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>This is as strawman brought in from Scott Adams' rant I haven't read his rant. If anyone was strawmaning, you went to Hitler, I was just trying to modify the
by benj111 4y ago
>This is as strawman brought in from Scott Adams' rant
I haven't read his rant. If anyone was strawmaning, you went to Hitler, I was just trying to modify the example to better fit.
>He owned land not long thereafter, which was left to my father. That land will be left to me
Good for you. Doesn't apply to me though, so it's obviously not a black v white issue.
Further I would support a ~100% inheritance tax rate, solves the issue, means that every generation has a clean slate, making their own way in life. Plus id rather pay my taxes after I'm dead. How does that suit?
> had the right to vote, and he shaped the country by electing representatives to lobby for his interests
And those laws can be changed. Which do you suggest?
>To go a step further...
Yes that's an issue. But is it an issue of poverty? A problem of racist police and courts? What? I disagree that slavery actually exists. I don't think prisons should exist as money making concerns though.
The thread of black -> poor -> drugs -> prison I'm not convinced needs to include black in there. And a healthy amount of personal responsibility for the people involved is also required. It can't all just be blamed on others.
And none of this requires a discussion of slavery. Fix the problem as it is now.
- freejazz 4y ago>The thread of black -> poor -> drugs -> prison I'm not convinced needs to include black in there. Wow, incredibly magnanimous of you.
- benj111 4y ago? well assuming poverty is the issue. solve the poverty. for all people. i dont see why it makes sense to focus on a just so happens to be related group. or is black poverty acceptable because it was forced on them by the white man? whereas all poor white people deserve it?
- freejazz 4y agoI'm just pointing out that it's incredibly magnanimous for you to ponder the thought that maybe black people don't have to be poor. Like I said, incredibly magnanimous.
- benj111 4y agoWhere did I say they have to be poor, or should be poor? If you read the thread, I'm the one who isn't implicitly conflating the 2, which I suspect is at least part of the disconnect. This is why I don't get arguments mentioning slavery etc. Because poverty and blackness are separate. You don't need a racial component to go about fixing that. So the snark is wrong.
- freejazz 4y ago>Where did I say they have to be poor, or should be poor? I didn't say or suggest you said that.