The American Politics Thread

Well if he is lying, thats not good and maybe he should resign, I don't know.

But my problem with this and similar situations is that it trivializes racism down to trying to not offend each other. In other words not being a racist means you don't use the 'n word' and you don't use words like 'injun' or jap' etc.

It trivializes more important issues such as some people have a hard time finding a job, getting a promotion, moving into a nice neighborhood, getting a bank loan or they can't even drive down the street without getting pulled over and checked out.

I've lived in sophisticated big cities across the US where everyone knows the right words to say and no one gets offended, but entire minority neighborhoods are wiped out and displaced and replaced with trendy yuppie neighborhoods with latte joints with wifi etc. and none of these supposedly polite majority folks even notice that this even happened.


Edited by Easy Money - February 03 2019 at 20:13

I corrected my post to make it clear that cities who have no problem displacing families to make room for rich yuppies and their decafe latte cafes with wifi are not confined to any particular locale.

I've lived on the west coast too, and quite possibly because of the high cost of rent and real estate in those areas, I have witnessed many neighborhoods wiped out and displaced and no one uttered a word, not even the 'liberal' local news media. Now compare that issue to someone wearing blackface long ago, where are our priorities. What the guy did was wrong of course, but there is far worse racially oriented matters going on in our world.

Edited by Easy Money - February 03 2019 at 21:05

Audio: In 2012, Elizabeth Warren couldn’t ‘recall’ Native American claim

Edited by IVNORD - February 06 2019 at 20:53

Easy Money wrote: IVNORD wrote: Audio: In 2012, Elizabeth Warren couldn’t ‘recall’ Native American claim https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/02/06/audio-elizabeth-warren-couldnt-recall-native-american-claim-apologizes-again/ I wonder if she ever wore 'blackface', or 'red face' for that matter. All of this is just more distraction and trivial nonsense. Here are some things that matter: Fair taxation, those who get the most use out of our infrastructure should pay their fair share for it. Our infrastructure provides the means for people to make money, those who utilize it the most should pay the most. Clean air and water Affordable health care Everyone should have the right to vote, in other words, majority and minority voting districts should have enough voting machines so that everyone has the right to vote. Recently some minority dominated voting districts have had their number of voting machines reduced, this is basically taking away people's voting rights. There's more, but these four are a good start.

You are mixed up again, go through this thread, I have never said a word about Warren. There are a couple other people in this thread who are her enthusiastic supporters, I am not one of them.
Please do not say things about me that are not true, otherwise show me the post where I said these things, i am not a Warren supporter, or anyone's supporter at this point. I'm with holding any endorsements until I know more about all the candidates.

Okay, but this is this second time you have put words in my mouth I didn't say.

This does get tiresome.
Earlier you claimed that someone in this thread wanted trump impeached, you never produced evidence for that either. After you brought it up, one site member said they favored impeachment, but when you first brought it up, no one had ever said that.
Please let people speak for themselves and do not speak for them, it totally derails the conversation when you do that, plus its rude as hell.

Okay, you are right, one person did call for his impeachment, I suppose we are even now.

Now getting back on subject. Ancient photos of blackface and bickering about DNA claims are how politicians attack each other, but none of this helps us regular folks.
We need affordable health care, and much more.

Easy Money wrote: Okay, you are right, one person did call for his impeachment, I suppose we are even now. Now getting back on subject. Ancient photos of blackface and bickering about DNA claims are how politicians attack each other, but none of this helps us regular folks. We need affordable health care, and much more.