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I've been offended by a lot of things, but I don't try to limit the offenders the way they do. Lots of things in this world are offensive. Affirmative Action is offensive. Social Engineering is offensive. Trying to submarine people's views is offensive.In the sense that one person can think that something is racist and another person can think it isn't - sure. However, opinions can be wrong. If someone is offended by something, saying that you don't think it's offensive doesn't negate the fact that they were offended.
I didn't ever say Biden was racist. In fact, I don't think he is. Wrong, yes. Offensive to some, yes. Racist, no.Two parts to this:
1. "Both sides do it" isn't an excuse. I condemn racism on both sides of the aisle. And I thought you said that it wasn't racist? Change your mind?
Slavery was a heck of a long time ago, too, yet Democrats keep bringing up reparations, as if that can solve anything. The only thing that's going to solve anything is to stop dividing people into race/sex/gender groups and treat people as people.2. The Democratic Party of the 1960s is not the same as the Democratic Party of 50+ years later. The vast majority of Democrats who did not support civil rights legislation left the Democratic Party after the Civil Rights Act was passed and joined the Republicans as part of Nixon's Southern Strategy. If you look at the divide between people who voted for and against the Civil Rights Act, the clear deciding factor is North vs. South, not Democrat vs. Republican. Southern Republicans voted against the CRA and Northern Democrats voted for it. However, most Democrats at the time came from Southern states, while most Republicans came from Northern states, so it should be no surprise that most Democrats voted against it while most Republicans voted for it. This idea has been refuted many, many times on this forum, and yet people keep bringing it up as of it's some kind of "gotcha." It isn't.
Actually, that's not a race, either.Agreed. You said that because "Indian" wasn't a race, it couldn't be racist. Now that we've cleared up that "Indian" in this case means "Native American," which is a race, can you agree that it was racist?
Not really. Between doctor appointments and blood transfusions and chemo treatments, not much time in the day. Then there's trying to clean house.It's not that long of an article and you clearly have time to respond to this thread, so why not? You've had a few weeks since I made the post - surely you could find 20 minutes somewhere to educate yourself.
In my experience, people who used drugs while in school were generally poor students, including me. So there's my example that sez you're wrong. Generally speaking, taking drugs inhibits learning.Why does the fact that it's anecdotal matter? You claim that because he smoked weed in high school, he must have been a bad student - in other words, anyone who smokes weed is a poor student. Even a single example disproves that claim. I provided an example - multiple, in fact, because I knew several people who smoked weed while being good students. Therefore, your claim is false.
I don't think we know his transfer grades. And who says he stopped doing drugs in high school?And transfer grades being more important than high school grades isn't anecdotal. That's a fact. If he was a good student at his transfer college, then, even if he barely passed high school, it wouldn't matter very much.
I didn't claim any such thing. And since when does it have to be his family that helped him?You claimed he bought his way into school. He did not - his family was not rich enough to do something like that.
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