Spike
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Oh, I don't don't disagree with you, I just don't like the actual image, not the text. Rather than portray a reality that most people, particularly people in poor crime ridden areas shouldn't be cautious and respectful of the police, it portrays that the average upper-middle class black family should fear white police. If you look at the picture, they are dressed well, have nice furniture, not exactly the socio-economic class of black people that are getting shot in record numbers. The man that dresses and speaks like a hood rat has much, much more to fear than a man of the look and behaviour of someone like Will Smith. There are so many, many intertwining reasons this is happening and I think it's nearsighted to merely label it as 'institutionalised racism' (which I think is non-existent in today's society, apart from outliers like the Broadway show 'Hamilton' refusing white auditions).
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I live in Atlanta (second blackest city in America), I've literally never encountered a black person that feared for their lives or the lives of their family because of the police. I've had many black people tell me they've been profiled by the police, or been pulled over by the police because they were black, but never an actual issue with police. Not saying it doesn't happen. That image is total nonsense and perpetuates the myth of the scary white police officer killing blacks for no reason. Yes people do get killed but not because they are black it is because police are fucking insane in this country. A few weeks of training, no mental illness checks, no trigger discipline and a concept of 'my safety over others' so they pull the trigger almost always over other option. To top it off most of these shooting happen in shitty areas with high crime and gangs, making the police even more trigger happy and on edge. I don't sympathise with the police because it's their job to be out in the danger zones but most of them don't give a shit about what colour someone is and just want to get home safe at the end of the day, because that is unfortunately what they are taught to do. Police shoot everyone and unfortunately they shoot black men at a higher rate because of the reality that black men kill each-other at a higher rate. I'd like to see how any of us would handle working the beat in a shit hole like Inglelood or Lyons in Chicago. I'd be sweating bullets all day because I know for a fact around any corner could be a crime scene. I'll tell you a black guy in East St Louis will have a higher chance of death than a black guy in Beverly Hills, it isn't just race, it's location.
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http://www.dailywire.com/news/7264/5-statistics-you-need-know-about-cops-killing-aaron-bandler https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/07/11/arent-more-white-people-than-black-people-killed-by-police-yes-but-no/?utm_term=.68e408bed438 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/13/why-a-massive-new-study-on-police-shootings-of-whites-and-blacks-is-so-controversial/ http://www.nationalreview.com/article/440361/police-shootings-black-white-media-narrative-population-difference http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-police-shootings-race-20160711-story.html
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Inconsolable fucking bullshit in other words.
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You are right but I don't know how else to explain it.
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Pretty much. I don't think it's is the only underlying cause but definitely a huge part of what drives us to strive for bigger and better things. If not for ourselves but for our family, if not for our family, for our larger group (race, social class, friends, etc). I don't think selfishness is necessarily a negative trait, but it's definitely a trait that has allowed humans to realise altruism through self-perspective. For instance, in Jewish morality charity isn't just for the receiver, it is also for the giver; but the kicker is everyone is meant to be charitable, from those with nothing to everything. The giver becomes a better person for understanding that they have something that someone else needs, the cycle is meant to continue through the receiver. Only when humans realise what they want and need through selfishness can they be truly altruistic. The experienced hobo that shares his can of food with another because he understands what it is like to be a hobo, to understand the selfishness of the situation, is a truly admirable human.
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Mainly because I believe one's family is an extension of the self, no it is an integral part of it. Of course the nurturing of family against neglecting family are two type of selfishness, one is an acceptance of the human nature of nurture versus the ego prioritising itself for other reasons.
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In my book selfishness extends to family or group. It is selfish to put the needs of your family above others. Ergo the human nature of ensuring a legacy of family is selfish by default.
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Looks like you didn't read my second post as we have different definitions of selfishness and what constitutes the 'self'. Mainly because I didn't state any of the points you are refuting and are arguing against another person's argument. To start with, I said that 'humans are selfish in nature', not that selfishness is the only nature of humans, just because I didn't state that humans have altruism by nature doesn't mean I stated that they do not. Absence doesn't equate truth. You filled in the gaps yourself.
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The self is everything, it motivates altruism, family, love, hate, greed, envy, joy, rejection, and acceptance. Without selfishness there would be no charity.
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A Scot that weighs his own turds.
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Don't deny self-preservation.
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Some people from failed states bring failed state issues into a their new nation. People are selfish and always look towards how they can help themselves, not society.
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It's why a lot of people are pro-immigration. They don't realise that brain-drains affect a country adversely and they don't realise that nations have limited resources and can't handle massive population influx. Take your ancestral country for example; would it be better off with a doctor in Mexico, or a doctor in USA sending money to their family in Mexico. The latter is fantastic because there is a very skilled individual working hard, the latter is fantastic because it provides a higher income to a family that otherwise wouldn't. Really what is the better pay-off? Immigration is a far more complex issue than a lot of people realise and simply packing bags and leaving can often be terrible.
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ANELKALOUDA WAS THE ORIGINAL YOU PLEBE
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The wall is ultimately a stupid idea but at least it'll bring a small economic bubble with all the manufacturing jobs and manual labour needed to build it. At the end of the day if it helps foster in more legal immigration over illegal immigration, then I suppose it has done it's job.
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That site looks entirely East-Asian. Looks like you are guilty of what you were criticising people for earlier. People have an idea of what a 'Mexican' is and you have an idea of what an 'Asian' is. Epicanthic eyes, black hair and yellowish-skin. Not that anyone else doesn't. There is no difference, this isn't a competition. Both sides have sickening people. What does it matter if one side has a leader that has indirectly roused violence versus a side that is violent by nature? Nothing, the ends are the same, the means are nothing.
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You cannot make a post like this without posting both sides of the coin http://www.cbsnews.com/news/you-voted-donald-trump-yelled-man-beaten-chicago-streets/ The comparison of a Facebook or Twitter post has nothing on actual video evidence. The basis of that article is someone's integrity and anyone can make a false claim on the internet. You shouldn't believe everything everyone says and what the hell is 'Next Shark'? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/10/women-in-hijabs-on-2-campuses-say-they-were-attacked-by-men-invoking-donald-trump/ If I were to make a post on social media about being attacked for supporting Trump (white male) versus my significant other (East-Asian female) making a post about being attacked by Trump supporters, who'd you believe first?
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And that bold statement is a symptom of the latter. The sheer arrogance to assume the rationale upperhand is why the left is like this. Looks like even you Choo, one of the most level headed people on here is victim to what the left has become.
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That's a fair statement and I could never tell you how to feel about it. You must understand though, coming from Australia there has been a distinct movement to give Indigenous Australian Peoples their autonomy and self-realisation. They've fought tooth and nail to have their culture and heritage recongnised and respected, to not acknowledge them and lump them into the rest of Australians as a 'blanket-race' would be disrespectful. Of course, they are Australians nationals like myself but their heritage as the Indigenous Peoples of Australia comes first. So you I hope you can understand my thinking on this subject, I'm not sure about how Indigenous Mexicans feel or how they have been treated historically. It is the same for Blacks, Asians and Italians. Their are many different Black peoples across the world and I'm sure many like to be recognised as their people. Maybe not in America where the heritage trails have run thin to the point of ambiguity but I'm sure that a Nigerian man and a South-African man would like to be recognised as a different people with different heritage, culture and customs. Same for Asians, my missus is Filipino-American, but she is vastly different culturally to Koreans, Turks, Israelites, Indians and near every other nation in Asia. Personally I just feel the huge blanket-terms for races being applied to just one race is a little racist in itself. Then again racial classification is such a shady subject as you say, in some cases it is a sense of independance and price, and others it is just abuse. I mean people assume that Australians are tanned English people but their are many people living in Australia these days. Greeks, Croats, Lebanese, Indigenous, Anglo, Celtic, Dutch, French, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Micronesian, etc.
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It had already been several years hadn't it? I can speak for the man but sometime it's better and easier to bury the hatchet. Besides, it speaks a lot more about the DOJ than Trump. I'm not trying to justify it all, just trying to look at all perspectives. At the end of the day, you have to ask yourself, is it an honest sentiment of racism? or just a manipulative political tool? Also you criticise middle-American that has probably left his home town three times in their lives but you have to understand that cocktail sipping New Yorkers, Californians and other urbanites know literally nothing about America outside of their cities. It goes both ways, my friend.
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Innocent until proven guilty, I'm afraid. This is America and that is a fact. It doesn't come to my head, nor anyone that is well-informed. Most illegals fly into the country on visas. Well, from my experience I'd wager I've seen Aboriginals than you and the comparison isn't there in my eyes. I could pick an Aboriginal out.
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Or you know, illegal immigrants. That discrimination lawsuit lost, no admission of guilt. Indigenous Australians look nothing like sub-saharan Africans, save skin colour.
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Interesting but for me a kidney transplant and an abortion is a false equivalency. One is the process of extending a life (through transplant) and the other is the creation of life (through birth). One is death to inactivity, while the other is death due to activity. I also disagree with the statement 'life begins at viability outside of the womb'. If that were the case then disable peopled that cannot live without care-takers should be allowed to killed by their caretakers. This for me, would also have to be applicable to any living person that cannot live without the support of another. Besides you wouldn't terminate a comatose patient you knew would awaken within a few months, so why terminate a child? I have also never read of a medical emergency that uses abortion. I have only read about induced labour and c-sections. Most abortions, from what I know (in the rich, western world) are because they are an inconvenience to the parents. I've nothing against the woman that terminates a fetus' life because she was raped or molested, or even if the child has severe handicaps that would prevent a 'normal' life. For instance, I'd hate to see a child with Down's Syndrome born to older parents. The parents pass away during the early life of the child and the child has to become someone's else burden for life.
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Mexican isn't a race or ethnicity, it is a nationality. If a colony like Mexico has a blanket 'race' then it applies to America, Australia, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, etc. I can safely say that I'm a national Australian, but definitely not an Indigenous Australian. Isn't it disrespectful towards the actual Indigenous peoples of Mexico and those with European and other South-American ancestry just to lump them into a 'pile'? Trump is not racist, he is jingoist, he doesn't care about race but nationality. I find the ignorance of people that obfuscate nationality and race quite annoying. @iseah100 What do you think about this assessment?