Racial Tension in the U.S.

[blommen]

It won't go away until we stop talking about it.

That's a horrible idea. Not talking about it is what got us in the mess in the first place.

 

[Huber.]

That's a horrible idea. Not talking about it is what got us in the mess in the first place.

Pretty sure they open "talked" about racism in the slavery era.

 

[blommen]

Pretty sure they open "talked" about racism in the slavery era.

 

[Huber.]

 

[blommen]

As nice as that clip is, Freeman isn't getting rid of racism, he is simply telling you how not to be racist. He is not stopping any one else from being racist by not acknowledging that that racism exists or addressing it in any way. America's history with slavery doesn't go away simply because it isn't talked about, same goes for systemic racism or cultural whitewashing, tokenism or anything else. these are not new concepts, they have been part of our lives for decades or centuries even. People have just started actually addressing them on a larger scale. Now that we have come that far, the next step is to figure out a way to discuss said topics in a constructive manner and then, after a few more decades, if we're lucky, maybe we'll figure out how to not be racist and we can just go along acting as if it doesn't exist.

 

[The Oi]

It won't go away until we stop talking about it.

This applies to all things.

Especially marital problems, damage to anything that's insured, unsatisfied customers and children.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

America's history with slavery doesn't go away simply because it isn't talked about,

Nothing, not "not" talking about it, or rallies, or speeches, or "direct action" or anything else, is going to change what has happened in the past.

 

[blommen]

Nothing, not "not" talking about it, or rallies, or speeches, or "direct action" or anything else, is going to change what has happened in the past.

.... Sure, I agree with that. well, except for time travelling but that's a conversation for different timeline.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

This applies to all things.

Especially marital problems,

Well, if someone in a relationship repeatedly relives fights from long ago, and carries grudges about things that cannot be changed, that's not so good for a marriage either. All you can do is try to get along better moving forward.

 

[The Oi]

So is Shaun King black or not?

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

Pretty sure they open "talked" about racism in the slavery era.

The gulf between the perspectives is just so...wide. I mean, there are people who think we don't about it enough, and there are people who thing we talk about it too much. Not sure how that can be bridged.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

Who is better Kirk or Piccard?

I'd rather be on a ship captained by Piccard. I'd rather watch a ship captained by Kirk.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

Agreed...

Alright, rank 'em.. Janeway, Kirk, Sisko and Archer?

Okay, so I kind of missed the whole Voyager thing. Actually, I deliberately avoided it, largely because I read a really annoying review/preview of it that included the line "and, oh, that bun," apparently written by some chick who must have been identifying as a guy at the time, because no guy would actually write such a thing. Anyway....

So I decided to give it a shot recently, figuring that maybe my Neanderthalic predilections were unfairly biasing me against the show. I was focusing particularly on Captain Janeway.

She was awful. Apparently, someone had told her that the way to project strength was to speak robotically, and clip all your sentences.

But to your question....if you're going to ask me to rank them all, I think the fairest test that could possibly be used is: who would have the best chance of defeating a Gorn on a random, barren planet? My rankings are as follows:

1) Kirk -- because we know he can actually beat a Gorn. Plus, he's Kirk.

2) Archer -- this was really tough, but I figured his ability to slide to different timestreams gave him an advantage over 3)

3) Sisko -- I was tempted to put him higher because of the higher percentage of fast-twich muscles he would have had, but after reading The Bell Curve, I just couldn't bring myself to do it.

99) Janeway -- within 30 seconds, the Gorn would have spilled his seed on her, then devoured her. Not necessarily in that order.

How did I do?

 

[The Oi]

Okay, so I kind of missed the whole Voyager thing. Actually, I deliberately avoided it, largely because I read a really annoying review/preview of it that included the line "and, oh, that bun," apparently written by some chick who must have been identifying as a guy at the time, because no guy would actually write such a thing. Anyway....

So I decided to give it a shot recently, figuring that maybe my Neanderthalic predilections were unfairly biasing me against the show. I was focusing particularly on Captain Janeway.

She was awful. Apparently, someone had told her that the way to project strength was to speak robotically, and clip all your sentences.

But to your question....if you're going to ask me to rank them all, I think the fairest test that could possibly be used is: who would have the best chance of defeating a Gorn on a random, barren planet? My rankings are as follows:

1) Kirk -- because we know he can actually beat a Gorn. Plus, he's Kirk.

2) Archer -- this was really tough, but I figured his ability to slide to different timestreams gave him an advantage over 3)

3) Sisko -- I was tempted to put him higher because of the higher percentage of fast-twich muscles he would have had, but after reading The Bell Curve, I just couldn't bring myself to do it.

99) Janeway -- within 30 seconds, the Gorn would have spilled his seed on her, then devoured her. Not necessarily in that order.

How did I do?

Have never watched Star Trek (and won't, you dork) but I enjoyed this.

 

[Cavatt]

Dave said that black people commit 4x as much crime and then said it made a lot of sense that they were pulled over 4x as often. Not seeing that that little fact alone could could account for the disparity. Time and again they drug use and commuting crimes doesn't have a higher rate among black people, but of course enforcement and inccarceration is more severe.

In other words he interpreted that info from the conclusion which he has that black people are more likely t o be criminals.

Pattern that hass been repeated