Why do we restrict the voting rights of felons?
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Come on now. He bolded your first sentence and disagreed with that.
margodydek
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I specifically bolded your first sentence, but nice job of trying to twist my response.
Of course he did.
Absolutely. They (that's a singular they) disagree that that blacks not being married is a symptom of the of the problem, and feel that blacks natural aversion to marriage is a cause of the problem, instead. That's exactly to what I was referring.
It's that disagreement that made it obvious. So, by all means, expound on that, then. Tell us how broken families came about as the cause of poverty, as opposed to a symptom of it, and what you think is the real reason for lower marriage rates. I'm all ears. Prove me wrong.
Glad to see that guilty until proven innocent is still alive and well on the board.
I'm just following evidence. If you have a better explanation for thems saying that they have cause and effect properly attributed, I'm all ears.
No. You are just following what you want them to mean.
margodydek
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I'm not going to prove anything. You think the chicken came first and I think the egg did - I don't think I'm going to change your mind to reflect my opinion.
I obviously don't think it's a black (pun) and white scenario, but I'm just not of the opinion that people who grow up in impoverished areas don't have their agency. I'm sure I'm going against the grain (which in turn makes me a bigot), but I just don't like the excuse that high crime or poor education are results of poverty. I believe that crime and poor education are results of poor choices. Case in point - I have a friend who grew up in Brooklyn. He went to a public high school which was about 60% black and about 30% white (mostly Jewish of course). They all came from rather humble neighborhoods, but guess who had a higher drop out rate.
Last I heard about 70% of African American children were born to unmarried women, but last I checked African Americans don't have a monopoly on growing up in poverty.
Don't you consider it unfair to judge those raised in high crime areas, malnourished, with very few role models, where everyone who is remotely successful and could lift the community a little moves away instead, where even poorer immigrants move in and take all the remaining jobs for less pay, where retailers run from your neighborhoods and take those jobs with them, where violence is rampant, and where no matter how hard you try in school you will most likely be met with no reward?
Crediting every human with their agency does not mean we can judge everyone by the same standards or expect remotely similar outcomes of choice.
In this case, the egg (poverty) came a decade before the chicken (unmarried women).
margodydek
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I'm never going to say this is what I would do if I were in so-and-so's situation. I have no idea what it's like to live in a high crime/impoverished area, so who's to say what I'd do. But to address your last sentence, what about those poor Jewish communities?
I guess to sum up my feelings, do I think that poverty/malnourishment could in turn result in more unmarried women? Sure. But I don't think it should. And I know what the common response to that is - "well that's easy for you to say", and you know what? You're probably right.