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You're the new user here with practically no reputation to speak of.
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Originally Posted by Hesster
Since you're new here...
Really poor arguments. Being new to a forum has absolutely nothing to do with the intelligence level of the poster. The poster you are talking down to happens to be one of the more intelligent ones we have on here.
So, I await for bUU to actually back up his/her argument. Go on. You can do it.
Really poor arguments. Being new to a forum has absolutely nothing to do with the intelligence level of the poster. The poster you are talking down to happens to be one of the more intelligent ones we have on here.
So, I await for bUU to actually back up his/her argument. Go on. You can do it.
If your definition of intelligence is solely based on whether the person in question agrees with your own viewpoint.
The person made a claim that is factually and historically incorrect and has been debunked multiple times on this very forum. One that was invented to excuse and cover up the real reasoning behind the Civil War because southern whites found the real truth uncomfortable.
Great - for you. That's the problem. You're evaluating greatness from your own experience rather than from an appreciation of how it was to be one of our society's most vulnerable members. As such your comments are biased toward the advantages you enjoyed, which may or may not have included white privilege and male privilege, but if they did it further distances you from appreciating the reality of whether America was truly great when you recall.
But heck - give us a specific date. I'll be happy to pull up a few personal stories of people who lived through those times, afflicted by some specific lack of greatness that has since been mitigated at least to some extent. Their anecdotal experiences are as valid as yours, and indeed if they are more reflective of the most vulnerable in our society then their experiences are more valid as a measure of the greatness of a society.
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Originally Posted by CALGUY
One would only have to go back to the mid fifties to early sixties to feel the country was great.
Back before minorities civil rights started to become more substantially protected. Back before women had equal opportunities in housing and employment.
I can understand how folks who didn't have to compete on something closer to a level playing field with Black men, Latinos, etc., and with women, may feel that things aren't as great now as they were then.
It isn't true, though.
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Originally Posted by Greatvibegirl
Bill Clinton in his anger said. "a few years ago Obama would be carrying my luggage"
Maybe he did; maybe he didn't. There's no first-hand evidence to prove he said it. If he did say it, as Rev. Al Sharpton said, it would have been a racist comment.
So now please explain to us how Bill Clinton, maybe making a single racist comment sheds any light on this election, which is between Donald Trump, from who's mouth loads of racist comments have emanated, and Hillary Clinton, from who's mouth you're not even alleging racism has emanated.
Really? In saying so this is the comment you're defending:
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Originally Posted by NxtGen
New to proper discussion and debate are we?
Did you not read the comment to which my comment was responding, or did you just post a pointlessly irrelevant reply in denial of the fact that that "really poor argument" was holding up a mirror to the original "really poor argument" that it was in response to?
Stop posting rationalizations for people who are dumbing down the discussion with drivel such as what is quoted above.
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Originally Posted by Salmonburgher
The Constitution gives all power not reserved for the general government to the States. So, yes, I am sure that the States were/are supposed to have more power.
And the Fourteenth Amendment very deliberately changed that balance.
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