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Originally Posted by microbet
wil,
In 1942 if an American citizen of Japanese descent protesting internment said "Japanese Lives Matter" would that be racist?
These situations are no where close to equal. Innocent Japanese citizens were rounded up and put into camps, simply due to skin color. If that happened to blacks or Mexicans or Muslims in this country I would consider taking up arms against the United States government.
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Originally Posted by Pwn_Master
Except even if you personally think they are racist, you know damn well there are good reasons for good people to support BLM, namely that cops literally get away with murder and the burden disproportionately falls on black people. Yeah, I heard your spiel about how police brutality is for the greater good of blacks, but you know damn well reasonable people can think you are full of ****.
Blacks are disproportionately affected because there is more crime in the black communities. That isn't an opinion, it's a fact. Half the murders are committed in the black community in this country yet they make up 12% of the population. That is not an opinion, that is a fact. Black police officers are more likely to shoot and kill a black suspect than a White officer. That is not an opinion, that is a fact.
We can argue WHY these things happen, but I find no compelling evidence to believe that black people are targeted specifically and systemically. I'm sorry you disagree with me here, I really do.
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On the other hand, Nazis are pure unadulterated, evil. There is nothing good about them. Some of the worst the world has ever seen. So evil that the United States of America allied with actual in the flesh COMMUNISTS to destroy them.
There are people who would say this very thing about Muslims or Jews or Cambodians or Republicans. I don't like Nazis. I don't like racism. But as much as someone else may have the same feelings towards, say, pornography, I tolerate their right to exist. I do not believe people should be targeted specifically for their vile beliefs. There are people who despise "Muslim hate preachers" and believe they should be rounded up and deported. As much as I WANT to agree with them, I don't.
People have a right to believe in nonsense. Until they actually break a law, we must tolerate their right to believe in it.
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My problem with you is that you regularly minimize the evil of Nazism by trying to equate it with whatever "leftist" happens to be pissing you off that day.
I don't minimize a damn thing. You simply maximize your feelings against something depending on what you think of their beliefs.