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Lokarin posted...

There are people still alive today who had to drink from segregated water fountains...

And? I've had payment at a job withheld before, should I be going to their corporate office everyday to harass them now it's been resolved? Be a big boy and move on, it's not a concern now.

Gaawa_chan posted...

Yeah, it turns out that if some creep stabs a person a bunch of times, and you confiscate the knife, you still have someone bleeding out on the ground and telling them to walk off the stabbing is not really useful.

Because being fired in the 70s leaves a mortal wound that lasts to the present day. Even in law, once the criminal has been punished, they will be let go eventually and you'll have to make your peace with that.

Gaawa_chan posted...

I refuse to believe that you are so stupid that you can't understand how it might be that a kid whose parents inherited property from their grandparents has an edge over a kid whose parents had no inheritance because their grandparents' property either never existed owing to them being slaves or was destroyed or seized during a race riot thanks to the actions of the US government.

Nobody's denying that, and like I said originally, you have to be a petty little bitch to cry about things like that. That's applicable to essentially every person on earth, everybody has a postion that's better than someone else based on the most likely immoral actions of someone in their lineage. That's life, once future transgressions are blocked, you move on.

Gaawa_chan posted...

That can be the difference between you being housed or homeless, or being able to go to a decent school, or being able to get a higher education, or being able to go to a fucking doctor if you need to, which means it can be the difference between whether or not you get to live long enough to find some bootstraps to attempt to pull yourself up by.

Indeed, in fact white Americans have to contend with paying for medical care because someone in their family thought it would be a smart idea to drag them to America instead of staying in the UK. Should they be looking for reparations from their English ancestors who didn't stop their family going to the states for being in a worse situation? Or is it just shit happens and you live with it. Life's hard, and most people have at least a somewhat shitty hand, all you can do is work on improving your life.

Gaawa_chan posted...

There are people, to this very day, that get shitty medical care because outdated medical textbooks have racist misinformation in them that was designed to post-hoc justify the abuse and neglect of people of color. I hate to break the news to you, Kyuubi, but it turns out that things that happened earlier have an impact on what happens now and what happens now has an impact on what happens in the future, and if there are bad things happening now, you have to actually work to fix them.

You sure do, you could go in to these fields, do new studies, build up useful information. But no, you'd rather bitch and whine about ridiculous nonsense and expect eveybody else to do the legwork to get the things you care about. Cause and effect is very important, and you seem to want to squander your ability to create change to try and make someone else do it for you.

Gaawa_chan posted...

Money is a social construct, that doesn't mean money isn't real. :-/

The problem is people do use "iT's A sOcIaL cOnStRuCt" as a rebuttal to genetics. There wouldn't even be conversation on the topic if people didn't make these disingenuous claims.