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Old 08-24-2017, 03:06 AM
 
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What law prohibits anyone in the US from being controversial?

Have you ever read the 1st Amendment to our Constitution?
Do you understand that the freedom to say or do something doesn't necessarily make it the best or correct decision?

Guess common sense isn't common and plenty people lack basic home training.
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Old 08-24-2017, 03:08 AM
 
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Angry. Resentful. Yes. Not necessarily racist.

Some are, of course. But, I think the terms racism and racist are far too commonly used and very often mistakenly used.
Meh...I believe there are racists among every group but I will agree that among "black" people there is more anger and resentment that racism.
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Old 08-24-2017, 04:44 AM
 
Location: Texas
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Do you understand that the freedom to say or do something doesn't necessarily make it the best or correct decision?
Do you understand that the freedom to say or do something doesn't mean it's okay to be hit? Blame rape victims for the way they dress right? No one is responsible for another persons actions.

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Guess common sense isn't common and plenty people lack basic home training.
Common sense like attacking someone over speech? Quit making excuses for thugs.
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Old 08-24-2017, 05:15 AM
 
Location: Morrison, CO
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The students of Howard University also have a right to express their freedom of speech.
Yes, but in a non-violent manner. Stealing people's hats, verbal, and physical assault is NOT free speech.
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Old 08-24-2017, 05:17 AM
 
Location: Morrison, CO
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Angry. Resentful. Yes. Not necessarily racist.

Some are, of course. But, I think the terms racism and racist are far too commonly used and very often mistakenly used.
Some blacks are racist against their own kind. Darker blacks are sometimes racist against lighter skinned blacks, and many are certainly racist against white people.
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Old 08-24-2017, 05:34 AM
 
Location: Somewhere below Mason/Dixon
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No. BLM doesn't just go and march into random places for no reason. They march when injustice occurs. And they aren't a hate group and you're going to lose. Conservatives have never won a cultural war. Progress always happens.
Things are changing, the silent white majority is not as "silent" as it used to be. You socialists SJWs only think your winning, the election of Trump only happened because of your liberal overreach. Many Americans are so sick of PC and liberal stupidity that they voted for Trump out of shear defiance of the PC culture. Polls say most Americans support leaving the confederate statues and flags alone, most hate the BLM rioters, hate antifa, as I type this a story is on the news about a driver who injured protesters in saint louis by forcing his way thru the hippies in his way. That is a perfect example of how people feel about them.

You say the left always wins culture wars......well sorta. Yes you have forced a lot through the courts but people usually never really support the change. People today are just as disgusted in general with homosexuality even after a court illegally forced gay marriage on states in violation of the 10th amendment. If anything they galvanized opposition to homosexuality in average Americans. BLM and the easily offended blacks on tv complaining about confederate symbols, police brutality and white privilege have created more new racism toward the black race than has existed in decades. The nation seemed to be really moving toward a more color blind society until these activists intentionally provoked white people to anger. It will take decades to undo the damage they have done. The whole milleniall generation has become the target of insults because of thier radical left beliefs, PC, safe spaces etc. No one takes them seriously now, this snowflake image will hang around the millenials necks sort of like hippies do for. Any boomers. (The snowflake image is far more negative than the hippie one is)

Worse yet this leftist nonesense is a threat to the union itself. We are more divided than we have been since the civil war. Political violence is becoming common. We are starting to look like Venezuela, not the USA. Do these people want to provoke a civil war? Do they think the majority of Americans will just accept thier nonesense peacefully simply because they loudly demand it. All the polls say Americans don't like PC, don't want monuments removed, don't support Colin kapernick and his kneeling for the anthem. We have tolerated a lot, but you mistake tolerance in the name of peace for support and acceptance. There are limits of this tolerance and I believe we are really close to those limits.

Don't kid yourself, libs will not win on all this. However you people may destroy the country in your effort to try.
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Old 08-24-2017, 07:28 AM
 
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Angry. Resentful. Yes. Not necessarily racist.

Some are, of course. But, I think the terms racism and racist are far too commonly used and very often mistakenly used.
Gee, you think?
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Old 08-24-2017, 08:56 AM
 
Location: Suburb of Chicago
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It's quite different in that there is no evidence Sally Hemmings ever considered herself a rape victim. She might well have thought of herself as extremely fortunate to be in a stable, long term relationship with a great man who she loved.
Right, and there is no evidence the slaves didn't want to live with slave owners and pick cotton.

There's no evidence that some black people didn't want to commit suicide and hung themselves from trees.

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Old 08-24-2017, 09:00 AM
 
Location: Asia
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Do you understand that the freedom to say or do something doesn't necessarily make it the best or correct decision?
I do.

But, that does not alter our natural right to peacefully express our political opinion.

Do you not understand that?

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Guess common sense isn't common and plenty people lack basic home training.
I know, right? Can you believe how inappropriately those HU students acted?
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Old 08-24-2017, 09:01 AM
 
Location: Asia
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Gee, you think?
Gee, I guess so.

But, honestly, I'm not sure you understood my post, as your reply makes little sense in the context of my post and the overall discussion.

But, thanks for your contribution.
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