The comment that came after defending white supremacy doesn't change the fact that you defended white supremacy. In fact, it still kind of defends white supremacy because your defense of it is that majority bias is inescapable. You think white supremacy is okay if the majority is white. To be honest, as I've already pointed out, you always tend to back peddle on this **** when you get called out and that's what this comment comes off as.

Well at least you got one thing correct. Thank you.

Talking about the realities of race doesn't mean they're fine. You just can't do anything about them in the present. Which is why I cited the studies that I did in the first place to showcase that.

I mean, I don't think taxes are fine when I know a big chunk of my money is just going overseas to kill people, but the change is going to have to come from somebody above my paygrade.

I think he was also trying to say that other countries handle majority bias more savagely than us.

I don't think that is a passable excuse. Not just for white supremacy but any form of racial supremacy. And yes, when you said that you are defending white supremacy. I'm definitely not against diversifying our country, but I don't think we should have to in order to get over racial biases.

Edit: Look how far we've already come. We can do better.

You have a very bad of habit of assuming one possible and least favorable extension of someone’s argument is indisputably what they’re getting at.

He never said white supremacy is ok.

To me it sounds like he’s saying the majority often mistreats the minority. That seems like a reasonable assessment of human behavior. If you make the inference from that he’s defending white supremacy I’d say it is fair to take a jab at your reading skills.

Good grief.

Do you really need a qualifier for that? Why do you have to reach for the least generous interpretation of his words as possible?

What's annoying is that I'm reading it the same as everybody else that called him out did but got treated with much less respect.

He always gives Trump and white supremacists a pass or deflects criticism with some whataboutism. It's pretty easy to see the pattern.

He is saying it in response to people who think white supremacy is a problem. Context is everything. It's like the all lives matter thing. Yes we all know all lives matter and we all know that majorities tend to mistreat minorities. But using that as a response completely changes the context. The same way ALM is trying to devalue BLM's message he's saying it to demean the idea that white supremacy is a problem.

I shouldn't have to explain this to you OH.

Define "whataboutism", because you aren't using it correctly. I don't talk about other things as a form of deflection to say "X did it first so we should excuse Y" (Hillary to Trump or whatnot). I make comparisons as illustrations to discuss a larger related point, whether that's about how media organizations approach whatever the subject is, an economic or data-driven angle, whatever.

We can do better, but we also live in a world driven by scarcity, massive upheavals in society due to things like automation, etc. Look at what OH said before about the demographics of the south lately compared to San Francisco. There are realities about human nature that need to be addressed if you actually want to position yourself as any kind of problem solver (however you plan or desire to contribute).

Whatever, guy.

Show, don't tell. Usually because telling espouses a lack of self awareness.

The only inexcusable thing I remember Ant ever saying on this forum was this ancient alien ****.

Back to back bears for you son

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Texas governor signs controversial 'Save Chick-fil-A' bill

Finally, Texans can join ISIS without repercussions!

Does that mean John Walker Lindh is getting a full pardon?

U.S. Assists Oil Tankers Near Iran After Attacks

sigh (VietnamaramyWW1)

Ayatollah Khomeini? More like Hey Hollah Go Man!!!

Seriously go Iran.

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...east-president

Trump is provoking a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. What could go wrong?

If Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan or rogue terrorists nuke an American city it would almost be worth it just so I could say “I’ve been trying to tell people those weapons are dangerous...”

Check out homie going ham on the popo’s vehicle in Memphis last night

Goddamn this summer startin cray cray

https://www.foxnews.com/us/video-sho...ring-rifle-nyc

New York City gunman fired rifle at man walking his dog, startling video shows

The ****ing comment section is some of the most bigoted **** I've ever seen.

What a ****ing piece of ****.

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My Spotify isn’t working :(

I thought mine was just being janky last night but it's good on my phone atm.

*sticks out tongue while listening to King Crimson*

Both the shooter and the people reading it going "Husband? Obama's son is going to jail while the other is going to hell. Two birds one stone."

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Can someone just shoot this **** in the head already? What are the Secret Service good for if not as a wink wink nudge nudge check against presidential power?

Do the JFK!

(Really though - it’s awfully cowardly the way no one steps up)

The Gulf of Tonkin incident was the first thing I thought of when I saw that headline yesterday.

Iranam

I’m not buying it was Iran

Doesn’t make sense

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Alabama woman says judge ordered her to allow her alleged rapist to visit their sons: report

Goddamn. Alabama is full steam ahead on living up to the most disturbing stereotypes about the Deep South.

That dude who set himself on fire almost made it to the WH last week. #progress

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During the past couple weeks horrifying events have struck the people of Khartoum, Sudan. While Sudan as a whole is well known as Africa’s ****tiest ****hole the urbanites of Khartoum have historically been immune to the long string of tragedies that have been choking out their rural countrymen for decades.

The people of Khartoum objected to the latest military takeover and took to the streets in a manner reminescent of America’s recent Occupy Movement, only much greater in numbers. The Janjaweed response has been quick and brutal. Several dozen protestors were met with machine gun fire and soon their bloodied corpses were being tossed into the famous Nile River.

Unconvinced that open acts of mass murder fully illustrated their dominance the Janjaweed turned to the time honored tradition of gang raping the remaining women and girls they saw fit for such treatment.

If UN troops were about they once again decided to sit this one out. The citizens of Khartoum are making some effort to regroup and are being encouraged to use non-violence as their means for social change and justice in the tradition of the Mahatma Gandhi.

How could this get any worse?

Oh for the love of ****.

Nice!

You should put a "Breaking News" chyron at the bottom and make it move in a continuous loop from right to left like the networks do.

There’s also this super ****ed up **** going on in Mali reminescent of Algeria in late 1980’s where entire villages are murdered in a single night.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2...133110169.html

About a month ago, Doug McC seemed to think that flooding in England was a joke. Boy, is he going to eat his words when he sees this latest news photo from the BBC:
Huge Puddle Inconveniences Well Over Five Cottages! If that's not a natural disaster, I don't know what is.

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I personally bounced back from the 2008 recession after about three years of belt-tightening, so I was surprised to hear on the news yesterday about how millenials in the USA are still suffering as a result of that career setback eleven years ago. Some events have a knock-on effect that resonates unseen years down the line. That's one reason that not only Trump, but media coverage of Trump, can be so alarming. With the headlines of the day dictated by Trump's latest tweet, not many people are offering long-term analysis, which is why I make a point of listening to this guy every Sunday:-



^ I don't suppose Trump cares or understands this kind of risk; like his attitude to global warming, it's a case of "I'll get what I can now and my kids can live with the consequences."

Here's a very strange tale of woe...

Millionaire gets 9 years for deadly fire above tunnels