08-12-2020, 02:18 PM
(08-12-2020, 02:04 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Not relevant to the point I made.
That was more me just pointing out that the "Trump standard" is a little different than what we are talking about, here.
(08-12-2020, 02:04 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I honestly wonder how that's possible. They literally had a Congressional hearing on the topic;
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/21/candace-owens-clashes-with-fellow-witness-congressional-hearing-white-supremacy/
How you haven't heard the term "white supremacy" from a politician ever, is mind boggling to me.
I stated white privilege because that is the more universal discussion of white people having more power/authority than others. White supremacy specifically refers to the ideology of some groups of people that see the "white race" as superior, which is a real thing occurring in this nation. I was assuming you would not feel attacked by those denigrating white supremacists as I do not see you as someone that would adhere to such an ideology.
(08-12-2020, 02:04 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Well, we agree on this at least.
Well, yeah, and you also know I tend to look at those incidents with a little more nuance than many others of my political bent.
(08-12-2020, 02:04 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: My apologies. While I can find examples of this they are not by members of Congress. I misremembered AOC's comparison of ICE to fascists running "concentration camps". I was certain she had compared them to terrorists as well, but I can't find it, so point retracted.
Yeah, that was cringe-worthy, but also more of an attack on the administration than on the LEOs themselves. At least from my POV.
(08-12-2020, 02:04 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Any worse is subjective, but using your example how many black people vote Republican and can you understand why that number is what that number is? When you answer that question you understand my position.
Ah, but the GOP has coupled their rhetoric with policies that have negatively impacted people of color and GSMs at the national and state levels on a regular basis. It is written into their national platform to oppose the civil rights of GSMs. That is a bit of a different level than what you are seeing from Democrats directed at police.
(08-12-2020, 02:04 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: And yet it continues to shift in that direction. You keep seeing what happens on the west coast as isolated to that region. It isn't, it only starts there. If you don't condemn it you are at least tacitly approving of it. I haven't seen much, if anything, in the way of condemnation.
Which really doesn't counter the point I made.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
