Posted by wylie715 on 5/29/2018 7:06:00 PM (view original):
Nobody asked you to write a check. Its easy for you (or me, for that matter) to say get over it, since we didn't go through it. As a Jew should I get over what happen in WWII? It was over 70 years ago.

No, but if you hold onto the past too tightly, all you will ever see are Nazis...even where there aren't any.

The global community isn't doing enough to combat human rights violations. Russian, Chinese and NoKo prisons are holding far too many political prisoners. Why is this tolerated?

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Posted by gomiami1972 on 5/29/2018 1:32:00 PM (view original):
In unrelated news, congrats to the Warriors for winning Game 7.

I know and they'll smoke Cleveland.

I am curious if the Lakers make some plays. They have a ton of cap room next year. They can sign LBJ, PG13 and trade Ingram, Kuzma and Deng to SA for Kawhi. They sign O'Quinn and Redick as FAs.

This gives them a lineup of

PG: Ball
SG: Kawhi
SF: PG13
PF: James
C: O'Quinn

They win the west and play the Celtics in the East....next year!!!

Every time I see LBJ, I think of Lyndon Baines Johnson. That would not be a good FA signing for the Lakers.

LMAO. You never know.

well, he is dead so I doubt he can get up and down the court very quickly.

Put rockets on the coffin.

Posted by DoctorKz on 5/29/2018 8:27:00 PM (view original):
The global community isn't doing enough to combat human rights violations. Russian, Chinese and NoKo prisons are holding far too many political prisoners. Why is this tolerated?

If we crack down on it then we have to crack down on it in the USA and in our allied countries.

Meh, too much of a hassle.

Posted by tangplay on 5/29/2018 8:44:00 PM (view original):

Posted by DoctorKz on 5/29/2018 8:27:00 PM (view original):
The global community isn't doing enough to combat human rights violations. Russian, Chinese and NoKo prisons are holding far too many political prisoners. Why is this tolerated?

If we crack down on it then we have to crack down on it in the USA and in our allied countries.

Meh, too much of a hassle.

We have high incarceration numbers, but they aren't gulags...and I don't think Canada, Great Britain or Australia have them either...

I was being sarcastic.

Posted by DoctorKz on 5/29/2018 9:11:00 PM (view original):

Posted by tangplay on 5/29/2018 8:44:00 PM (view original):

Posted by DoctorKz on 5/29/2018 8:27:00 PM (view original):
The global community isn't doing enough to combat human rights violations. Russian, Chinese and NoKo prisons are holding far too many political prisoners. Why is this tolerated?

If we crack down on it then we have to crack down on it in the USA and in our allied countries.

Meh, too much of a hassle.

We have high incarceration numbers, but they aren't gulags...and I don't think Canada, Great Britain or Australia have them either...

We are also allied with Saudi Arabia, the Philippines, Afghanistan, Thailand, etc.

I agree with tangplay (despite the sarcasm. lol)

That is because the UN is nothing but a dog and pony show. They aren't worthy of our money or time...

We need a clone of Maddog Mattis to be our Ambassador to the UN...

Agreed...but they are still formal alliances...and those countries do not have sparkling human rights records.

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Posted by all3 on 5/29/2018 3:29:00 PM (view original):
Why are we just discussing racism against blacks? What about the racism of blacks? No idea where to look for the numbers, but I'd bet the % of blacks who are racist is much higher than the % of whites. I'd also bet the % of racist whites has decreased much more over the last couple decades than the % of racist blacks. It's kind of hard for any race to say "Yeah, I'm cool with them.", when you have some of them screaming "I hate your black/white guts." in your face. Shouldn't addressing the racism of blacks be part of the discussion on how to make the problem better (it will never be eliminated)?

I don't see how this is relevant to the discussion. Unless you can name an institutionally racist practice against white people this is a big fat nothingburger.

also, if you and your ancestors had been discriminated against for 250 years, wouldn't you be a little antagonistic against the people doing the discriminating?

Is it understandable? Yes.
Does that make it right or less detrimental? No.
You don't think white racism would decrease if nothing changed except black racism?

Not addressing the broken record named tang. institutional racism this, institutional racism that. He uses that "rationale" (excuse) so much he needs a key on his keyboard to type it all at once to avoid carpal tunnel.

...although our alliance with The Philippines is a strategically very important one

Posted by gomiami1972 on 5/29/2018 9:22:00 PM (view original):

Posted by DoctorKz on 5/29/2018 9:11:00 PM (view original):

Posted by tangplay on 5/29/2018 8:44:00 PM (view original):

Posted by DoctorKz on 5/29/2018 8:27:00 PM (view original):
The global community isn't doing enough to combat human rights violations. Russian, Chinese and NoKo prisons are holding far too many political prisoners. Why is this tolerated?

If we crack down on it then we have to crack down on it in the USA and in our allied countries.

Meh, too much of a hassle.

We have high incarceration numbers, but they aren't gulags...and I don't think Canada, Great Britain or Australia have them either...

We are also allied with Saudi Arabia, the Philippines, Afghanistan, Thailand, etc.

I agree with tangplay (despite the sarcasm. lol)

I was referencing Saudi Arabia. But you are right. That's where the sarcasm was.

Posted by gomiami1972 on 5/29/2018 9:29:00 PM (view original):
...although our alliance with The Philippines is a strategically very important one

Our alliance with the Saudis is of economic and strategic importance.

Too bad they are the largest funder of terrorism in the world.

Posted by all3 on 5/29/2018 9:29:00 PM (view original):

Posted by wylie715 on 5/29/2018 6:58:00 PM (view original):

Posted by tangplay on 5/29/2018 5:21:00 PM (view original):

Posted by all3 on 5/29/2018 3:29:00 PM (view original):
Why are we just discussing racism against blacks? What about the racism of blacks? No idea where to look for the numbers, but I'd bet the % of blacks who are racist is much higher than the % of whites. I'd also bet the % of racist whites has decreased much more over the last couple decades than the % of racist blacks. It's kind of hard for any race to say "Yeah, I'm cool with them.", when you have some of them screaming "I hate your black/white guts." in your face. Shouldn't addressing the racism of blacks be part of the discussion on how to make the problem better (it will never be eliminated)?

I don't see how this is relevant to the discussion. Unless you can name an institutionally racist practice against white people this is a big fat nothingburger.

also, if you and your ancestors had been discriminated against for 250 years, wouldn't you be a little antagonistic against the people doing the discriminating?

Is it understandable? Yes.
Does that make it right or less detrimental? No.
You don't think white racism would decrease if nothing changed except black racism?

Not addressing the broken record named tang. institutional racism this, institutional racism that. He uses that "rationale" (excuse) so much he needs a key on his keyboard to type it all at once to avoid carpal tunnel.

Institutional racism isn't an excuse. No need for hyperbole here.

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Posted by wylie715 on 5/29/2018 7:06:00 PM (view original):
Nobody asked you to write a check. Its easy for you (or me, for that matter) to say get over it, since we didn't go through it. As a Jew should I get over what happen in WWII? It was over 70 years ago.

No, but if you hold onto the past too tightly, all you will ever see are Nazis...even where there aren't any.

Those who forget the past are bound to repeat it.....who said that?
I don't see Nazis everywhere.. hardly anywhere for that matter. Mainly I just get ****** at idiots who say the Holocaust never happened. That would be like someone saying to a black guy that slavery never happened.