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@doctorjekyll6125 The story about Covid has not changed. If it originated from bats or pangolins, it reached humans due to these animals being sold IN the wet markets. That's different parts of the same explanation. However, even if they were two totally different stories, so what? Investigators had a particular theory at the beginning, but they followed the evidence, and that evidence possibly led somewhere else. Would you prefer a world where the scientists have to stick with the first guess, even if that proves to be wrong?
You say we should stop messing with virus experiments. In 1918, Spanish flu killed between 20 and 50 million people. Virus experiments have been undertaken to create vaccines that would protect us against that. Every year, tens of millions of people take flu vaccines that reduce the chance of such a devastating outbreak again. Cancer is a worthy subject for investigation, and billions is spent each year on that, but research on viruses undoubtedly prevented millions of covid deaths as well.
I totally get your sentiment about the misuse of science, especially for weapons, and now possibly biological weapons, but knowledge is not something you can unlearn once you know it. The human race is better because iof science, but it certainly carries risks.
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"hoarding" - preparation you mean? If supplies are not short, they will stabilise from all the preppers after a short time, no harm no foul. However, as if every report suggests, there are genuine shortages ahead, only a fool trusts to a system that is demonstrably broken to ensure their wellbeing. All our lives we are taught to prepare to guard against future darker times; save our money, get a pension, take out health care, eat sensibly, exercise - then it comes to provisions we are expected to act like we don't KNOW a disaster is imminent?! To hell with that. Stupid, hippy video.
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@imogen1 Oh you're not a troll - you're just painfully ignorant.
The monarchy is functionally powerless and all but dead. Prime minister Johnson is constantly fighting for his own survival, and Britain withdrew from a European trading organisation - nothing more. This year, Britain hosted multiple global events, and with its favourable financial terms, and the fact it never tied itself to the Euro, is at the heart of European finance. Britain does not throw its weight around internationally, leads on climate protection, and is still a member of NATO, and would lend its military strength such as it may be, to Europe if it was needed.
Britain has a LOT wrong with it, but turning into a rogue state is not one of them.
And while we're at it, there are probably not a handful of countries on the PLANET with a greater collection of artworks and the expertise and long experience of preserving them. Greece, France, America are the only others that spring to mind. BRITAIN is the nation that sends ITS preservation experts around the world to help their experts. It has at least a dozen WORLD CLASS galleries and museums, and centuries of expertise in protecting and caring for art. There's literally no nation on Earth that would care for art better.
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@gilbertgottfried1549 But I think that's exactly why there is a distinction. My 81year old mum tells me that when she was young, being grabbed on the behind by a good looking stranger was a thrill and a compliment. An old, ugly guy not so much. Wolf whistling was a compliment or playful, nowadays a near imprisonable offence.
People were more easy going.
So why is that different to slavery - the poster child for bad historical relativism arguments? Because basic human empathy existed back at the earliest days. Torturing, shackling and crippling people to force them to bend to your will was ALWAYS something that the average person could understand as an evil simply by imagining it happening to themselves. Empathy is the ESSENCE of morality, and while social morays changes, you have to actively suppress your humanity to own and torment slaves. You didn't to grab a girl's bottom or steal a kiss. Jeez, even throughout the 1980s, teen movies all played off sexual shenanigans, spying on naked girls, copping a feel or tricking them into sleeping with you. And this was movies aimed at teenagers!
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@rainkidwell2467 Don't be ridiculous. Within ANY demographic group, there are variations and outliers, be it youth athletes, sumo wrestlers, males, females, etc. The purpose of classes is to create the most level playing field. The fact taht within ANY sporting demographic, your physical attributes made you a loser is a simple reality of life. However, consistently, the demographic "biological male" outperforms the demographic "biological female" in non stamina sports. Yes, there will be high performing females and poor performing males - irrelevant.
As for your unique set of circumstances, which represents a fraction of a fraction of a percent, I don't know enough about YOUR specific condition to have much of an opinion. If you have an intersex condition, that is not what is generally considered as trans. But even if it IS what mainstream people consider trans, the vast majority of trans people DO go through puberty as their birth gender.
It would be like having a conversation about racism and me saying "I'm a 6 fingered, 2% Samoan, 5% Hawaaiin 9 foot tall African American - what's your policy on me?" Your circumstances are so unique that people better educated than me on the subject would have to comment.
I have NEVER suggested that trans women would beat every professional athlete - stop fabricating straw men to knock down. But as a DEMOGRAPHIC, after FULLY transitioning, a 10th percentile former male, will have unquestionable advantage in a majority of sports, against the 10th percentile of biological women. It would be moronic to suggest that a man who was bottom of his sport could suddenly start beating elite female athletes. That WOULD be misogynistic, and as a man who has taught several local level elite female martial artists, I would never be so patronising.
None of which addresses MY original points, that dismissing people who are not convinced about trans issues as "transphobe" is a despicable poisoning of the well. People can have different opinions, or even be ignorant without being phobic.
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@paradisepipeco It amuses me that McConnell is fighting against the Trumpist young bloods in his own party, as well as Trump himself. Much as TYT wants to constantly reassure us that Trump's popularity and relevance is plumetting without Twitter, the poll out today shows him still to be far and away the most popular "Republican" (and we know he's no more a Republican than Manchin is a Democrat.)
Balancing McConnell's problems, is Biden's with Manchin and Sinema, and his are far more serious. How can you lead when your two most two right-leaning party members hold all the power and are bought and paid for by corporates? America is in dire need of a small d democratic reset. Taking money out of politiics would be a huge start, but like gerrymandering, the Dems are all against it until they are in power. I don't share your optimism. I fear that we are heading for a new age of police and politiical fascism. Trump showed the template, and smarter men than him are just waiting to do right the next time. Time is short and the Dems don't have the numbers to side-step their own obstructionists to simply rework the law to protect democracy. Meanwhile, Joe is spectacularly failing to achieve the improvements in the citizen's lives that would win over the moderates, much less those on the right. If the Dems don't imprison Trump and his allies, the message to those to follow, will be that they can do whatever they want without fear of consequence.
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@paradisepipeco I do know the two bull joke.
How can one NOT be skeptical when one is paying attention to what is happening? My mother and one of my closest friends also think I am too skeptical - that I am making myself angry over what I cannot change, but I've always been a "Tell me the truth Doctor, if I have a terminal illness" kind of guy. I suspect you are too.
I do indeed watch both Kirschner and Beau daily. Personally, I think Kirschner is too conditioned by the system he has spent his life serving, and his world view and self esteem is too wedded to a belief that the system is still basically honest and savable, much as a Catholic might be in denial about all the child abuse their collection plate money has sheltered. I think he is a decent person who does not have eyes wide open.
Beau is MUCH more prosaic, and I find his analyses and tactical summaries very insightful. I like them both a lot.
I see Garland as the Dem's "fuck you" to McConnell, but it's a pyrric victory. I think he's going to be another Mueller probe - all PR and no substance - a toothless tiger afraid to cause ripples. The Dems and legal profession are simply too timid and too conservative to move on it in a meaningful way. I recently heard that prosecutors, even of small local cases, will not prosecute cases that they are not sure of winning because of the reputational damage. What a dreadful indictment on the legal profession. I think with Trump, and his enablers, there is so much money behind them, and the Dems may only have until the midterms until the GOP becomes a lot more powerful, and can obstruct even more. I've never wanted to be completely wrong, but time will tell. America NEEDS that man to spend the rest of his life in jail, but I look to the pardon of Nixon as my template.
Stay safe Jones.
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@FortitudineVincimus I'm FULLY cogniscent of all the crimes that have been discussed oon TYT, MSNBC, et al. I'm also very aware that he keeps getting away with them. Most prosecuted president in US history. Maybe even the most prosecuted individual. I was referring to the more recent suits, particularly this one. Yes, Trump got impeached twice - the most serious prosecution in the country and they STILL couldn't get him. When you have an entiire PARTY running interference, you'd have to be DESPERATELY naive to think that two nobby nobody cops had a snowball's chance in hell with a case this weak. So what's left? Breaking tax law? Statute of limitations runs out within the year AND the New York state prosecutor is retiring. Emoluments? Not even on the table. Incitement? No chance in hell. The only case with a realistic chance of coming to fruition is Dominion, and I don't know if they've even sued him personally yet. Face it, he's not called the Teflon Don for nothing. He's a vile, cheating, dishonest POS, but he keeps getting away with it and the Dems are too spineless to really go after him.
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@mts982 I'm up on the microsoft acquisition. It's not even the biggest acquisition in GAMING let alone giving them a monopoly. There are numerous GIGANTIC rivals to Microsoft - Sony, EA, Activision Blizzard, 2K, Epic and more, plus mobile publishers, and that's not counting Chinese companies which are enormous. Microsoft is a LOOOONG way from holding a monopoly. The fact is, Microsoft is SHIT at making games. It didn't buy Bethesda simply to kill of a rival, but in the hopes of acquiring some popoular expertise along with the franchises. The irony of that in the wakee of Fallout 76 - the least popular, most ridiculed game in gaming history is lost to nobody.
"dont we have freedom of speech on facebook? peeps are even able to lie, but looks like some notes are being added to such lies, at least on youtube anyway."
No, not remotely. Try typing something hateful about a race or nation and see what happens.
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@joshuaewalker You say Occam's razor, yet the world's experts almost universally say that none of the markers for this being man-made are absent. The world's experts point to previous cases of such things occuring and they arose in wet markets such as the one in Wuhan. So, if you have two competing hypotheses - one which has never occurred, which requires a lot of additional assumptions about Chinese incompetence or Chinese intent, and the other which simply requires exactly what nature has already done time and again, and the latter is the one that the EXPERTS believe happened, then Occam's razor - the choice that requires you to make the least assumptions, is the more likely.
As for racism, honestly, I don't much care, so long as you are not out killing Asian massage workers. But for the record, (and it's not my right to stand in judgement over you anyway), but I 99% accept that you have not racist intent. You sound like a rationalist, which I like. I simply disagree with your interpretation of the evidence, and so do most of the world's governments.
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@joshuaewalker The racism (not you) is the denigration of a race for the practice of using wet markets. The implication is that they are somehow barbaric savages for buying food like that. Given the way Britain rears chickens, and as you say, Texas eats rattlesnakes, and all over America there are festivals where they eat animal testicles, and all over Europe we eat eyeballs, brains, blood and stomachs, no westerner has the right to look down on China for their wet markets.
Also, the additional racism, depending on the sentiment, is automatically assuming, in the face of ALL qualified scientific opinion to the contrary, that this was a manufactured virus. The OP is clearly blaming the Chinese for some kind of deliberate act, and YOU are clearly more willing to believe that this was just some research that got away from them than the scientific consensus that it was simply a mutation that jumped from animals to humans. The underpinnings of that belief are the issue.
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@grmpEqweer "They shoved him hard." Clearly a matter of interpretation. To my mind, they shooed him out of the way. And yes, he stumbled backwards. That's the intent. That's not violence - it's clearing an obstruction. "The point was to harm." absolutely not. The point was to clear an annoyance out of the way. If the point had been to harm they would have struck him or used a baton.
"The police are being protested themselves and they are angry." I agree 100%. They've been untouchable for decades and they see that privilege being challenged. How DARE the civilians question outr authority!
"For whatever reason, you don't want to recognize that the police used excessive force." It wasn't excessive. Anyone who has ever dealt with an aggressice assailant will know that the policemen was extremely restrained. The reason that I object to this narrative, is that the police in America are ABSOLUTE VERMIN. 10% of them should probably be on death row, 25% should be in jail, and a good deal more should be out of joobs. HOWEVER, you don't accomplish justice with injustice, or by constantly clutching your pearls. We need cool, dispassionate assessment of their behaviour.
"The one time I was attacked at a protest I was knocked over from behind, " That's a VERY different situation. If you are withdrawing, there is NO need for violence.
"t was a planned beating. This was in 1992, it was an AIDS march. They wanted to beat up the uppity queers. And obviously, it was the point of the operation."
And this fucking disgrace against humanity is precisely why the police need to be held accountable. I just don't see this situation in remotely the same light.
"So peaceful protesters being attacked is not surprising to me." Nor me, but this man was not peaceful. He was aggressive. He had aggressive body language. He was right in their faces waving an object at one of them, and he towered over them. I'm not suggesting he was going to be violent, but NOBODY has to let an adversary that close before responding.
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@jameslaughlin9856 Glyphosphate contains no aluminium although it does synergistically magnify its effects. Fortunately, none of the vaccines CONTAIN aluminium.
The CDC is just one of hundreds of health organisations across the planet that have reached more or less the same conclusions about covid and vaccines. They are clearly not ALL in the pocket of big pharma. As for Bill Gates, he's certainly made substantial donations to the WHO. He's also given over 1.5 billion to the United Negro College fund. He's a philanthropist. What would his agenda be in buying off the WHO?
It's simplistic in the highest extreme to simply correlate restrictions with infections. What is the population density in that state, what is the average temperature, how much do people actually COMPLY with those restrictions, was there enough PPE, how old are the residents, what are the voter demographics, etc.
Autism has been rising steadily since the 1960 due in part to better diagnosis, and there was a dramatic increase in the year up to 2014. I can find nothing that suggests that it has increased since covid, let alone since vaccines were administered. There is not, nor has there EVER been a proven correlation between vaccines and autism.
Oh, and whilst VIRUSES are too small to be stopped by masks, the spittle and other particulate matter that the viruses are IN, can be stopped by masks. Your argument is like saying anti tank roadblocks don't work because the soldiers IN them can still walk past.
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@justsomedudeyouknow8372 And that my friend, is what's known as a false dichotomy. I'd prefer someone who was not like almost commenter above, foaming at the mouth, ranting at anything red, or that he disagrees with, like some rabid dog who hates on instinct not on logic. This channel is supposed to be progressive, yet as often as not, it AMPLIFIES division, punches down at (admitedly batshit crazy) individual Trump supporters and anti-vaxxers. And in this video Ojeda, already screaming with the zeal of a revival tent preacher, was at his demented, unhinger worst.
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@bryana8383 It's not deaths that represent failure; it's needless EXTRA deaths. Yes, there will always be deaths. My maths is perfectly fine thanks. I used kids because most people have a particular compassion for kids and a school was an easy body to draw a comparison. I could just as easily have used a Nascar stadium as that is probably more your level. Would you go visit a nascar event at the Indy Speedway if you knew that 395 members of the audience would die? That's the same percentage you're using.
This is why statistics need interpreting. Raw numbers often do not reveal the full picture, but they need normalising for other factors. The unquestionable fact is that Trump's covid policy was appalling. He denied that anyone would die, he stole masks from the states that had the sense to order them, he was partisan in his action, he refused to instigate a national policy, he attacked his own experts, he put forwards ridiculous theories about alternate solutions, then when over 100k Americans had died, he said only his fast action had prevented it being a million, then when it was half a million, he tried to claim responsibility for the arrival of vaccines that the rest of the world helped develop.
If I was you, I really wouldn't be accusing other PEOPLE of being dumb when you are clearly in total denial of reality. And on that note, we're done. You are unable to process facts like an adult. It's pointless wasting any more time on you.
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@sojiroumakairyu5143 The thumbs down button is a blunt tool made for people who see the world in black and white terms. If I make a video that people don't like, I prefer to know WHY they don't like it.
There are times when it's absolutely correct for the government to tell private businesses what to do; on issues of safety, staff treatment and wages for instance.
Would I continue to employ the dog woman? Yes if she continued to do what I paid her for and she wasn't front office. I'd be concerned by her, and I'd watch her closely, but it's not for me to penalise people who have broken no laws.
As for the gay couple, I can understand someone who thinks that ANY PDAs let alone lesbian ones are inappropriate and even corrupting. I grew up in that generation. In my generation, anything more than light kissing never appeared on TV, but now men can masturbate to completion, couples can have full penetrative sex, and kinky sex play all make it to mainstream broadcast TV. Morals change. Nobody can point and say that one is definitely truer than any other, although I tend towards morals that empasise tolerance and personal liberty.
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@sojiroumakairyu5143 There is a TON of research on how best to change people's minds. Ridicule and punishments are the two LEAST effective. It's like prison. That is also the least effective way of modifying behaviour. If you genuinely care about making a better world, you need to accept that you will have to do some unpalatable things such as not going eye for an eye. I'm the first to shoot back a snarky comment to a twat on youtube, but I know I am just making them worse. Sometimes they slope away in face of a superior intellect or a nastier comment, but mostly it just devolves. However, when I make the effort to be polite and kind, and try a provable facts approach, it's far more likely that they simply stop retorting. Maybe their minds have not been changed most of the time, but sometimes.
Like with vaccine denialism - the government has gone with incentives and rewards rather than a big stick because the stick simply promotes rebellion, especially in the USA, a nation who knows all about "muh rights" but nothing about "my responsibilities."
As for dog Karen, I am 100% on her side. Firing her for overreacting in social situation unrelated to her job is a massive overreach. The height of actual cancel culture.
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@nvcomics I suggest you look upthe term "straw man" because that's exactly what you're doing - creating a fictitious version of my argument that is easy to knock down, then attacking that. I am not, nor ever have suggested that simply creating a different coloured copy of a product is innovative. In fact, I have repeatedly acknowledged that copying is NOT innovation - it's simply stealing.
Just to clarify, the discussion is whether capitalism stifles innovation. You are arguing that capitalism DOES stifle capitalism because most products are basically copies. I am arguing that there is an incentive to come up with useful and innovative NEW products. Even IF most products are copies or iterative improvements, that does not mean that it wouldn't be better to come up with something new. And now you are quibbling over precisely HOW much counts as an innovation. If it was a one millimetre change in position of a thumb stick on a controller, or the inclusion of a rumble pad, or a haptic insertion, or a better material surface, that COULD be considered innovative, and COULD completely transform and improve your use of the product.
You clearly don't understand the intellectual property laws if you think that all you need to do to to circumvent them is to change the colour of a product!
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@nvcomics I don't need to weasel out of anything because I comprehend a nuanced argument with examples on both sides.
"when TikTok came around" And Tik Tok was copy of Vine before it. So much of what mankind does is iterative. You're complaining about a lack of innovation, but what if 3 camera phones minimal design, maps, or whatever are simply the natural and inevitable direction for thos products? Capitalism has driven companies to want to make better products. Yes, there is DEFINITELY lots of trend following, but that is not because that is safe - it's because that's the logical course for those products.
Look at consoles - Playstation came out with super fast storage on its latest model which is game changing, but Microsoft and hardware manufacturers were already developing direct storage because that is the logical direction forwards.
I don't know who you think is trying to brainwash us into believing that there is more innovation than there actually is. I see innovation everywhere I look. If you look at the graph of human advancement, it's been near vertical for the past 100 years, achieving more in a century than the entirety of the rest of human history.
It seems to me that you have justifiable issues about Patent infringement and outright copying. I share yuor sentiments on that but only because I hate coprate theft. It's a literal business model for Chinese companies - why go to the cost of innovation when you can simply steal? But that's a problem with international patent protections and the utter disregard of China. The west should simply ban any such products, but of course $$$$$.
The modern world THRIVES off innovation. Innovators are the ones driving retail, but I guess you only see what you focus on. Some products don't NEED improvement, while others have small, logical improvements. Personally, I think phones are massively OVER designed. But a certain market wants phones that do everything. And when new products are TOO different from what people are used to, they get angry and that costs sales.
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@nvcomics For a start, you are talking corruption and naked greed, not capitalism. The rest of the world IS making massive advances in renewable energy. Those people working in fossil fuels do what they do, but trillions of dollars is being poured into research of alternate energy sources by people with the foresight to recognise that fossil fuels are finite, and the cost to the planet is too great. When they can offer non CO2 solutions cheaper, it is capitalism that will drive customers in their direction.
But again, even if I completely concede that this IS an example of negative capitalism, it is just another example, to which I can point to counter examples. 10 cases, 1000, a million do not make a rule. You say that these are exceptions, but when there are enough exceptions, you surely have to concede that things are not as black and white as you perceive it to be.
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@nvcomics Completely irrelevant. That is not what this video is about. Ben and this guy he quoted both suggested that capitalism stifles innovation. That is patent nonsense. The first company to come up with a cure for cancer, covid, alzheimers, flu, and many other conditions would make trillions. That's good for society AND the inventors. I am illustrating that a system in which companies are rewarded for their creations, benefit MORE if their creations are NOT competing with others. Thus, whilst in movies or video games, it's risky to do something innovative, in FAR more situations, it's better to be original while satisfying a market need.
Bringing in the workers is an irrelevant side track. Whether they are talken care of or not is an issue of worker rights. Only in craphole nations like America, and other 3rd world nations, is that such an issue. In the rest of the western world, there are rules about minimum wages, sick pay, holiday pay, etc.
I am not arguing in FAVOUR of monopolies, although I am 100% in favour of patent protection for a short term. Humanity has NO right to a choice of suppliers for any product, but creators have a right to reasonable recompense for their work and investment.
Gamestop does not disprove anything. Not only does Gamestop not REMOTELY have a monoply unless you narrow the definition of what they do, down to exclude online retail, but even if they WERE a monopoly (and they're not - they have thousands of high -street competitors), the failure of a single poorly managed company, operating in a manner that the consumer no longer cares for, proves only that Gamestop, like Blockbuster video and Fred's Horse and Cart Emporium, that THAT business failed to adapt.
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@andrethegiant2877 "We must all bow down to the police" Nothing could be further from the truth, but when people go out of their way to provoke a confrontation on issues that the average police would not be expected to know about, my sympathies are with the police, who are, on paper at least, trying to protect us. That said, I definitely have sympathies for your argument about the disparity between the way the police treat us, and the way that we must treat them. However, the role is NOT symmetrical. They HAVE to maintain some degree of authority to function, and as such, that necessitates a certain bearing and delivery. Ultimately, much as the rebel in us may dislike that attitude, would you sooner live in a world with no police, because it's hard to have one without the other.
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@Skoora It wasn't a power trip at all. The woman correctly wondered why a random guy was wondering around a public building filming. Her first words were not at all in attack mode. His supercillious and patronising tone CREATED the confrontation, to which the second cop came along to assist. If the "auditor" spoken to a random man out on the street like that, he'd likely receive a broken nose for the way he behaved, and I would feel zero sympathy for it. No member of the press core would get away with addressing officials like this. This is not journalism. Journalists report stories, they don't create them. The fact that fools like him have become so common that SOME cops are actually prepared for it is an indictment on what he is doing, and worse still, by antogonising at absolute random, he's detracting from the genuinely despicable cops who should be in jail or on death row. Ironically, because he's so thin skinned, Trump almost limited freedom of the press, and watching this nonsense, I kinda wish he had.
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D H I agree with the general thrust of what you're saying here but I disagree strongly on the issue of slavery. The entire confederacy went to war for the right to maintain slavery. That's more than just a few white guys. Moreover, there are millions of Americans right now arguing for symbols of those traitors to be be proudly displayed. I definitely take your point on the thing about modern Germans bearing responsibility for the holocaust, but virtually no Jews are still suffering personal hardship as a result. Right now, tens of millions of blacks are still suffering the results of slavery, and worse still, there are politicians working to keep them down, whether by underinvestment, racist gerrymandering and voting regulations, undereducation, systemic judicial racism, or by poverty. I don't hold ALL white people responsible, or favour white guilt or reparations, and there are disadvantaged white people who need help too, but black people need a hand up, and the powerful are still giving them a kick down instead.
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@josephde-haan1074 This is not a free speech issue - this is a cancel culture issue. Your first question is a fair one, and honestly, I don't know where that line falls. Clearly, if Gaetz wanted to hold a child rape conference, nobody would have an issue with it being cancelled, but he is so far not even CHARGED with an offence, far less proven guilty of one in court. Greene is a repugnant cretin that the planet could do without, but hateful as she is, this feels too close to a line for me.
It reminds me of that quote,
"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
If we allow silencing of those we disagree with, by what right do WE complain if it happens to us?
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