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:grin: I mostly meant even Hillary and Obama are too right for Europe.

Racism is thinking one race is superior and act on that. Nothing can change that. If we are dealing with another phenomenon we should find another name for it. The belief that blacks in the US are more likely to commit a crime than nonblacks is similar to the belief that men are more likely to...

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My boyfriend's parents are Modi supporters. The conversation they had with their son (in my presence) during the Delhi riots was so much fun :grin: Also some of the most powerful Indian academics I know in econ/business are supporting Modi. I have never seen an academic trusting a politician in...

In my analogy, Trump is Tataloo though haha. And I meant the stark contrast between the two.

White privilege is interestingly when you are white and you demand defunding the police.

To me it's the American version of Raeisi and Tataloo :lol:

And not because there's something inherently good about the middle ground. In Iran for example taking the middle position on most social issues is most likely the wrong position either in service or in fear of the dictatorship but in a country like the US where the structure is relatively fair...

He has pushed his opponents to the left of where they were and his proponents to the right of where they were. The rift is greater and the middle ground where most of the best things exist has been minimized. And this is only one of the million reasons why he sucks.

Businesses are slaves to their consumers. Kaepernick’s protest wasn’t tolerated because of the fear that fans would stop watching the NFL. Apply that here and you will understand what HBO is doing. They are not supposed to make a moral decision (or say the right decision), they will make the...

It actually means decreasing "at least" one of its precursors or the interaction between them. But yeah police involvement even if violent, is by nature a response to, not a precursor of crime. From what I see lowering the crime rate is not the goal of those who demand defunding police...

Still very interesting. Camden is the scariest place in the US I have been to. If what they have done has caused or even contributed to what they have achieved then it's amazing.

A free thinker with such major inconsistencies in the span of two months is a hypocrite. And shouldn't be able to practice if we care about people's lives.

At least with religion, the followers have been mocked for being brainwashed, ignorant and dogmatic. What should I make of a medical doctor who advises against what his discipline suggests and he's been advising the past few months during the pandemic.

Thanks for your eloquent nonanswer :grin:

You said these things always happen, I actually wouldn't say always but glad you agree Chauvin was not the only or the first. You said it shouldn't lead to riots. I would have agreed if I'd known what it had resulted in the previous times something like that happened. There have been plenty of...

Oh don't play that game with me :grin: "Yet" as in the Chauvin's case, right? That was not what I was talking about and you know it. I asked you to think about all the ones before, a fraction of those actually - those that made headlines -, what was the swift punishment?

Has it happened? Forget about the conversation about race, think about every one of the incidents that made headlines (and take into account many were never mentioned because the victim was white), what was the swift punishment? What was the conviction rate? And why should people think the...

Yeah I didn't believe when you said you didn't watch it.

Really? You seem to watch a lot of videos. That one was circulated widely and you are discussing it here. Do you expect it to be too violent to watch?