I wouldn't say that. I would say other things about what Uche9aa likes...

But real controversy requires substance, so I would say that.

Yes, this. Heaven is like crack, except permanent. Would you care about partner if you were permanently on crack?

When I was a child, a relative tried to convince me to pretend that god exists. His argument was basically pascal's wager, and I rejected it, using kid logic:

Lying is wrong.

And if God exists, then I'm not only doing wrong, I'm also breaking a commandment.

All just to try to trick an omniscient being into letting you into a hypothetical afterlife club?

Adults are dumb.

The important thing is that you found a way to use petty judgementalism to attempt to redirect attention from the more important parts of the discussion.

I fixed it for you:




You are not wrong to worry about this, but if anyone actually believe that every muslim person is the same... well that person who believes in such bigotry is the barbarian.

And when you run around yelling that all muslims are barbarians, then you are the one trying to infest our culture with bigotry.

These hateful christians were carrying signs saying...



...???

Oh, the irony.

Christians are not the biggest hypocrites...

Thoughthe biggest hypocrites that I know, in this christian-dominated culture, are christians.


If I lived in saudi arabia, probably the biggest hypocrites I knew would be muslim.

If I lived in Israel I'd be the biggest hypocrites I knew would be jewish.




There is very little in human psychological tendencies which is not massively influenced by culture, so I reject most notions of 'human nature', which seems to me a lazy person's way of explaining human qualities that may be common in a time period or place.

When the vikings were raping and pillaging and burning whole villages, I'm sure some people said that was 'human nature'.



I often like or want to be wrong. Many of the scientists that I've known previously in my life enjoyed finding out that they were wrong.

The biggest thing that went wrong with the Martin case was that people rushed to judgement. People wanted to project their own beliefs onto a situation without knowing all the facts.

Based on the evidence brought forth during the trial, including the testimony of the Martin's female friend, it seems pretty clear that Trayvon brought about his own death by attacking someone who was tailing him.

It's always nice to see abstract poetry in the computer section.

In my experience, google's navigation software kicks butt over garmin and other gps systems in most circumstances.

I would skip the single-purpose device and get a nice cradle for your phone or tablet.

The woman who plays Penny was asked if she considered herself a feminist.


“Is it bad if I say no? It’s not really something I think about. Things are different now, and I know a lot of the work that paved the way for women happened before I was around… I was never that feminist girl demanding equality”

Yeah, of course they've passed on their hatred to young soft headed whites, especially males, especially those without critical thinking skills, and especially those who are looking for someone to hate. Though they are nearly universally reviled in our comparatively progressive culture, so their numbers dwindle with every generation.

Yet today lots of people are passing on their unjustified, unjustifiable hatred towards all white people, or towards all police officers.



You started by saying that the Ferguson cops were KKK, which is a bigoted , hateful thing to say. How many do you think are ACTUALLY KKK, hate mongering aside? 1% ? 0.1% ? Possibly none?

Then you say that there were so many million KKK, as if they might still be around and active. They aren't. Those millions of KKK are dead or infirm.

Now, finally, you say something which is both true and relevant: white supremacist groups are still around. Which is true, and something to be concerned with, but it doesn't justifying spreading lies about (and hatred towards) the police.


Hey, how do you think we fight the white supremcasists? Should we do it by adoping their bigoted tactics and by imitating their manipulative rhetoric and their stances (just change the colors) - or should we try to rise above all of that?

It is awful that there is such a strong image in some people's minds about black people in general, and absolutely terrible that this image influences the way some people behave towards individual black people.

Why should law abiding black people be blamed for the actions of criminals? It makes no sense, its terribly unfair, and in this area I support 'anti racism'. But too many anti-racists want to deny the facts, and censor people who wish to work with the facts.




I'm sure that may be, in some cases. But as far as Mike is concerned, I don't care about his race. If one of those white radicals was shot shortly after going for a cop's gun, I'd be even less sympathetic.

I saw the video of Mike shoving around the store owner just minutes before he attacked the police. I don't have much sympathy for him, and its not because of his race, and its not because of the actions of other black people. Its because of the quality of mind that he demonstrated in that store video.




Well, that's the narrative being spun by some people. As if white america doesn't care when a black man is killed.

Most of white america DOES care when a black man is killed, about as much as it cares about a white man. But they care a lot less when that man brings about his own death through violent actions.

Yes. Those white thugs don't care about Ferguson, they have been breaking and burning things in the east bay for many, many years.

Yes, that does look like "opportunists from the liberal wing of the government and Democratic party" have indeed made use of the "fake news about the poor child who was "murdered" while his hands were in the air or shot in the back."

I know, right?

But what about Oakland? Oakland is around 1/3 black and around 1/3 white. Many consider Oakland the birthplace of the black panthers.

The original black panthers, not the modern wanna-be movement.

Chris Rock says "These #berkeleyprotests are the real deal. There are NO black people in Berkeley, but they are protesting the most. "

https://twitter.com/ozchrisrock/status/542108771443830785


What Chris may or may not realize is that these are the same protesters that protest in Oakland. They live all over the bay area, and they get on the BART trains in huge groups to go to the site of the protest.

With all of the news about the black protesters looting in Ferguson, it seems that many people simply assumed that the looting and arson in the east bay was also done by black protesters. (Or black criminals opportunistically using the protests as cover.)

The evidence suggests otherwise.

This write knows what is going on:


http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/johnson/article/Violent-protesters-don-t-care-about-Michael-5943710.php

I don't agree with this blogger's opinion, but I do think that its worth looking at the fact that the majority of the people protesting in the east bay (of San Francisco) are white.

from http://bendstowardjustice.tumblr.com/post/104742740875/dear-white-protestors





for full text, see the link above





Most or all of the arson and property destruction happening in the east bay is being done by the Black Bloc anarchists, who are primarily (if not exclusively) white. (They wear black clothes).

This is a very small group of white anarchists who have been smashing things in Oakland and Berkeley for many years, causing much of damage for which the Occupy movement was blamed.