(March 10, 2014 at 9:28 am)jimmyk2190 Wrote:

(March 10, 2014 at 9:22 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: And miss the superb punctuation skills?

if the people in socialist nations are so happy how do you explain anders brevick

At first I didn't see what "thesummerqueen" meant by "punctuation skills", but now I see, and you do need a Grammer nazi

here is your post fixed:

(March 10, 2014 at 9:30 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: Some people have mental issues that have nothing to do with their country's politics.

nor do i advocate violence of any kind. And yes it does leftism is directly linked to these kinds of things i mean what prompts a man to just kill 90 people at his trial he wasnt diagnosed with anything. Thus we can conclude that leftism is to blame

I dunno, Marsellus - I might have to be "out" myself. Clearly, I can't win against such dizzying logic and intellect.

(March 9, 2014 at 6:10 pm)Beccs Wrote: People, as far as I'm concerned, put too much emphasis on skin colour.

Because it's one of our most obvious features, and therefore it's the easiest way for our minds to quickly determine where you fit into whatever preconceived notions we have about people. Hair and eye color are a close/distant second, respectively. The sound of your voice and any accents or affections probably follow. And so on.

We are wired to make such judgments about people and it takes some work to overcome them. I'm fortunate because my mother is what I guess you could call "virulently anti-racist." She absolutely would not abide any sort of racist talk or terms and seethed whenever anyone around us did so. But that doesn't mean that on some level, I don't "prefer" people who resemble me in any number of ways over those who do not. It just makes it a bit easier to work to overcome that mental block.

Quote:And it was white men, the leaders of European society - not all - who led and perpertuated and profited from the slave trade (while many African tribes also helped out, definitely).

How have Europeans led slavery?

As far as I know slavery predates written history and has existed everywhere in the world people have existed.

Slavery isn't just a thing that some white guys did while a few evil Africans helped them out. It's pretty much a part of every ancient civilizations history.

Also I'm pretty sure there's a statistic I've read somewhere that there's more slavery today than there was during the height of the slave trade, and the majority of that slavery is in central african or middle eastern countries where white people are very much in the minority.

(March 10, 2014 at 11:33 am)paulpablo Wrote: Also I'm pretty sure there's a statistic I've read somewhere that there's more slavery today than there was during the height of the slave trade, and the majority of that slavery is in central african or middle eastern countries where white people are very much in the minority.

As far as I could tell from this jumpy conversation, we're mostly discussing Europe and America.

Quote:And it was white men, the leaders of European society - not all - who led and perpertuated and profited from the slave trade (while many African tribes also helped out, definitely).

But this statement singles out European society in comparison to other societies and seems to suggest it was a leading cause in trading slaves while a few africans also helped out.

As I said it's been going since before written history and been in every part of the world and still is today.

(March 10, 2014 at 11:48 am)paulpablo Wrote:

Quote:And it was white men, the leaders of European society - not all - who led and perpertuated and profited from the slave trade (while many African tribes also helped out, definitely).

But this statement singles out European society in comparison to other societies and seems to suggest it was a leading cause in trading slaves while a few africans also helped out.

As I said it's been going since before written history and been in every part of the world and still is today.

in texbooks it states that islam expanded peacepully and through trade and they had slaves and that was a source of profit

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(March 10, 2014 at 11:48 am)paulpablo Wrote:

Quote:And it was white men, the leaders of European society - not all - who led and perpertuated and profited from the slave trade (while many African tribes also helped out, definitely).

But this statement singles out European society in comparison to other societies and seems to suggest it was a leading cause in trading slaves while a few africans also helped out.

As I said it's been going since before written history and been in every part of the world and still is today.

meaning that their main source of income had to come from slave labor whether or not you want to include pre islamic arabia

(March 10, 2014 at 7:30 am)jimmyk2190 Wrote:

(March 9, 2014 at 11:58 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: The thing is, there wouldn't have been a need for "leftism" political correctness if there hadn't been such harsh and cruel discrimination against certain groups, throughout American history.

Relating to the economy ...Capitalism has mainly benefitted white heterosexual men who make up the majority of CEOs in the US (still), so again...that's why we are seeing this economic shift into Socialism. I think Socialism is not a bad ideal but it isn't the left's fault that white heterosexual men discriminated against African Americans, homosexuals and women for decades. It still goes on albeit there are laws in place to protect these groups.

Nothing is quite what it seems.

Can you clarify what you mean by women are speaking out for men? What men? White heterosexual men or men in general?
Sorry, not sure what you mean on that point.

men in general and i should clarify i mean leftism is very dangerous because it has utopian implications i mean look at sweden germany or china

It's a shame we can't come up with a hybrid of socialism and capitalism. (I thought Germany has something like this in place, but being predominantly capitalist) The best fruits of both. The two sort of contradict one another, though. lol

(March 11, 2014 at 12:00 am)Deidre32 Wrote: It's a shame we can't come up with a hybrid of socialism and capitalism.

We actually have something along those lines, a capitalist system with government-led regulation. No system is perfect, and the USA suffers from too much influence wielded by the very people and companies affected by the regulation. We have the tools, we just don't use them as well as we could.