What do you honestly think of Black Lives Matter?

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What do you honestly think of Black Lives Matter?

  1. The moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers

    4 vote(s)
    3.6%
  2. Fully justified although they go too far sometimes.

    24 vote(s)
    21.4%
  3. Impossible to say

    1 vote(s)
    0.9%
  4. Unjustified although I understand where they're coming from.

    9 vote(s)
    8.0%
  5. Bunch of racist thugs.

    74 vote(s)
    66.1%
  1. fmw

    fmw Well-Known Member

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    You have no idea what systemic means.

    See above.
     
  2. Buri

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    no stats means all they did was write an opinion. We already knew the stats, it’s only fun when a social justice hero flies in to obfuscate.
     
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    I sourced what it means.
    policies and practices that exist throughout a whole society or organization, and that result in and support a continued unfair advantage to some people and unfair or harmful treatment of others based on race:
    - We must address the racial inequities and systemic racism that exist in our criminal justice system.
    - There were frequent claims of sexual harassment, gender inequality, and systemic racism at the tech giant.
    - The group challenged government inaction, political hypocrisy, and systemic racism while offering peace to a grieving community.



    And I sourced it is a practice in the US justice system to treat people differently based on race, with 6 sources who researched the data of how white people are treated vs black.
     
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  4. fmw

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    It isn't a system doing that. Systems stopped doing that in the 1960's. It is individuals doing that. Your sources don't know what they are talking about. Would it help if I explained that in a different language?
     
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    It's not "system racism" it's systemic racism.
    I gave the definition. Your explanation doesn't fit in it.
     
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    It is not a practice of the justice system. The justice system has no such policy. It is a practice of individual people. If you remove the word systemic I will agree with you and your sources. There certainly is racism. I'm not going to repeat myself again.
     
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    There is indeed no policy in the US justice system, but it is a practice that still happens systematically.
     
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    As I said, I am not going to repeat myself.
     
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    It's according to the source:
    policies and practices that exist throughout a whole society or organization, and that result in and support a continued unfair advantage to some people and unfair or harmful treatment of others based on race:
    - We must address the racial inequities and systemic racism that exist in our criminal justice system.


    You just got a different definition. And that's ok. I don't know where you got it from, but everybody else is using a different one.
     
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    Again, I am not going to repeat myself.
     
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    you said "It is not a practice of the justice system."... while it is a practice. There is scientific proof that there is.
    So you know... it is what it is.

    Something up that scientists are proving that there is a practice of systemic racism? You deny it without anything to back up how you conclude that there is no systemic racism going on. So that gives the impression you just deny it for the sake of keeping systemic racism in place.
     
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    Why are you having a problem with understanding that this conversation is over? I've answered your comments over and over. I'm done.
     
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    Ah. It has been over ever since I claimed there is scientific prove that there is systemic racism is a practice in the US justice system, and you just denied it in order to keep the status quo of not removing the systemic racism.

    Got it!

    And so why is it so hard to understand that when you reply like that,
    that I just in some way repeat what I said previously?
    You're done right? Not seeing it.
     
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    No because firstly I never do anything wrong and secondly if I did I wouldn't resist arrest?
     
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    Chauvin lynched a person who stopped breathing for the last 3 minutes of the 9 he was on top of him.
    "resisting" arrest ... while black.
     
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    Do you actually know what lynching is? You keep using that word hilariously, along with several others.
     
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    "Lynched"? Let me guess... English is neither your first, second, nor even third language...? :disbelief:
     
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    Can you tell me of one country where there is no racism ?
     
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    All this vacuous blather about 'systematic racism' just rolls right off the 'woke' faction's lips, but really, what SYSTEMATIC racism is there in our country?

    Is it actually no more than the nominal background 'disliking' between all the different races which, truthfully, exists everywhere in the world...?

    But the 'wokesters' like to keep on bouncing this 'ball' to keep White Americans feeling cowed with endless gullibility and guilt about crap that happened many decades ago....

    Too many verses... they need a new song. :lonely:
     
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    It's like how 'racism' morphs into 'institutional racism' when the cop who shot the black criminal turns out to also be black.

    Because it's always racism, even when it's not.

    Especially when it's not.
     
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    The statement? Black lives do matter. I agree with that statement. Of course they matter? Why wouldn't they?

    The movement? Absolute bullshit. Causes chaos division. Fear. Hate. **** em.
     
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    The BLM grift is grinding to a halt.

    'BLM's house of cards is starting to fall': Indiana AG says 'scam ...
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk › news › article-10470425

    Feb 2, 2022 — The Indiana attorney general slammed Black Lives Matter as a falling 'house of cards' before the activist group shut down all of its fundraising ...

    Black Lives Matter shuts down fundraising days after liberal ...
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com › news › black-li...

    Feb 2, 2022 — The move comes less than a week after a Washington Examiner investigation found that BLM has had no known leader in charge of its $60 million ...
     
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    What does that have to do with trying to end systemic racism?
     
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    I agree, and, from the beginning of all this ridiculous 'woke' nonsense of trying to make a criminal like George Floyd into some kind of 'saint', I've said, "ALL LIVES MATTER"! Yes, ALL LIVES MATTER -- and anything said to the contrary is bullshit!
     

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