I see absolutely nothing extreme about supporting the duly elected president of my country, and about half the country would agree with me. That makes it a pretty mainstream position all in all.
HmmmmâŚseems to be a double standard YYY? If you support policies or a person for qualities ( which are subjective after all) how to you qualify âextremeâ. Some may say your thinking on Climate Change is âextremeâ but I do not label you or anyone in that way. I agree with many things on both sides but what was centrist/ slight right, appears to be viewed as further rightâŚwould you concur?
I read your posts and accept your ideas where I can but I donât generally agree with them. And thatâs ok. I am rambling, sorry
If youâre implying that police shootings, as a whole, are a racial issue in the U.S., youâd be on pretty shaky ground.
If you want to talk about excessive use of force by the police in general, or how the increasing militarization of law enforcement agencies is a worrying trend, we may have some points to agree on.
Have you lived in both countries? Are you fluent in the Japanese language? Where I come from, I heard loads of garbage coming from older men all the time directed at minorities. All my time in Japan, traveling around the entire country and speaking with and overhearing many people over the years, I never heard the same amount of hate. Iâm American and I know it sucks to admit that we have a racial hatred problem, but we do. Japan is not free of such issues, but it is very drastically less.
As a whole, no. But more often than not, yes. I see the videos of these incidents, and half the time even I think to myself âman, the suspect should have just listened/calmed downâ, but I still think there is a major racial problem at the forefront of the issue.
What seasoned posters are aware of is that every time a controversial thread is started it is started by a new poster. Whether itâs about Taiwanese genitalia or white people being horrible, it is always started by a new guy.
We try to be accommodating, but there comes a point that if it smells like shit then it probably is.
It depends. I donât call people in certain countries who literally prostrate before their heads of state extremists just because they do whatâs expected of them. But Americans figuratively prostrating or bending over backwards to justify everything the Donald does, that does seem excessive to me.
And âmainstreamâ is a question of relativity. Donald worship is certainly not the majority position. I doubt itâs even the majority position among people who voted for him.
There are plenty of things I disagree with Trump on, but Iâm satisfied with his overall performance so far. I in no way consider myself a Trump apologist, and wouldnât hesitate to support another party or candidate if I thought they could do a better job. I really wish the Democrats would pull themselves up out of the cesspool theyâve created for themselves, but Iâm not holding my breath and will probably have to hold my nose and vote Republican for a few more election cycles.
Thatâs an interesting notion. I keep hearing the opposite from leftistas â âBernie wouldnât have been considered radical X years agoâ and so on.
Like I said, an extremely subjective opinion. Where I grew up, the majority of racist speech and behavior I witnessed was directed by blacks at whites and Asians. We also learned about MLK in school (that was the actual name of the junior high I went to), and I took his message to heart, always doing my best to judge people by the content of their character.
Racism exists in every country on the planet, but the good thing about the U.S. is that thereâs an open conversation about it, which has contributed a lot to the great strides that have been made. But the flip side of the open conversation is that it makes it seem that racism is bigger problem in the U.S. than it really is. In countries like Japan, there are consistent reports of racial discrimination, but the problem is denied and swept under the rug.
Another problem in the U.S. is groups on both the left (Black Lives Matter, Antifa, etc.) and right (those actually worthy of the alt-right label) who do their best to incite racial tensions and take things in the wrong direction.
Wow now I understand! âMore white people should be improved in health or mental attitudeâ. Iâm glad youâve cleared that up. Youâre a regular philosopher.
really? So if I hear something directly from other people, itâs my extremely subjective opinion that I heard what I heard?
Black people hating Asians⌠I guess you hear something new everyday. Can I call that your extremely subjective opinion that you witnessed any such thing?