We Hit Peak 2019

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(12-17-2019, 01:01 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Now you are just doing the semantics dance.  If they weren't racit then what was the problem with them.

You have repeatedly used the term "implicit bias".  Calling someone "biased" is the same as calling them racist.  Crazydawg called it "subconscious racism". This is not a "straw man".  This is exactly what you have said. 

And again, you keep ignoring my point.  If Bloomberg made these comments about a black person he just met and did not know then you might hve  point, but there is no way Mike Bloomberg just thinks Coery Booker is just "well spoken for a black person".  And that is what I man about accusing a person of racism for no good reason.

Michael Bloomberg apologized because of what was said on the Bengals message board? If your argument hinges on referencing message board posts instead of what Booker or other prominent voices said and then twisting those comments, you're not making a very good argument. The fact you absolutely ignore Booker's rational comments every time I bring them up suggests that you have no interest in having an actual dialogue, as Booker is promoting. Which makes this post I am about to quote ironic...

(12-17-2019, 01:17 PM)fredtoast Wrote: And here is the problem in a nutshell. You are so brainwashed you think that the term "well spoken" has never been used by a white person to describe another white person.  Just stop and think about how crazy that claim is.

I am a litigator.  My job depends on being "well spoken" and "articulate".  When litigators talk about other litigators those terms are used quite often.  Politicians are the same.  One of their most important skills is being "well spoken" and "articulate".  When one politician calls a Rhodes Scholar with a law degree from Yale "well spoken" it has ZERO to do with race.  People are just imagining bias and racism where it does not exist

I'm not brainwashed, I just don't believe you. You can deny the historical uses of the terms, but that history still exists.