George Floyd murder | Clashes between US police and protestors

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Vialli98 said:
It can be argued that true racism, the kind of racism that genuinely matter, is the intersection of power and bigotry.

So if the above statement is true, then the absence of true power in society, which black people as a group lack, certainly in the western world, means the most black people can be guilty of racial prejudice, which is pretty fucking horrible also and should never be condoned. It begins to get into complicated philosophical realms when you attempt to truly discuss such a claim, but at the very basic level, one could argue there are big differences between white on black bigotry vs black on white bigotry.
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The same can be said of poor people they have no power whatsoever, but that being said I can see the contempt that law enforcement as a group in the USA hold for black people, that's surely got to change it just has to. What galls me is when powerful people of any colour explain to me that my moral compass could be wrong.
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
This is not about winning and losing; it's about Trump being racist. He is by the way.

Even if the you say the Mexican comments is false, you may have a point, but those comments were only clarified after the initial outrage.
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Do you think Biden too is racist ?

To provide context he led and sponsored the Crime Bill which enabled law enforcement to use excessive force and put people of color behind bars in hundreds of thousands for minor infractions. This bill has played a major role in building a culture over more than two decades where police have got used to using the tactics they used against George Floyd.

Now Democrats are offering him as the option to the racist according to you. No he does not shout out racist statements he has just created laws which have done the real damage.
 
bluemcr said:
What would you say the big differences are a few examples.
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Well, backed with power, acts of racial prejudice and bigotry quickly evolve into oppression, which America and Britain's own history can attest to. Therefore, although we may call a white person experiencing acts of prejudice or discrimination racism, but without the cultural and societal power structure behind it, it pales in comparison to the opposite scenario. It's the reason I started the original post with 'the kind of racism that truly matter".
 
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domalino said:
Sorry, are you seriously trying to argue Donald Trump isn't racist? The man has 40 years worth of blatantly racist comments on record, it's not up for debate.
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It's not my argument, couldn't really give a crap. It's the millions of ethnic minority Americans that should stop supporting him that need to be convinced.
 
BluechesterCity said:
It's not my argument, couldn't really give a crap. It's the millions of ethnic minority Americans that should stop supporting him that need to be convinced.
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It's not an argument at all. He is racist. He has shown time after time that he judges and discriminates against people based on the colour of their skin, their race, their nationality or their religion.

Now whether some people in those minorities voted/ will vote for him despite him being racist is another question.
 
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