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Location: The Land Mass Between NOLA and Mobile, AL
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Originally Posted by rhawkins74
just because there is such thing as hoaxes, don't mean there isnt such thing as the real deal.
Some women will hoax a man by telling them they are pregnant, even though they are not really. That don't mean that all women that claim they are pregnant, are actually faking it.
The whole argument is a fallacy, because you're saying EVERY racial incident is basically made up. Anytime one is mentioned on here the first thing out of peoples' mouths is, "oh someone must be making it up."
Location: The Land Mass Between NOLA and Mobile, AL
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Originally Posted by tb4000
The whole argument is a fallacy, because you're saying EVERY racial incident is basically made up. Anytime one is mentioned on here the first thing out of peoples' mouths is, "oh someone must be making it up."
I'm agreeing with tb here, and saying that that is why rhawkins' analogy makes perfect sense. It is true that some women say they are pregnant when they really aren't. But most of the time, women are really pregnant. Some people lie. No news here. But that doesn't mean that everyone lies.
By the same token, just because someone makes up a story about discrimination doesn't mean that everyone does. I find that notion to be illogical. Try to apply the same line of reasoning to something else.
There was nothing in my post that indicated I believed that every hate or race crime is a hoax. That was a wrong assumption made on your part.
I am cynical of the press in general because the media is too quick to exploit hot button topics like race or religion and a lot of people get really worked up over something that may or may not be true. Hence, my skepticism.
Location: The Land Mass Between NOLA and Mobile, AL
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Originally Posted by renault
There was nothing in my post that indicated I believed that every hate or race crime is a hoax. That was a wrong assumption made on your part.
I am cynical of the press in general because the media is too quick to exploit hot button topics like race or religion and a lot of people get really worked up over something that may or may not be true. Hence, my skepticism.
I will agree with you on that, and I think that is part of the problem. People are quick to jump to judgment and half-baked analysis without all the facts. I would much rather talk to people about historical incidents about which more context is known, but people rarely do that here, and that is merely an observation, not a judgment.
The other day, I posted a thread about the relevance of satire as a means of political criticism in any contentious time, not just our own. I did so in terms of what I perceived to be other people's misunderstanding of a current example of satire in popular culture. That thread died a slow death, perhaps because people found that topic boring. While I'm not saying that the topic I proposed was particularly interesting, I would say that people tend not to jump on discussions that would lead to discussions that would almost necessarily have to include historical evidence and careful reasoning. I wonder why.
For the cowards who do there dirt at night everything will soon come to light, for the the blind eye who may have seen this shame on you! an know this for when judgement day arrives I hope an pray that God will have mercy on you like you did for his child, because we all are children of God an when we donate blood is it not the same, when we donate organs who say's no because it came from a colored person, when the two are mixed they are beautiful everyone loves salt an pepper on the meal ????? wake the hell up this is not you'r world it is GOD'S an he has the last word I promise you, YOU could be going through something,a love one dying GOD can bring a COWARD to his knee's, to the lady who posted this many prayer's know that you can go somewhere else in this world where people are not like this...lost
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