… and the dude's black.
xd.
no, it's not a joke, lol.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=balig2jw7sa.
How can someone be accused of white privilege?
Privilege is something you either have or not. Even if someone has some sort of privilege, they just have it, they didn't ask for it.
Will Smith's kids have tremendous privilege. All sorts of doors are open to them that are closed to the average person. Yet, I wouldn't accuse them of anything. They were just lucky to be born into their position in society.
israel retaliated and some are accusing israel of an “act of terrorism”.
evidently these rockets are trying to get to tel aviv but the dome is getting overwhelmed.. i wonder if the usa and other nations will come to israel’s defense..
it's not easy to empathize with Palestinians. In a way you do feel bad for the way they are treated by Israelis as second level citizens, but here's the thing:
It is the Palestinians who refuse peace. The only way forward is a two state deal, but how do you do that when the Palestinians say they refuse, and that the only acceptable thing is for Israel to stop existing? You can't negotiate with people like that -- they are not honest brokers.
Any Palestinian who complains about Israel is a moron because they should be going back to the Palestinian leadership and criticize them for not sitting down at the negotiating table. People on the street yelling at Israel. Again, idiots. They should be yelling at Palestinian leadership for not being reasonable and refusing to negotiate.
Make two states. Everybody compromises to some extent. Then the palestinians will have a country of their own, they won't need to be freed, and every Palestinian living in Israel, can also leave to the new country if they choose to.
the president of the united states says we have to do something about this.
many politicians and people agree that we are all affected by the scourge of systemic racism.
what’s your view of this?
I again was listening to a podcast today where this college professor was saying that systemic racism is a reality, while again not providing anything concrete that supports this.
Systemic racism should be the easiest thing in the world to resolve. It should take no more than a few months, because laws and policies are fairly easy to change. What is not easy to change is racism because it lives in the minds of people and that you cannot change via legislation.
the president of the united states says we have to do something about this.
many politicians and people agree that we are all affected by the scourge of systemic racism.
what’s your view of this?
Their definition is different than your definition
Well I really don't care if they have come up with their own definition, just as I don't care if they come with with their own definition of the law of gravity.
Systemic racist is the concept that I have explained, and it doesn't exist. As I mentioned shifting the goal posts by pretending systemic racism is something different is intellectually dishonest.
It's just as silly as when people try to assert that god exists, by saying that God is all of the love in the world.
the president of the united states says we have to do something about this.
many politicians and people agree that we are all affected by the scourge of systemic racism.
what’s your view of this?
There is no systemic racism in the US.
The concept is basically that if you pressed a button and magically all of the racists in the world disappeared, the system would continue to be racist only for its laws and policies.
So which laws and policies are overtly racist? Nobody ever is able to point any out, so this term is just used because it's trendy but nobody can ever point anything that needs to be fixed.
Now, decades ago we did have systemic racism. The laws openly prevented minorities to do a variety of things. No longer the case.
Sometimes people shift the goal posts, to try to say that if the outcome is different, then it's systemic racism. But the concept is unrelated to outcome, because outcome is not really only dependent only on laws and policies.
so i see some very counter intuitive videos on how there is no over population issue.
that the world will grow to about 11 billion and stop.
well that would be the first time in human history that population just stopped.
What makes you think it is unsustainable to have 11B people?
Good grief, even as we burn our rainforests to make room for grain, as we expect meat production to have to increase by 100% soon, deplete our oceans of fish, continue to back wildlife into smaller reservations as we flatten forests to build housing, have entire islands of floating plastic in our oceans, along any other of 1000 ways we our hurting our home, some folks will never be convinced.
We have lots of fossil fuels to burn, and we can produce lots of food, therefore all is well folks
China just announced they eradicated poverty and India isn’t far behind
What fine examples of how overpopulation is no biggie. A country full of slums where people shit in open air, and the biggest polluter in the world where masks were common even before COVID.
anyone following the derek chauvin trial?.
if you are actually following it, not just listening to the media, you will likely realize that there is a huge gap between what is going on in court and what is being reported in the media.. if the trial was fair, i think he should be acquitted.
there is plenty of reasonable doubt about the cause of death (his dealer doesn't want to testify because he could be guilty of 3rd degree murder for selling him a fatal amount of fentanyl) and even doubt over whether the officer even had his knee on the guys neck or did anything counter to what they were meant to do as per policy.. but is it fair?
btw, you have to love these prosecutors patting themselves on the back for getting a guilty verdict.
I'm pretty sure I could prosecute this case and get a guilty verdict. In fact, I think the jurors went into this thinking guilty even before it started.
so i see some very counter intuitive videos on how there is no over population issue.
that the world will grow to about 11 billion and stop.
well that would be the first time in human history that population just stopped.
Ahh yes, the elephant in the room. Nobody wants to talk about it. Go to any party and listen to anybody say how they have 4, 5 kids and people will congratulate them in happiness. Not me, I look at them and think how irresponsible they are.
Sure 11 billion people would probably be fine if people lived off growing veggies in their backyard and raised chickens and rabbits. But this is 2021, and each one of us have a gigantic footprint on the planet, with our ipads, flights, gadgets, clothes, copious amounts of food, etc.
I would guess to say that even 3 billion would be probably more than the ideal number, considering the amount of stuff we need.
I suspect the planet at some point will remind us of what are continue to ignore.
anyone following the derek chauvin trial?.
if you are actually following it, not just listening to the media, you will likely realize that there is a huge gap between what is going on in court and what is being reported in the media.. if the trial was fair, i think he should be acquitted.
there is plenty of reasonable doubt about the cause of death (his dealer doesn't want to testify because he could be guilty of 3rd degree murder for selling him a fatal amount of fentanyl) and even doubt over whether the officer even had his knee on the guys neck or did anything counter to what they were meant to do as per policy.. but is it fair?
First, the people who have been waiting for this verdict to resume pillaging and rioting are just mildly disappointed. Certainly they will find an excuse to do it anyway.
Second I understand why the jury went with this verdict, but to be fair, this was never going to be a fair shake. The amount of pressure on these jurors at all levels including the fear of what might happen to themselves is real. It was never going to be fair.
All in all, Chauvin deserved to be punished. To what degree is debatable, but I respect the decision.
someone gets shot and or killed and hundreds of people decide to loot and destroy businesses or whatever else is in their path.
what does this do to make things better?
i really don’t get how they think it makes things better or solves anything..
On the other hand, that army officer who got pepper sprayed, cooperated, and got sprayed anyway. I think that cop was racist. At least the officer lived. If he reads this, thank you for your service. 😀
I agree that the cop totally overreacted, but here is the thing... it all ties back to cooperation.
In that incident, while the police were trying to stop him, he decided to not stop and roll on until he decided that a gas station is the place he wanted to be stopped. You simply can't do that.
At the very minimum, stop, ask the officer if he minds going down the road to an area where you feel comfortable. Yes, he might say no, but what is the alternative?
The alternative is you deciding not to stop. The cop has no idea why, so in his mind, he is now chasing you. When you do stop, he will treat it as a felony stop, which is what happened exactly in that incident.
There is a real issue with people assuming the rules have to conform to them because that's what they want. The world doesn't revolve around you.
