... yada-yada-yada
.... Why do they [gangs -mi] form? That's pretty simple. When you're pushed out of the economy [...]
So, you've gotten past denying the higher likelihood of Blacks belonging to a gang, and are now listing excuses for it? Nice.
So, is it still "stereotype", if it is true? Is it "racist" to point out, that African Americans have darker skin?
All blacks are violent criminals in the minds of police.
You keep saying these things, but remain unable to explain, why these very same racist police do not treat Asians just as badly as they (supposedly) do Blacks. Anecdotes about Korean kids studying Math don't count. Koreans are but a fraction of Asians in America — there are vastly more Chinese, for example. There are great many Vietnamese. Then there are Indians and Pakistani, who — being brown and with funny accents — would've made a perfect target for racism.
And maybe they are a target — I do not know. But I do know, they don't burn pharmacies for some reason...
Police have a long history of treating people of different races and national origins differently.
Citations? Single anecdotes don't count — statistics, please... Cite me a study or two.
You'll find that we'll see a dramatic change in black and latino stereotypes
I asked this question up above already, but you — "cowards on race" — have all dodged it. Why is it, that even the most vile stereotypes of Jews — who were certainly mistreated in Europe for centuries — do not contain anything even remotely like smashing police cars or robbing storekeepers?
Lamp-post. Lamp-post beckons...
It's a very common assumption in America today that blacks and hispanics are stupid and prone to joining gangs, and that Asians are smart and successful.
And where would this assumption you claim exists — without any citations, BTW — have come from?
Is it the television programs, which constantly portray Hispanics and Blacks as stupid? Which ones? Books pushing the same view? Which ones? Public schools teaching our kids that? Advertising materials? Where? What?
The woeful underperformance of AAs is because of historical inertia and ongoing racism
Until you can explain, why the same "historical inertia and ongoing racism" — whether they actually even exist or not — do not cause Asians (neither the "narrow-eyed" nor the "curry-smelling" brown-skined ones) to similarly underperform, you argument shall remain null and void.
African immigrants don't have the same historical problems that AAs have; they leapfrog over those problems.
Please, explain, how a "racist cop" manage to distinguish between Black immigrant and Black native born.
Your response rehashes the same arguments I already addressed — and calls me "stupid". Well, I'm willing to repeat the same rebuttals once — for I am not especially biased against the slow. But I will not repeat them again. Until you can offer coherent answers to the above questions, I will not continue this conversation with you.
Saying that this launch failure has certainly
Not saying it is a certainty — but rather a possibility, which should not be ruled out.
Russia today is proudly claiming legacy of the country and organization, which once sent agents to kill John Wayne — for trying to drive Communists out of Hollywood. Compared to that, crippling an enemy's space program is a perfectly normal and even noble thing to do.
The only alternatives to SpaceX are NASA's AtlasV and the Russian offerings. That's well known.
What's less known is that a major component — the RD-180 engine — of AtlasV is supplied by Russia as well. Russia is threatening to stop delivering it, but the US ought to stop buying it in the first place — and cut off billions of dollars for Putin.
If the SpaceX fails, the US may be forced to appease Russia — such as by forgiving the armed invasion and recognizing the annexation of Crimea.
A Russian agent, who'd successfully sabotage SpaceX, would certainly be richly rewarded back at home.
They might go to a shitty underfunded public school.
The very concept of "public school" is fairly recent. Not only did Aristotle grow up without one, neither Benjamin Franklin nor Thomas Jefferson attended one either. Thomas Edison was homeschooled.
They might get harassed by the police on a regular basis, charged with a felony in a situation where a white kid would get a slap on the wrist, and have their lives effectively ruined by a criminal record.
Even if true, how is this different from what Jews suffered in Europe for centuries?
Why are the supposedly "racist cops" (many of them Black, BTW) today only targeting African Americans? If they really were White Supremacists, wouldn't the statistics for Asian Americans be just as gloomy? Immigrant Blacks are doing much better than the native-born ones too.
A theory contradicting observable facts is wrong. Your explanation is thus without merit. Whether or not there really is "institutional racism" or whatever in America, it simply does not explain the woeful underperformance of African Americans.
It's definitely not as bad for black people as it was 50 years ago, or even 25 years ago
Actually, you are wrong again — it is worse than 50 years ago. Despite — or, more likely, because of — decades of various policies advocated by your kind, the Blacks' satisfaction is lower today, than it was in 1964. Although, yeah, it may be better than 20 years ago...
(Note, that I'm not putting forth my own theories here. I'm just obliterating yours.)
But if the ongoing program of destroying their lives is successful
What ongoing program? Please, cite evidence such as:
You make a vile accusation — prove it.
the constitution is not sacred
It is not "sacred" because it was not handed down to us by a Deity. It is sacred in that every four years the incoming President repeats the same solemn oath to defend it.
Whatever "sacred" means to you, it is the law of the land. But it can be amended. For example, when we still believed in limited government, one that could not just order people around willy-nilly for The Greater Good, the prohibition of alcohol was done as a constitutional amendment (the 18th — less than 100 years ago!).
However, only a few decades later the same same government banned marijuana with a simple law — without obtaining the national consent by ratification of an amendment. The 10th Amendment was thus nullified.
a brilliant collection of people, but they weren't prophets
Well, they were. For example, the prediction of the growth of Statism was scary:
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yeild, and government to gain ground.
and the point about it concentrating in large cities — especially accurate:
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
you do know where the Internet came from, don't you?
Yes, it came out of a military research project. I also know, where electricity, telegraph, telephone, radio, TV and rail-roads came from. We didn't need the benevolent guidance of government's omniscient bureaucrats for any of those, we didn't need it for the Internet.
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
the First Amendment refers to government regulation of speech [...] This is not a legal issue, it's a moral issue.
Yes, which is why I haven't accused anybody of violating the Amendment, you moron. I only said, it is offensive to those, who value it.
It's morally wrong to empower a social media lynch mob without performing
My point, it is wrong to so empower the "lynch mob" even after a "reasonable inquiry into the facts" — even if the said inquiry fully confirms the allegations.
You are not Hammurabi, and you do not get to choose who lives and who dies.
But I do get to approve of some deaths and disapprove of others.
Madison was wrong.
Well, he was "only" the guy, who was writing down the items, as they were discussed during the convention. Surely, he had some insights. Maybe, you — in the 21st century — know more about the intent of those ancient legislators, but you aren't sharing... You just flatly say "wrong" — like a good little tyrant you secretly wish to be... Sigh, as they say, Statists gonna state.
Other founding fathers such as Hamilton understood the General Welfare provision very broadly.
Some citations would be useful here... As well as arguments for why we should be taking Hamilton's opinion over that of Madison and Jefferson.
But, if he was really so good, why are you proposing we "cherry-pick" Hamilton's ideas — instead of also electing the top executive ("national governor") for life — and have him appoint state governors?
I, for one, dread the thought of how this country would've looked, had that sort of tyranny prevailed — Russia, where the presudent's tenure is de-facto life-long and where he is appointing local governments even de-jure, is a very close example, actually.
Moreover, I suspect, you would've hated it too — had you even known about the man, whose opinion on "General Welfare" you advocate. You are wrong — the interpretation of "General Welfare" pushed by the Statists opens up a whole to drive a freight-train through. This was, of course, obvious for centuries. For example, that same Madison said later (1794):
The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects...If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers but an indefinite one..."
Indeed, whether it is to ban speech, confiscate guns, perform warrantless searches, seize funds and property without trials, eavesdrop on citizens' communications — the government would simply need to claim, those are done "for General Welfare". It would be a dreadfully depressing country to live in... Oh, wait...
He was punished for the *action* of expressing them.
Punished for speech, you mean? Oh, that's so much better!
There's a difference.
There is not. Until we have develop a way to reliably discern thoughts that have not been expressed, the very concept of thoughtcrime is either simply not possible, or must, necessarily, cover expressing the "criminal" thoughts in addition to merely holding them.
I suppose I agree, but in the article itself, it does explain why it's difficult to get an accurate figure.
The difficulty of obtaining accurate figures is no excuse for making shit up. Though, of course, as the Climate Science's lead is showing, the practice is increasingly acceptable...
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
