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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
"Healed" implies that the people with racist attitudes will be reconciled with society. I just don't see that happening on a large enough scale to make a difference.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Things like this are easier to talk about if you just accept that there are always going to be people who will hold hateful views. I feel like I've never gotten riled up by these kind of things as much because I've never had the assumption that we're going to "evolve" past it.
It's why stuff like people going "It's [insert year] how is racism still a thing" never meshed with me. It always came off like looking down on the previous generation and giving your own too much credit. I mean, apparently every generation looks down on the one before it, and vice versa, but still.
edited 25th Sep '16 11:02:06 AM by LSBK
Seems like people are getting confused about various definitions of "racism". When we talk about millennials being less racist, we are talking about them not voting for racist policies/parties. Not about them not displaying subconscious biases, which they do (as that WAPO article demonstrates - with some caveats).
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanSo I've been looking at the demographic breakdowns of recent polls, and is it just me or is Trump getting somewhat more black voters than Romney did?
It makes a certain amount of sense, I suppose. Trump's message to the black community was, when you strip away his constantly shifting and extremely vague "policy" proposals, "the democrats have failed you. I have the answers, vote for me and I'll fix your problems." If he wasn't running on the Republican ticket, I could absolutely see that succeeding to a frightening degree.
Obviously there's no way he's getting a breakthrough, especially at this point, but it also looks like (as many predicted) that Clinton's share of the black vote is down quite a bit relative to Obama.
edited 25th Sep '16 12:36:15 PM by CaptainCapsase
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See I don't hate black people I just have problems with black culture.
I've heard that one from the tolerant young liberal type before and I'm still not sure how to respond to it outside of just walking away while sighing.
Where'd you get that data from? Fairly certain he's still polling at fourth in new york and cali.
edited 25th Sep '16 12:38:40 PM by thatguythere47
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?Hmm I see what you mean, checking through a few I see him hovering around 5%-8% while romney had a hard time breaking 5 in some states. Unless I see more of a trend developing I'll just call it a fluke for now.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?Aren't most voters low information voters.
@Captain Capsase That's what I thought. He's allowed to ban foreigners from coming to the US. He's allowed to deport illegal immigrants. The question is, whether he should and I believe both proposals are unproductive and cold hearted. Looking at the Founding Fathers and most Presidents in the US, kost of them would agree with Trump on a number of issues, but that certainly doesn't mean they're right. They came from a more bigoted and hateful period.
edited 25th Sep '16 1:23:51 PM by 940131
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Most african americans vote D because the republican party is racist, and that's really hard to ignore if you are the target of said racism.
So the fact that Obama had a D next to his name got him most of the black vote from the word go - the color of his skin just added a couple of percent on top of that.. and probably boosted turnout some. That last couple of percent isn't an advantage Clinton has.
Source: "Osmosis from being on the interwebs" ;)
I find it frightening how much I know about us politics
edited 25th Sep '16 2:07:36 PM by Izeinsummer
Because discrimination is a hell of a lot more than education and wealth.
There's a lot of laws on the books, cops on beat, and politicians who are just straight up out to hurt black people. And specifically black people. Educated black people. Poor black people. Rich black people. Uneducated black people. All of them.
edited 25th Sep '16 6:59:02 PM by LeGarcon
Oh really when?This was Nixon's aid, who had the balls to admit it! Now imagine how many politicians at the local level are trying to keep it on the down low?
edited 25th Sep '16 6:50:48 PM by TacticalFox88
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I'm questioning why that would make this demographic more resistant to demagoguery. Like seriously, I could absolutely see someone like Trump coming from the left (in regards to their virtually nonexistent policy positions) and doing extremely well among blacks; in a certain sense he's right: democrats have failed them. The GOP doesn't have the answers and neither does Trump, but people of all stripes are very susceptible to suggestion and crowd mentality.
edited 25th Sep '16 7:12:57 PM by CaptainCapsase

It can be healed, it is just going to take a few generations, and when the bigots to die of natural causes.
edited 25th Sep '16 10:16:01 AM by AngelusNox
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