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4th August 2019, 12:50 AM | #121 |
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4th August 2019, 11:36 PM | #123 |
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Read the thread. It's strange to watch these mental gymnastics by non-Americans. They think by blaming "rednecks" for murders it's somehow "not racist." Case in point:
Despite how daft he is, I refuse to believe smartcooky (and others like him) don't know who commits the majority of murders in America. He tries to cover up his hatred by saying "rednecks" but his words show whom he really hates: black people. |
5th August 2019, 12:11 AM | #124 |
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Every group gets jokes about - politicians, "Hollywood liberals", every racial and religious group.
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5th August 2019, 12:20 AM | #125 |
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No, they don't. Common mistake - nobody wants to have anything to do with black *republicans*, in large part because grifters like Candace Owens and Rayon & Quartz make them look awful. Most black *conservatives* vote for democrats, since *republicans* have spent decades either ignoring or actively repelling them.
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5th August 2019, 01:33 AM | #126 |
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You might call me daft, but I'll call you simple minded.
The reasons for high and low crime rates are many and various; they are far more complex than your simplistic "white = good : black = bad" racism can address; and its almost certainly far too complex for someone like you to even begin to understand. Socio-economic conditions have more to do with high crime rates than race. The USA is an overtly racist society, and the fact that blacks have a higher crime rate in America than whites has a lot more to do with the attitudes and actions of whites than it has to to do with skin colour. |
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5th August 2019, 02:16 AM | #127 |
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I think everybody who has studied the research on the subject even a little knows the answer to that question - the strata of society with the least wealth. Income inequality is the best predictor of murder rates.
I'm sure that's what you were getting at. |
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5th August 2019, 02:34 AM | #128 |
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A few hundred homicides in big cities in the last few years and that's enough to say liberalism brings about death?
https://www.latimes.com/business/sto...refusal-deaths " the 22 mostly red states that refused to accept expansion starting in 2014 caused 15,600 unnecessary deaths among their residents. " I think Republicans are much better at enabling death to citizens than any liberals in the USA ever have. |
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5th August 2019, 05:18 AM | #129 |
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I'm sure it wasn't, but I'm also sure that you were having a sly dig
While I agree with the content of the link you posted, IMO, it is just one factor in a very complex sociological equation that is way beyond the understanding of benighted morons such as white nationalists, white supremacists, racists and bigots. |
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5th August 2019, 06:07 AM | #130 |
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Recent Scientific American article: The Internet Is a Cesspool of Racist Pseudoscience
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5th August 2019, 09:27 AM | #131 |
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Cite for this claim? Because I'm not aware of this phenomenon.
Meanwhile, this is what the white supremacist you cited in the OP has to say about black people:
Originally Posted by Steve Sailer
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5th August 2019, 10:53 AM | #132 |
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Yeah, Utah in general has almost no black citizens. Mostly white or Hispanic, I saw one black person growing up in Price--a former rodeo clown now confined to a wheelchair that our church helped regularly.
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Yeah, a town in the south that had no black residents..until the last couple of seasons.
To be fair, Andy Griffith tried to change that early on in the show,but not until the late 60's did it finally happen. ANyway, there is no such thing as a typical American small town. A small town in the South is a lot different then a small town in the Midwest or a small town in the West. |
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5th August 2019, 04:17 PM | #135 |
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Follow along please, you're all over the place. (You can't correctly identify who said what).
You said the US murder rate was high compared to New Zealand because "racist rednecks." You falsely accused a race of being prevalent murderers while tossing around racial slurs. And you think yourself as "not racist." Neo-nazi's do this same trick, swapping "tribes" Neo-nazi: "You know that tribe who owns the media and all the banks? Of course I'm talking about Samoans!" smartcooky: "You know those people responsible for 'USA gun violence?' Of course I'm talking about rednecks!" Smartcooky and neo-Nazi's are two peas in a pod! |
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This place just can't follow along a conversation. Please stop butting in to say random things with hyperlinks no one is going to read anyway. Smartcooky blames murders on "racist rednecks," indicating his poor understanding of US crime statistics. Why one race commits vastly more homicides than another is an entirely different topic. So far, smartcooky has not demonstrated he understands basic facts about the US. One thing at a time please.
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I said that only as a direct contradiction of your BS.
No, its exactly what YOU are doing; attack people for the BS the YOU are spouting while denying that you are spouting it. You probably learned that from your Dear Leader - he does it regularly. I know you better than you think; I've dealt with your sort all my life - you don't understand something but you can't bring yourself to admit that you don't understand, so you deflect, dodge, equivocate, obfuscate, evade, distract and then attack. Its no shame if you can't understand the complexity of socio-economics as it relates to crime rates; its a difficult subject to comprehend. I have a number of remedial sociology resources that sort of act like a "Sociology for Dummies"... just say the word. |
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5th August 2019, 06:15 PM | #139 |
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You said this in post #6, before I even made my first post in this thread. You are having great difficulty following along. This seriously has me concerned for your well-being.
Here it is, before making my first post in this thread, you falsely accused "rednecks" of being responsible for a high number of homicides. ....and you use racial slurs to show how "not racist" you are. I expect better from a 67 year old man. |
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Ethnic stereotypes are incredibly cliche. What do you expect from people with no intellectual curiosity? Of course they can't do anything but grok the same list of (supposed) character defects in each instance.
There is a class of persons who these behaviors correlate with: those on the lowest rungs of socioeconomic strata. So repressed minorities show evidence of their physical and physiological insecurity, which is then pointed out as evidence they deserve their lot in life. |
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Corporate America today is very Woke. The legacy Left still continues to give lip-service about all the dangers of big corporations, but their hearts aren't in it anymore.
There is a simple way to test this. 1) The cops are racist and they are stopping and harassing black people more frequently because of their ingrained prejudice towards blacks. 2) The cops are engaged in pro-active policing measures to prevent crimes from occurring in the first place. If pro-active policing or racial profiling(pick your euphemism or dysphemism) is ineffective and motivated only by racism, then when the police pull back from such a policy there won't be an uptick in the crime rate. For instance, if there was a police department that was prejudiced against the Amish and were always pulling them over in their little buggies and frisking them for weapons and so forth. Then the community decided to rise up and tell the police to back off from harassing the Amish, there would be no uptick in the Amish crime rate. So what happened after the success of Black Lives Matter in place like Chicago and Baltimore? The cops curtailed their pro-active policing measures and the crime right skyrocketed. This shows that their motivation was to prevent crimes from occurring in the first place. It was not to harass black people for no reason. Now if the crime rate did not surge, then you could make the case that their pro-active policing measures were racially discriminatory and ineffectual. But that did not happen. Gun violence is a politically correct term used by the Left. People are violent. Guns are an inanimate objects. The Left uses this term to absolve people of responsibility and to give the impression that there is some exogenous factor at work. They want people to think about "gun violence" in the same way people think about tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and floods. Some areas are more prone to hurricanes and some places are more prone to gun violence. It is a way to remove agency from the people. p.s. You don't need a Stop the Violence march in Mayberry now do you? As Candace Owens has stated, Democrats have never cared about black lives, only about black votes. What exactly have black people gained by voting 90% for Democrats for decades? Steve Sailer coined the term HBD for Human Biodiversity. These are the topics that he is interested in and writes about. He normally posts over 1,000 blog entries per year so he is quite prolific. I don't think he has even written on "white supremacy" which is largely just a pejorative used by people to avoid an honest debate. p.s. Recently he was wondering if the south Slavs are the most athletic white people. You asked what city do I think represents conservative ideals the best. I answered Provo, Utah. Now there are probably very white towns in places like Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. But you asked for conservative ideals, not liberal ones. It is possible they were saying these things because they were true at the time. The English and the Irish have had a long, though not always harmonious, history together. If you asked the people of England, from say the 16th to the 19th century, what they thought of the Irish, it would probably be quite derogatory. |
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Old USENET reference, I believe : http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/afw/#perth
Damn but I miss alt.usenet.kooks ... |
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