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by themitigating 3y ago
It depends. How are they manipulating people? If the information is true or an option based on true facts then I blame the person. If they are lying or stating opinions based on false facts then I blame the person. However the internet exis
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Is your last paragraph nessacary? Could you not just argue your point without claiming that those who disagree are both bias and crazy.
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"technology, economy" That's subjective. Maybe happiness is the most important aspect of a society
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I blame the people who fall for manipulation
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Behind the rest of the world how? Technology? Would you say Native Americans were behind? They had a thriving society.
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Politicians are only so because people elect them. Blame the voters never who they voted for
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I'm not serious reparations I'm simply pointing out that the economic suffering of blacks didn't stop when the civil war ended.
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by themitigating 3y ago
No I mean the average African-American is easily over 10x wealthier, and has far better opportunities than the average citizen of the countries that now inhabit the lands they originally came from. Because those countries were devastated
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In 1968, H. George Frederickson articulated "a theory of social equity" and put it forward as the 'third pillar' of public administration.[4] Frederickson was concerned that those in public administration were making the
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The descendants of those slaves are now much wealthier and better off by pretty much any metric than their relatives who were not enslaved Do you mean each successive generation of blacks were wealthier than the previous? What about a com
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Since the children of elites represent such a small percentage and the cost per child is low is it really that big of a hit?
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There were racist laws all the way up to late 1960s.
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It wasn't just about slavery but also racist laws that existed until the 70s~.
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by themitigating 3y ago
So they mark how much employee insurance is costing them, do they also breakdown their profit? Since business like restaurants often price based on a margin doesn't inflation sometimes increase profits? I also don't understand pro
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by themitigating 3y ago
"Then there’s the misc fees. A random X% Covid, inflation, health insurance cost." ????
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by themitigating 3y ago
If someone talks about how they love to work and don't want to retire it's not a judgement on any other choices.
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This is a crime, but it's very very hard to prove Then how do you know it's prevalent?
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A substitute teacher isn't an effective way of judging the education system
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Were those shootings by immigrants?
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So calling someone a nazi can land you in jail. Example
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I'm saying that people and animals have been acting that way for a very long time. Tolerance for strangers is more in need of sociological explanation than the opposite. Certainly, the trend towards tolerance exists and is rising over
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by themitigating 3y ago
I'm saying that people and animals have been acting that way for a very long time So? Just because people have done something for a long time doesn't mean it's right. Or are you disputing the historical claim that humans o
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by themitigating 3y ago
1. Chimps also kill to dominate, is that now an acceptable behavior for people? We aren't animals. 2. If you don't like foreigners you're a bigot and terrible person. Hating someone because of where they are from is illogical
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Because it can also be true but the comment implies it's only used as an attack.
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Or, you know, I used it to accurately describe the way statistics are created, manipulated, promoted, and used to paint all kind Another generalization without evidence? Merely claiming? This is reality 101. Anything you can directly obs
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by themitigating 3y ago
Doesn't matter if it was true or not.
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Thank god we are done with accusing people of being communists
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by themitigating 3y ago
You said 80% of blah blah then drcry the use of statistics. You just forced-fed that to everyone When did people lost the ability to experience empirical reality, and generalize and draw conclusions from it No one lost this ability it&#x2
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by themitigating 3y ago
Governments are more likely to censor threats against themselves over people.
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by themitigating 3y ago
If the probability of something is below a certain amount it should be treated as if it is impossible.

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