And I think the supposed leaders in the polls are some of the worst. Biden seems like a good guy but I think he's too meek to lead the country. Bernie seems like a loon and Warren is a flake. Harris is the worst of them all for a variety of reasons. The only 4 that show me anything are Tulsi, who I thought was terrible in the first debate, Ryan, Castro, and Yang. That's only counting how they come off to me. I really don't know enough about them.
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I think when people say things like "all white people are racist", they are probably racist themselves by their own definition, which is a definition I completely disagree with.
A couple of annoying things from the debates.
One was simpleton Kirsten Gillibrand pandering to the simpletons by saying, “I can talk to those white women in the suburbs that voted for Trump and explain to them what white privilege actually is. When their son is walking down the street with a bag of M&Ms in his pocket, wearing a hoodie, his whiteness is what protects him” from being shot. When their child has a car that breaks down and he knocks on someone’s door for help and the door opens and the help is given, it’s his whiteness that protects him from being shot.”
So let me get this straight. Is she saying someone should be shot in these situations? If she's not, and they shouldn't, then that's not any kind of privilege. That's just the way it should be. The black community certainly has many problems not only with how they're looked at, but from within. If you want to call them underprivileged, I don't think it's a big deal. Singling out people with white skin as people who somehow get unfair special treatment is just wrong. Losers will stay losers
One was simpleton Kirsten Gillibrand pandering to the simpletons by saying, “I can talk to those white women in the suburbs that voted for Trump and explain to them what white privilege actually is. When their son is walking down the street with a bag of M&Ms in his pocket, wearing a hoodie, his whiteness is what protects him” from being shot. When their child has a car that breaks down and he knocks on someone’s door for help and the door opens and the help is given, it’s his whiteness that protects him from being shot.”
So let me get this straight. Is she saying someone should be shot in these situations? If she's not, and they shouldn't, then that's not any kind of privilege. That's just the way it should be. The black community certainly has many problems not only with how they're looked at, but from within. If you want to call them underprivileged, I don't think it's a big deal. Singling out people with white skin as people who somehow get unfair special treatment is just wrong. Losers will stay losers
Race baiting Don Lemon should not be a part of these debates. He puts his twisted opinion in way too much. I see CNN occasionally when my wife has it on. It's incredible how they continue to lie by saying Trump said things like Mexicans are rapists, or that he called black players who kneeled for the national anthem sons of bitches. My favorite is probably their claim that "there were good people on both sides" was somehow racist when there was absolutely nothing racist about it and he was right on target. Then they claim that Trump has divided the country when in fact it is the far left liberals who are dividing it. If you want to say the president can be insensitive, I don't think anyone can argue that, and he certainly doesn't discriminate. If you want to make up lies and then call the people who voted for him racists, then yes you are the people who are dividing the country.
It was kinda lame how candidates ducked questions by saying "those are right-wing talking points." I mean, you're literally running to decide who's going to have to rebut "right-wing talking points" for six months, so maybe you should entertain a few of those questions now.
Also, of course, sometimes they weren't right-wing talking points so much as basic mathematics.
Also, of course, sometimes they weren't right-wing talking points so much as basic mathematics.
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And I think the supposed leaders in the polls are some of the worst. Biden seems like a good guy but I think he's too meek to lead the country. Bernie seems like a loon and Warren is a flake. Harris is the worst of them all for a variety of reasons. The only 4 that show me anything are Tulsi, who I thought was terrible in the first debate, Ryan, Castro, and Yang. That's only counting how they come off to me. I really don't know enough about them.
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I know, right? Hearing the truth is the worst.
Yeah, it can't be that white people actually do get special treatment.
You're right. In fact, I hear good people can commit murder, too.
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I know, right? Hearing the truth is the worst.
I only saw the first half of the first debate, but from what I saw those types of comments were in reference to healthcare and how the majority of the field is bashing the ACA.
Anyway, they got lazy and started using that line to sidestep any difficult question, to my mind. But primaries are always silly like this.
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Saying it doesn't make it true. You have to show me where it happens. Her example which I was referencing certainly wasn't one of those cases.
You can't dispute what I said. How important is the truth to you?
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Sort of? The first bit you quoted from cricket was posted last week, for example.
Anyway, I don't really care who revived what, for the most part. I just think it's incumbent on everyone to advance the discussion if they're going to continue it. And obviously if someone had argued that a term isn't being used properly, continuing to use the term without addressing that isn't great.
Anyway, I don't really care who revived what, for the most part. I just think it's incumbent on everyone to advance the discussion if they're going to continue it. And obviously if someone had argued that a term isn't being used properly, continuing to use the term without addressing that isn't great.
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Precisely why I’m not going to get into long winded debates about it in here, but I am also not going to let it go unchecked either.
But what do I know? A lot of useless stuff is what.
But what do I know? A lot of useless stuff is what.
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Officer involved shootings for whites are lower, sentencing for whites is more lenient, anti-recidivist and jail diversion programs are more plentiful for whites, and parole boards are more favorable with whites. I’d love to dig up all the facts for you but I know that would really put a damper on your deniability. Plus I’m at work.
Not that you're even correct, but things like this would have something to do with the fact that a black man is more likely to commit violent crime or have a police record. In other words, there's more at play than skin color.
I dunno. I kinda lost you when you stood up for a chain of events that ended with a good person murdering another good person. Truth is relative these days, I suppose.
“I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally.”
“Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.”
The idea that the one side was made up of only racist groups or that he was talking about racist groups is a flat out lie.
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There were good and bad on both sides. That's nothing controversial or something to argue about.
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Precisely why I’m not going to get into long winded debates about it in here, but I am also not going to let it go unchecked either.
But what do I know? A lot of useless stuff is what.
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The cost of calling a bunch of stuff out is the occasional reasonable follow-up. Or so I keep insisting to several different people on this site, over the years, to no avail.
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Thank you for proving my point.
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Really? Why bother responding at all then?
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I think not responding is probably more polite than responding without advancing the discussion, but that's just my opinion.
Anyway, I agree with you re: the Internet in general. Desperately trying to make this one of the places that's better than that, though.
Anyway, I agree with you re: the Internet in general. Desperately trying to make this one of the places that's better than that, though.
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It is the polite thing to do, of course.
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