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I see your point and I think we can all agree that the past few hundred years has been hard on black people. However as the suicide rate and drug overdose rate
by negzero7 7y ago
I see your point and I think we can all agree that the past few hundred years has been hard on black people. However as the suicide rate and drug overdose rate for white men is increasing I think we should also consider their plight as well. Life can be hard and we shouldn't dismiss problems just because of their skin color.
- patentatt 7y agoThank you for the thoughtful reply to a snarky comment. That’s admirable. And I agree that we should not dismiss problems just because of skin color. You win the internet today.
- mk376 7y agoThis is true we should consider everyone's plight, but no one give this same amount of thought to the issues that plague black people. No one (nationally) talks about the impacts of high unemployment,PTSD, despair (and everything that is being mentioned in this thread) on, say, the crime rate in Chicago. It's always well black people are bad and we need to send in more police. Always. Even here. Whenever there is a topic about crime (which is a symptom) and black people...it's always "the crime stats point out" and "disproportionate" and "so of course you need more police". Never a peep about the underlying issues. Never a word about the plight of black people, which high crime is a symptom of the plight.
- LegitShady 7y agoI think by segregating suffering individuals into their racial groups you're setting up adversarial resource competition that is bound to create societal tensions and create discord, even though you probably think its virtuous to acknowledge historical discrimination without giving much thought to the people using it a social lever today in ways that harm society.