"Black people can be every bit as racist as white people"

Well, never mind then! I guess racism is only a problem if Black folk are significantly better than white folk. If they're only just as good, then racism makes sense.

"like the current President who keeps telling me how much more privileged I am than he was."

Your racism is showing. He doesn't say this kind of thing. Who are these knobs who mod up the parent post?

You're sick and tired? Boo Hoo. How sad. Maybe you need a nap. When you wake up, we'll make sure you never have to hear anything that might trouble your beautiful mind.

Try having to live with actual racism and see how fast that wears on you. Oh, that's right, you can't be bothered.

Ordinary people are pro-torture. Thanks 24! Thanks GWB! Thanks Obama!

Which of us will it empower?

Germans called the French Resistance terrorists.

We should be scared of nuclear war daily. This system are all in place and ready to go. The folks are still manning the controls. Things are getting worse. Weapons are proliferating, and almost everyone who remembers the actual nuking of people is dead.

And the pentagon papers were released to impress a woman. Snowden fled to Hong Kong and got stuck in Russia. There aren't super heroes for real, so you'll have to handle good deeds coming from regular folk.

Cheney has always been a stupid and evil bastard.

During the first gulf war he wanted to parachute the 101st into a Western Iraq with no support, have them capture a city then hold it hostage until Saddam relented. Schwartzkoff. Cheney was Sec. Def. at the time. Schwartzkopf had to fend off this incredible idea more than once.

Starting a war isn't a war crime either, it's a crime against the peace, but it's still a hanging offense. Time to string them up.

Stanislaw Lem's "Return to Earth" is all about this subject.

Haldeman's "Forever War" deals with it in parts.

Both deal with people who do to time dilation come home far in the future.

I don't remember the details, but at one point the main character returns to earth to find his mother, now old, in a lesbian relationship and is disgusted, even though society now accepts it. Interesting that Haldeman got that right back in the '70s.

I am 38. They did not have this when I was a kid. I only know about because of my own kids. It does seem very weird. Not just slightly Orwellian, but also dumb because kids lose these things all the time.

If it ended up in a non-evolutionary form than dynamism could be lost.

"Asking whether a computer can think is like asking whether a submarine can swim."

--Djikstra

I think of it as a unconscious vestige of a belief in a soul. Such people can't really see themselves as a collection of cells which are a collection of molecules, even if consciously they affirm that belief. They probably still lay awake at night wondering what happens to us when we're dead.