Ivy wrote:

I just saw a news report from CNN talking about a note from somebody that Trump met with talking about martial law. What do you guys think it’s going to happen? What do you think he is planning? I’m sure he’s planning some thing.… The question is… What? Let’s all take a guess and winner takes all LOL! How much you wanna bet he’s gonna…

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I just saw a news report from CNN talking about a note from somebody that Trump met with talking about martial law. What do you guys think it’s going to happen? What do you think he is planning? I’m sure he’s planning some thing.… The question is… What? Let’s all take a guess and winner takes all LOL! How much you wanna bet he’s gonna do some…[Read more]

When talking to conservatives about crime and extra attention given to black by cops, they’ll defend the practice pointing out that “the bulk of violent crime is black on black.” I typically reply that I thought conservative believed that people are individually responsible for their actions. I go on to say that if they want to suppress crime by…[Read more]

I had a legal assistant who took a job at Marshall’s and she quit when she found out they had a deliberate policy in having their shoplifting checkers (yeah i don’t know the job title) give extra attention to all Black shoppers. She was not a big fan of racism. However she always maintained that smokers were a lower form of life. As soon as a…[Read more]

I’m not saying in your particular case that racism is the problem. What I am saying is that when cashiers can or choose to be selective about when they card people, and they disproportionately do so towards marginalised people…then that IS bigotry in action. It happens subconsciously every day. There are tons of studies which show these…[Read more]

Someone said, “black don’t crack”.  In other words, black people tend to look young for their age.

Davis,

You wrote:

The cashier is racist if they disproportionately ask for ID from marginalised people and irregularly or little from non-marginalised people. And that does happen. It’s easy to not notice and a lot of people don’t notice.

We cashiers are instructed to ask for ID from every customer who looks under 40.  (Older customers can look…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer: Where are the huddled masses from far shores (or even just North of us) wanting access to our system, money in hand to pay for ridiculously high premiums, deductibles, and copays, and wanting the most expensive health care system in the civilized world with among the worst outcomes?

Where are they?

You know, those gorgeous Hubble Telescope images of nebulae, supernovae, etc., are all LIES!

Space is mostly black and white. NASA adds the color.

People are allowed to be right wing.  Or left wing.  I prefer the moderate centre.