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Charlottesville protests thread
ultimamax:
--- Quote from: Drydess on August 13, 2017, 12:18:06 PM ---in the deep south maybe but black people are more often in a disproportionately higher rate of poverty just because of history as opposed to oppression, when it comes to any other area
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Also more statistics here
tl;dr black people are 3.7x likely to be arrested for marijuana possession despite marijuana use being roughly equal between black / white people, black people are 35% of drug arrests but 46% of drug convictions, and 51% of black people convicted of felonies are incarcerated compared to 38% of white people
Electrk.:
--- Quote from: Deus Ex on August 13, 2017, 09:30:12 AM ---Oh my god shut the forget up
Did you really just say that? White-passing? Really? What the forget is wrong with you guys? Why do you think like this?
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Even if he were blacker than night, they would still find a way to dismiss his viewpoint. It's all about "listen to black people's/women's/etc. stories and life experience" until a black person or a woman or whoever has a contradicting opinion. Then all of a sudden they find some bullstuff rationalization as to why they shouldn't listen to them.
It's how these people operate, which is why I don't bother seriously arguing with them anymore. It's pointless.
Master Matthew²:
--- Quote from: ultimamax on August 13, 2017, 03:39:49 AM ---You're white-passing
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You're dumb-assing
ultimamax:
--- Quote from: Electrk. on August 13, 2017, 12:33:53 PM ---Even if he were blacker than night, they would still find a way to dismiss his viewpoint. It's all about "listen to black people's/women's/etc. stories and life experience" until a black person or a woman or whoever has a contradicting opinion. Then all of a sudden they find some bullstuff rationalization as to why they shouldn't listen to them.
It's how these people operate, which is why I don't bother seriously arguing with them anymore. It's pointless.
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Actually, it's just "listen to black peoples/women's/etc. stories and life experience". A significant section of black people/women/etc. are people that experience oppression. Just because some have a "contradicting opinion" does not mean their experiences override the experiences of their peers of color/other women/etc. Socjus activism occurs because a pattern of systemic oppression is evident when you listen to oppressed people's experiences, of COURSE we should not expect black people or whoever else to operate as a hivemind that says "yes we're oppressed".
The existence of Milo Yiannapoulos does not change the fact that you can be fired for being gay in ~28 states. Similarly the existence of some dissent by non-white people doesn't mean structural racism doesn't exist.
Drydess:
-spent a bit posting an argument but i realise it's pretty dumb to argue against this considering i agree with the general principles that this enforces-