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My preferred pronoun is “he”.

Agreed. The condescending class were so out of touch with the country that they believed their chosen candidate had it in the bag right up until the n...

I was born in the US and I moved here in 2008. Canadian women can be quite convincing.

Is there a point there?

Though I can empathize with your traumatic story, I cannot see any reason to suppose that the skin-colors of those involved had any influence on the c...

Well said. Many former democrats and independents who voted for Obama have voted for Trump, myself included. This isn’t because we abandoned the left,...

Would “positive” racial and ethnic discrimination such as affirmative action qualify as systemic racism? Here in Canada there is the Employment Equity...

Thanks for writing that out.

Wow. This is a crazy story about recent pauses on hydroxichloroquine studies. Let’s hope none of this has put lives at risk, but certainly a lot of pe...

I just don’t know how an act can be considered racist if it is mostly perpetuated by a member of the same race. What is the evidence that an officer h...

Here’s some sobering evidence that kind of throws doubt on the whole claim of “systemic racism” among the police shootings. https://www.pnas.org/conte...

Good point about King. However I think non-violent resistance was not limited to civil disobedience, and included peaceful protests. And his dedicatio...

I think racism, at its core, is the belief that human beings can be subdivided into races. Once those sorts of abstract aggregates disappear from thou...

Plenty of states have restricted travel. And for example it wasn’t Trump who mandated that nursing homes in New York couldn’t refuse patients diagnose...

It’s a tough question. The dynamic between officers and various neighborhoods and communities are too complicated to assess from any one standpoint. I...

He said he stands with protesters but also wants to protect American‘s lives and property from violence, looters, and vandals. I’m not sure why one wo...

By now we all know that powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution are vested in the states, and that the states and municipalities...

Another man murdered in the streets, this time David Dorn, a 77 year old retired police chief that went to check on his friend’s shop. https://abcnews...

Here is the woman Obama referenced in his article. Sad. https://youtu.be/WoQSNJn8sTg

Another officer shot in the head in Vegas last night. Alive, but on life support. https://fox59.com/news/officer-shot-in-the-head-in-las-vegas-on-life...

It’s true. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and all that.

Then what might account for the appearance that police/citizen interactions are getting worse?

There was the 2016 case of Tony Timpa, who was slain in much the same way as George Floyd. Charges were dismissed against the officers, who mocked him...

PTSD among police is something that should be considered. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4089972/ Especially since it negatively effects...

We should also remember that cops are also murdered. Here is a memorial page for those who were shot and killed this year. Perhaps the problem isn’t a...

They’re stacking up. Chris Beaty, murdered in the streets. https://sports.yahoo.com/former-indiana-football-player-chris-beaty-shot-and-killed-in-indi...

So far the status quo looks far better than anything you guys have offered. What a lost opportunity.

He won’t. Neither will other innocent victims: the Oakland security officer gunned down in the street, the people murdered in Iowa last night, and the...

The police have utterly failed. The murderers within their ranks have been exposed, and now the cowards. They have refused to protect and serve, sheep...

I will do all I can to abide by the rules, and I recognize and respect your authority to police this forum as you see fit. But I can honestly say I ha...

It's because they do not live there. They need not worry about their jobs, their grocery stores, their homes, nor think about anyone these riots might...

Here's an example of a homeless man's property being tossed into a fire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WsoD_mY_Rw But hey, it's just property, righ...

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There have been a couple heavily armed rednecks defending both protesters and property, but certainly not enough. https://twitter.com/maxnesterak/stat...

Would the police have acted the way they did with Floyd if the members of that community were walking around armed with guns? I’m not sure they would ...

Police shootings disproportionately affect people of a certain skin tone. https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police...

I’m going to refrain from grouping people according to some abstract demarcation such as race, but tyranny is tyranny and injustice is injustice. The ...

The irony is they can only rail against the system while living in free and open societies, upon gadgets that no other system has given them.

Hell no.

I think protesters should assert their rights, and not deny them of fellows. Americans have the unique right to march down the street fully armed as a...

I’ve never believed in the social contract theory. I don’t think the State came about as larger groups of people naturally agreed to subordinate their...

It’s simple perversion. You can justify violence, destruction of property, and making a mockery of a valid protest by invoking some abstract idea from...

That’s the irony of it. If we are to blame institutions, it was the State that murdered Floyd, not the private citizen. Yet here we have people destro...

Extreme poverty has been declining exponentially over the last two centuries. https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty

It’s a common bias, not limited to socialists per say.

Wealth isn’t a zero-sum game. There is no fixed amount of wealth in the world. Wealth is created and constantly expands.

I read it back in 2015. Plenty of articles were written on it at the time. It’s probably been updated since then.

Here’s a great paper on the subject. http://omarwasow.com/APSR_protests3_1.pdf

The riots are self-defeating, which is a shame. Whatever was gained by peaceful protests is lost and unravelled with riots. There is likely to be a ri...