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You're right. Comparing a one hour riot to 120 days of riots IS disingenuous.
Too many snowflakes these days, the criminals that attacked the capitol were pumped up on right wing lies.

BLM were fighting back after being attacked by right wing bigots.

I get that it sucks when you are the problem, but you chose to be the problem.
 

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If you think someone is racist because they don't support BLM, then you are a race baiting idiot.

You either think that black lives matter, or you don't. If you do, then you support BLM.

Maybe not totally in everything they do, but we're all grown ups here. You don't have to agree with someone 100% to support them. Anyone who has a girlfriend/wife etc will completely understand that.
 
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You either think that black lives matter, or you don't. If you do, then you support BLM.

As I suggested, one could pay it no mind. Rhetoric that relies on and seeks the existence of racism isn't constructed to end it. It's built to leverage it and utilize it. Fighting racism with racism is an approach one could take. But it's not, as you imply, one of only two choices.

The words "black lives matter" doesn't need to enter someone's head space, at all, when making humanitarian choices.
 
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Too many snowflakes these days, the criminals that attacked the capitol were pumped up on right wing lies.

BLM were fighting back after being attacked by right wing bigots.

I get that it sucks when you are the problem, but you chose to be the problem.
Right wing bigots attacked rioters, looters and arsonists for 100+ days straight? Huh?
 

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No, but also you can be racist when you make a "humanitarian choice". So I'm not sure what point you are making.
If you think racism can be humanitarian, I think that speaks more about your values. If you were interested in understanding the point, you would have found it before getting that far into my response.

Again, to spell it out. A person can not think "black lives matter" and be less racist than those who do. Seems like it'd be logical to conclude.
 

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Abortions, even coat hangers are easy to avoid. Don't have sex.

Rape is easy to reduce, replace the pornographic culture that our main stream media peddles to us now a days, and return the standard back to something a bit more controlled like we had from the 30's -50's. A LOT of research went into the effects of broadcasted propaganda and its effects on society, and before that, there was an ample amount of research on crowd behavior vs individual behavior, so there is no question that our technologies have changed our mind set over the past 100 years, and it is evident that they grow more and more pornographic over time. Seeing as we are all trapped in the flesh with it's hungers, it is best not to keep meat sitting in front of our faces at all hours of the day, keeping us distracted, mesmerized, charmed, horny, and well useless except where more babies are required, but babies are not supposed to be a means to a mere economical end, nor should abortion for that matter.
 
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Don't have sex.
Spoken like someone who doesn't understand sex.

Rape is easy to reduce
If your argument is that only abortions in cases of rape are permissible, then you need to be able to outright eliminate rape in order to be able to eliminate abortion, by that logic.

replace the pornographic culture that our main stream media peddles to us now a days
There's no evidence that pornography causes rape. In fact, studies show that increased access to the internet broadly (and its porn) is correlated with reduced rape incidents. You don't see the same correlation with other violent crimes.
 

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There's no evidence that pornography causes rape. In fact, studies show that increased access to the internet broadly (and its porn) is correlated with reduced rape incidents. You don't see the same correlation with other violent crimes.
Yes, pornography having a pacifing effect is plausible.
 

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Spoken like someone who doesn't understand sex.


If your argument is that only abortions in cases of rape are permissible, then you need to be able to outright eliminate rape in order to be able to eliminate abortion, by that logic.


There's no evidence that pornography causes rape. In fact, studies show that increased access to the internet broadly (and its porn) is correlated with reduced rape incidents. You don't see the same correlation with other violent crimes.

1. I am not here to brag about my sexual adventures, misadventures, and what not, but I can assure you that I'm quite familiar with sex, and not just with my self.

2. My argument is that there should never be an abortion, except in the case where there is zero doubt that having the birth will kill the baby and or mother. Besides, our technologies are so good now that we can perform a successful birth more often than not should there be a complication.

3. There is no evidence that pornography causes rape, but it does increase one's sexual appetite, and by pornography, I am not just talking about dedicated porn sites, magazines, or movies, though while on the topic, when I was a kid growing up, porn was not easy to come by and most clothing catalogs were not that revealing at the time either, so you had to rely upon your imagination.

That said If we did not have pornographic mantras to our musick, pornographic music videos to go with them, pornographic movies, magazine articles, pseudo science articles, and the like, then we would look at porn and sexuality very differently. Kids like you are too young to know a world that was not fully flooded with pornographic imagery, nor would you have known the world before Alfred Kinsey's book flew off the book shelves back in the day, before the so called sexual revolution, or before the medical books were forced to change the definition of some disorders, even though emotions and force were used as an argument against them rather than sound science and reason.

The whole world is now more sexually stimulated than it ever has been in history. Therefore rape will occur more often because sex is being pushed to the forefront of more people's minds all of the time.The human being wasn't designed to stay at home and beat off, thinking about sex non-stop. And besides, porn doesn't satisfy like a real woman can.

If you replaced a culture with sexual icons with one of chaste icons of integrity, logic, reason, mercy, compassion, honesty, etc. You would then produce a culture that thinks less of sex and therefore rapes less. Study the past, look at rape statistics, look at statistics for people having babies out of wedlock, look at divorce rates, etc. As Humanism went up and everyone was free to do what they want without fear of judgement, we got selfish and stopped looking out for the little ones and their concerns. Hence the reason we drag kids to pride parades to be indoctrinated and get thet innocense out of them quick....so that they don't shame us with their innocence.

On a side note, women often have commented to me how over the past few years it has become near impossible to find clothes that were not revealing. Why is it difficult to shop for modest clothing, just like why is it difficult to find food that is actually healthy.

This, like the abortion industry, is one of the sick sides of capitalism and power abuse.
 
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If you think racism can be humanitarian, I think that speaks more about your values. If you were interested in understanding the point, you would have found it before getting that far into my response.
No, it points to how bad your arguing is. You make vague points, to make it impossible to discuss things with you.

Humanitarian "concerned with or seeking to promote human welfare."

I can certainly see a white supremacist who is making "humanitarian choices" and favoring white people, because they don't consider black people as human.

Again, to spell it out. A person can not think "black lives matter" and be less racist than those who do. Seems like it'd be logical to conclude.
There is no logical conclusion to your confused point.

You either believe black lives matter or you believe black lives don't matter.

I'm not sure it's worth trying to compare how racist someone is, with someone who believes black lives don't matter.
 
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I can certainly see a white supremacist who is making "humanitarian choices" and favoring white people, because they don't consider black people as human.
You made the claim that humanitarian choices can be racist. This is your ridiculous rationalization. That's racism and not humanitarian. You are literally entertaining and exercising racism in order to undermine the definition of humanitarianism.

No, it points to how bad your arguing is. You make vague points, to make it impossible to discuss things with you.

Stating that you are wrong and pointing out how you are wrong isn't really an invitation to discuss things further. The points aren't vague. You are just a shallow dimwit.

You either believe black lives matter or you believe black lives don't matter.

I'm not sure it's worth trying to compare how racist someone is, with someone who believes black lives don't matter.

Or you don't engage with racial rhetoric. You can literally think about people's lives without making their race a qualifier. Not thinking black lives matter is not the same as believing black lives do not matter. People shouldn't need "black lives matter" as a personal mantra to remind themselves to not be racist against people because they are black. It might be a good mental crutch for idiots trying to become "less racist" against a specific racial group. Do you have enough corporate-approved catchphrases for all other disenfranchised minorities? Do you have enough room left in your head to think?

It is backwards, to index people by race and what kinds of needs and conditions you think they have based on that information, in an effort to become "not a racist". It just turns you into a patronizing racist.
 

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