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not sure if this was shared yet but the whole covington HS fiasco was settled- $30m for the kid who apparently was slandered by the WaPo. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/24/media/washington-post-sandmann-settlement-lawsuit/index.html Bezos has the cash, so shouldnt be an issue. https://www.cincinnati.co...

guys cmon. name calling & personal attacks won't resolve this. there's almost always a perfectly reasonable middle ground. the cops were bad. so we need to address it. we shouldnt disband the entire force, but something must be done. the difficulty is finding that degree. which is the most const...

youthathletics wrote: ↑Mon Aug 03, 2020 7:37 am

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bart you have a super high value-to-post ratio.

and i agree- and we won't have an answer as long as the definitions are different.

agreed it is a real issue. i just think no real progress is made because people use differing definitions. i read your posts to say that racism is in the eye of the victim- if you feel it, and believe it's racism, it is. unless you're white. then it's not. why the disparate treatment, given the def...

agreed it is a real issue. i just think no real progress is made because people use differing definitions. i read your posts to say that racism is in the eye of the victim- if you feel it, and believe it's racism, it is. unless you're white. then it's not. why the disparate treatment, given the defi...

someone suggested a definition the other day. to antagonize/prejudice someone based on their membership in a group.

white is a group. someone somewhere thinks anti-white = racist.

is it not?

if it were true that offense is in the eye of the beholder (the victim), then using the term "karen" is racist.

The Trader Joe's accusations of racism and insensitivity was started by a woke teen who learned all about it in school. Aldi stores are owned by the same people. They and their customers just don't get it like some of the folks here do. They're just not deep enough thinkers, unable to comprehend th...

i must have missed some posts but IF the definition of white now is only some whites. (which resolves the baby/bathwater issue) to me that means, not all whites are responsible for the ills of society. if not all whites are responsible (forget contemporaneity for a moment), can they still have privi...

The Trader Joe's accusations of racism and insensitivity was started by a woke teen who learned all about it in school. Aldi stores are owned by the same people. They and their customers just don't get it like some of the folks here do. They're just not deep enough thinkers, unable to comprehend th...

i'm just happy we are even talking about race, and think some have posed interesting theoretical questions. but we can't define racism, nor agree what it is. does it include neutral comments (there are four white men over there)? what if a woman from india says i just don't like indian guys. been bu...

i'd always wondered how spiders can build a web across great distances, over a space that they cannot climb from one side to another. here's what i found- it's wind: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-smithsonian-how-do-spiders-make-webs-180957426/ The spider starts by pullin...

that's fair; it's an example of the law being the issue, not necessarily just the enforcement alone. i guess the question then is the law pernicious on it's face? deeper than it's face? The law needs built-in protections that assume the laws won’t always be enforced fairly. That is arguably the fou...

that's fair; it's an example of the law being the issue, not necessarily just the enforcement alone.

i guess the question then is the law pernicious on it's face? deeper than it's face?

paywall but you can get the newsletter for free- zuck and beeeezos claim their respective organizations are just minor players: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-07-30/kodak-is-relevant-again “The global retail market we compete in is strikingly large and extraordinarily competitive. A...

anecdotes are helpful- looks like you handled it the right way and sorry you had to endure it. it's also a good example of kramerica's point- the law might not be the issue here; it's the enforcement. you did have to use a different channel (the courts) and that's not fair, not to mention, sounds ex...

PS- also a difficult question that docB raised.

Want this dump to end? Enforce the laws we have, that are on the books. Illegal detaining is kidnapping. Call the cops for something bogus? The caller leaves with a citation for illegal police report. Enforce the laws we have. it's an interesting point. because i think it asks the difficult questio...

page 258 bottom summarizes the paradox- empathize, but don't because you can't.