ok doser
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if i own a small business (or a large business) why should government have any say in whom I choose to hire?
if i own a rental property, why should government have any say in whom I rent to?
What is your definition of racism?
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if i own a small business (or a large business) why should government have any say in whom I choose to hire?
if i own a rental property, why should government have any say in whom I rent to?
Join us in the 21st century. This is not 1960's Alabama.
Besides, you missed my entire point. I am talking about how people feel. How a person feels is nobody else's business. How a person feels does not effect your life at all.
Are you white? Lets say I hate your guts because you're white. Does that change your life? Will you not get up tomorrow,hug your kids, and go to work as usual? Why the hell do you care if I hate you or not.
Do you get it?
Actually, I know you DO get it. Your leftwing extremism and your dislike for me override your common sense and force you to argue with me, even though it is painfully obvious that I speak the simple truth. The world would be much better if people "Live and Let Live", and that includes letting someone live with their prejudices. Every single person has them, including you Mr. High & Mighty. Racial, appearance, whatever. Some people don't like fat people. Some people don't like stupid people. Some people don't like smokers. If you want to sick the Thought Nazis on people, why stop at just race? How about everything else? You don't even realize how conditioned you are by society on this issue.
The difference between you and me on this issue is that I know HOW to think about it, and you are conditioned on WHAT to think about it.
Actually, you are correct, but I did not want to expand my argument in that area. Rand Paul has articulated your point very well once upon a time, then cowardly backed off of it.
ok doser
lifeguard at the cement pond
i agree with the civil rights legislation put in place in the sixties and since, as it applies to government
i think it was a huge mistake to extend it to private citizens entering into private contracts, forcing them to do so unwillingly
ok doser
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no, they must be destroyed - such is the siren call of the social justice warrior
don't know if you're following this: http://thefederalist.com/2018/12/21...n-plan-new-site-in-response-to-illiberal-ban/
ok doser
lifeguard at the cement pond
what i dislike is stupid people who think they're smart and think that others should laud their cleverness/brilliance/wit
barring that, stupid people make for hours of enjoyable youtubing :thumb:
And you still haven't considered why that law came into play. If you ever do you need to understand that it didn't magically transform a land that was overwhelmingly racist to one degree or another, that taking down that institutionalized ignorance, both writ large and small, takes generations, just as it took generations to instill.
You have all sorts of things wrong in there. I'm not a left winger, let alone an extreme version of that. None of those I've met are pro 2nd Amendment, against abortion, and regular adherents to the Christian faith, though I'm willing to grant there may be some who have one or two of those uncomfortably in their quiver. As for you...I'm largely indifferent beyond what you write. I don't invest emotionally in complete strangers. No reason to. For all I know you're some kid in Iowa having a go.
No, it wouldn't be. Evil ideas need to be opposed wherever they surface. Evil only prevails when good men do nothing about it. Now any fool can hold any fool notion they want to in the privacy of their own minds, but then again they always could, so we can't really be talking about that.
Absolutely. Bias is part of human nature. On the benign side it can be a grouping of likened minds toward a good end, like a church or community action group. On the crappy, dangerous end of the spectrum it can lead to a Klan march, and public lynching, or lesser but institutionalized harms, like denying people the opportunity to compete in the system.
When we start lynching people for being fat, start denying equal access and opportunity to stupid people (and Congress is an argument against that prima facie) get back to me.
No, I suspect the difference between us is that I have an intimacy with the consequence of racism, an exposure to it in a way that is foreign to you, that you're an insulated, younger white guy whose lack understanding of that has led him to error.
^ Fail
Way to cut out the middle man on your rebuttal attempt, I suppose.
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Hey, TH, it's been a while.
Every individual, family, community, state, and nation has the right to associate with or discriminate against and exclude anyone based on whatever characteristics they choose. There is absolutely nothing immoral or wrong about "racism."
As an interesting note, blacks in america get anywhere from 10 to 20 percentile point adjustment upwards to get into law school(which gets larger as the school gets more prestigious.) As for your poor, poor friend's day-to-day hardships..he's lying. Blacks in America are significantly less stressed than whites are. We have actual data on this. Stop gaslighting yourself.
Nice kafka trap.TownHeretic said:
"Oh, no! White people forming and protecting their own communities?!? The horror!"TownHeretic said:
Why? Because during the 60s we started defining 'freedom' as 'access to white people.'TownHeretic said:
Every individual, family, community, state, and nation has the right to associate with or discriminate against and exclude anyone based on whatever characteristics they choose. There is absolutely nothing immoral or wrong about "racism."
Arthur Brain
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Racism = ignorance, stupidity, prejudice, incredibly low IQ etc etc...
Arthur Brain
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If you discriminate against people simply because of their "race" or skin colour then you certainly have the right to do so, just as others have the right to call you a bat crazy, prejudiced loon.
So, I suppose it's fair play all around.
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Just repeat the mantra.
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If you discriminate against people simply because of their "race" or skin colour then you certainly have the right to do so, just as others have the right to call you a bat crazy, prejudiced loon.
So, I suppose it's fair play all around.
People who choose do so aren't just ridiculed as crazy or prejudiced, though. It's actually illegal for white people to exercise in-group preference. Just acknowledging the realities of human biology is enough to get someone fired or ostracized.
Arthur Brain
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What the hell are you on about? If you want to meet up in "white only" circles then there's nothing illegal about that or just choosing to hang about with white only people full stop. Are you a white supremacist?
What the "realities" of human biology mean according to you is anyone's guess although probably just yours...
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So, if I wanted to found a school that only admitted whites, or open a business that only admitted whites, or found a community that only allowed whites to live there, I could do that?
What, in your own words, is a white supremacist?Arthur Brain said:
The realities are that intelligence, criminality, and a whole host of other measurables correlate most heavily with race. That's not to say that there is no variation within populations, but on a large scale the average biological tendencies affect how a society functions. There is no magic dirt.Arthur Brain said:
Arthur Brain
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You could form your own silly little community or group if you wanted. This loony outfit did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity_(religion)
An ignoramus in dire need of education to cure them of such stupid prejudice.
Everyone bleeds the same colour and your skin don't stay white when you dead...
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To be fair, white flight is very common. People are usually just more coy about their motivations.
Very poor definition. Try harder.Arthur Brain said:
Blood type correlates with race. You're very bad at this.Arthur Brain said:
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Oh, their motivations are clear enough, as bonkers as they are.
Um, it fitted well enough. White supremacists are typically ignorant, prejudiced and lacking in the cognitive thought department. I'm sorry for those that are brainwashed into such as it isn't their fault but otherwise...
Blood type correlates with race. You're very bad at this.
I'm AB positive, no, negative, no, O...
Actually, just human.