Baden

Solid. Reminds me of good old ND. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npa8qUNEIFY

While I understand why people may fall for folk wisdom on race, what makes me suspicious is when they cling to it after it's been debunked. Race essen...

I agree too and I don't think it's too hard to discuss difficult topics like race without using phrases like "black coon" or repeating a bunch of raci...

:up: Below are just a couple of facts from a recent WAPO article relating to the US justice system, any of which in itself demonstrates the reality of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAQ11iNknoU "Racism has the power to hide and when it hides, it's kept safe."

Moved here as this is the thread focused on questioning the existence of systemic racism.

Reminder that this thread will be kept strictly on topic and low-quality posts will be deleted or moved. Thanks.

The African Pygmies are black so they must be great basketball players. That's my essentialist logic and I'm sticking to it...

:strong: :cheer:

He constantly does that to me too. Let's beat the shit out of him. Hold me back!

Oh, the humanity.

Looking into it, turns out he eventually did disavow and was fired anyway. So, maybe it was unfair. But my capacity for caring about some millionaire ...

It would be awful if he accidentally got pushed out of his helicopter while surveying one his golf courses or something. I don't think I'd be able to ...

There are ways to maintain an honour culture while short-circuiting its negative effects. For example, on certain islands off the west coast of Irelan...

I don't know if he was given a chance to disavow or not. I agree he should have been.

(So maybe something unfair happened but "tyrannical" is hyperbole. Let's save "tyrannical" for a President who wants to literally kill people's famili...

I don't know the ins and outs so it depends. But if you say nothing that sounds like tacit approval. The way I would deal with it would be to contact ...

You're not very good at this, are you? Sometimes, I wonder if your real job is just to make Trump and his supporters look bad. If that's it, I commend...

Human nature. :scream:

Your position as a Trump supporter appears to be that censoring someone for what their family did is tyrannical, but murdering them is OK. My position...

There are probably hundreds of ways to expose your ridiculous levels of hypocrisy. Quoting Trump is just one.

This guy must really be a scumbag then. But we can make the US less tyrannical by dumping him in November.

Yes, but at least one of his examples isn't remotely accurate. If your wife is an out-of-control racist calling for people to be killed, you better di...

People not getting what they want and not being able to handle it. A self-destructive streak maybe? I'm not going to psychologize it more than that. P...

Feel free to start your own thread about corporate censorship. I'm going to keep this strictly on topic as there is some interesting stuff being poste...

As usual @"NOS4A2" is just propagandising. Don't swallow the bait. Here's just one lie. What actually happened was: "Tea Katai made the posts on her I...

Hardly a quicker route to exit than refusing moderation. I imagine he knew that and was engaged in a last hurrah.

Another useful explanatory link that helps explain why systemic racism is endemic in the US and how it's related to neoliberal economics. "As Lee Atwa...

The following seems relevant enough to what to do about systemic racism to merit reposting here: (Any replies address to @"Nuke")

Here's what I can do though, I've moved your original OP to the "What to do about systemic racism?" thread, which is more productive, and left the low...

It's not against the rules to be disruptive and negative to a certain degree. Price we pay for open debate. It's also difficult to assess intention. A...

Your thread was being and would further have been colonised by the same disruptive and negative element that has colonised the other race threads and ...

This discussion was merged into Systemic racism in the US: Why is it happening and what can be done?

You shouldn't. You should probably take a break. Buy a new cat. Relax.

Ok, thanks.

Ah, I see, well at least the cherry picking, flawed reasoning, unjustified speculations and invented stories of persecution had a purpose. Maybe we ca...

No, systemic racism refers directly to systems not people. For example, being a prison officer in a systemically racist justice system doesn't make yo...

Really like that one.

Politics... :vomit:

Biden needs independents. So, it doesn't matter how nuanced his position is, the GOP attack line will be "Crazy leftie Biden wants to defund the polic...

I suggest you stop talking about how victimized you are because I don't believe your stories. As for the graph, if you go about reforming the police, ...

As interesting as your story of graduating from Oxford, then moving to a poor black neighbourhood and being victimized there before turning into a whi...

All good ideas. Thanks. My only point was that for practical reasons most of us are going to be implicated in some way, whether it's our phones or wha...

Right, I get that. But let's temper our expectations a little. I presume you have a phone like everyone else. That doesn't mean we should sit at home ...

Systemic racism isn't prohibited. That's a large part of the problem. E.g.

You're allowed to care about more than one thing you know. For example, if there were a statue of Nazi up in a neighbourhood with a lot of Jews in it ...

OK, you don't understand what it is either. Read up on it. Systemic racism can and does occur within the boundaries of law.

You came into a discussion you haven't fully read to pick out one (justified) rhetorical point amongst all the other substantive ones as a means to mo...

Anyway, I'm sorry I made your naughty list, Santa. If I'm good for the rest of the year, I hope you'll reward me by reading the stuff I wrote. Thanks.