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Old 04-13-2017, 08:04 PM   #41
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wait, is this hurt in my butt the smashing of the patriarchy?
Are you white? If you aren't it appears you still may be due for a smashing but not necessarily in the butt. I think....but I can't be sure as this ideology is kind of new to me.
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Old 04-13-2017, 08:05 PM   #42
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Which of the following starements is racist?
[_] Black men should not be allowed to vote.
[_] Brown men should not be alowed to vote.
[_] White men should not be alowed to vote.
[x] All 3 statements are racist.
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Then how do you know there's some real butthurt white males in this thread?
I think you're deeply confused. "Some" doesn't mean "all." If you say "there are some really ripe oranges in that fruitbasket," you're not saying "that fruit basket is all oranges."

There may be males of many colours, there may be females, that doesn't mean there can't be some butt hurt white males.


In the end it doesn't matter. As a white male myself it's still an interesting article, but what is funnier is the automatic "that's racist/offensive/etc" from a few of the same people who would rather drink from a cowboy boot than humour another millennial claiming something is racist or offensive.
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Old 04-13-2017, 08:23 PM   #44
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Doesnt have to be White Men. Just Have an age cutoff of 70 for Voting. Anyone over 70 cant vote.
65 seems fine to me. If 15 year olds can't vote, why can 70 year olds? Usually they have the same understanding of the world.

Sorry sir/mam, we'll take your voting rights now, but you'll be happy to know you now qualify for some steep discounts at Denny's. Enjoy your grand slam!
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I think you're deeply confused. "Some" doesn't mean "all." If you say "there are some really ripe oranges in that fruitbasket," you're not saying "that fruit basket is all oranges."

There may be males of many colours, there may be females, that doesn't mean there can't be some butt hurt white males.


In the end it doesn't matter. As a white male myself it's still an interesting article, but what is funnier is the automatic "that's racist/offensive/etc" from a few of the same people who would rather drink from a cowboy boot than humour another millennial claiming something is racist or offensive.
As for being confused no. There could be none though for all the poster knows seeing the basket is covered it could have been muffins, not even fruit. That's certainly an interesting perspective especially since that there's really not much of that going on at all in this thread. I think if anything most of us think she's kind of nuts.

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Old 04-13-2017, 08:38 PM   #46
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Old 04-13-2017, 08:41 PM   #47
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but what is funnier is the automatic "that's racist/offensive/etc" from a few of the same people who would rather drink from a cowboy boot than humour another millennial claiming something is racist or offensive.
When you single out a group of people based solely on their skin colour that pretty much defines racism no?
Take the statement "Black males should not be allowed to vote" and try to justify it.
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We should deny clueless MBA in philosophy candidates the vote.

I mean I'm sure her future career as a coffee server will really stretch her degree to the limit.
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When you single out a group of people based solely on their skin colour that pretty much defines racism no?
Take the statement "Black males should not be allowed to vote" and try to justify it.
Of course it's racial and sexual discrimination. Where did I say otherwise?
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Old 04-13-2017, 09:37 PM   #50
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Racism implies an inherent power structure. In Canada and the United States it's not possible to be racist against whites.

It's possible to discriminate, but it's not possible to be racist or practice racism.
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Racism implies an inherent power structure. In Canada and the United States it's not possible to be racist against whites.

It's possible to discriminate, but it's not possible to be racist or practice racism.
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Not really. For every uninformed male there's an equally uninformed female. I don't think you would see much of a change at all.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...ace-gender-age



Nope, no difference at all in the 2016 Presidential election if white men didn't vote. Clinton only wins by nearly 200 electoral votes in that hypothetical.

Not saying I support this woman's premise, but to say it wouldn't affect things very much is...not quite accurate.


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65 seems fine to me. If 15 year olds can't vote, why can 70 year olds? Usually they have the same understanding of the world.

Sorry sir/mam, we'll take your voting rights now, but you'll be happy to know you now qualify for some steep discounts at Denny's. Enjoy your grand slam!
I was discussing this with a friend earlier this week. How about we go back to the old 3/5ths vote for anyone over 65. The elected officials you're voting for at that point will only have an effect on a small part of your life, whereas for a 20 year old, for example, Trump and his SCOTUS pick will affect much of the rest of his or her life.

And let's be honest, plenty of the 70 year olds who voted for Trump couldn't possibly care less about the damage he'll do to the planet, while there are people my age honestly unsure about having kids because god only knows where we'll be 40 years from now due to this disaster of an administration.
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Nope, no difference at all in the 2016 Presidential election if white men didn't vote. Clinton only wins by nearly 200 electoral votes in that hypothetical.
In a scenario where white men can't vote, presumably they can't run for office either. Who can say what a Clinton vs Rubio race would have looked like?
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Nope, no difference at all in the 2016 Presidential election if white men didn't vote. Clinton only wins by nearly 200 electoral votes in that hypothetical.

Not saying I support this woman's premise, but to say it wouldn't affect things very much is...not quite accurate.
Someone explain the goalposts here. Are we talking about males not being able to vote but run for president/prime minister against a female in a field of only female voters? Not exactly a shocking revelation that a majority of females would vote for a female candidate over a male. Turn the tables and the majority of men would also vote for the man over a woman.

I'm willing to bet that if you have and all female vote and two female candidates, one mediocre and the other terrible that there's still going to be plenty of uninformed/misinformed women voting for the worser candidate. They may be female but the are still human and prone to the same idiocies as males.
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Oh, and if seniors can't vote, they can't run either. Bye-bye Bernie.
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Pretty stupid considering that many "non-white" countries have had their fair share of nationalists and evil people running the show.
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Just look at how great Zimbabwe is doing since blaming whites for everything and driving them out. But some people only care about crafting a righteous narrative - reality and outcomes be damned.
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What's wrong with white men having Denny's franchises?
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I find it a little disturbing how some folks in this thread seem to be working themselves up towards a lather because of a stupid opinion piece by a largely insignificant person.
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