IMHO racism is the logical endpoint of a chain of mind sets – tribalism > patriotism > nationalism > racism. It’s the idea that your tribe, nation, race, is superior to the rest. It’s irrational because if you were born somewhere else, you would believe a different tribe, nation, race was the most superior. It could be argued that it’s the ultimate arrogance; my race is best because I was born in it, in other words, because of me.
Of course black people can be racist. I think one of the most virulent racists I’ve come across in my life was a black kid I was at school with. It was kids like him that turned me racist until JWs cured me of it. Much later on a black Muslim man married an extended member of my family, and he was an equally virulent racist. I’ve also met a few white equivalents, but generally speaking, most people I’ve met in my life, both black and white, are just ordinary decent people.
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David Attenborough's new book
by LoveUniHateExams ini haven't read his new book, but i've read bits of it that were serialised in a newspaper.. attenborough is a fascinating man and has a lot of interesting things to say.. his new book is about the environment and how to save it, basically.. he wants us to drastically cut down our meat intake and eat more fruit and veg.
this got me thinking.
how would that work?
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We have more trees now than we did 50 years ago
Strange, but apparently true. The really weird thing is, billions of these trees are sprouting up in areas that were previously too cold for them to flourish. But that can’t be because the planet is warming up, because we all know that global warming is an another Attenborough myth.
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8 Year Old Can Decide If They Are Transgendered
by minimus inso says joe biden.. anybody agree with this?
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You're right of course Funky, I was only thinking with respect to this forum - and the possibility perhaps that we might get back to more WTS topics instead of a daily diet of US politics.
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8 Year Old Can Decide If They Are Transgendered
by minimus inso says joe biden.. anybody agree with this?
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Nice one jp, you have articulated what I have been thinking for some time now. It’s such a shame. When I first joined this forum, it was such a breath of fresh air, with some truly insightful posters. Where have they all gone? Drowned out with vitriol, insults and rabid right wing bullshit.
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Re the up-coming American election, a pretty interesting video ...
by LoveUniHateExams inyeah, so this is a pretty good video regarding the up-coming us presidential election.. i'm no expert in us politics, so if this video is a load of crap, please say so .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2fo83cp7vg.
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a little over half of the U.S. total population lives in about 5 U.S. major metropolitan cities
Can you explain that statement please? From what I can gather the total metropolitan population of the USA’s five largest cities (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Phoenix) is about 65 million, which is just under 20% of the total population. What am I missing?
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8 Year Old Can Decide If They Are Transgendered
by minimus inso says joe biden.. anybody agree with this?
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There was an item on the news last night about transgenders demanding the right to join and play in female rugby teams. Whatever next? I think they should have their balls chopped off. Mind you, I can see the attraction of playing rugby against women.
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California to ban sales of fossil fuel cars in 15 years
by mickbobcat inthis will never work but liberals are too stupid to know it.
first off all you have to do is cross the border and buy a car.
if they will not let you license it in the state then many will license it out of state.
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While I accept the ‘fact’ that CO2 emissions are a major contributor to global warming, I wonder why activists target fossil fuelled transportation as the prime culprit. I haven’t done any research to fact check this (and I can’t be bothered to anyway), but on the news last night, in a item on UK farming following Brexit, it claimed that the world’s beef/diary/pig/sheep farms (including attendant deforestation) produce many times more CO2 emissions than all the cars, buses, trains, planes and factories put together. It’s a rhetorical question, but why don’t they campaign for a ban on meat sales? It would have a bigger impact.
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If YOU Were In Charge of the COVID Virus Situation How Would You Handle Things At This Point?
by minimus inas of october 2020, if you were governor or president how would you handle this pandemic?
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No government should be allowed to make decisions of life and death in medical decisions. That's Socialism.
I agree with the statement, but that's dictatorship - Nazis are just as guilty of it as Communists.
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The Fugitive, with David Janssen on Youtube
by Wasanelder Once inhey oldsters, remember the tv series from the sixties?
david janssen was born to play that part.
i was 7 when it first aired.
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I too remember it well. It was one of those shows that was always talked about the next day at school. They've been re-running it on the 'CBS Justice' channel (39) here in the UK for some time, along with the original Mission Impossible series.
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President Trump has tested positive for COVID-19
by Funky inhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-says-he-and-first-lady-have-tested-positive-for-coronavirus/ar-bb19cg4u?li=bbnb7kz.
given his age and weight, he is at very high risk of needing to be hospitalized.. trump is arguably the most well-protected man on earth, and he got it.. people.....wear a fruggin' mask!.
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This is not the full clip, it's missing the important piece preceding it
There is nothing in what preceded his statements that would indicate that in his reference to disinfectant and injection, he meant injecting light. If he did, why didn't he say so the next day instead of appealing to "being sarcastic". It's the same old story, anything not complimentary to Trump is labelled fake news, anyone mentioning his gaffs is labelled mentally ill (TDS).