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Today , 04:00 PM
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Originally Posted by chillrob
Well feel free to judge them then, but none of them participate in this forum. Obviously I was speaking about Americans.
Speaking about Americans only is a mistake on an international forum where you also have people from the UK, Germany, Russia etc. (Sorry if I forgot anyone).
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Today , 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by jalfrezi
Speaking about Americans only is a mistake on an international forum where you also have people from the UK, Germany, Russia etc. (Sorry if I forgot anyone).
None of those places have anyone alive today who participated in historical wrongs against black people either. You mentioned SA because that is the only place a racial system existed in our lifetimes. There is no need to have rules for the rest of the world based on that anamoly.
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Today , 04:11 PM
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Originally Posted by jalfrezi
Asia is a very large continent.
And you say a very large number of silly things to avoid answering questions that you don't like to think about.
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Today , 04:14 PM
Again, you're making the mistake of assuming that your definition of "Asian" means a damn thing to people outside the US, which it doesn't.

We don't use that term here when we can use Indian or Chinese or Pakistani etc instead, which as well as being meaningful also benefits from not insulting people by lumping every person in a huge continent into one basket despite them having very little in common.

So when you say "Asian", can you be more specific?

Last edited by jalfrezi; Today at 04:20 PM.
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Today , 04:31 PM
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Originally Posted by chillrob
I don't know of any modern or historical incidences of black people being oppressed by Asians. Does that mean Asians should be allowed to say bad things about blacks?
So to take you literally, many Africans were taken as slaves by people in Asia as part of the East African slave trade. Not sure why you think I would think that would mean it's ok for "Asians" to say bad things about black people.
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Today , 06:25 PM
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Originally Posted by chillrob
Not the ones who "historically" did things, which was in your statement.
I interpret that phrase to refer to times before anyone alive today was born.

There are no Americans alive today who owned slaves. There are almost none left who were old enough to be adults at the time Jim Crow was prevalent in the south, and those few will be dead within the next 10 years or so.
Great point. All of the people who owned slaves and got money from slaves are dead


After that we can bill people who have benefited from slavery and are still alive

But we never went back got the money from those people. We need to take it from their descendants. And charge interest
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Today , 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by PointlessWords
But we never went back got the money from those people. We need to take it from their descendants. And charge interest
How far back do we go?
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Today , 07:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Didace
How far back do we go?
As far back can be proven. At least till Jan 1 1800.

And if you aren’t rich enough to pay then the govt picks up the tab
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Today , 07:14 PM
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Originally Posted by PointlessWords
Great point. All of the people who owned slaves and got money from slaves are dead


After that we can bill people who have benefited from slavery and are still alive

But we never went back got the money from those people. We need to take it from their descendants. And charge interest
Fine with me - I'm not descended from any American slave owners, so don't come after me.
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Today , 07:15 PM
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Originally Posted by jalfrezi
Again, you're making the mistake of assuming that your definition of "Asian" means a damn thing to people outside the US, which it doesn't.

We don't use that term here when we can use Indian or Chinese or Pakistani etc instead, which as well as being meaningful also benefits from not insulting people by lumping every person in a huge continent into one basket despite them having very little in common.

So when you say "Asian", can you be more specific?
And again, you're just being deliberately obtuse.

Whatever, you apparently think anyone saying bad things about whites is fine, but anyone saying anything bad about blacks is bad. I strongly disagree, as do most people I know.
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Today , 08:21 PM
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Originally Posted by jalfrezi
Again, you're making the mistake of assuming that your definition of "Asian" means a damn thing to people outside the US, which it doesn't.

We don't use that term here when we can use Indian or Chinese or Pakistani etc instead, which as well as being meaningful also benefits from not insulting people by lumping every person in a huge continent into one basket despite them having very little in common.

So when you say "Asian", can you be more specific?
What? The word Asian is used in Britain all the time. It just admittedly has a different meaning than in the US. I did a quick google search and could pull pretty much unlimited BBC articles where the word "Asian" is used in the title as an ethnic identifier.

It is not considered insulting at all to use that term in the UK or USA; they just have different meanings. Bad faith post IMO.
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