Recent content by Audacious

He keeps his promises? What about his 100 day goals?

Wow, is that wrong. A species is "a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding". Dogs and wolves can interbreed perfectly well; and as such are the same species regardless of whether we found them or we domesticated them.

None, because it has very little to do with the issue of oppression. Celebrities, millionaires and billionaires are very tiny portions of the population, and do not represent a majority in any real way. Oppression makes it more difficult to be successful; it doesn't make it impossible. This...

Society needs widespread changes to make it easier for black people to become successful, because without those changes, it is much more difficult for them to be those things. It's not a coincidence that there are far fewer black doctors than white ones, for instance. One black president...

The implication that the majority of black people can't be oppressed because some of them are able to become sports stars or presidents is ridiculous. Especially since that was the first black president after a string of 42 white ones.

Actually, it's a cop's job to do what they can to de-escalate the situation and calm down the aggressive person. They're supposed to protect and serve, and that means only using violence when absolutely necessary -- because anyone they're violent towards is part of the community they're...

A lot of black people are anti-black and anti-semitic, and of course some are anti-white. But all of these groups are small minorities (10% or under) among black people in the US. If white people suffered in this place the same way black people do here, and for the same reasons, then of course...

There is little to no systematic racism against white people in the real world. There may be some exceptions, like hip-hop music, but I don't know enough about that topic to do more than make vague speculations. 99.9% of the time, in the United States, being white is a very helpful thing that...

Oppression is systematic, and obviously not total. In most cases, it's like a doorway; white people get a larger door, and then give black people a much smaller one, so that they can't fit as well. Others in this thread have mentioned, for instance, how people with "black-sounding names" get...

Yeah, the difference being that black people haven't had 2,000 years to recover from oppression and that said oppression is still actively happening.

The history of how one's ancestors are treated effect how they are treated today, and how they are today. It influences the culture around you and the culture of those who would oppress you; and creates your situation, in many ways. For many people, their living situations exist due to events...

If someone else has it worse, that doesn't make your situation better. Being treated poorly by society is bad regardless of how bad it's been before. Literal slavery is a pretty low bar for whether or not someone is facing discrimination. I've been harassed for my liberal views in a...

It's almost amazing how you came up with your own (correct) rebuttal.

The names on the list SummerMadness linked are normal names. The fact that a white person named Tyrone Jackson will get fewer callbacks on job searches than a black person named Adam Smith is systemic racism, because the reason they don't get called back as much is because people think they're...

The NHS doesn't have to do that, though; they just need to increase funding. (They pay 1/3 of what the US does for health care per capita, with better health outcomes.). The alternative being dying if you can't afford it. Regardless, the NHS is not the norm for universal health care. France...