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  3. turtlespeed

    ******I know I'm setting up a straw man argument, but humor me. If it is morally correct to treat descendants of one group of people differently because great-great-grandpa government was abusive to them, where do you draw the line?



    Fair question. I suppose it would be at the point where the multi-generational ripple effect effectively ceases.

    Even if it causes more harm than good?

    I'd presume that for any example reasonable people could disagree as to whether it does or does not.
    You know, and then there will always be the assholes adding to the noise.

  5. DiverMike

    I know I'm setting up a straw man argument, but humor me. If it is morally correct to treat descendants of one group of people differently because great-great-grandpa government was abusive to them, where do you draw the line?



    Fair question. I suppose it would be at the point where the multi-generational ripple effect effectively ceases.

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    We are seeing a move toward equality where all races are being abused. I cannot help but consider that the outcry against policing in general is due to LEOs now starting to treat white people like they've treated black people all along.



    I think you're kidding yourself. I guess time will tell.

    ETA: The outcry is because thanks to technology it's increasingly being caught on video. Personal camcorders started to become popular in the late 1980s. The Rodney King beating, leading to the LA riots in response, occurred in 1992. That was probably the starting point.

  9. What you complain about was enacted by a law passed by Congress. It, like any other law, can be repealed by another act of Congress. If you feel the policy behind the law has become so obsolete that you strongly object to its continuation, then by all means, write to your US Congressman and Senators urging them to sponsor such legislation.

  10. I don't know where you learned civics and American history. At the risk of those of us on this side repeating ourselves: The drooling knuckle-draggers fail to recognize that there isn't an institutional history of LEOs in the US being brutal to white people because they're white. So, as Wendy said in the other thread, they think that individual examples of a white person being abused by police negate 150 years of post-Civil War history of how black people have been, and still are, treated by LEOs... far, far more than it happens to white people.

    So. You can preach to the grunting choir all you want, and they'll lap it up as you validate each other, but it really means nothing.

  14. rehmwa

    ***I suspect he used the word oreo the same way I sometimes shove the n-word in people's faces on here: ironically, to call other people racists.



    Yes, that's probably correct. Funjumper is well regarded here for his subtlety and depth of thought and delivery.

    Well, somebody has to be.

  16. Rick

    ***So he used an inflammatory word to provoke people, which it did. Focus on the forest, not the single tree.



    right so I called him out for his racism as he does to several other posters

    I suspect he used the word oreo the same way I sometimes shove the n-word in people's faces on here: ironically, to call other people racists.

  17. wmw999

    Just remember, as long as there is a single successful minority, there is no prejudice, just individual failure.
    Conversely, if a single majority is denied something they are qualified for in favor of a minority (even if the minority is also qualified), then it was tokenism :|

    Wendy P.



    Which is why, for example, I don't paint all folks from, say, Houston with a single brush; because although he hails from there, so do you.

  20. Rick

    ******I'd bet this man will be totally safe from police brutality. It's all about context. Or in your case, which version of paranoia you are suffering from this week.



    If that oreo wore civilian clothes, lived in or even walked around in, certain parts of Missouri, and spoke to LEOs the way he does his commentary, he would most definitely be taught to be respectful of LEOs via percussive educational methods.

    wow really?

    Absolutely. I was going to type almost exactly the same thing, but he beat me to it.

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    I have liability insurance against injuring someone when using my parachutes. When put away in my basement they are covered by my homeowners policy should they decide to go rogue and kill someone on their own.



    Nope - that would be a miracle! Which in turn, would be an Act of God, which is usually an express exclusion in most homeowner's policies.

  23. Driver1

    ******Don't companies go out of business all the time? Isn't that really the norm rather than the exception? Some other company or technology just shifts and suddenly the company is irrelevant and dying? 160 years. It had a good run, but I don't know a lot of companies that have lasted that long.



    I am sure the management team at the company will come out of the bankruptcy just fine.:S:S

    Indeed. They don't set up golden parachutes for nothing.

    Quite frequently, bankruptcy judges will dishonor golden parachutes, and will cut top executive compensation, contracts or not. They will even do so retroactively, requiring give-backs.

  24. normiss

    ***You put hoodie on Obama and have him walk down the street at night time with his hand in his pocket.

    Ya, in quickness he'll be shot..

    Look at all the 2nd amendments nuts job youtube video. All white, if black man walk around with a rifle sling to their shoulder for his right to open carry, he'll be dead black man real quick.

    all those immigration check point refusal video, all white.
    all those alchohol check point refusal video, all white.

    louis CK on being white.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg48ZZ2wYfM



    I wish we had a "translate" button here.
    :|

    Translation: Most of the shit white men as often as not get away with, will get a black man killed.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzIcec_bQss