(07-16-2018, 02:34 PM)Beaker Wrote: It actually does not say that no business would ever discriminate. It says that businesses who do discriminate will lose business to others who do not. How is that logic wrong? Answer....it's not.

(07-16-2018, 02:34 PM)Beaker Wrote: It actually does not say that no business would ever discriminate. It says that businesses who do discriminate will lose business to others who do not. How is that logic wrong? Answer....it's not. Same with loans. If a certain bank has a loan officer who is racist and won't give QUALIFIED applicants loans, then those qualified applicants will get loans from other banks who will welcome their business.

(07-16-2018, 02:41 PM)fredtoast Wrote: So you are not aware that we needed the civil rights act to stop businesses from discriminating based on race?

(07-16-2018, 03:30 PM)jj22 Wrote: It isn't? Have you seen the number of police calls that are being made on innocent black people. It's a new thing, however it's not new at all, it's just now getting attention with social media and the ability to record.

Black kids can't sell lemonade without police being called, can't take their kids to the pool, cookout at parks.

Law enforcement officials are even coming out and saying they can no longer (finally after decades) keep up with these calls on behalf of people with "suspect" reasoning.

Do you think if these people were white they'd get the police called on them so much our law enforcement are finally speaking out on it?

People just don't care if it doesn't effect them.

(07-16-2018, 03:30 PM)jj22 Wrote: It isn't? Have you seen the number of police calls that are being made on innocent black people. It's a new thing, however it's not new at all, it's just now getting attention with social media and the ability to record.

Black kids can't sell lemonade without police being called, can't take their kids to the pool, cookout at parks.

Law enforcement officials are even coming out and saying they can no longer (finally after decades) keep up with these calls on behalf of people with "suspect" reasoning.

Do you think if these people were white they'd get the police called on them so much our law enforcement are finally speaking out on it?

People just don't care if it doesn't effect them and that's the unfortunate thing about all of this. If the majority didn't care about issues like slavery and jim crow laws, we'd still be in that era. It's easy to ignore, defend, excuse. It takes courage for the majority to take a stand on behalf of a minority people, and no it's not "white guilt", that's just some way to shame those who dare to care. A modern way of calling someone a "n" word lover (sorry, to bring that word into it, but that was a legit attack on white people who dared to care during the those tough civil rights times).

(07-16-2018, 02:41 PM)fredtoast Wrote: So you are not aware that we needed the civil rights act to stop businesses from discriminating based on race?

But why let reality and history get in the way of a theory that helps you deny the existence of white privilege, right?

(07-16-2018, 03:42 PM)PhilHos Wrote: I get it. There are still racist assholes in this country that sees a black person in their neighborhood and calls the cops. It sucks. It shouldn't happen. But, that doesn't mean there's such a thing as white privilege. It just means there are still racists out there.

(07-16-2018, 03:55 PM)GMDino Wrote: You realize that when the racist doesn't call the cops on a white person in their neighborhood that is the white person's white privilege...right?
That they didn't get looked at suspiciously just because they were white? 

(07-16-2018, 04:36 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I suppose we can all agree that Papa John is currently not reaping the benefits of this White Privilege.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/m/9f64cf39-12b5-30e7-8fe5-18c474cfa040/ss_%27papa-john%27-schnatter-evicted.html

(07-16-2018, 04:08 PM)PhilHos Wrote: No, it's not. Do you call me a victim of "black privilege" when I go to a black neighborhood and get looked at suspiciously?

(07-16-2018, 05:31 PM)fredtoast Wrote: No.  You are still privileged because in 95% of the country you don't have to deal with the suspicion while the number is flipped for blacks.

(07-16-2018, 05:31 PM)fredtoast Wrote: No.  You are still privileged because in 95% of the country you don't have to deal with the suspicion while the number is flipped for blacks.

(07-17-2018, 05:21 PM)jj22 Wrote: Black people ain't calling the police on a suspicious white person...... If anything they probably think that suspicious white person is the police. You guys aren't living in reality (and certainly haven't been paying attention to current events) if you think black people run around calling the police like that.

So no it don't happen like it happens to black people.