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Donald Trump

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um I'm sorry to interrupt but this is something personal to me, ISIS is NOT an muslim/islamic terrorist organization, they're just radicals, they dont even have any ties to islam so... :/

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so what do you think is so great about him?
Well, he's so handsome. Especially his hair. And his views are just so American. He's making a lot of good promises.
 
It was never resolved. We just dealt with the legal side.
Intolerance is eternal.

Right. It's also more complicated than white people hating black people and vice versa. We have men that hate women, poor people hating the rich, Christians hating Atheists, Chinese hating Japanese, Capitalists hating Communists, Southerners hating Northeasterners, and Sony fans hating Nintendo fans (yes, intolerance includes gaming wars too). Not everybody from each group hates each other, but intolerance exists in all groups from many generations (from the earliest days of Mesopotamia to the day robots rule the world).

Well, he's so handsome. Especially his hair. And his views are just so American. He's making a lot of good promises.

His hairdo is bad.
 
Obvious troll. Please stop.
Um, no. I plan on voting for him in the primaries.

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Right. It's also more complicated than white people hating black people and vice versa. We have men that hate women, poor people hating the rich, Christians hating Atheists, Chinese hating Japanese, Capitalists hating Communists, Southerners hating Northeasterners, and Sony fans hating Nintendo fans (yes, intolerance includes gaming wars too). Not everybody from each group hates each other, but intolerance exists in all groups from many generations (from the earliest days of Mesopotamia to the day robots rule the world).



His hairdo is bad.
His hairdo is sexy.
 
um I'm sorry to interrupt but this is something personal to me, ISIS is NOT an muslim/islamic terrorist organization, they're just radicals, they dont even have any ties to islam so... :/

Unfortunately, you are wrong. They are a Islamic-based organization that uses an extreme view of the Qumran that is violent in nature and they proclaim themselves as a caliphate (a holy Islamic state). In the context of their actions, they are doing things very similar to the old Islamic Empire that existed in the past. If you read what happened to Constantinople and see what the Muslims did to the Byzantines (particularly how they treated women and children) after they conquered the city, it sounds very similar to ISIS. We should have known ISIS would become what it is now if we actually valued what history teaches us and prevented it from repeating (in context of the ISIS situation, we can defeat them and prevent them from continuing their evil).

It was never resolved. We just dealt with the legal side.
Intolerance is eternal.

Racism may exist in the minds of certain people, but that will go away after a while as more generations come to be that are raised to see everyone as the same. Certain aspects of racism will be harder to erase than others (particularly the concept of inter-racial marriages and reproduction), but it will all change inevitably. I personally see nothing different between me (who is white) and someone of a different melanin level (we all look the same inside so we are all human). The only reason why we all look different in appearance is that our ancestors settled in particular regions for thousands of years isolated from other populations which caused certain unique traits to develop based on climate (that is where the different shades of skin color comes from) and overall genetic change that occurs when certain traits are passed/canceled/modifed down to the next generation. To make an extreme hypothetical example of what I mean, if the United States suddenly cut itself off from the rest of the world (in terms of immigration and allowing people to visit) and stayed that way for thousands of years, the United States would eventually be composed of its own "race" in terms of appearance and overall genetic makeup since the genetics would all unify as people became more alike. Just food for thought.
 
I am so incredibly grateful to live in a country where even conservatives believe in universal health care.
 
Unfortunately, you are wrong. They are a Islamic-based organization that uses an extreme view of the Qumran that is violent in nature and they proclaim themselves as a caliphate (a holy Islamic state). In the context of their actions, they are doing things very similar to the old Islamic Empire that existed in the past. If you read what happened to Constantinople and see what the Muslims did to the Byzantines (particularly how they treated women and children) after they conquered the city, it sounds very similar to ISIS. We should have known ISIS would become what it is now if we actually valued what history teaches us and prevented it from repeating (in context of the ISIS situation, we can defeat them and prevent them from continuing their evil).



Racism may exist in the minds of certain people, but that will go away after a while as more generations come to be that are raised to see everyone as the same. Certain aspects of racism will be harder to erase than others (particularly the concept of inter-racial marriages and reproduction), but it will all change inevitably. I personally see nothing different between me (who is white) and someone of a different melanin level (we all look the same inside so we are all human). The only reason why we all look different in appearance is that our ancestors settled in particular regions for thousands of years isolated from other populations which caused certain unique traits to develop based on climate (that is where the different shades of skin color comes from) and overall genetic change that occurs when certain traits are passed/canceled/modifed down to the next generation. To make an extreme hypothetical example of what I mean, if the United States suddenly cut itself off from the rest of the world (in terms of immigration and allowing people to visit) and stayed that way for thousands of years, the United States would eventually be composed of its own "race" in terms of appearance and overall genetic makeup since the genetics would all unify as people became more alike. Just food for thought.

Racism will never disappear. You are a privileged white person who is saying that racism doesn't really exist anymore, which makes sense. There are an estimated 10,000 members in the KKK, and there are still attacks on black people made by that group. There are still subreddits like /r/CoonTown. There are so many innocent people who are- wait for it-black being killed. There are still unfair stereotypes for different races. People are still being ridiculed (by Donald Trump for being Mexican) because they're not white. Racism is alive. And you may not think so because you are a privileged white person (like me, I'm not being biased)
 
Racism will never disappear. You are a privileged white person who is saying that racism doesn't really exist anymore, which makes sense. There are an estimated 10,000 members in the KKK, and there are still attacks on black people made by that group. There are still subreddits like /r/CoonTown. There are so many innocent people who are- wait for it-black being killed. There are still unfair stereotypes for different races. People are still being ridiculed (by Donald Trump for being Mexican) because they're not white. Racism is alive. And you may not think so because you are a privileged white person (like me, I'm not being biased)

Lol "because you are a privileged white person."
 
Racism will never disappear. You are a privileged white person who is saying that racism doesn't really exist anymore, which makes sense. There are an estimated 10,000 members in the KKK, and there are still attacks on black people made by that group. There are still subreddits like (name removed). There are so many innocent people who are- wait for it-black being killed. There are still unfair stereotypes for different races. People are still being ridiculed because they're not white. Racism is alive. And you may not think so because you are a privileged white person (like me, I'm not being biased)

I agree that racism isn't 100% stoppable, but when you invoke the "white privilege" card or call someone "a privileged white", that's when I started to lose respect. Invoking the "white privilege" card is considered racist too, at least by me. There is no such thing as the privilege system.
 
I agree that racism isn't 100% stoppable, but when you invoke the "white privilege" card or call someone "a privileged white", that's when I started to lose respect. Invoking the "white privilege" card is considered racist too, at least by me. There is no such thing as the privilege system.

Took the words from my mouth.
 
Unfortunately, you are wrong. They are a Islamic-based organization that uses an extreme view of the Qumran that is violent in nature and they proclaim themselves as a caliphate (a holy Islamic state). In the context of their actions, they are doing things very similar to the old Islamic Empire that existed in the past. If you read what happened to Constantinople and see what the Muslims did to the Byzantines (particularly how they treated women and children) after they conquered the city, it sounds very similar to ISIS. We should have known ISIS would become what it is now if we actually valued what history teaches us and prevented it from repeating (in context of the ISIS situation, we can defeat them and prevent them from continuing their evil).
I'm sorry are you muslim&from Iraq?
I think not

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Well, he's so handsome. Especially his hair. And his views are just so American. He's making a lot of good promises.

I'm sorry you think that
 
I agree that racism isn't 100% stoppable, but when you invoke the "white privilege" card or call someone "a privileged white", that's when I started to lose respect. Invoking the "white privilege" card is considered racist too, at least by me. There is no such thing as the privilege system.

Could you guys expand on this a bit? I tend to be a little out of touch with all these social expressions that are used in the US and I'm wondering what you mean by white privilege and why you are against it.
 
Could you guys expand on this a bit? I tend to be a little out of touch with all these social expressions that are used in the US and I'm wondering what you mean by white privilege and why you are against it.

Because calling someone privileged based on their skin color is irrational. Someone else can probably explain it better, I just think it's a way to compensate for a bad argument.


That'll do it.
 
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Because calling someone privileged based on their skin color is irrational. Someone else can probably explain it better, I just think it's a way to compensate for a bad argument.

I'm just confused because it seems completely rational to me. I understand that in a perfect world skin colour wouldn't mean anything deeper than appearance because that's all it is biologically. But in a country like the United States where African American people for example are descended from slaves and were hugely marginalized and discriminated against even in the law up until a few decades ago, the cycles of abuse and poverty don't just go away all of a sudden. Certainly it's not rational to say that two people of different skins colours growing up in a bubble would have different levels of privilege, but if they come from completely different backgrounds then unfortunately that is often the case. The reality is that a person's race is representative of a lot more than their ethnic background, as sad as that is.
 
I'm just confused because it seems completely rational to me. I understand that in a perfect world skin colour wouldn't mean anything deeper than appearance because that's all it is biologically. But in a country like the United States where African American people for example are descended from slaves and were hugely marginalized and discriminated against even in the law up until a few decades ago, the cycles of abuse and poverty don't just go away all of a sudden. Certainly it's not rational to say that two people of different skins colours growing up in a bubble would have different levels of privilege, but if they come from completely different backgrounds then unfortunately that is often the case. The reality is that a person's race is representative of a lot more than their ethnic background, as sad as that is.

That doesn't mean that white people are privileged? lol. Abuse and poverty happen to all people.
 
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