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View Poll Results: Will you kneel and ask for forgiveness for racism?
Yes 18 5.64%
No 301 94.36%
Voters: 319. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 06-04-2020, 09:24 AM
 
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A lot of white people are too ignorant to admit to and even acknowledge the issue of systemic racism in America to begin with. Can we really expect people with that kind of nature to have enough decency to offer an apology or some kind of gesture that they are at least willing to help try to make things right?
Systemic racism. The big lie.

This is a setup to lower your resistance to reparations.

People are being socially indicted for thought crimes they didn't commit. And it's not even rational, conscious thought, it's unconscious they'll tell you. You don't even know you are doing it. You're guilty. You're guilty because you're white.

Same crap with this BS white privilege. More nonsense designed to get enough people to "see" their racism and vote to pay black people. !4 trillion was the last number I heard.

Defund the police. Go ahead. Fight systemic racism and remove them from your ever-so-peaceful neighborhoods. Watch how "systemic" your problems become then.

What a bunch of BS.
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Old 06-04-2020, 09:24 AM
 
Location: California
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'I'd rather die standing than live on my knees’



https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/117...t-than-live-on
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Old 06-04-2020, 09:26 AM
 
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Systemic racism. The big lie.

This is a setup to lower your resistance to reparations.

People are being socially indicted for thought crimes they didn't commit. And it's not even rational, conscious thought, it's unconscious they'll tell you. You don't even know you are doing it. You're guilty. You're guilty because you're white.

Same crap with this BS white privilege. More nonsense designed to get enough people to "see" their racism and vote to pay black people. !4 trillion was the last number I heard.

Defund the police. Go ahead. Fight systemic racism and remove them from your ever-so-peaceful neighborhoods. Watch how "systemic" your problems become then.

What a bunch of BS.
Is there even such a thing as a thought crime? People are free to think as the want. It’s actions that count.
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Old 06-04-2020, 09:26 AM
 
Location: SW Florida
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i wont kneel, bow or forgive trolls who want to start something - just like i wont kneel or bow to any politician
Agreed. IMO, no matter how virtuous it makes the kneeler feel, it still smacks of groveling.
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Old 06-04-2020, 09:28 AM
 
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Golf is a "white sport".

You're racist.

And now the thread is back on!

Greatest golf season ever turned in was by a mixed race fellow named Eldrick T Woods in 2000. Not a white sport since then. Not to me anyway.

And not for nothing, but these days, the letters LPGA stand for Lots of Pretty Good Asians, so I know for sure women's golf isn't a white thing or even an American or European thing. It's an Asian thing.
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Old 06-04-2020, 09:32 AM
 
Location: In Your Head
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Defund the police. Go ahead. Fight systemic racism and remove them from your ever-so-peaceful neighborhoods. Watch how "systemic" your problems become then.

What a bunch of BS.
Thank god for the 2nd Amendment, my friends and I can defend ourselves and even “storm” the state capitol without being harassed.

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Old 06-04-2020, 09:33 AM
 
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Is there even such a thing as a thought crime? People are free to think as the want. It’s actions that count.
Of course, but in the absence of actual racist actions, there has to be a mechanism whereby you are still guilty. Your subconscious biases.
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Old 06-04-2020, 09:33 AM
 
Location: SW Florida
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Is there even such a thing as a thought crime? People are free to think as the want. It’s actions that count.
Only IF they think along societally sanctioned "PC" thoughts.

Seriously, two novels come to mind where thought crimes were figured into the narrative: 1984, and Farenheit 451.
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Old 06-04-2020, 09:34 AM
 
Location: Suburb of Chicago
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If people kneeling were really sincere, they would offer to be their slaves for the rest of their lives.

Too much?
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Old 06-04-2020, 09:34 AM
 
Location: Somewhere gray and damp, close to the West Coast
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I have an acquaintance whose ancestor ran a safe house on the underground railroad, and I'm pretty sure nobody ever knelt to him in gratitude.
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