Where's the Thread on "George Floyd" ????

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gerryh said:
What it comes down to is that there isn't a single "race" that has its hands clean when it comes to the slave trade. This especially is true for "blacks". Different African tribes and nations have profited greatly through the slave trade. They sold captured Africans to Arab muslims for 13 centuries before taking on Europeans as customers for 3 more centuries. Far more died making the trek north across the Sahara over the centuries than those that died in slaver ships crossing the atlantic.
Certain north american first Nations practiced slavery before European contacts aswell as the Aztec and Incan cultures of south and central america.
To blame "whitey" for slavery is racist in and of itself.
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To blame "whitey" for slavery in the United States is accurate in and of itself. Throw up as much dust as you like, every single law creating and imposing slavery and formal, legal, mandatory discrimination in the United States was passed by an all-white legislature, signed by a white president, and when challenged, upheld by an all-white Supreme Court.

In case you'd forgotten, that's the subject here. George Floyd and racial discrimination in the United States. All this other shit is just Moosie and his ilk trying to justify slavery, discrimination, and police brutality against Blacks in the U.S., or desperate, limp-dick attempts to divert attention.
 
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What the f-ck makes you think I dont?
That kind of bullshit is going to get you turfed.
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If I can't have an opinion without this threat hanging over my head and only mine, then you may as well just go ahead and do it.
 
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If I can't have an opinion without this threat hanging over my head and only mine, then you may as well just go ahead and do it.
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This is. . . phenomenal.

OK, I'm not sure why I have to say this, but here goes.

I acknowledge, on behalf of all people who don't use sunscreen, that no melanin-deficient person on this board ever owned, trafficked in, or received service from, a slave.

I further acknowledge that water is wet, up is not down, and the sun rises in the east.
 
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Tecumsehsbones said:
This is. . . phenomenal.
OK, I'm not sure why I have to say this, but here goes.
I acknowledge, on behalf of all people who don't use sunscreen, that no melanin-deficient person on this board ever owned, trafficked in, or received service from, a slave.
I further acknowledge that water is wet, up is not down, and the sun rises in the east.
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Of course, none of the above should be considered racist.

Melanin deficient? How is that any different than cracker, whitey, pale face, etc.
 
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I have deleted my post, and quit myself of its words; instead of it, I recall this aya in the Quran:

َQuran 4: 85, which means:
(Whoso intercedes with a good intercession a will have a portion of b its [reward],
and whoso intercedes with a bad intercession c will have a share of its [evil] d;

for God, surely, punishes according to everything e in due time. f)
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85 a Which agrees with the religion: by preserving the right of a Muslim: to avert the harm from him, or to benefit him.

85 b i.e. because of it.

85 c Which is contrary to the religion, by which to free a criminal; so that he intercedes for him and save him from the prescribed retaliation.

85 d i.e. he will have a share of his guilt and crime.

85 e i.e. of the evil work and intercession.

85 f i.e. sooner or later, He will take to account and punish according to the evil work and intercession.

The interpretation by Mohammed-Ali Hassan Al-Hilly
http://quran-ayat.com/pret/4.htm#a4_85
quran-ayat.com/pret/4.htm#a4_85
 
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London's Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan launches anti-British campaign against national landmarks

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2eBqvlgeRpo&t=65s

Mahyar Tousi, Mayor of London 2021

 
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In 2015, Ohio heavy metal band Mushroomhead declared that Black Lives Matter are a terrorist organisation.

They got a lot of flack for it. But maybe they are right.
 
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There are certain advantages to being black.

You're less likely to be killed by the police, for a start.
 
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Tecumsehsbones said:
That was one status Black people could hold in the United States from 1776-1865. It was also the only status that White people could not hold.
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I just love it when useless pricks can play their word games, not call it racist, but others doing the same thing are labeled racist.
 
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gerryh said:
I just love it when useless pricks can play their word games, not call it racist, but others doing the same thing are labeled racist.
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Language is powerful, flexible, and slippery. I'd say racist language falls into one (or more) of three categories (and one that's not racist):

1. Generalizations that are false and overbroad. "Black people are ugly." "Indians refuse to work."
2. Terms traditionally used to dehumanize a particular "racial" group. "Ni**er." "Spic." "Redskin." "Savage."
3. Terms not traditionally used to dehumanize a particular "racial" group, but overbroad, and intended to be insulting to a particular "racial" group. "Karens." "Crackers." "Welfare mothers." These can be very tricky. You need to pick up from context whether the speaker means "all mothers who receive public assistance" or are codewording for Black mothers who receive public assistance or Black women generally.

Not racist: language and terms that are race-specific, but true and insulting only to delicate flowers. "Blacks make less money than Whites (though I'd prefer "Blacks tend to make less money than Whites." "Melanin-deficient." "Not gonna sell a lot of sunscreen in this crowd."

Personally, I don't get too fashed about racism. Stupid's stupid, and racist is just one form of stupid. My problem is with invidious discrimination. Unfortunately, racism a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for invidious discrimination.

As far as I'm concerned, racism also has a power gradient. Just as I don't get real upset at a four-year old threatening to beat me up, I'm not terribly concerned about racist language from relatively powerless groups. Their ability to harm me is limited.
 
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Tecumsehsbones said:
To blame "whitey" for slavery in the United States is accurate in and of itself. Throw up as much dust as you like, every single law creating and imposing slavery and formal, legal, mandatory discrimination in the United States was passed by an all-white legislature, signed by a white president, and when challenged, upheld by an all-white Supreme Court.

In case you'd forgotten, that's the subject here. George Floyd and racial discrimination in the United States. All this other shit is just Moosie and his ilk trying to justify slavery, discrimination, and police brutality against Blacks in the U.S., or desperate, limp-dick attempts to divert attention.
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And every law banning slavery was crafted and enacted by white men . Go figure .
 
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