@matrix The thing it **is** seen among other poor people, and the correlation is actually rather high unlike what you suggest. It is just that it is only one part of a problem that includes many factors (And yes fatherlessness may be one of them). Clearly there is more than just the fact that they are poor that contributes to the issue, but that i part of it.
Life skills are generational. When you make people slaves and then try to reverse course on that the lack of education will be passed down generation after generation.
To claim that they systemically have it easier, which I'm not saying is true but even if we assume it is, doesnt really make your case at all. Having it "easy" isnt going to reset the centuries of oppression whose effects will continue to be passed down for some time.
Its not about slavery. The overwhelming oppression of blacks lasted well beyond slavery. Even if you could argue direct racism is gone that isnt until very recent times at best (and you'd be wrong at even that).
Nope, wrong on all points and not at all what I said.
I said that the legacy of oppression does have an effect, but I never said I could not provide any modern day examples of racism. I did however claim that racism is not reduced to rights, if I shoot you in the face simply because I hate black people, that is racism, and it is still racism even if that black person has all the same rights as me.
How so? 1) I never claimed blacks cant be or arent racist towards whites 2) not all race-on-other-race crime is automatically explicitly due to race and therefore a racist act.
If I shoot a black person in the face to steal his shoes then it isnt racism just because I'm white. If I do it simply because I hate back people then it is.
The bias in the media to ignore racism towards whites and exagerate it or assume it when towards blacks is very real. I wont argue that.
That still doesnt contradict my underlying argument however. It just means the media, as usual, is so monumentally bias you cant use it to discern anything useful about the situation. You actually have to bother analyzing the data yourself. When I do that the fact remains that blacks are very much the target of racism (though not the only target) and that this effects a lot of the problem. Just because it is far less exaggerated than the media likes you to think doesnt suddenly mean it is non-existant either.
"Yet you don't cite actual examples of current, on-going structural "racism" against blacks,"
Because I never claimed there was on-going structural racism towards blacks, so why would I need to demonstrate it.
In fact the only time i even used the word structural in this debate at all was to remind people that I didnt specify I was talking about structural racism and that I used the term "racism" without qualifiers intentionally so.
Keep in mind just because I didnt explicitly state there is institutional/structural racism does not imply I am saying there is none. I simply made no assertions on that point either way. So yes, feel free to hold me to the fact that I did not express my opinion on that point.
"Thank you, I'll certainly hold you to that. So if you understand you right, your claim is that the effects of all-encompassing structural pro-black preferential treatment are somehow nullified and even rendered vastly insufficient by vague, undefined "social" racism? "
No you do not understand me correctly, no I did not say that (or at least did not intend that to be the interpretation). Affirmative action is not "nullified" by social racism at all, or any form of racism. Its very nature, and even more so how it is implemented, makes it ineffective, even if there were a lack of racism, at addressing the problems we face. Since it does not have a positive effect on the problem then there is nothing to "nullify" to begin with.
Yes, I oppose affirmative action and race-based preferential treatment. I also explicitly stated so earlier in the thread already. Read first before slinging mud maybe?
@ChristiJunior All expectations of civilized conduct are structurally racist against blacks because they’re not a civilized race by default. Nigs gonna nog.
Muted due to adding nothing useful to the conversation, trolling, and being explicitly racist.
Not going to invest time reading posts from a person who adds no value and whose intention is to in fact subtract value from a conversation.
@freemo Please name one majority black country that is a nice place to live.
@ThreeOneThreeChris >but a few of them are stable to a degree that the present US is not.
This was my favorite part of this post. I believed it with zero fact checking or whatever.
@freemo even the depths of the Mariana trench aren't deep enough to express my profound disappointment in you.
@ChristiJunior @matrix @Rudolf_von_Goldenbaum
Welcome to mute for being indistinguishable from a 6 year old both intellectually and in terms of maturity.
Thanks for playing.
The thing about an argument being unfalsifiable is that it in no way implies it is any less true, it just means it hard to prove it is true.
That said I wouldn't say its unfalsifiable, but it is admittedly much harder to prove true than most things.
Because the UK and Canada do just as shitty a job addressing the problem as the USA does.
Never said that either. Just because there are plenty of external factors in no way implies there arent internal factors int he black communities which arent helping either.
No history of slavery? Seriously, you think the UK didnt engage in slavery? Hate to break it to you but all of europe engaged in slavery of black people including during the time slaves were common in america, give or take a few decades.
@freemo While that certainly plays a role, the difference is so big and not seen among other poor people that it isn't a good explanation.
The biggest contributor is in my opinion fatherlessness.