Why racism truly doesn't exist.

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  1. Bow To The Robots

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    Who would you rather meet in a dark alley?
     
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    Oh FFS are you a third-grader? Jew is not a race. And it's melanin. Melatonin makes you sleep, it doesn't color your skin.
     
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    The fact that the British government established Saudi Arabia (South Arabia), Iraq, Iran, Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Kuwait, and Bahrain are well-known. As to Saudi Arabia and oil, yes it is true that is was developed by America companies, but this does not exclude British/English influence of the politics in Saudi Arabia. As is the case, all former colonies have a connection to their “former” colonial masters; in other words, Britain established it, Britain controls it. There were other European imperial nations involved, but I am specifically focused on England.
     
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    Jews are not a race of people, They are a religious sect of the Caucasian/White race. This is not only a historical fact but a genetic fact as well. Sure there are differences within the Caucasian race that are attributed to pigmentation, which is a derivative of melanin content, but this does not preclude one from belonging to the Caucasian race. I give you Spaniards from Spain, Italians from Southern Italy and Sicily, Caucasians from what is called the Middle East and India, as examples of melanin content not being and exclusionary factor in genetic classification.
     
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    Melatonin makes you sleep, melanin gives pigmentation.

    Source: http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-melanin-and-melatonin/
     
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    Sorry but if you are going to post something it is your responsibility to verify it. Not my responsibility to do your work for you.
     
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    Believe the first big attack was by the Bush administration invading Iraq. Why?
     
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    Believe the expression is chicken hawk.
     
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    In other words, it is my job to convince you against your will? Hardly.
    You can accept it, reject it or verify for yourself- and since most here turn around and question verification on anything they don't want to believe, it's just better that you do it your own way, and exclude all those who plot to deceive you.

    That is much of the problem in our society today. Everything is someone else's responsibility.
    Take some for yourself.
     
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    Your sarcasm demeans you.
     
  11. Professor Peabody

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    Like proving what you say isn't made up?
     
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    So does talking so lightly about carpet bombing innocent human beings.
     
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    Racism doesn't exist?

    thats as stupid as saying property taxes are interest on a loan.
     
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    hahaahaa!!!

    the Muslim Arabs, Kurds, and others couldn't stop begging the British and French to help the Allies defeat the Ottoman Empire.

    learn some history before you talk, bro.
     
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    Like your questioning everybody elses word??
    Thinking that you, above the rest, are such that everything needs to be proved to you to be considered>
    You must be way out there on the lib/progressive plank. That's the way they think. Insult everyone, then demand they prove what you think ins't accurate.
    Opinions of such people have no value in honest discussion- you get zero credibility and respect from me. . Go away.
     
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    That proof should be issued when the statement is made. People make up stuff on these boards all the time. Or as Ronald Reagan so aptly put it ............

    "Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so."

    - Ronald Reagan, Rendezvous with Destiny, October 27, 1964


    Sorry you can't see that people that are adamant about not backing up their claims are usually too lazy and full of all kinds of nonsensical hot gas.
     
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    I'm not liberal. I don't post things like that I don't have a source for. People usually believe what THEY verify- but question the verification others provide.
    Now, you can assume that everyone but you is a liar- that's up to you.
    Or, if there is not proof to your personal requirement- IGNORE IT.
    When you dispute it on the basis that is hasn't been proven to you, you are trying to say they are obligated to get your approval.
    Most people who are interested in something that doesn't come with sworn testimony simply ask if you can post a link to it....

    Has to do with civility, good manners, things like that.

    Now you have either checked the story from the three links I provided, or you haven't if you are satisfied or not, it makes no difference to me. This is wasted time.
     
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    Do you suppose that you have intentionally distorted the entire point rather than address it with balance?
    Do you believe that contributes anything constructive at all?

    Or- does that not make any difference to you.
     
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    A racist is not about not liking black skin because it is black skin. It is about stereotyping all people with black skin because of some reason or excuse. You can find a racist by pointing to a random black person and asking why they don't like him. The response will be about crime rates, culture, attitude towards cops and authority. If you do this to a non-racist he will respond that he doesn't really know if there is anything wrong with the person because he doesn't know him.
     
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    Like it or not, we do have a reality that covers almost all of our logic that does associate risk with groups. While it's not individually fair to a member of that group, it can be- at least to a given person's perception or experience- relevant to the group.

    Some here immediately discount a story because of which news service published it.
    Some people wouldn't buy a given brand car, because they or someone they knew had bad experiences with them.
    Some people won't get near a specific breed of dog or type of animal for the same reasons.
    Blacks often presume the motives of white people are hostile because they are white.

    My understanding or racism has always been that the concept was one of believing a race was genetically inferior to others. Just as Hitler claimed that "Aryan" blood was superior to all others, and that included all non-Aryan people. That's a blanket judgment that has no foundation whatsoever.

    The statistics tend to support a lot of the behavioral claims. I would say that is cultural. At the same time, if you look at the levels of criminal and genocidal activity that is common in Africa, you can see that this goes back a long ways, and is still strong today. The background or culture of violence is old.

    My point is that discrimination on race alone has no basis in fact; it is invalid prejudice. However, to suspect that any individual who is part of a group may be likely to be characteristic of that group does indeed have a basis in fact. Personally, I don't see much today that appears to be true racism (based solely on a belief of inferiority). However the association of group identity and perceived risk or expected conduct is widespread. Good people do get classified because of the group they are part of. Any group- political, religious, color or nationality. It's individually inaccurate, but in the composite does have a basis.

    We are what we make ourselves to be. There will always be people that do not see us or do not value who we are. In the same way, like it or not- the groups we are part of earn their own reputation. For example, I have business contacts in many countries and frequently talk with clients around the world. The opinions of who Americans are is not very complimentary- we are a group; one that many feel deserves no respect. One man told me for example, that "Americans think the rest of the world is made up of third world nations".

    As members of groups, which we all are- whether it be a race or a nationality- we all contribute to the way we will be seen and judged by others. I would hope that all of us would behave in a way that enhanced both our personal and group reputations.
     
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    Errrrm, shucks I think I was agreeing with you.
     
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    No your responsibility is to educate yourself by making a bit of effort rather than just parroting idiot news sources. Only a fool takes FOX as a news source when it is really just an echo chamber for the under educated right wingers.
     
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    And- you just pointed out that you reject anything from Fox News without consideration. Thus- go to your own trusted anti-trump liberal/progressive hog trough, and see if it's also in a place whose pitch you believe without question. Don't bother to consider anything factual, a wise person knows judgment should be based on the political bend of the source. An echo chamber like CNN, the choice for liberal left-wingers who think they are educated and believe so much that is simply hogwash.

    If the zombie apocalypse comes to pass- the liberals will survive.

    See Mr Kettering's quote below.
     
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    Fox News was fake news back in the Irak War days. Now Fox is starting to make a lot of sense these days, and it's CNN & co that are fake news.

    You're being sectarian. The truth doesn't care about your ideological bias.
     

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