you still don't understand what systemic racism is. I don't know what the ...

It's on page one of the thread, so I expected you would find it yourself. In any case, here it is and it's in line with the standard definition.

Thanks for the tag. Sorry you feel that way. I'll do that.

Wrong again, I gave an explanation of it earlier in the thread. If you were interested in reading instead of.. whatever it is you are doing here, you'...

That did cause me a chuckle. It's classified information if he can block it and lies if he can't.

There's this too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWwOqIBer0M

Just stumbled across it and found it weirdly hilarious. :smile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7PvLeluI9g&t=111s I posted something not philosophical. Happy? Yes.

If you just want to repeat the same strawmen over and over, there's no need to reply to my posts. All cops are not racist, but some are. That's obviou...

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