A person who ascribes superiority to a race generally does so because they lack any level of personal superiority. It's never those who are truly superior in some aspect who claim it has anything to do with their pigment. They know it's a product of ability and environment.
In short, racial supremacists are always the least supreme examples of their race.
Racism: a belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/
Racism: prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.
When you say that a black person cannot be what a white person can be, it is a racist statement. By definition. A black person can be anything a white person can be, including a racist. Ask a Black Hebrew Nationalist.
It is monumental irony that the largest group of racists in American society today are those who purport to be anti-racist. Racism such as that presented in your posts needs to stop
We are losing the war on hate and antisemitism.
No we aren't. It feels that way only to people inside a particular echo chamber. The increase in accusations of racial hate and bigotry arose out of the political potency that comes from opposing such things. Opposition to bigotry is politically potent because bigotry is repellant to western culture. But that also means that politically motivated people must find racism and bigotry wear it doesn't actually exist, namely in their political opponents. Then they convince people in their echo chamber that political opponents are the real life monsters of their imagination, thus driving votes. Cynical politics
It's a little more like someone watching an inconvenient truth and freaking out about the end of the world, while someone who took a little more time than watching one propaganda piece reassures them that the world is not ending.
It is absurd to claim that military service is high prestige and low risk due to high foreign civilian casualties. In the US, military service in war time is far more dangerous than not serving. That's one reason for the moderate prestige. And military casualties are not limited to the battle field. Check into veteran suicide if you're a curious person.
The "Greater male variability hypothesis" does a better job of explaining why there are more men in leadership. It also explains why there are more men in destitute poverty. While men and women have very similar averages for very many measures, the bell curve is not shaped the same. Women tend to cluster more around the average, making the curve taller in the middle, while men tend to have more individuals falling into the ends of the tails on both ends.
Gender differences are not themselves socially constructed; how those differences are expressed is socially constructed. It's a subtle difference, but it's paramount to understanding the relevant social phenomena we observe. The lack of this understanding is the source of much junk pop science and sociology errors. These errors require willfully ignoring the impact of natural and sexual selection (evolution).
The feral child phenomenon is usually the result of terrible abuse and neglect from a very young age. It is the result of a child being isolated from human contact beginning early and lasting for years. Some few situations have involved a child in the wild. Often they never acquire the ability to speak. On some occasions speech is developed but highly limited.
There has been speculation about the impact of mask mandates on very young children. The concern regards early childhood development of emotional recognition and language development when half of everyone's face is consistently covered. My daughter was born in late 2019. I was sure to never wear a mask at home while interacting with her. By the time she went to daycare, the caretakers mostly did not wear masks. She speaks very well for her age. If there is a broad negative impact on early childhood development, my daughter has avoided it.
Males and females are not arbitrarily assigned their sex at birth. It is determined through observation of physical, biological reality. Trans men are not actually men, that's why you have to put "trans" at the beginning so everyone knows you're referring to a female who prefers male pronouns.
I'm not sure that the children of dead soldiers would be comforted by the notion that only 10% of war casualties are military so most folks aren't like their dead dad. We don't have an active draft, meaning we aren't picking a class to send. Troops volunteer. Those volunteers are overwhelmingly male. If there was a draft, women are excluded.
How you perceive (or believe others perceive) female masculinity or femininity does not create a double bind for them. You seem to be grasping at straws in the face of multiple inequities that I presented.
Claiming that you see no double standard is only indicative of your own double standard. If all of the inequities I mentioned worked against women instead of men, you would see them as proof of an overwhelming misogynistic patriarchal culture.
That's not a counter argument so much as a statement of disagreement.
A rise in hate crime from miniscule to less miniscule does not indicate any level of broader cultural acceptance. Nor does the existence of an obscure fringe internet haven for racists. In fact, the existence of hate crimes as a designated category of crime demonstrates the cultural, and subsequent institutional rejection of racism as something worthy of special legal punishment.
On occasion, famous people are caught on a hot mic saying something racist; their career is over. It used to just be the way people talked Politicians are constantly trying to construe the position of their opponents as racist because it is detrimental to winning elections. Racism used to be a common political approach.
Racist is the most toxic accusation one can hurl. It's toxic because it is culturally rejected.
It's often the case that the facts are irrelevant to his statements. Pertaining to this discussion, it doesn't matter if Israel is actually fine without American Jews, it matters that Trump thinks American Jews need to get on board for the sake of Israel. You taking his statement as an antisemitic threat is absurd, and likely insincere.
That's not an example of antisemitism. He is claiming to be super pro-Israel, and that the result is super supportive American evangelicals and Israel Jews. He is saying that American Jews need to get on board before it is too late for Israel.
Attacking a particular group for a perceived policy position is not the same as attacking a particular group BECAUSE they are that group.
Did you read the article? It's not very long. There's always a reason when the headline fails to fit the body of an article. Also, the article fails to link to, or show, the full text of the original post. There's a reason for that too
Men have shorter life expectancy. They are disproportionately homeless, addicted, and murdered. They are wildly disproportionately incarcerated. They are the vast majority of war time combat deaths. They are the majority of suicide victims. The draft is still for men only. They receive biased settlements against them in divorce and child custody.
None of this is to pretend that men are victims of some kind of matriarchy. People are victims only if they have been individually victimized which is most often not a product of their sociological category. This is merely presented to indicate the double standards of those who espouse the mass victimization of sociological categories.
I respectfully disagree, this may seem like semantics but only white people can be racist against racialized otherwise known as BIPOC people.
The semantics are incredibly important, and you're incorrect about them. Racism is a word that, until recently, was widely understood in the context of individual racial discrimination or prejudice. Indeed this is still the first definition presented in Webster. This first definition is foundational to the second definition, which is systemic racism.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/
Interestingly, those what want to pretend that systemic racism the only racism possible, often claim that only white people can be racist. It's ironic because this position falls squarely into the first, primary definition of racism. As if a white person, inherently, can be something a black person cannot. Furthermore, this racist position is often weaponized, to accuse individuals who are not racist of upholding a racist system, this implicating them in individual racism.
When a white group of children bullies the only Black child in the school this is racism as well as internal bias. This is because only white people have the super powers of the world to back them up. Including the United States, Canada, France, Germany, United Kingdom and more to enact institutional racism.
A racist childhood bully does not have the support these countries. Indeed, being called racist is one of the most damaging accusation one can hurl in the listed countries. The listed countries have laws that, if the bully continues into adulthood, will be utilized by the very systems in question to punish the racist for their racism. Our institutions, like our cultures, are anti-racist, that's why the consequences for racism are both socially and legally dire.
Without institutional racism, this would only be a case of internal bias. Which is the case when a group of Asian children bully an American Indian. Or any other combination of BIPOC people bullying other BIPOC people. Same when BIPOC people bullying white people.
This statement relies on your misunderstanding of racism. It is, fundamentally, discrimination and prejudice based on ones race. A black person can be anything a white person can be, including racist. To maintain that a black person is inherently incapable of something due strictly to the superficial qualities of pigment, is a racist position.
The dominant, justified, demonization of racism has caused a substantial decline in the number of actual, individual racists. The clever thing about racist systems, is that they can be managed and dominated by non-racist people. So the narrative was turned to systemic racism by those vested in keeping racism a predominant issue. The lack of individual racists is so stark, that we have had to turn a focus on micro-aggressions just to find a substantial aggressions at all.
That being said it is all about the movie, shows, and music that are widely broadcast. These add in institutional racism. There are four dimensions to racism, HIIP historical, institutional, interpersonal and personal. We really need to pass reparations H.R. 40 to end historic trauma and dismantle institutional racism.
Many of our most celebrated actors, musicians, and athletes are non-white. They are celebrated by a predominantly white population. That celebration is independent of the color of the admirer or admiroree. Which is a positive statement about modern western culture with regard to racism.
Reparations are untenable on both practical and moral grounds. Collective punishment is a war crime for a reason.
If the kid experiences race based bullying, then that's racism. If the kid is not targeted by police for their race, that's not racism.
The movie, shows, and music a person chooses to consume is irrelevant.
Regardless, in America today, blaming others for ones own situation is detrimental to an individual. Whether they are blaming racism, their parents, or anything else.
It had always been the case that we only heard what the information gate keepers wanted us to hear. That is falling apart with the internet. No, I'm not talking about blogs with questionable theories. I'm talking about the easy accessibility of videos documenting shit that contradicts lies of politicians etc. I'm talking about legit news upstarts.
This is a huge problem for narrative builders. It also contributes to societal disunity. Just as the printing press was an information revolution that the powerful sought to control, the internet is as well.
You wouldn't call the cops who hide in the hallway but you fully believe that most cops will hide in the hallway. You'll need that special 911 for hero cops, rather than that 911 for the regular ones.
No mass shooter was ever stopped by anyone who was without a gun.
Magical thinking. Broad disarmament is not a possibility in the US. Legal issues aside, there are far too many in a country far too big. Instead of pipe dreams, we should consider real solutions given the physical, legal, and social realities on the ground.
The problem is that you don't believe they CAN overcome their past. You favor policies that hold poor people in their impoverished state while you claim they need more from the nanny state that holds them down. That's the old paternalism of the slave days reinvented by modern Democrats. Those lower expectations are based on race. There's a word for that.
I said you'd miss them when they're gone.
Violent crime is way up and departments are struggling to hire and retain enough officers for their cities. Leftists across the country called for the defunding of police and a significant number of police have called their bluff. Now Dems are walking it back and pretending they never said it.
I said you would miss them when they are gone. You might not, but the significantly higher number of murder and assault victims sure do.
Stand your ground is entirely concerning civil interaction. It relates to law enforcement only insofar as it helps determines the criminality of a given case. It's a legal standard, not a law enforcement standard. Also it has not a god damned thing to do with race.
I talked to a girl with the "wrong" color skin for me in a bar. Or rather, I had the wrong skin color for her according to people other than her. I was called a racial slur, my life was threatened, and I was told to leave. Fucking waa.
This whole thread started with your list of ways to behave at s traffic stop. It's a good list and every one should follow it. Not everyone does. But you think this is about me, someone you know nothing about; because your pot fried brain got distracted. That's your problem, not mine. It makes you believe you know what it's like to be black at a traffic stop.
Empathy with what you imagine a situation is like is not the same as experiencing the situation. I have experience with police interactions and I'm familiar with the data on the matter. The vast majority of black traffic stops are the same as white traffic stops. The main difference is that if a white person encounters a prick of a cop they likely suspect the cop is a prick, but if a black person encounters a prick of a cop, they are likely to suspect a racist cop, even if the cop is black.
Studies have found that right wingers are better at guessing what the left winger position is on a given subject than left wingers are of the right. Put another way, right wingers are better at putting themselves in lefty shoes.
As for the list, I didn't know it came from BLM and I don't object to anything on it. I think everyone needs to be told how to interact with police and it should be explained why cops respond to certain behaviors the way they do. That way the public can put themselves in the cops shoes.
Legitimate law enforcement cannot be successful without public assistance. If the cops are at my door asking questions about something I've witnessed that isnt drug related, such as my neighbor assaulting someone or stealing something, that a bit different than asking if an odor of marijuana ever drifts over.
It would be despicable for you to protect your neighbor and enable them to further victimize people.
"Yeah, I heard some girl screaming no and stop, but I'm not telling the cops shit". If that's you, you are creating more victims. Disgusting.
99.9to the tenth, if you are right, you'll survive. I added mine because people get themselves arrested for nothing more than interfering with official acts by not providing that which they are actually required to. Trouble can be avoided. Risks can be lowered
I don't watch Tucker so I didn't bother with your link. Everything I talked about was just what was in the news. I saw the news, that's how I know there was nothing to the Russian hubbub. Remember? There's no there there. But also because I saw the news I saw how they played it for three years. I saw the news, which is why I saw what Trump said on his phone call. The idea that there was something wrong with him wanting an investigation was screwy. Would it help him politically? Sure. Does that make Biden less corrupt? Nope. But the immediate and automatic rejection of anything Trump said was justification for impeaching him on that too. That same autoi rejection caused the media to cover for the Chinese communist party and their lab leak. Vanity Fair now has an article blowing it open. They can do that now that Trump bus gone. But not before.
If I bought snake oil it was just the news minus their opinions on the mdtyer. Which means you agree with me I guess. They do peddle some shit sometimes.
My mistake, it wasn't Pew it was Gallop.
Interesting side note: when I was looking at public confidence in various institutions, I noticed that the percentage of people expressing a great deal of confidence in the presidency used to regularly be above 20%. That norm almost went away during the Obama years, but it was starting to recover these last 4 years...you wouldn't know that by listening to the news, but then who really trusts them anyway haha
https://news.gallup.com/poll/1597/
Dr Fauci switched his professional opinion often. Sometimes it was found that he had presented a "noble lie" to protect the public from itself. That's what he did when he said not to wear masks and again later when he said he wasn't wearing his mask for theatrics. It's Fouci's own double talk that undermines him. (And absurd notions of near indefinite masking)
You don't have to listen to Hannity to know that the lab leak has always been more probable and less racist than the wet market cover put out by the CCP. But the folks over at CNN said it's more racist to blame commies than to blame a gross cultural practice in wet markets. And if they say it's racist, then it must not be true. Now we are learning that the lab leak was covered up pretty hard and the mainstream news was complicit.
That's after years of everyone in every new room ranting fabrications about Russian meddling and Trump collusion. All bullshit. And after it was well established that it was bullshit, they went right along with pretending that Trump calling for a legit investigation requires impeachment. The icing on that cake was the full-blown media black out of the Biden laptop story.
As for media trust, Pew research are the ones who show that media trust is at record lows. If that was all just. Because of Fox News, Biden wouldn't be president. People like me (who don't watch Fox), and Democrats alike have lost trust in the news.
A probably false lie by a politician is the norm. That's why we don't trust them and we have a media that constantly challenges them.
Private false lies by the media that are then covertly altered before accountability can occur is a bigger problem. That big problem is magnified when the media in question favors a political position.
Trust in media is now rock bottom, and they earned it. But that also means that people go finding facts wherever they can. And they choose "facts" that suit their bias, including fantastic conspiracy theories.
The media needs to earn our trust again. We all need them to.
No, these aren't leftist attacking Jews in the street. These are right wing religious fundamentalists who also happen to win high marks in the American Intersectional Olympics. As such, many leftists find themselves in the contradictory position of excusing the violence of right wing religious fundamentalist anti-semites.
Political pundits will take one person's position on a given side of the isle and juxtapose it with another person's position on the same side of the isle. They then call that side of the isle hypocritical or contradictory because someone on that side is saying something different than someone else.
Florida has a population of 21.48 million and an area of 65,758 square miles. Much of that is uninhabitable. 4.5 million Floridians were 65 or older in 2019.
New York has a population of 19.45 million and an area of 64,556 square miles. In 2019 there were 3.2 million New York residence 65 or older.
Not illegally. So if you are on probation, or on the registry or banished from Ohio you should obey the law and respect borders. Also, if you want to go into some other country, they are gonna have border laws that you should follow. And you better follow em because literally all other countries don't fuck around with that. Do you know how to become a Japanese citizen? First, you have to be Japanese. Fuckin racist Americans.
The cops kill right around 1000 people per year. It's consistent. The majority of them are armed. The vast majority are justified. It didn't rise under Trump, though hate crimes did. The point is that violent crime is an issue for law enforcement. Racism mostly isn't. The fact that police shootings remain consistent regardless of the significant social backlash is evidence that they occur out of necessity, not racism.
They would have their Virginia Senators to represent them. And you're right, this should have happened before the census, but they will get thier extra seats in due time. Expanding the size of the senate for one city is unreasonable. If you are concerned about the rights of DC, Virginia would be perfectly reasonable. But if you are concerned about adding two blue seats to the Senate, then making a citystate is the goal. But it's dirty politics. Maybe Omaha should be a state too, they also lack the senators they deserve...
I would be very glad to see all Americans have representation, as promised by our system and fought for by our founders. That's why DC should be brought into jurisdiction of Virginia where they will have the full representation granted to residents of any other state. Wouldn't you agree?
I read an article that said American LE numbers are plummeting as a result of natural cycles of hiring and retiring. It said we shouldn't be concerned about all this talk of police leaving for lack of support, defunding efforts, increased hatred, increasing numbers of ambushes, riots, automatic blame, mob rule, etc etc.
The point is that articles can miss on the analysis.
