Hi Qan,
My opinion is that racism is not genetic, nor is sexism, nor is any other ‘ism’. Why? Because the underlying issue at hand is that ‘isms’ are simply sweeping generalizations. And making sweeping generalizations is just intellectual laziness; it is ‘easier’ to make a sweeping generalization than it is to spend additional time and effort to fully explain both sides of an issue. You can get your point across in far fewer words with generalizations. It is like saying some day we will not use statistics (which are just numeric generalizations). Humans are lazy and making generalizations is a very convenient shortcut to making a point. Laziness and convenience has nothing to do with genetics.
To Others,
As far as USA sucking, apparently people today have virtually no understanding of history or facts. Here are some USA postage stamps from 1943-1944 honoring countries which the USA saved from the Nazis in WW2. If USA sucks so much, what would have happened to these countries if US had not joined in WW2?
And speaking of history, why is Black Lives Matter boycotting white owned businesses this year? Does BLM understand that over 100,000 white people died in the Civil War fighting to end slavery? My family owns a business and we have a relatives who fought and died fighting in the Union Army AND we employee a number of black people. Yet people will boycott our business just because of our skin color? Martin Luther King is spinning in his grave.
Want some facts? There are more Democrat millionaires than Republican millionaires. Fortune magazine ran an article which listed out the top 20 areas for blacks to live and own businesses. 17 of the 20 were all in Southern states, not anyplace close to the Democrat run northeast cities or areas. And all those ‘racist’ statues that some feel most be pulled down, do they realize that the vast majority of the statues are actual Democrats? And what is this stupidity with ‘cops shooting black people’? Here is a link to police shootings, the source is the Washington Post (obviously not a right leaning publication).
https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings
Download the CSV data and run the number yourself instead of relying on CNN and MSNBC. I filtered out just 2016 (last full year of data), filtered on ‘unarmed’, and filtered out white people. The total number of unarmed, non-white people shot by cops in 2016 was 26. 26 people! Not thousands. Not hundreds. But if you listen to the media and leftists they make it sound like cops are gunning down non-whites every hour (and out of those 26 we don’t know how many may have had a cell or other item in their hand thought to be a gun). Compare this to how many blacks have killed other blacks in just Chicago in 2016.
Eph
My opinion is that racism is not genetic, nor is sexism, nor is any other ‘ism’. Why? Because the underlying issue at hand is that ‘isms’ are simply sweeping generalizations. And making sweeping generalizations is just intellectual laziness; it is ‘easier’ to make a sweeping generalization than it is to spend additional time and effort to fully explain both sides of an issue. You can get your point across in far fewer words with generalizations. It is like saying some day we will not use statistics (which are just numeric generalizations). Humans are lazy and making generalizations is a very convenient shortcut to making a point. Laziness and convenience has nothing to do with genetics.
To Others,
As far as USA sucking, apparently people today have virtually no understanding of history or facts. Here are some USA postage stamps from 1943-1944 honoring countries which the USA saved from the Nazis in WW2. If USA sucks so much, what would have happened to these countries if US had not joined in WW2?
And speaking of history, why is Black Lives Matter boycotting white owned businesses this year? Does BLM understand that over 100,000 white people died in the Civil War fighting to end slavery? My family owns a business and we have a relatives who fought and died fighting in the Union Army AND we employee a number of black people. Yet people will boycott our business just because of our skin color? Martin Luther King is spinning in his grave.
Want some facts? There are more Democrat millionaires than Republican millionaires. Fortune magazine ran an article which listed out the top 20 areas for blacks to live and own businesses. 17 of the 20 were all in Southern states, not anyplace close to the Democrat run northeast cities or areas. And all those ‘racist’ statues that some feel most be pulled down, do they realize that the vast majority of the statues are actual Democrats? And what is this stupidity with ‘cops shooting black people’? Here is a link to police shootings, the source is the Washington Post (obviously not a right leaning publication).
https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-police-shootings
Download the CSV data and run the number yourself instead of relying on CNN and MSNBC. I filtered out just 2016 (last full year of data), filtered on ‘unarmed’, and filtered out white people. The total number of unarmed, non-white people shot by cops in 2016 was 26. 26 people! Not thousands. Not hundreds. But if you listen to the media and leftists they make it sound like cops are gunning down non-whites every hour (and out of those 26 we don’t know how many may have had a cell or other item in their hand thought to be a gun). Compare this to how many blacks have killed other blacks in just Chicago in 2016.
Eph
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