Sovereign nations are entitled to pick and choose. Most of them do discriminate, and the main problem with that is when they claim they are not (but a...
Ah, well... don't know much about long-distance truck drivers. No, I think DT probably has fairly high standards and likes sex in a quality location w...
No, not insomnia - it's the gradual shift from normal sleep time. I don't like it, but I haven't gotten it under control. I slept from 10: 30 pm to 1:...
Who says? Anybody who wants to offer an opinion on the matter. Hey, it's a free country. Tell it like you think it is. You are perfectly free to offer...
Stop being ashamed, or at least, find something worthwhile to be ashamed about. Trump isn't America. Obama isn't America. Kennedy isn't America. Reaga...
Click bait phrasing. People can, should, or may feel guilty for personal behavior. I don't think people should feel guilty for governmental or corpora...
The article links to this book, Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City by Antero Pietila. Haven't read it, but it looks like...
Posty, you did a FINE JOB. Here's another good book for those interested in the topic: Family Properties: How the Struggle Over Race and Real Estate T...
This is a really useful link to examine housing assessments in the late 1930s-40s. Lots of maps of cities showing what was considered (at the time) go...
Of course, we don't "need" more Haitians, and we actually don't need more Norwegians here either--there are plenty here already. Besides which, the US...
True enough, the US would experience some losses if we expelled all the Haitians, Salvadorans, Hondurans, and some others. The bigger problem for thes...
Actually, I do understand something about the process by which people attain refugee status. Refugees are often in dire straits, and the process by wh...
That would be a workable flirty conversation only if you had already engaged in sexually exploitative behavior and were in the eager queue to take off...
Learning Latin wouldn't have helped. They speak Spanish, Portuguese, and an assortment of Amerindian languages. Some even speak English without an Aus...
So how is it determined which immigrants to accept and which to reject? First come, first served? Most plausible sounding sob story? Parts missing? Wh...
Being from a shit hole (like New Orleans) doesn't make one into a shit hole. The concern is that people from shit holes (like New Orleans) may lack re...
The article reminds me of a joke: Why do they call it "pre-menstrual syndrome"? Because "mad cow" was already taken. I'm not sure that the menstrual c...
What country is it that makes no distinctions about the number of immigrants from which countries may enter? It is the case that everyone who may wish...
Several things can be true at one time. Trump is racist. Haiti is a shit hole. People who live in shit hole countries would rather live somewhere else...
Many will approve your abstinence from drugs, alcohol and violence, but you know, God was never very outspoken against alcohol. In fact, there are a f...
I assume you are referring to National Defense Education loans. Sorry. I am afraid my composition was sloppy. It was the FHA loans (and VA housing ben...
that is Pascal's Wager, a perfectly sensible approach. There are two possibilities: god exists, god does not exist You have two choices: god exists, g...
This has been resolved in science fiction stories. If memory serves, exiting a worm hole before you reach the opposite end results in death, so it won...
We have to assume (because there can't be any material proof) that language and thought arose together in our distant past. We can not now ask the que...
There is another book, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg which tells yet another story, While "white priv...
In his very good book, The Color of Law: How the Federal Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein makes a useful distinction: Individual acts ...
Yes, it makes sense within the system of belief. If you don't believe it, then it doesn't make sense. There isn't any way around belief here: In the b...
What if they don't know what their biases actually are? They might not be dishonest -- they might not have adequately examined themselves. Biases, lik...
It isn't aggression; the intense stare is invitational. It's a silent signal of interest; staring back is likely to be taken as confirmation of intere...
Of course some women fall for bastards. I don't know why they do, but some women gravitate towards abusive men, and when they find an abuser, it is di...
I'm not very interested in the cultural wars over race and gender, and I generally am no more than annoyed with it. But... There has been systematic i...
Surely you have read or heard accusatory references to "white males" dead or alive, "white privilege", and so on, with the implication the privileges ...
the thread is a play on the title of the "Why should you feel guilty" thread. Actually, I do not feel guilty for being a rich white male (rich, relati...
Intelligence is obviously important, but so are personality traits that support long-term focused activity. "Drive", whatever that is, would be high o...
You are right that it is social privilege and the system of family support, encouragement, contacts, resources, etc. that comes with it. Without this ...
I had my own religious wrapping to peel off; it was more Wesleyan than Calvinist, but still a problem, since I no longer assented. It has taken a very...
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