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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
coppice:
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--- Quote from: coppice on July 07, 2020, 04:46:14 pm ---
Why would you expect people to be killed in proportion to their number in a fair society? Some groups have far more interactions with the police. The number of black and white people killed by the police in the US is roughly in line with the number of interactions their group has with the police. The interesting question is why black people have far more interactions with the police in the US.
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To answer your last question, maybe this is the resultant of 250 years of slavery, followed by 100 years of constitutional segregation that only officially ended in the '50s and inequality that continued long after...
These American people had a very difficult life for a long time (350 years), and this could play a part in the rebellious attitude of some individuals.
If I was in their shoes, I would probably have a rebellious attitude.
:-\
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I wonder if for many Americans a focus on black vs white is a way of diverting their minds from just how gruesome the history of America has been. Just focus on one area of injustice, and ignore all the rest. What about the genecide of indigenous Americans? What about the waves of Chinese tricked into going to the western side of America with the promise of good jobs? What they found were indentured servitude conditions building the railroads, or working in mines in Arizona that would have made the actual slaves think "man, those people REALLY have it tough". What about the workers in northern industrial towns who couldn't be motivated to fight slavery, because they though the slaves had better conditions than they did? When there was a downturn the factory workers starved on the streets, while a slave owner needed to keep his assets in good shape for the next upturn.
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It seems that the way you see it, slaves (with no rights, and not considered citizen) were in a better position than "normal" workers.
:-//
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I clearly said (apart from mistyping thought) that the northern workers said this. Not me. You can find these types of objection to taking action documented in American history books.
Striker:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on July 08, 2020, 02:13:28 am ---
--- Quote from: james_s on July 08, 2020, 01:46:02 am ---The whole cancel culture thing is deeply worrying, and I'm sure it will not be long before it is eating their own.
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There are already countless examples of that happening. J.K.Rowling is but one high profile example. She was the darling of the identity politics crowd, and then the next day, canceled.
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Although J.K. Rowling's books are well liked in those circles I'd say she herself has been pretty heavily disliked in them for a long time. She kept going back and saying "Look this character is actually 'x', I'm so relevant" and that was heavily look down upon as massive pandering instead of anything substantive. I have a fair number of friends in those circles and the only times she's come up for years has been negatively.
maginnovision:
They're ALL pandering, J.K. Rowling is only hated because she says trans women aren't women.
SkyMaster:
--- Quote from: maginnovision on July 08, 2020, 04:10:18 pm ---They were taught, yes. As of now? I wouldn't know because I'm not a child but with all of the SJW garbage happening if it still is it may not be soon.
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SJW, this is for a cord rated at 300 volts and that is water-resistant, right?
;)
james_s:
--- Quote from: magic on July 08, 2020, 07:44:04 am ---When you look at that latest video, it seems like the motivation was to make a show of him being a drug junkie. They probably thought it was very funny when he cried for his momma, but kinda unluckily this time he kicked the bucket while under one officer's knee and now a 2nd degree murder charge, oopsie.
That's not just "targeting" criminals, it's a deep kind of hatred for the pathological society he probably grew up in and total disregard for those who lack the strength and/or motivation to raise above the filth. It happens.
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You're referring to ONE specific case where I've yet to hear ANYONE defending what that police officer did. That was not what most police are doing, there are tens of thousands of police interactions with the community every day, you can't just pick out the one incident and use that as an example that all police are targeting people by race. Even that one incident you refer to, we don't know that the guy was targeted because of his race, at least I don't know, maybe there is information out there that I haven't seen. Regardless of why he did it, clearly it was wrong.
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