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Topic	Do you support property destruction during protests
Romes187 09/02/20 6:29:32 PM #56:	meralonne posted... My response to that would be that black Americans have been oppressed through slavery, systematically denied the rights of other American citizens and are to this day subjected to institutional racism. This has been going on much longer than the time period in which the British were unfairly taxing American colonists. Why? Please explain. Im willing to bet that the British Empire didnt agree with that in the least. Im also quite sure that the French aided the fledgling US because it weakened the British rather than out of any altruistic sense of spreading democracy. citation requested? Thats a gross oversimplification of how laws are changed, and if this were an actual democracy, wed be talking about President Clinton instead of President Trump. Welcome to a democratic republic. republic, democracy...sure we can split hairs on the vocab I used. My point is in 1776 who do we vote in to change the laws? and your argument is institutional racism etc or systemic racism youll have to point to the racist laws. If its because people are racist within the institutions then revolution against the state will do jack shit <cite>Romes187 posted [p:944130948] in Do you sup... [t:78949621]...</cite> <quote>meralonne posted... </cite> <quote>My response to that would be that black Americans have been oppressed through slavery, systematically denied the rights of other American citizens and are to this day subjected to institutional racism. This has been going on much longer than the time period in which the British were unfairly taxing American colonists. Why? Please explain. Im willing to bet that the British Empire didnt agree with that in the least. Im also quite sure that the French aided the fledgling US because it weakened the British rather than out of any altruistic sense of spreading democracy. citation requested? Thats a gross oversimplification of how laws are changed, and if this were an actual democracy, wed be talking about President Clinton instead of President Trump. Welcome to a democratic republic.</quote> republic, democracy...sure we can split hairs on the vocab I used. My point is in 1776 who do we vote in to change the laws? and your argument is institutional racism etc or systemic racism youll have to point to the racist laws. If its because people are racist within the institutions then revolution against the state will do jack shit </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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