frank

If no disagreement arises, the parties would never know a gap in understanding exists.

If the British treat grown Indian men like children that causes harm.

That's a misconception. Racist people may have fondness for an oppressed group which they see as child-like. That is not inconsistent with the definit...

How would you know you have all the required info? What fact would you point to to show that you have it?

Are you saying perception is equivalent to interactions? A case could be made for that, but the experiments mentioned only show that processing is set...

It also emphasizes the far reaching ability of the brain to manipulate sensory input (course we already knew that.)

Racism that is accompanied by hatred is often disappointment and frustration that finds racism as an outlet because it's convenient. Racism without ha...

I mentioned that in the OP.

Some forms of behaviorism have no room for reference of any kind, but I shouldn't have brought this up because I have no interest in pursuing it. Yes,...

Chomsky was also pretty smart. He did see the problem in Quine's approach to reference. What I hear you saying is: "There's no problem." I'm happy to ...

Probably not. Oh well.

I think he knew it and didn't care.

I'll do it.

He's definitely a troll. Hes not in the US, so maybe not alt-right, but one of its kin.

Fair enough.

[ It's so great to get Norway's insights on that issue.

About the fact that humans are assholes?

It's true that social engineering meant to reverse the effects of racism has unwanted side effects. Is that what you mean?

First, people should understand that if they're having trouble finding the job they want, it's not because of affirmative action. You have to figure o...

They're saying there are situations where the way a society allocates resources protects one race and exposes the other to social disintegration, educ...

:party: :party: :party:

As Tiff says, from your lips to God's ears.

The impeachment stuff is going to come and go. Trump will announce that he's been exonerated by the senate. He'll run in 2020 and it will be really cl...

Yea that. Mark Rothko says hi.

Yes, nobody thought we'd be doing it forever.

Absolutely. Due to my vast inability to do research, I can tell you that Thurgood Marshall talked about the discriminatory aspects of affirmative acti...

Yes. So that's the racist policies you've had to deal with. Poor thing.

You mean for college admissions? Affirmative action was much bigger than that. So no, it's not the same thing.

Affirmative Action is an American thing, sparky. Good try, though. :kiss:

Are racial policies still in place?

That's it. Say hello to Jackson Pollack.

I could go on and on, dividing up black perspectives into categories like the Spike Lee attitude, the Bill Cosby viewpoint, etc. etc. etc. I don't joi...

Like what?

:up: When we talk about systemic racism are we mainly talking about demographics? For instance, if Latinos are statistically poorer than blacks, would...

I'm just curious: you're not in the US, so is there a minority in your country that suffers from discrimination?

It's a research based fact that people with first names that sound "black" (like Lashika, for instance) are much less likely to be called in for inter...

I think we agree. It's not a problem with mathematics or language. It's that on reflection, we note that there's no way to verify that communication h...

Ok. Are you advising him to look up "systemic racism"?

Can I play too? Or is this game just for Harry? If there's a claim of systemic bigotry, I need more than a picture of suffering minorities. It would h...

I guess I'm out of touch.

Not as far as I'm aware. Maybe in your part of the world.

Act out of love, not principle.

He's kind of installed himself. He's doing no harm.

The paradox is that the whole point of communication is to commune with others in the same way we seek to commune with the world through our senses. I...

In what areas of life?

What proposed prescriptions?

It's atrocious. Why did you think to make a thread about how racism is bad? Did you think it was debatable?

Again, the OP just meant to point out that racism is bad, and then they clobbered you, bless your heart.

I like turnovers with apples.

I'm very gratified when I find I'm not the only person on the planet who thinks x. But yea, retract claws, abort missile launch. What's for lunch? Whi...