"Equal Treatment means that we all end up in the same place'

@joe-shmo said
"Whites in power have made sure that it's not whites being killed by cops"

for Pete sake...Do you know what DATA is!!!!

How many times do we have to go over this!

This year 31 Unarmed people shot and killed by police.

13 White
10 Black
4 Hispanic
1 Other
3 Unknown

Because the journalistic evidence of unarmed whites being shot by the police is virtually non ...[text shortened]... g along SluzyQ?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/

In order to give those figures some context maybe add what % of the general population those individual ethnic groups constitute.
But 31 unarmed people shot and killed by cops so far this year is atrocious.
Perhaps you should be protesting against police brutality alongside BLM and looking at ways to reduce this figure regardless of skin colour.

@kevcvs57 said
In order to give those figures some context maybe add what % of the general population those individual ethnic groups constitute.
But 31 unarmed people shot and killed by cops so far this year is atrocious.
Perhaps you should be protesting against police brutality alongside BLM and looking at ways to reduce this figure regardless of skin colour.

Wonderful idea.

Problem is, BLM will only protest when the victim is black. And where BLM goes, the media goes.

That tends to shade people's opinions.

@eladar said
Semites? A race? I would consider them a sub grouping of whites like Germanic, Anglo Saxon, Scandinavia. Slav and such.

Google

AMHARA PEOPLE

go to images and tell me whether they look white to you, like typical Germans or Scandinavians. (PS The Amhara are a semitic people.)

Just goes to show how arbitrary racial classifications based on skin colour are.

@earl-of-trumps said
Wonderful idea.

Problem is, BLM will only protest when the victim is black. And where BLM goes, the media goes.

That tends to shade people's opinions.

You’re so hung up about BLM.

Don’t like those pesky blacks demanding justice, eh?
Or is it deeper? Your wife has an itch you’re too small to scratch? Is that it?
You’re jealous?

Hahaha

@suzianne said
Human rights is not a zero-sum game.

I know that you and your kind like to have a better outcome than anybody else, but you are too frightened that someone "undeserving" (i.e. someone who doesn't look like you) might do better than you.

Try working on lifting ALL people up.

If each person works on being productive, a productive member of society, then the old adage, 'a rising tide lifts all boat' applies. Is that what you mean when you say try working on lifting all people up? I love it, we agree!! We need to join together, that the water under those boats is not provided or manipulated by the government, ....just let it happen. If not, then a govt would put itself in a position of picking and choosing some boats and not others. But, making all the boats exactly the same, whereby one boat owner would, by nature, benefit from the production of another boat owner, would decimate the boat society.

Glad we finally agree on something. May I buy you a beer?

@moonbus said
Google

AMHARA PEOPLE

go to images and tell me whether they look white to you, like typical Germans or Scandinavians. (PS The Amhara are a semitic people.)

Just goes to show how arbitrary racial classifications based on skin colour are.

As I said Semites are not all white. If their skin color is different enough then they are not white.

Not sure what your issue is on this matter, you protest too much. Must have hit a nerve somewhere.

@eladar said
As I said Semites are not all white. If their skin color is different enough then they are not white.

Not sure what your issue is on this matter, you protest too much. Must have hit a nerve somewhere.

There are no white semites.

@earl-of-trumps said
There are no white semites.

Ok, but some people use the term Semite to describe European Jews.

@eladar said
Ok, but some people use the term Semite to describe European Jews.

That is true.

The original Sephardi Jews of the ME are Semites and they are black, like Ethiopians.
But the Euro Jews are not a blood relative to the Sephardi and are not Semites.

@shavixmir said
No. Equity is not equality of outcome.

Equity means that you level the playing field, so that everyone has an equal chance.
It says nothing about outcome.

I'm not a big fan of the way Kamala puts things.

Equal treatment before the law - sure. That's absolute.

Equal 'chances'? When that includes your genetics, character, your parents' choices, your own previous choices in life (good and bad), as well as a healthy dose of luck? Hard to imagine tasking government with distributing equal chances.

@averagejoe1 said
And we won't have to read about Trump.

Who??

@earl-of-trumps said
That is true.

The original Sephardi Jews of the ME are Semites and they are black, like Ethiopians.
But the Euro Jews are not a blood relative to the Sephardi and are not Semites.

Semite is a linguistical distinction.
Hence... wait for it... the semitic languages...

The Palestinians are semitic as well, just so you know.

@earl-of-trumps said
There are no white semites.

Legally, Arabs are classified as white in the USA. However, some American Arabs want to change their classification and have introduced a new racial classification to be called Middle Eastern/North African (MENA -- holy crap, yet another new identity group abbreviation I have to remember !).

See:

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/7/16/are-arabs-white/

Which shows that races are not biologically determined by skin color. Races are cultural inventions.



PS Arabs are a semitic people (in case some non-semitic people did not know this already).

@eladar said
As I said Semites are not all white. If their skin color is different enough then they are not white.

Not sure what your issue is on this matter, you protest too much. Must have hit a nerve somewhere.

The point is that the semites themselves consider themselves a race, but not based on skin color.

@spruce112358 said
I'm not a big fan of the way Kamala puts things.

Equal treatment before the law - sure. That's absolute.

Equal 'chances'? When that includes your genetics, character, your parents' choices, your own previous choices in life (good and bad), as well as a healthy dose of luck? Hard to imagine tasking government with distributing equal chances.

Concur.

I usually set up the comparison of Albert Einstein to a mentally retarded person.
They both by law, have the right to pursue a PhD in physics, but....

And yet some people think they can mitigate all our differences and make us all the same.

pie in the sky. And why anyone would want us to be "all the same" is quite a
curiosity since nature has clearly showed us in every aspect possible, we are diverse