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Worth noting how different the US was back then too in general, btw. MLK might be publicly and officially revered now, but are the Black Panthers too?

In my own language this has never been so. Nationality and citizenship might be synonyms sometimes, but ethnicity hasn't. And now as we use ethnic or ...

Right. I thought you were being poetic as a peasant is a more of a historical name, but the correct definition is simply that you are an employee eith...

Case point, being an US citizen or even an UK citizen are examples of nationality not being synonymous to ethnicity. And don't try to say that the UK ...

Not exactly, Here the most common issue or most obvious difference of ethnicity is language. People can have different language, yet share the same re...

If you say YOU are a peasant, then really, do you or your family own the land? As subsistence farming has long gone except in Third World countries, f...

If you are a peasant, then you farm land. And so, from who have you or your family stolen the land?

During various times some of those categories are made hilariously important. Other times they are simply ignored as an oddity that isn't even used. A...

From which pious innocent saints was land stolen from first? Or is this an original sin that you are talking about? And from who have you stolen your ...

Yes. And? Your example really doesn't even question the argument that I gave. If now for 119 years Nobel prizes have been given out and roughly for 70...

You say it in your notes: Yes, we know the answer, we know how it works. The sorry fact is, that we cannot either describe or simply cannot understand...

Umm.... now it really seems that you are living up to your PF name. Because how can you say that the actual number of men and women in science doesn't...

There's a difference between a peaceful protest and a riot. Property damage is indeed a tactic, but for something else than just a "protest". If you w...

Actually solo Nobel-prizes have become more rare. What usually happens is that some specific field gets a Nobel and there simply isn't a Newton or an ...

This is quite dumb, actually. But very typical for today. The answer is of course not. How about the issue that the prizes have been started to be giv...

Besides, Trump's line is obvious: And Seattle, of course... I don't forecast the elections to be ugly. I think they will be hideously ugly, even if Bi...

Ah, Australia. A country with a colonial past also. OK.

Please don't say that you live in the UK.

Did I mention about the record gun sales in your country? I think I did above. I think it is hard...especially for Americans.

Yes, that's typical what protesters do.

The solution?

Cluster bombs are quite complex explosives intended for a very specific targets and a specific attack method, actually. Better figure of speech would ...

Things might go so that they don't even debate. What do you need debates for in your elections? Just go and vote if you can.

I remember some sociologists referring development happening in the way of an "take off". This means that enough of various variables have to happenin...

Embargoes are a show of force, mind you. "Arbitrary things" like the ATLANTIC OCEAN separates me from Americans so yeah, there indeed are issues that ...

Happened a bit quicker than the charges against the other police officers in the George Floyd case. Good things might come out of this, even if real c...

Indeed. Especially in the 60's there was a huge belief that education would solve everything. It isn't so, even if education is extremely important. T...

Bolton's book will simply just reinforce the well drawn picture of what kind of disaster this person totally inept for the job is. I've never noticed ...

Yes. Because we use the quantity of those diplomas as a number showing the success of the education system. The more people have diplomas the better, ...

Yet there's a huge difference if that encouragement is optional or if it is implemented by force. If it's optional for the country itself to choose wh...

Even if 180 Proof is here talking about interstellar space, I have to add that this "not making sense" argument has been used against any human explor...

This is where I really disagree. Yeah. you didn't get my point. Because going to some other one's country and telling them as a woke foreigner what th...

When there isn't any real transparency, when things depends quite on the specific information you have or if you believe what companies say or not, it...

Because it is goddam hard and the choices are quite arbitrary! A Dutch company tries to your eco-friendly phones called Fairphones. It says it can rea...

I know a lot of groups from history like that. They are called dictatorships or authoritarian regimes. Keeping people in fear was/is a control tool fo...

At least his nominee to the Supreme Court surprised people with the court decision with Bostock v. Clayton County. The one that didn't create a huge f...

I'm not so sure that he said they have "only themselves to blame" and that his argument is the "get a haircut and get a real job"-answer or some Ayn R...

Because it's not less effective. Terrorism works. It gets huge media coverage and gets people truly afraid. Would you publicly use a smart phone if so...

He surely had a fatalist negative view, that's for sure. And I remember discussing some other issue and he was quite gloomy or bitter then too. Well, ...

Well, he was talking about his rough neighborhood and things what he saw. I don't think he made it up. :sad:

So you admit it won't help the Ethiopians Chinese child labor. OK. Do they at McDonalds think it's OK? Do you think that they are irrelevant of an med...

And that's exactly why I said "before the 20th Century". Only now it is more common to have the kind of legal system that actually thinks about what i...

Great that you don't advocate violence. Me neither. So let's enlarge this to the scope of the World, if just 330 million in the US isn't enough. With ...

You can choose to read the Guardian. The bigger issue is that in present times the media chooses what group it wants to conform. It's back a hundred y...

Did someone already answer this? Or is this some kind of mine field trap? I'll give my thoughts anyway: Shelby Steele is one of those few critics in t...

People had less property before the 20th Century and hence the laws especially in the US reflect this. Stealing a horse was a really severe crime back...

Some cases. Right. Isaac, I come from a country that was for some incredible reason selected this year as being the "The Happiest Country in the World...

Using other's stuff? Oh yes, just like it isn't "car theft" anymore but "illegal use of a vehicle". :shade: So is your argument here that you cannot m...

So was for Gandhi too: tactics. But those tactics did work. Or are you dissappointed that there wasn't more bloodshed? Sure. Nonviolent actions would ...

Hmm. I did mention the March on Washington in 1963, or to be more correct to say "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom", where King did deliver hi...