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 Post subject: Re: Black Lives Matter
PostPosted: Wed June 10, 2020 8:52 pm 
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It's so fucking silly if you think about it. Skin color. Who gives fuck?

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 Post subject: Re: Black Lives Matter
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Someone arguing that systemic racism isn't a thing in America is probably the dumbest thing I've ever read on this board. I've been here off & on since 2003. Just wow.
Give me an example of systemic racism in America.


Slavery, Jim Crow, Redlining, Segregation, Gerrymandering, building a wall on one border in particular..... etc.


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 Post subject: Re: Black Lives Matter
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Someone arguing that systemic racism isn't a thing in America is probably the dumbest thing I've ever read on this board. I've been here off & on since 2003. Just wow.
Give me an example of systemic racism in America.


Slavery, Jim Crow, Redlining, Segregation..... etc.
Those are words. Where do they exist in America today?

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 Post subject: Re: Black Lives Matter
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Someone arguing that systemic racism isn't a thing in America is probably the dumbest thing I've ever read on this board. I've been here off & on since 2003. Just wow.
Give me an example of systemic racism in America.


Did you happen to see the voting lines in Georgia yesterday? Just your everyday example...
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That line? Mostly whites it looks like...

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 Post subject: Re: Black Lives Matter
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The problem with this question is that there are so many examples, many of which are easily apparent, that you really don't know where to start. Here's two you can answer.

- Black Americans own about one tenth the wealth of white Americans. Even college degrees don't close that gap; median wealth for black households with a college degree is about 70% of white Americans without a college degree. Why do you think these gaps exist?

- According to the Department of Justice, in 2018, the imprisonment rate of black males was 5.8 times that of white males, while the
imprisonment rate of black females was 1.8 times the rate of white females. Why do you think that is?


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 Post subject: Re: Black Lives Matter
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Tree, Did you think a 4th Dave Rubin video would do the trick?

Tree, true or false - America has solved racism. And if your response is some kind of "the magic 8 ball says the evidence isn't clear," then fine, that's your opinion. But it's a non-answer and a foolish opinion in the minds of most people. You don't really needs stats, you need a functioning pair of eyes and some common sense.


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 Post subject: Re: Black Lives Matter
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digster wrote:
The problem with this question is that there are so many examples, many of which are easily apparent, that you really don't know where to start. Here's two you can answer.

- Black Americans own about one tenth the wealth of white Americans. Even college degrees don't close that gap; median wealth for black households with a college degree is about 70% of white Americans without a college degree. Why do you think these gaps exist?

- According to the Department of Justice, in 2018, the imprisonment rate of black males was 5.8 times that of white males, while the
imprisonment rate of black females was 1.8 times the rate of white females. Why do you think that is?


Josh and macphisto would say because of single-parent households.

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 Post subject: Re: Black Lives Matter
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They would, of course, fail to ask the follow-up question: why are there more black single-parent households? What historical and social forces might give rise to that phenomena?

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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.


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 Post subject: Re: Black Lives Matter
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Those stats are not proof of racism. Even if they are correct the only illustrate that something is going on don't know what

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 Post subject: Re: Black Lives Matter
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Someone arguing that systemic racism isn't a thing in America is probably the dumbest thing I've ever read on this board. I've been here off & on since 2003. Just wow.

In light of this post, please change your fucking signature.

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 Post subject: Re: Black Lives Matter
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It's so fucking silly if you think about it. Skin color. Who gives fuck?

tree___, the President, the President’s followers...

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 Post subject: Re: Black Lives Matter
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i swear its like yelling at a dog not to eat its' own shit and then it looks at you with that dopey look like, what do you mean?

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 Post subject: Re: Black Lives Matter
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Laugh out loud

So according to wheeze if I don't see evidence of systemic racism I'm a racist wow better not get any more left you might fall off the cliff

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 Post subject: Re: Black Lives Matter
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Guys, he’s tree___ trolling. He’s done this in virtually every thread he’s posted in. He’s nothing but a racist troll. Stop giving him the time.

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 Post subject: Re: Black Lives Matter
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Nah peeps I'm just asking questions while you're being the obedient dog that does whatever his master tells him blindly

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 Post subject: Re: Black Lives Matter
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The funny thing is that I'm actually asking for evidence and if I see it I will believe it I have never once said that any skin color is inferior to another skin color. Remember what racism is?

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 Post subject: Re: Black Lives Matter
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Remember kids don't question popular opinion or prepared to be chastised and called a racist by the lemming tribe

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 Post subject: Re: Black Lives Matter
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tree_ wrote:
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So according to wheeze if I don't see evidence of systemic racism I'm a racist wow better not get any more left you might fall off the cliff


Only you know what's truly in your heart, friend. At the very least you're showing an anti-left attitude (rather than a pro-something attitude), and you're certainly not the first person to be blinded by this. The worst thing about the last 5-10 years isn't really Trump, it's watching the right half abandon everything they claimed to believe because they feel threatened by the left (which is obv why we have Trump now).


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 Post subject: Re: Black Lives Matter
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tree_ wrote:
Those stats are not proof of racism. Even if they are correct the only illustrate that something is going on don't know what


OK; what's causing it if not systemic racism?


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 Post subject: Re: Black Lives Matter
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I don't know what's causing it, but it's for damn sure not the thing I don't like!

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