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  • #16
    Originally posted by Starlight View Post
    I suspect the simple answer is that TYT is bigger.
    So size means they are exempt from the rules. You really want to use that as your argument?

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    • #17
      Originally posted by Sparko View Post
      and 1/3 of the lynchings in the USA were of whites.
      That claim seemed preposterous at face value, so I looked into it... That figure comes from 1950s data that counted Mexicans, Native Americans, and Chinese as "white" because they weren't "black". In actual fact there were very few lynchings of people that we today would call 'white' (there were a few during the civil war, and there was a small spate of persecution of Italian immigrants later).
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      • #18
        Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
        So size means they are exempt from the rules. You really want to use that as your argument?
        It shows the bankruptcy of your "waaaaaaah, conservatives are being persecuted for being conservative!" claim. As per usual, the conservative persecution complex does not appear to have any basis in reality.
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        • #19
          Originally posted by Starlight View Post
          That claim seemed preposterous at face value, so I looked into it... That figure comes from 1950s data that counted Mexicans, Native Americans, and Chinese as "white" because they weren't "black". In actual fact there were very few lynchings of people that we today would call 'white' (there were a few during the civil war, and there was a small spate of persecution of Italian immigrants later).
          I got the data from the NAACP so I am pretty sure it is correct.

          http://www.naacp.org/history-of-lynchings/

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Sparko View Post
            I got the data from the NAACP so I am pretty sure it is correct.
            Their own research had the same failings. e.g. this compilation uses the categories 'Negro' and 'white'.
            "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
            "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
            "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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            • #21
              Originally posted by Adrift View Post
              Listen, you psycho, it doesn't cause a difference in our gut reaction to it. Any sane, rational individual...you know, the type who doesn't go for the killing of 6 month-olds...would have a gut reaction to it whether it was a black child or a white child.
              perfect answer to a someone who made a judgement without any evidence.
              Last edited by RumTumTugger; 09-18-2017, 09:49 PM.

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              • #22
                Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                Firstly, learn that historical context matters. The US has a history of race-based lynchings of blacks. It doesn't have a history of lynching whites.
                Actually it does, you ignoramus. Lynching was never exclusively aimed at blacks, it was aimed at particularly terrible criminals (or at least those accused of it). You don't hear much about white people also having been lynched because white people haven't built a fraudulent victimhood industry around it.
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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Darth Executor View Post
                  Actually it does, you ignoramus. Lynching was never exclusively aimed at blacks, it was aimed at particularly terrible criminals (or at least those accused of it). You don't hear much about white people also having been lynched because white people haven't built a fraudulent victimhood industry around it.
                  And not always with particularly terrible criminals in areas with little law enforcement or jails such as in the Old West

                  I'm always still in trouble again

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                  "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Darth Executor View Post
                    Actually it does, you ignoramus. Lynching was never exclusively aimed at blacks, it was aimed at particularly terrible criminals (or at least those accused of it). You don't hear much about white people also having been lynched because white people haven't built a fraudulent victimhood industry around it.
                    It pretty well was actually:

                    "From 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Of these people that were lynched 3,446 were black. The blacks lynched accounted for 72.7% of the people lynched. These numbers seem large, but it is known that not all of the lynchings were ever recorded. Out of the 4,743 people lynched only 1,297 white people were lynched. That is only 27.3%. Many of the whites lynched were lynched for helping the black or being anti lynching and even for domestic crimes".

                    In short, mostly blacks were lynched or white supporters opposed to the lynchings.

                    http://www.naacp.org/history-of-lynchings/
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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                      Their own research had the same failings. e.g. this compilation uses the categories 'Negro' and 'white'.
                      I don't know where you are getting your information from but until very recently hispanics were never considered white. Anyone who was not white was considered "colored" and that included Blacks, American Indian, Indian, Asian and Hispanic. So trying to claim that "white" included Chinese and Hispanic makes no sense.

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by Tassman View Post
                        It pretty well was actually:

                        "From 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Of these people that were lynched 3,446 were black. The blacks lynched accounted for 72.7% of the people lynched. These numbers seem large, but it is known that not all of the lynchings were ever recorded. Out of the 4,743 people lynched only 1,297 white people were lynched. That is only 27.3%. Many of the whites lynched were lynched for helping the black or being anti lynching and even for domestic crimes".

                        In short, mostly blacks were lynched or white supporters opposed to the lynchings.

                        http://www.naacp.org/history-of-lynchings/
                        Wow you just used the same source I did when I was correcting Starlight when he said that the lynchings were all black and I showed him that 1/3 were white. You just confirmed what Darth Executer said. Nice job. Although you need to be aware that your buddy Starlight is disputing your source!

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                          No, you're just utterly ignorant.

                          Firstly, learn that historical context matters. The US has a history of race-based lynchings of blacks. It doesn't have a history of lynching whites.

                          That is false. I cited the Politifact article to Tass in another thread that cited the numbers. While only a third the number of whites were lynched in the 68 year period of lynching popularity, there were still over 1,000 whites lynched in the same areas and time frames. So, while the history isn't nearly as bad, there most certainly IS a history of lynching whites in the US using the same criteria for "a history of lynching" of blacks.


                          In that context, in talking about or depicting a lynching, it makes a big difference who is being depicted as being lynched because it conveys a different impression and refers to a different thing.
                          Rubbish. You don't get to blackwash my country's history with your ignorance.

                          Second, learn that incitement to violence is not the same as an artistically provocative thought experiment.


                          The guy is not saying "we should lynch whites, go out and lynch whites!", he's saying "think about how it makes you feel when you see the historical stereotype inverted and a white person swapped in for where a black person usually is, and ask yourself why this image causes a difference in your gut reactions to it".
                          Most normal people would say no, there is no difference of feeling. Lynching someone is wrong no matter what color they are. No one agrees with lynching anyone except a very, VERY small few idiots.

                          The reactions from conservatives in this forum to race-based social justice issues in the US just ooze ignorance. You guys don't even seem to ask basic questions like "what is this person trying to achieve?", you skip straight to "this annoys me/offends me, I'm sure they must be out to get me, they must be bad". Your level of willful ignorance is sad.
                          Hypocrisy does annoy us. So does idiocy from the left that labels anyone they don't agree with as a white supremacist, a bigot, a -phobe, or a racist. It's frankly pathetic, and we are sick of it all. It's craptastic behavior like that which gave us Donald Trump. When you are told over and over that your reactions to snowflakes are racist, bigoted, etc, and you declare certain things off limits, you get an overreaction that nothing is off limits. That a foreigner with little to no context on situations like this finds it ignorant is worth precisely zip.
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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by Starlight View Post



                            Second, learn that incitement to violence is not the same as an artistically provocative thought experiment. The guy is not saying "we should lynch whites, go out and lynch whites!", he's saying "think about how it makes you feel when you see the historical stereotype inverted and a white person swapped in for where a black person usually is, and ask yourself why this image causes a difference in your gut reactions to it".
                            Why would anyone assume that there is a different reaction based upon the race of the baby? It seems that such an assumption in itself is rather racist.

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                            "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                            "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Post
                              Most normal people would say no, there is no difference of feeling. Lynching someone is wrong no matter what color they are. No one agrees with lynching anyone except a very, VERY small few idiots.
                              ...and the many thousands who formed the lynch mobs that carried out all those lynchings.
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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by Roy View Post
                                ...and the many thousands who formed the lynch mobs that carried out all those lynchings.
                                Like I said... except a very, VERY small few idiots.
                                That's what
                                - She

                                Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
                                - Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)

                                I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
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