Comments by "Charles Eye" (@TheCharleseye) on "10 Most Racist States in America. #1 is shocking." video.

 @100Stratusfiedx Most of New York City is very segregated, too.
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Voter ID is equally racist to requiring ID to buy a firearm. Either it is okay to require ID to exercise a Constitutional right, or it is not. Both sides have some explaining to do on this subject.
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I've been told that my whole life, no matter where in the US I live. Apparently, the skin I was born with makes me an "evil colonizer" who needs to give the little bit of money I have away and go "back" to Europe (even though I've never been to Europe). That kind of racism doesn't show up in these statistics, though.
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@salkoharper2908 Why are you building a strawman? I never said any of that. I responded to OP's anecdote with one of my own and made commentary about such things not affecting statistics. Get off the cross, we need the wood.
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Their historical racism is primarily against Hispanincs. That doesn't count.
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@liberatedentrepreneur149 Sure, okay. Harlem, Spanish Harlem, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Chinatown...these are all super diverse areas, right? GTFOH.
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@thepearlswirl A place can be both diverse and racist. In my experience, the two go hand in hand.
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Therefore, it's constitutional to require ID to buy, own, and carry a gun? They're both Constitutional rights. They should be held to the same standards. However, Red States and Blue States seem to want to apply opposing hypocrisy to these issues.
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Inb4-> _iT's NoT tHe SaMe! HoW dArE yOu!?! This is the Internet. It's the largest, most complex connection of human beings and their experieces in history. There is no room for nuance here.
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So? How is one lynching statistically relevant?
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@laurie7689 Swing and a miss, Laurie. The law requiring you to show ID and do a background check when you buy a gun through an FFL is a Federal law. Either way, you failed to address the premise of my argument, entirely - which is that both sides have a double-standard when it comes to requiring ID to exercise a Constitutional right. I guess that's strike two. Would you care for another?
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It's definitely hard to commit a hate crime against someone who isn't even there. As it turns out, swinging your fist at nobody while yelling racial slurs is not, in fact, a hate crime. It's just crazy.
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Santa Barbara, California has skinheads, too (actual ones, not just the "Everyone who disagrees with me" kind).
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Agreed. People need ID to apply for/collect disability. To claim POC can't get ID is to claim that the average POC is less capable than someone who is actually disabled.
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I agree. Those same people should be able to walk into a gun shop and buy a firearm to defend themselves from young, strong, white devils. Sadly, they can't. White people made sure they couldn't a long time ago, by requiring everyone to have an ID in order to do that. For the sake of ideological consistency, would you like to explore methods of making voter ID laws more fair...or repeal the Federal law requiring ID for firearm purchases? Either we can require ID to exercise our rights... or not.
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If you think Kentucky is a racist State, you should visit New York or California. You'd be blown away at how people in these "tolerant" States treat each other.
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Of course it is. Just like firearm purchase ID laws. They were designed to keep black people from legally obtaining firearms. The Black Panthers scared the crap out of white people, so those white people started coming up with ways to reduce the number of black people who could own guns. It worked so well that they've now decided to apply it to voting (and since so many States support it for guns, it has a leg to stand on in the courts). If you can require an ID for one constitutional right, you can require ID for another. It's called precedence. Racist, systemic, precedence.
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Do you feel the same about requiring ID to buy a gun? The Left wants me to have to show ID to buy a gun but not to vote. The Right wants me to have to show ID to vote but not to buy a gun. They're both Constitutional rights. Whatever is fair and just for one applies to the other, too. Ooh! I know! What if I carry a gun when I go to vote in a Red State? How about if I wear an "I voted" sticker as proof of citizenship when I go to buy a gun in a Blue State? Will those meet the burden of proof for both sides of the hypocrisy coin?
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@salkoharper2908 More strawmanning? Again, I never said anything about any of that. Maybe try reading what people write, rather than inserting your own nonsense into their comments. You won't look nearly as ignorant that way. I understand it's really trendy to assign people to some extreme whenever they say something you find objectionable but it's time for everyone to grow up and get over that nonsense. It has gotten old. It's time for nuanced discussion to come into fashion (though, I know those make people's heads hurt from all of the actual thinking that is required).
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@thepearlswirl You take it too personally. They don't actually hate you. They hate what they think they know about you because of your skin color. It happens to everyone and it doesn't have anything to do with who we are. Ironically, racism is one thing that knows no cultural bounds.
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That's why there's so little racism. Scratch the surface and you'll find a lot of class-based bigotry, though. That's the actual root of racism. People have an innate need to group up and feel superior to others. Race-based judgement is easiest because you can see a difference most easily. When there's a history that has kept certain groups poor, it ties the bigotry together in a neat, little bow. I live in a very white city. The cops here don't bully black folks much because there aren't too many to bully (and the ones who are here are mostly middle class). The cops do love circling the many trailer parks, though. The bored, middle and upper class white people here don't complain about black folks, either. They complain about the "white trash" on the other side of town (even though most of that "trash" is just poor people, struggling to pay their bills and feed their kids). The poor people hate them right back, because they have more (regardless of whether they worked for what they have). Hate is hate. It's never going to go away. It'll just change forms as needed.
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 @seikoellis17 Source?
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And you definitely can't punch somebody while calling them a hateful name, if they aren't there.
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 @seikoellis17 Again, source?
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