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https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/
July 04, 2020 at 16:08
Anyone can go look at the quote, which doesn’t include anything about men in jail. That’s because you made it up.
July 04, 2020 at 15:18
I think we’re past the culture wars. One side didn’t show up. Thus most institutions lean in a certain direction. Nowadays it’s closer to a cultural r...
July 04, 2020 at 14:56
They disrupt the western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement because 1 in 3 black men end up in jail? Can you quote them on that or are yo...
July 04, 2020 at 14:31
And here I thought I was being reasonable, the only sane person in a madhouse.
July 04, 2020 at 07:04
I’m sure your view of me is completely fair and just.
July 04, 2020 at 06:50
Not to me. When self-avowed marxists start disrupting families through their make-believe “villages”, I see trouble. No activist network can substitut...
July 04, 2020 at 06:37
They also want to “disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ th...
July 03, 2020 at 17:05
I appreciate the effort but I fear it was a waste. The nonsensical aspect of your interpretation of the statistics, in my opinion, is that these dispa...
July 03, 2020 at 16:49
The phrase “Black Lives Matter” is a self-evident truth. The group Black Lives Matter was founded by “trained Marxists”, so hopefully we can different...
July 02, 2020 at 21:45
I would consider that systemic or institutional racism, yes. Yes, I do not know the answer to that question. Care to fill me in?
July 02, 2020 at 21:26
Right, according to “US officials with direct knowledge”, the sine qua non of anti-trump conspiracy theories.
June 30, 2020 at 16:02
https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2241964/statement-by-assistant-to-the-secretary-of-defense-for-public-affairs-on-intell/ The...
June 30, 2020 at 15:19
I would not be able to because I don’t know the answer to that question.
June 30, 2020 at 15:10
I don’t agree with the premise of “systemic racism” as it has been provided here. I once thought it was the same as institutional racism: the US was c...
June 29, 2020 at 20:30
The typical ploy of blaming Trump for the incompetence and failures of the states, the worst of which are governed by democrats. The fact is Trump is ...
June 29, 2020 at 15:57
Nope. I remain unconvinced.
June 29, 2020 at 15:38
If it’s not so much the skin colors of those involved, but the prevalence of criminality in certain neighborhoods, then it would appear that the resul...
June 29, 2020 at 15:37
If I understand you correctly it records and discriminates on the basis of race. If so then yes it is racist. I would even argue that the act of consi...
June 28, 2020 at 19:30
I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. Does the system record and profile on the basis of race, and not some other factor?
June 28, 2020 at 19:24
If there is some part of the algorithm or data in that system that suggests police target certain racial groups, I would have to agree with you. But I...
June 28, 2020 at 18:49
If it was written into a law, and explicitly discriminates on these grounds, I would say it is.
June 28, 2020 at 18:40
I think it helps, at least when it comes to employment. Can it prevent racist thinking and beliefs? Probably not.
June 28, 2020 at 18:30
It explicitly targets “Trump supporters with approximately 3.4k posts who believe racism is predominantly propagated by putting people into race boxes...
June 28, 2020 at 18:28
Given the conflation of race and ethnicity I would have to say it is. Whether technically it is or not I am not too sure.
June 28, 2020 at 18:13
It certainly discriminates against a certain group of people while excluding others.
June 28, 2020 at 18:11
I’d love to hear your argument.
June 28, 2020 at 18:07
[ It would still target me and people like me, sure.
June 28, 2020 at 18:05
I don’t see who else it could refer to.
June 28, 2020 at 17:58
That’s the sort of discrimination I’m talking about and looking for. For example, this policy is racist: “ No negro who is not in the military service...
June 28, 2020 at 17:55
Sounds to be more about ethnicity than race.
June 28, 2020 at 17:48
To forbid discrimination on the basis of national origin.
June 28, 2020 at 17:44
That’s right.
June 28, 2020 at 17:35
No, that’s not what I think. I think policies have to be explicitly racist in order for it to be racist, for instance Black Codes, Nuremberg laws or A...
June 28, 2020 at 17:25
You tried to connect me to Lee Atwater.
June 28, 2020 at 16:33
Show me an explicitly racist policy. If they aren’t explicitly racist, or they are not exclusive to this or that race, but are to be applied evenly to...
June 28, 2020 at 16:29
I don’t deny that racism exists. My unawareness was in regards to the existence of explicitly racial policies in America, which may exist beyond what ...
June 28, 2020 at 16:22
You used an overused quote from god-knows-when to imply I am appealing to, or are appealed by, American racists. I still cannot see the connection bet...
June 28, 2020 at 16:13
I don’t get the connection you’re trying to make here.
June 28, 2020 at 16:09
I have never supported Lee Atwater. But do you agree with his theory?
June 28, 2020 at 16:06
If you want to afford me privilege because of my skin color be my guest. But I reject it.
June 28, 2020 at 16:05
Do you believe the same as Lee Atwater?
June 28, 2020 at 15:57
None of those policies explicitly discriminate between races (as far as I’m aware). As such, any racism that results is the effort of individual racis...
June 28, 2020 at 15:49
Yet, there he is dealing with the current state of affairs, in a fashion I agree with, and in opposition to interests I despise. I could not have aske...
June 27, 2020 at 18:34
He said a lot more than that. One should watch the whole thing than rely on out of context quotes.
June 27, 2020 at 16:19
I am not confident in Trump’s re-election. So you will probably get your wish, if you haven’t lit the country in flames or torn it down by then.
June 27, 2020 at 16:04
And he’s still doing a better job than any grandiloquent, Ivy-league lawyer that has dominated the position until now. That’s the best part: I get to ...
June 27, 2020 at 15:54
Only a once-in-a-century pandemic could disrupt such a term, which is amazing considering all that was thrown at it. And here you guys promised us the...
June 26, 2020 at 22:23
Why not? It would give conspiracy theorists a little red meat, for which they are probably starving given the collapse of it over the past couple year...
June 26, 2020 at 20:21
The Flynn case, the arguments, the rulings etc. is public knowledge.
June 25, 2020 at 20:22