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Whole world mate.

No. But I do agree it can make it a harder sell. In my experience, white people often get uncomfortable whenever whiteness is brought into view in any...

Fair enough. I'll give you something of a worked example of how I see it. After emphasising common ground, I've tried to start somewhere concrete and ...

Your words, not mine. I have no anxieties about describing demographic features of the wealth and power distribution when it fits and is well evidence...

Policies, history, institutional practices perpetuating poverty and disadvantage splitting along race lines is a current reality and a major problem. ...

No one disagreeing with you is saying that you care about skin colour. Everyone disagreeing with you is simply saying that poverty does. The policies,...

Just that you agree with everything substantive the people you're criticising are basing their arguments on.

States and economies acting in ways that disproportionately disadvantage non-whites is bad. That's exactly the stuff pointed to by systemic racism cri...

I quite like tearing down statues. Let's not pretend that statues are a neutral form of speech; they're not part of a scientific discourse, they're li...

People responding to you aren't trying to invalidate what you've suffered, they're trying to show you how shallowly you're interpreting why it happene...

Let's take a moment to look at a couple of conservative argument patterns. What do conservatives want? Usually for things to stay the same, in some br...

Personal experience; division 1 B&T is one of the most eye opening things I've read in metaphysics. The formal structure of experiential time in Div 2...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AZXNypWKbE Very relevant for broader context. Some of it is on BlackLivesMatter as an international movement. Also fo...

Whether @"ernestm" is relating an extremely painful story and using problematic tropes to lash out vs whether @"ernestm" has constructed or is using a...

Good luck.

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Poster intent matters.

Eh, if it's an artfully constructed justification narrative for racism, it won't stick around long.

That's fucking tragic. Desperate hurting people hurting desperate hurting people. :sad: Fuck those landlords.

To be fair, posters here do it too, it's more likely to be explained though.

Let me try and be a more understanding version of a social media hate mob. There are certain topics; mostly race and gender; where you have to be care...

Maybe place specific? Some of it is I think. Some of it is scapegoating applied to genuine economic issues (see Chester's talking points for an exampl...

@"NOS4A2" What changes do you think the police and surrounding legal system need?

Without addressing the issues that allow police officers to get away with this, and make them really lethal, I doubt that would do much. Cops don't ge...

Hashtag not all cops?

Yeah me too. Updated list: (1) Mandatory body worn cameras including audio. (2) Better police training in threat assessment. (3) Better police trainin...

Indeed. There is a massive double standard. More on topic: here a few suggestions for people to chew on that would make the police less lethal to mino...

A bad target. I hope he gets justice. Substantive issues surrounding the protest remain unchanged. I am suspicious, however, since the footage comes f...

Phonesex with webcam/wanking together over webcam. Alternatively people writing personalised erotica in emotes while wanking, like love letters with r...

Makes sense, sorry for responding out of context!

I don't think it's idiotic; (1) Journalists being assaulted in the street. (2) Army firing on protesters. (3) Leveraging public panic to try and motiv...

The article you linked suggested as such, no? It's ambiguous whether the officers heard gunfire and shot someone unrelated to it, or whether they actu...

:up: I'm surprised a surprise shot didn't kill an officer.

The base isn't your "average republican", the base is the kind of national guard that would shoot into a crowd. Or a journalist. Or sweep through neig...

Yes. It's almost like major political support among national guard for a president who wanted the national guard to shoot protesters has predictable e...

I don't really want to pursue that line of questioning in thread, seeing as we both see it as a tangent. The only remarks I'll offer are there are dif...

I think in terms of media influence Trump's a much smaller issue than Murdoch and the Koch Brothers. Trump's pretty much a pustule, he's not the infec...

There is always the question of who has power to shape discourse and who doesn't. This follows degrees; if I started ranting my posts in the streets, ...

Is Englishness recessive?

Those guys said the "cops can't reach where they are"; they're not going to stop any police violence that way. I think you are thinking of racism as a...

No, I'm trying to stick to what facts I believe. (1) There's a long history of cops killing black people under ultra suspicious and avoidable circumst...

The Panthers doing armed policing of police is part of what got the state to panic so much they made COINTELPRO, it's a good start.

I meant specifically; why do you think that 2nd amendment gun nuts aren't out protesting with their guns already, when they've seen journalists being ...

What do you think the answer is?

It was like 2 weeks ago that a bunch of conservatives in the US took heavy weaponry to a political building. The president approved, everyone defended...

https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1266948486848749570 Your "source" edited out the white storeowner charging a black skateboarder with a fucki...

Child: Mummy I had a dream where I was just a big ball of pink goo in a jar! Parent: That's ok dear, it wasn't real. Child: That's a petitio principi.

Thought experiments remind me of children's fantasies. Child: Mummy I had a dream where I was just a big ball of pink goo in a jar! Parent: That's ok ...

Tangent, but; do you think there are interesting philosophical questions about the metaphysics of objects that don't strongly emphasize human interact...