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That's kind of my point: the honor culture works least badly in a place where everyone shares the same values, and is prepared to spend their life carefully avoiding any act which might offend the very touchy men with knives around them (i.e. Bedouin Arabs). And where none of these rules changes mu...

You judge people by their race first and as individuals a distant second. You accuse 1.7 million people of murder over the actions of one woman. That makes you a racist. That is collectivism/collective guilt/collective blaming, not "racism". Note I did not say anything about "inferio...

Yes, white-washing certainly did occur, up to instances of black-owned businesses hiring someone white (or of another ethnicity, but white usually worked best) to act as front men/women, but I think (we're venturing into opinion here, just to be clear) that when the highly segregated housing patter...

Historically, all-black no-whites nations haven't turned out so good. See Haiti. The Polish soldiers Napoleon used were largely unmolested, so there -were- whites in Haiti from the beginning. It is racist because you want to use racist acts to serve racist goals. uh no : rac·ist [rey-sist] Show IPA...

No, just all "white jews". I mean Askhenazi Jews to be specific, and I will say not ALL Askhenazim were involved in exploitation of the black population of the US. There were few Shephardic Jews for example in the US, and they were also white Jews. Blacks in the USA were exploited by vari...

The team sports encourage exactly that - team work. Helping your brother out to achieve a goal. It's not that individual sports aren't good - they are - but some exposure to team sports can provide benefits. Ok. Sure, that too, but really, there is a push to cut everything BUT academics in some sec...

Are you incapable of reading or why are you not getting that saying "the exploiters were jews" as an authoritative statement is racist in itself? Well, "Jew" is not a race for one thing. And I emphasized which subgroup of Jews tended to engage in such practices in the US relativ...

Most of the African-American Polygamists are Muslim . That's still not a lot of support, at highest estimate the Muslim population is 7 million about a quarter of those are African-American so about 1.75 million. Rounding the African-American population up to a round even number of 39 million. That...

So a bunch of bullshit anecdotes from Chicago and some quote from W.E.B. DuBois establishes, in your mind, that Jews are generally hostile towards black people? I'm beginning to wonder if you're even worth responding to at all. I quoted Martin Luther King on the Jews, that's not a 'bullshit ancedot...

Unfortunately, right now the role models for young black men tend to be gangs (violence and short life expectancy being a problem) , sports figures (requires both a certain luck of the draw physically and talent, so it's a crap shoot) , ministers (I question if they benefit anyone other than their ...

Just a correction here: I was referring to Naboo, where the ship came from, not Tatooine where they performed the test. Naboo's in the Outer Rim, sure, but it's a member of the Republic and apparently reasonably well-off. What I meant was, why would they bother giving the ship's computer on a space...

Well, the Lucrehulk II has enough shields to hold out a "flotilla" of Venator/Victory Star Destroyers so that -is- Canon. Of course, that cuts down drastically on fighter count, but the amounts in the mod are likely 'canon' enough

Well The Clone Wars has largely clone crews being showed for the big ships, though how representative it was galaxy-wide is debatable I suppose. Still, like the Galactic Empire and its ISDs with stormtroopers, I imagine they would have clone troopers as security if nothing else, so there's that. It...

I have some reservations about programs targeted solely towards young, black men, yet they are also the most likely to be victims of homicide in the Chicago area. Correct. But a program can be dedicated towards young black males without the cultural baggage which sets me off. For example, I do not ...

The lesser evil, indeed. EDIT: I am interested, what would you say can be possible by 'not playing the game?' since you mentioned such? You can't opt out of the game. By "refusing to play" you are only playing badly All bullshit aside, I'm curious if you take issue specifically with anyth...

Huh? I know some of the worst crimes were committed by local collaborators. Maybe my argument isn't the best out there and I don't really think I phrased it correctly, but I was talking about Germans. Right, but revealing that the the concentration camp system was larger does not exactly blame the ...

I think the willingness of the Republic and even the Jedi to use the Clones as an army is an important indicator of how far the Republic has fallen as a civilization, of how far it has strayed from it's founding ideals and the past ages where Jedi were truly the protectors of the Peace. Well, early...

I think the willingness of the Republic and even the Jedi to use the Clones as an army is an important indicator of how far the Republic has fallen as a civilization, of how far it has strayed from it's founding ideals and the past ages where Jedi were truly the protectors of the Peace. Well, early...

Put this way. If you're so afraid of being a pawn that you refuse to even participate, you don't stand much chance of winning the game. I would say the argument is more of 'playing the game on your terms' or something similar, etc. I could echo Ahriman's words one for one: "If I ever said or i...

Now, here is my official decree: This shit flinging between Saxtonite and others stops right now before it stinks this thread up any further. Anybody, no matter if it is Havok, Saxtonite, Metahive etc. better shut up and get back to the point. *ceases fire* That strikes me as wrong because every di...

Terralthra wrote:Wow, Saxtonite doubles down on ESL jokes and adds in ableism. "Brilliant."

Havok uses the very same insults I use ("lack of comprehension") ("lack of intelligence") yet I am the "bad guy" here?

So Mr. Advocate Ebonics, is now adhering strictly to the definitions of words and there can be no exceptions or alternative usages given the fluent nature of language and the fact that that is precisely where Ebonics if born from. Fucking awesome. You're speaking white american english here, rememb...

They weren't slaves . From what I've read it sounds like you're just making shit up, because the complaint was not about the quality or price of the product, it was that the grocery stores weren't employing blacks. Well my uncle's statement about bad food was not made up shit. The 'maggots in food'...

You couldn't even construct a response with anything but insults. You even recognized this as you actually had to edit it some actual content. :lol: Nope. Informal. to yield or give in: Dad folded and said we could go after all. Responding to aggression.....is not that. Flaming with no content is j...

Uh, no. It showed me that if someone calls you names you fold Oh do tell how I "fold" if I respond to your statements and can't do anything but respond to the name calling. Says a lot about you comprehension skills. Which was already relevant. Huh. A forum which allows flaming. And you bi...