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by Klinky 5y ago
I am not trying to make it look worse, I am stating that its factual history is very problematic. There were many victims that came out of that history, and still exist to this day. Again, you sound like you're saying "stop pickin
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by Klinky 5y ago
You're not scapegoating a problem onto a specific group if that specific group actually perpetrated or benefited from the problematic behavior. Again, "other people did bad things" isn't a valid excuse for doing bad thin
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by Klinky 5y ago
It's of little help for a victim to know that someone with something in common with them is a victimizer elsewhere in the world.
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by Klinky 5y ago
This was a critique on American Exceptionalism and its failure to actually apply "all men are created equal" in spite of better examples existing in the world. The US still legally allowed segregation into the 60s. So many people
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by Klinky 5y ago
Let them condemn us, they will likely be absolutely right. Not condemning actions of now or of the past, because we don't want to also be judged for our actions/inaction is basically averting your eyes to try to escape your own re
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by Klinky 5y ago
I am not perfect, no one is, but it is worse to blindly accept or ignore these problems. It's not about trying to take a moral high ground, it's the acknowledgement of reality. Does an iPhone need/absolutely require slavery
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by Klinky 5y ago
Inward to whom? Every human? Isn't that just as "vague" and unfair to blame even the slaves for their slavery?
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by Klinky 5y ago
No, because "other people did horrible things too" isn't a valid excuse.
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by Klinky 5y ago
Is this supposed to excuse the consequences of the past? What is your point exactly? Even much of global human trafficking leads back to forced labor, exploited by major western corporations through obfuscated supply chains.
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by Klinky 5y ago
Not exactly, if you want to narrow it down to North American history, compared to some other countries, NA was rather slow at coming to terms with these issues, and compromises were made over the decades which propped and continued institut
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by Klinky 5y ago
How about the west being founded on slavery, and genocides while sustaining racism and misogyny for hundreds of years. I hear a lot of "head in the sand" thinking. If we don't talk about it, it doesn't exist and never ha
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by Klinky 5y ago
Then what are you arguing? That it exists and doesn't exist at the same time?
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by Klinky 5y ago
Exactly, people who bring this up don't understand the different one-off reactor designs used in maybe a handful of vessels, or that the Navy reactors are meant to go without refueling for up to 25 years. They are also made by third-pa
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by Klinky 5y ago
>Those are all very different words. Not really. You are arguing that misinformation needs to have a place on this platform, and have a chance to be heard. Again an outright misinformed post, that couldn't even back itself up, need
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by Klinky 5y ago
I don't see why the HN community has to honor/uphold/tolerate/defend the opinion of a throwaway account posting inaccurate information its own cited source refutes. These alternative viewpoints need to have some level of
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by Klinky 5y ago
If you make a statement and provide a source that contradicts your statement, yes, you should be questioned on why you even provided that source in the first place, and if you actually read/comprehended it. That isn't "shutti
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by Klinky 5y ago
>Instead, allow the incorrect statement to be contrasted with correct information. That's exactly what the person replying did.
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by Klinky 5y ago
It's not a different belief, it was a flat out lie and spreading of misinformation, their own source doesn't even back them up. Stop pushing a narrative that misinformation should be "equally considered" or is "just
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by Klinky 5y ago
Please start peeing in bottles daily as part of your job, and let your co-workers know about, note their reaction. This discussion is about unacceptable work hazards, not exclusively about being imprisoned on a ship.
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by Klinky 5y ago
No, you'd need to compare the actual job that requires you to piss in a bottle, along with its salary, not your current job with a 15% bonus tacked on. Also people don't sign up to be abandoned on a ship, they're not told of
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by Klinky 5y ago
Do you piss in a bottle on a daily basis as part of your job? Comparing peeing in a bottle [a few times in your life] for expediency compared to doing it on the daily, seems to be its own conflation.
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by Klinky 6y ago
A doctor's salary is unlikely to be eroded by inflation. Annuities often underperform inflation, and life annuities are typically offered by insurance companies with risk pooled assets, not by a single individual.
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by Klinky 6y ago
Please provide the full terms before you imply the young doctor was being unreasonable. The silence was probably because you were offering an awful predatory loan, not that you were delivering the ultimate gotcha zinger.
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by Klinky 6y ago
I think you're saying minorities are better off with a justice system than without. Maybe everyone is technically better off with a justice system, than with something like vigilante justice, but the US has always had some level of jus
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by Klinky 6y ago
This sounds like apples v. oranges. Are males a minority group? No, technically not, since sex split is about 50/50. Is the high preponderance of men ending up in prison concerning? Yes. Frankly our high incarceration rates for non-vio
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by Klinky 6y ago
You are trying to dilute the impact the racist history of US has had on minorities via the justice system. Justice and policing policies disproportionately target minorities. Sure the poor are affected by lack of proper representation, but
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by Klinky 6y ago
The track record of the justice system has been extremely mixed for many, and downright awful for minorities. DNA testing has been absolutely crucial in the last 30 - 40 years for undoing some of the damage the justice system caused before
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by Klinky 6y ago
When Madoff was uncovered and investigated, there were clawbacks from the "winners" of such schemes. The clubs here were the "winner" of a scam/fraud, and also were negligent in not cutting off an obvious problem ga
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by Klinky 6y ago
Sounds like a good argument for a steep inheritance tax.
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by Klinky 6y ago
https://large.stanford.edu/courses/2017/ph241/wang2/docs/iae... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896972... https://www.researchgate.ne

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