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Originally Posted by transplant99

You need to learn better then.

Im saying that i lived there 11 years so i dont need a gofund or whatever to go experience what happens there. I was there, I saw it, right in the heart of Appalachia. I lived in it which allows me a bit more knowledge than someone who has not. I saw first hand that minorities still run into bigotry, never said anything different. I also never said i can speak for anyone else, but nice obfuscation once again.

You have been trying to minimize the extent of racism in America, and I'm calling you out on it, spin that however you want. A lot of people consider trump to be racist, he won the presidency, while that doesn't necessarily mean that everyone who voted for him is a racist, it means that it wasn't a dealbreaker for the ones who thought he was a racist and voted for him anyways. That acceptance of intolerance is enough to suggest that racism is a lot bigger of a problem than you are trying to make it out to be.

Ooooh. You got me dude...well at least on a typo. Look where the comma was placed and ask yourself "did he miss hitting one more zero or did he miss a simple math equation" You decide.

The typo is irrelevant, pointed it out because it was worth mentioning. 35k or 350k racists isn't an insignificant problem no matter how bad you want to believe it is.

Petty insult? That you live in a different reality from me? If thats an insult to you, you may need to step away from debating. Cause that is simply a truth if what you write on this board are your actual beliefs.

It's your opinion. No sense trying to twist your original statement into something that is politically correct.

And I am more than confident in what I post. I have no idea what "facts" I dont have straight but it really doesn't matter coming from you as you will just move the goalposts and make things up anyhow. You are the master of it.

Just my opinion I guess, generally people who are confident in and can back up their arguments generally don't have to resort to petty insults, have you ever heard the saying "confidence is quiet, insecurities are loud?"

Also, if what I post so outrages you, you can feel free to just ignore it, as I also can. Instead of getting "rick rolled", I get "iggy oi'd", which is as much my fault as yours.

If you or anyone else posts something I disagree with and feel it is manipulative or misleading, I will respond to it. I hope you can get over it.

Back to the actual events though...

Welcome back

Nothing occurred overnight because of the curfew, which brings me back to one of the original points. If no one opposed them and just let them march to the statue so they could stand around yelling for no one but themselves to hear...a lot of damage and carnage could have been avoided. The media wouldn't bother covering for a second so the attention whores would be bereft of what they crave so much. I think there is a lesson in that moving forward.

Ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away, these movements grow by preying on the vulnerable to strengthen their numbers, if there is no voice opposing these clowns they are able to grow freely. Movements like this gain momentum when they are left uninterrupted. For a long time the states ignored those groups in the Middle East who preached hatred against them, so did the government's who harboured those groups. this didn't make the problem go away, it made it a bigger problem.