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Originally Posted by Crapshoot
Stop with this equivocalizing. Do you seriously buy that racism from some Louis Farrakhan type-idiot has the same effect as racism from a group with more power? The "everyone is a racist" bit is a copout - its meant to let you feel good about yourself, etc etc.
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Well, he's gone. Racism begets racism. It needs to be snuffed out from the basic core first and then that core will rise to power later. It doesn't work the other way around if the core is corrupt, because in America, we have the power. How do we get young people to stop calling each other names and focusing on the color of our skin or what type of hair we have? By blaming white people? C'mon...it starts by us all having some responsibility in making sure we raise ourselves right.
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Its pretty clear that on the Zimmerman trial, it did not rise to the level of reasonable doubt - the jury did the right thing given the way our justice system functions, and that's all you can ask them to do. I think you'd be hard pressed to find people who disagree with that. But what is scary is the people (including some here) who think a dead young black kid is ok, because he may have had tattoos or smoked weed - that makes him a "punk" or a "thug" (whichever dog whistle you want to use) and thus Zimmerman's desire to go chase him was ok within that. Its the same type of defense that says a girl who get raped "deserved it", and is disgusting. You can absolutely believe that Zimmerman's actions did not rise to criminality (based on the proof we have) while acknowledging that its despicable that our laws suggest stalking some kid is ok, because of SYG\.
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I am saying that 11,000 black men have died in the last year or so and YOU don't give a shit because THEY were not killed by a white dude. How on Earth is "White people are racist" solving anything here? And to equate SYG and/or self-defense to "deserving rape" just means you are having a really hard time grasping what has taken place. Our laws do not suggest stalking is okay. As a matter of fact, stalking is illegal. If he was stalking, charge him for it. The fact that he wasn't charged for stalking means you are fabricating claims. That's three fallacies on your part. You call me a racist, you call his actions akin to rape, and say he was illegally stalking...yet none of it is part of the logical conversation.