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a year ago
It’s historical facts my boy… its on wikipedia
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a year ago
To be fair 25, in the stuff you posted i do see bucket list stated there… not sure if thats what you were referring to
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a year ago
Wow 25, you gave him a spanking!
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a year ago
GMD the phone youre using to type your comment in all likelihood used slave labor, youve stated all cops are bad so chances are you support the BLM movement, which states that enslaving a black person is more immoral than enslaving an asian person, hence they dont have much of an issue or outcry with asian slaves being used to create nike or apple or other products.
Now anyone can read up on the history of slavery, it was used as a punishment for crimes and to pay off unpaid debts, in fact the US prison system does use slave labor even today… the concept of innocent until proven guilty goes both ways. Nobody really knows how and why slaveowners and slaves came into existence on the individual level
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a year ago
GMD i would say it depends on why and how the enslaver became an enslaver and also why and how the enslaved became enslaved. Theres levels and nuances to everything- if someone was wealthy and just bought slaves to do labor work that’s completely different to going out into some tribal area or another country and just kidnapping random people into slavery. In fact many people now are either involved in owning a slave or purchasing products made by slaves. For example apple, nike, probably many american companies actually use slave labor overseas. Its usually not african slaves, so it doesnt get the same coverage or outcry or unhinged zoo animals as the african slaves from hundreds of years ago.
Many people purchase these products without giving a second thought or care about the slaves used to produce them. Many people are shareholders in apple or nike, which if you want to get nuanced, is even worse than buying products from those companies.
The form of slavery often brought up today is specifically black people enslaved by white people specifically within the borders of the US. And this is done for a variety of reasons, often as a justification for reparations, as a justification for attacking a cop or looting or burning businesses, or just because many people believe in the superiority of the african race whether morally, intellectually, physically, or all three combined.
Another thing that doesnt get talked about much is the history of slavery, which I would recommend googling and also reading the specific Wikipedia article on the history of slavery. Historically, slavery was used as a form of punishment for crimes, and also as a way to pay off unpaid debts. So the idea that every slave owner was a kidnapper who captured and enslaved random people, or that every slave was an innocent person randomly captured, is completely false and presented by people who believe in all kinds of other nonsense. We don’t actually know what percentage of slave owners were kidnappers vs what percentage purchased and used slaves for labor. We also dont know what percentage of slaves were randomly captured vs. what percentage were slaves due to paying off a debt or crime. We do know that slavery still exists today, in prisons in the US, and is used by probably every major company for cheap labor.
And Gammanu you totally exposed 25. Like you said, he literally flip flopped from claiming to vote Trump, to then alternating and saying he never voted Trump.
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a year ago
Smaller eyes usually arent seen as attractive
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a year ago
So what is it when you deny black privilege or asian or latino privilege? If every race has its racial privileges in different situations and contexts, and you choose to only call out white privilege, that is racist just like when some people only call out murderers of one race or only assist victims of one race. Its not that white privilege doesnt exist its that every race is doing the exact same thing.
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a year ago
Does icee still come on here?
Wanted to ask him about someone in vegas
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a year ago
Is it really fathers abandoning that causes those issues. I think its simply the latino and black gang cultures, and idealization of the gangster lifestyle in music. There are very few asian or indian or white gangsters to idealize
And yes the cultures- the asians are often encouraged to be computer nerds while the black people are encouraged to be rappers or athletes.
Its much harder to make it as an athlete or musician- its not like being a computer geek where the top end are executive level and there are also entry and mid levels where you make decent 6 figure incomes.
with athletes youre either a millionaire or making basically no money from it.
Although it could change in the future via YouTube and instagram allowing for income and sponsorships
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a year ago
What about desantis 25? Ron and rand paul?
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a year ago
Dha i would say that white privilege exists but it’s actually just racial privilege. The examples given for white privilege are basically a random white shopkeeper treating a white person better than someone else. If you go to an indian store, or an asian store, you can observe the exact same thing occurring with indians or asians or numerous other races.
White privilege is a weird thing some people like to focus on, its the same group of people who also claim only white people can be racist or that you can only be racist toward minority races.
The explanation given for that is that racism requires power. so if you then use their own definition and point out to them that it means poor white people can’t be racist and rich black people can be racist, theyll start foaming at the mouth and turn into a rabid zoo animal. If you say it in person they might even attack you.
In some cases they will use the argument that only a majority race can be racist against a minority race, that the reverse cannot occur. So once again if you then ask them okay so does that mean in africa with majority black countries, the black majority there are racist and the white minority cannot be racist there? And once again you get implosions, frustrations and excuses.
So really what theyre getting at is they just dont like white people, IMO a lot of darker skinned people are just jealous of lighter skin and actually even if you look into the african and indian communities where dark skin is common, they actually value light skin even there. Even the indians and Africans seek out other lighter skinned people in their race. Some if them even bleach their skin or get surgeries.
Its a really twisted, strange modern day mentality; a politically correct way to be racist. They dont want to come out and with honesty say they dont like a certain race, so instead theyll look for loopholes like claiming to believe in equality while also claiming nonsense like only powerful people can be racist, only white people can be racist, only white privilege exists, only majority race can be racist etc. they dont even believe those thing’s consistently because if you then bring up an example of a poor white person or a powerful black person, somehow its still not possible for the minority to be racist or the poor white person to not be racist.
So despite all the proclamations of racism requires power, or racism requires majority race, they still wont believe those things if the majority race switches to a different one. Another subtle and insidious tactic used is obviously when they say that victims of murder or homelessness or police violence should only be protested for, remembered, and donated to if they are of a specific race.
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a year ago
Why is the name seven so hilarious for a stripper?
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a year ago
Theres debate over whether the civil war was about slavery- the victors wrote the history books and it seems unbelievable that the north would wage war just to prevent the south from using slaves. I believe the north started the war in response to the south wanting to secede- which means they wanted the tax dollars. There’s numerous American companies using slave labor even today, and its all legal.
The civil rights act seems to be federal over reach- the government isnt supposed to discriminate but private businesses and citizens are supposed to be able to. In the modern US, individuals can still discriminate but businesses generally can’t, even if they are completely private and small. Although businesses can still legally refuse to serve anyone they please- they’ll get in trouble if they openly admit to removing someone because of their religion or race or gender- unless someone invents a religion that is racist or sexist then they can invoke freedom of religion.
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a year ago
How do you know I wouldn’t last in a debate? In a debate on which topic? I would be up for a debate
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a year ago
What is a porch monkey? Is it used for a certain race? Nothing wrong with the boy term and zoo animals is just people who behave like animals. There were some valid reasons to vote trump over biden mate.
By further right i meant more to the right beliefs wise
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a year ago
Nina, since you stated that black men are more muscular and athletic than other races, do you also believe Asian and White people are smarter and quicker thinking than black people? I believe you stated something to that effect a while back, on a different thread regarding affirmative action and why it shouldn’t apply to the nba or nfl.
If people who are lagging behind in test scores or intelligence are allowed to get into elite schools and employers on lower test scores, then the same should apply to every industry including athletics or the entertainment industry.
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a year ago
A zoo animal is just anyone who is violent or a thief or being or behaving like a zoo animal. It wouldn’t apply to a specific race, but you could argue a lot of BLM members are zoo animals. Just like there are african or asian or americans lions its the same concept
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a year ago
Im not sure if thats true of white women being helped more. Everything i read about it mentioned that it basically set lower testing standards and admission requirements for latino and black students and higher ones for asians.
In a normal free market economy you would be selected based on your capabilities but AA basically wanted to compare applicants to their peers. Asians scored the highest on gpa and exams so they had to score extraordinarily high to get in compared to other races
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a year ago
Setting your own prices should be allowed if youre a contractor, or otherwise its whatever rules the employee and the business agree on. But they should be notifying people up front that prices can vary depending on dancer decision otherwise it’s false advertising and can waste people’s time in going to the business.
In fact it should be fine even for restaurants if they please to change their prices constantly, or charge different people different prices based on their race, sex, religion, height, or any of their other personal whims.
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a year ago
^^i believe thats what justice thomas and justice sotomayor discussed. Sotomayor was saying she loves affirmative action for helping her out with her career. Thomas said affirmative action made his yale degree worthless.
Also i heard even companies, especially companies with government contracts were also following affirmative action type policies in their hiring standards?
In fact I know one of the more well known consulting firms, was directly recruiting new hires from the hispanic student association on that college campus. They actually listed a special job opening specifically for people part of the hispanic students association.
This is the funny thing, even though the group was technically called that, anyone of any race could join it. So two guys who joined that company got that job through that hispanic student opening, and they werent even hispanic! I dont know if they lied and pretended to be hispanic or if they just had to be part of the hispanic association and that’s all the firm cared about.
Additionally some of these African countries are completely middle eastern and white skinned even with blue eyes yet could mark African on the college admission’s checkbox and get the benefits for that. Technically you could even be white from south africa and still get those benefits. Or just pretend to be originally from Africa and mark it. So it seems like the program wasnt even doing what the people who made it wanted it to do, originally it was meant to try to undo some of the impacts of slavery. They should have specifically asked people if they are African with dark skin, dark eyes and dark curly hair. Or possibly excluded the middle eastern countries from qualifying.
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a year ago
Regarding the main article about Trump being the only non slave owner descendant, this would likely be further fuel boosting him as the outsider candidate and someone separate from the elites and mainstream politicians.
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a year ago
$20-$30 per dance is an excellent price. Some clubs charge $50 a dance
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a year ago
Gammanu I voted Trump and likely am further right than you in all respects, but I wonder about this term you keep using “Muslim terror” its never been used in mainstream media even by right wingers the terms I have heard have been Islamic terrorism or some say Islamic extremism or radical Islamic terrorism. Also even though Trump did many good things i dont see how he did much of anything with Islamic extremists other than killing that Iranian general, and the side effect of him starting less wars in the middle east leading to less overall angry people in the middle east. I dont think his immigration policies had anything to do with it. Also it is unconstitutional to prohibit people from entering the country due to their nationality or religious beliefs. If there is a true legitimate threat of immigrants being violent then obviously a smart country would shut down immigration entirely, because if there truly was a threat via immigration,
Obviously people of a certain nationality or religion could simply lie about being of that religion or nationality. So the immigration policy of excluding a specific nationality or religion becomes pointless.
Also its up in the air if trump is anti Mexican or anti Islam since we dont know if he said those things for marketing purposes or genuinely believes them, but the statements themselves are clearly anti Islam and anti Mexican and unconstitutional. The government isn’t supposed to discriminate against a nationality or religion and in fact even people themselves can only discriminate as far as refusing to do business with them or talking to them even citizens wouldnt be able to legally or morally just kick people out of the country because of their religion or nationality.
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a year ago
Black Americans have a disadvantage in some industries, yet an advantage in others. They have an advantage when it comes to dealing with other black people. Treating people of your own race better is something that goes back to tribal times, its not something exclusively done by white people as some pretend.
The “examples” of white privilege are nonsense examples like a white shopkeeper or a white cop behaving friendly with a white person. Yet you can find the same examples of black people treating other black people better, or even some white people treating blacks better than they treat whites and vice versa.
The stereotype of black people is theyre stupid and athletic, so that could lead to them being underrated when it comes to politics or the tech industry yet, could lead to being overrated when it comes to the sports industry. For asian people it would be the exact opposite of that.
Nobody really is under an even playing field its all relative and depends on the context you’re referring to.
CJ Kent the problem with your so called comparison is in order for it to be a valid comparison you would need to compare black people in the US in the 1800s to white people in an African majority black country in the 1800s. I have no idea why you’re comparing black slaves in the 1800s in the US to white people in the 1800s in the US.
If youre trying to claim white people back then treated other white people better, it means absolutely nothing because its been established that black people also treat other black people better and in fact it is something every race engages in. If you go to an Indian restaurant or a mexican restaurant and you speak their languages youll very possibly be treated better than someone who only speaks english, because you can build rapport easier with them via language.
Or it could simply be you’re both the same race so you connect easier. To say this is an exclusively white concept and package it as white privilege is laughable. Why dont people complaining about white privilege also call out black, asian, latino privilege? It seems like theyre hinting at something, which is they believe some races are better than others. In fact some even believe zoo animals are better and have more rights than humans.
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a year ago
Brahma boy even then the cash businesses making more money will probably report their income and use business expenses for tax deductions. Since it’s necessary for buying a house or possibly other things. The deductions can bring your taxable income down significantly so it may not even be worth hiding the cash income to avoid taxes on it.
However with the deductions you also have people abusing that. So there are probably some portion of strippers and also other contractors or businessmen abusing that tax deduction policy? Think about it mate a stripper or someone in the entertainment industry, they can expense the gas they use to drive to work… probably any costs of makeup or clothing or surgeries like breast enhancements are probably tax deductible since they can be argued as being business expenses… maybe theres some loophole to where they can even claim shoes or jewelry or cars are also tax deductible? If the car is used for work can you deduct the car payments from taxes…?
Also rent? Are rent payments tax deductible? If rent itself is tax deductible then that would be an excellent deal for someone making 100k a year. Their $2500 a month rent would basically go down to at least $2000 a month…