The Hofoid House of Absurd & Ignorant Posts VII

[Torie]

^Thanks for ruining what was a good thread, guys.

Mods: CAN WE CALL FOR A TOTAL AND COMPLETE SHUTDOWN OF ALL THE IRRELEVANT RESPONSES IN THIS THREAD FROM THE LAST PAGE UNTIL WE CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?

This thread is in the reap what you sow category, aka a toxic waste dump. Remediation would be futile.

[Torie]

Please tell me you’re being sarcastic.

Rights are provided by the Constitution, and as our governing document we are inherently bound to it as much as we are to democracy. Violating any of it is tantamount to saying it is no longer applicable, destroying the mandate of Congress, the President, and our society.

Did the moral right to equal protection regardless of race exist before the 15th amendment passed in 1870? Would it still exist if the 15th amendment had never been passed?

If a moral right does not legally exist, it does not exist.

In a court of law. But things "exist" that are outside of the courtroom. Who knew?

[Torie]

Some might find the screed below a tad overwrought.

This is not an opportunity to talk about difficult matters privately or in a closed environment. This is a circus. It's a national disgrace. And from my standpoint, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a bunch of Atlas lefties rather than hung from a tree.

[Torie]

^ A textbook example of partisan blindspots.

I must admit I burst out laughing when I read that post. I was tempted to post something equally ludicrous going the other way, but fortunately the impulse waned in time.

[Torie]

Heh, my church has talked about and condemned police shootings, frequently talks about issues of violence in black communities, and condemns Trump a lot and we still don't have any black members.

Hard to find black people in Minnesota

Hey man, it's 6.2% black. Maybe you live in the one area of MN where there are actually black people, but those rural areas are like 97% white.

And there's a black mayor in Helena Montana, but that doesn't mean Montana has many black people...

"The one part"...yeah the part that's by far the most populated, yes.

The black population of Minnesota is comparable to the black population of Washington DC in raw numbers.

This flame war about the number of blacks in Minnesota is absurd. And more to the point, is that BRTD was talking about his church, which I suspect either is in an integrated neighborhood, and/or quite near a black neighborhood, yet has no blacks in it despite being progressive on race and other matters. That was his point, and only point, and yet off the conversation went into the abyss.