I am not trolling you. I made a statement, you said I was wrong, so I am just defending what I said.
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I am not trolling you. I made a statement, you said I was wrong, so I am just defending what I said.
Provide proof of that please. Also what other countries do is of no relevance in this discussion on the lines of who is what race in America. Personally I think the whole thing is stupid. Be proud of who you are and where you came from but keeping tabs on who is what race at all is idiotic.
No, you keep conveniently ignoring my initial statement regarding the US Census, as well as the implications that many administrative bodies that are based on the census and other laws.
You are the one fixated on the issue of "administrative" causing or not causing lines. I never said it was an important issue, I said exactly the opposite.
In general, yes they would, if the law was different, public behavior and thinking would have been impacted. Of course, the results would not be universal, but to say that things like laws, decrees, language, public relations, rules, administrations, and organizations over hundreds of years have no influence is incorrect.
also, your scenario is not based in reality, employers today do not automatically dismiss black candidates unless they want to go bankrupt, but I went along with your scenario for the purposes of answering your q.
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I have addressed this previously.
I believe that there would not be a clear cutoff, which is why this proposal might lead to a reduction of racial prejudices, as people realize that we are all just different shades, not black and white.
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No, in several previous arguments with Stoked, he would spend countless hours refusing to answer a question directly, and repeatedly say things like "I already told you that" or "you seem to have forgotten what you are arguing about" or "conjecture" use any of a number of other devices for the purpose of obfuscation and annoyance. He stated that he was doing this on purpose to annoy me.
This is the second time that a mod has taken my trademark annoyance with Stoked, the use of the "conjecture" argument , and used it against me in a very strange and ironic fashion.
I should have just said "this is your opinion", this is a huge waste of time, but it was so important for you to challenge me to go into more detail, and since you are a mod I did what you wanted. I have answered all of your questions.
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I used "If you were Stoked..." as a reply to your statement that began "If I were Stoked...".
In two instance that I have pointed out conjecture, it has been because you were actually using conjecture.
Am I supposed to respond differently because I'm a mod?
That's odd. Did you feel there might be a penalty for not responding to me? Look, we can agree on one thing: It is a huge waste of time. But I was into it. Sometimes a good pointless argument is reinvigorating. This board has been pretty dry lately.
Obviously you are just scanning my posts, because you seem to have only a tenuous grasp on what I'm trying to convey. That's alright. I'm getting a little tired of it myself. I can hardly blame you for not wanting to put a lot of energy into it.
But just one last thing, more for me than you; I'm not talking about prejudices that would exist if laws were different. I'm talking about the impact on prejudices if the law were suddenly changed. There's a big difference there. Prejudices don't adjust overnight because of some rule. They adjust over generations because of increased understanding.
Anyway, that's it for me. Thanks for the "ear".
Understood.
I agree with this.
If I had the power to totally overhaul not just a law, but the entire legal system and all government branches and agencies, that would be another story, but that is purely hypothetical.
The laws are shaped by the culture.