Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27905100-20170123054947/@comment-28266772-20170123122641

Where did you get 50% from!? I can find no statistic that endorses that position. And I don't care about guilt tripping or otherwise - there's a simple fucking question the police need to answer, why are black people more likely to be shot than a white counterpart? The answer isn't 'tough decisions' it's just good ol' fuckin racism. The same kind that strung black people from trees and treated them like property. Nothing more, nothing less. If this were just a case of shooting threats then you wouldn't see black people targeted disproportionately. The only other possible explanation is that black people are just criminal, and that they deserve it.

That's what I gotta ask Diex. Do they deserve it? Did Tamir Rice deserve it? Are black people fundamentally different to white people? Because if they're not then ''why the fuck do the police shoot them more than any other group? ''The only possible justification is that they just fucking deserve it, in which case why stop with the police? Why not just go back and "make america great again" and start stringing them up again? Either they are equal, and should be shot in equal amounts. Or they are not equal, and the police are justified in shooting them more.

Is it easier to believe that Tamir Rice deserved his fate than to just acknowledge the possibility that some police are racist?

I'm not even going to dignify the argument about 'race' or otherwise. But needless to say people aren't throwing tantrums about Canadian immigration. Mexicans, muslims or otherwise are all brown and that's the unifying issue. Technicalities about how to define a race or otherwise are of no interest to me, or to the white supremacists I oppose.

And fuck nationalism. Fuck it hard; as a species we shouldn't even stoop so low as to believe that "I'm better because the vagina I emerged from is on this particular rock and you suck because the vagina you emerged from is on that icky rock over there". It's cute to portray globalism as some kind naive dream but it's only difficult to achieve because of stubborn ignorance that would rather cling to petty tribalism than aim for something greater. As a Welshmen I find it fucking hilarious when people raise this argument about Brexit. My country was colonised by the English; the history of mankind is one tribe hits another over the head and takes their stuff. I have no more attachment to the current group I'm attached to than the next - I'm only interested in reaching a point where there's one tribe and no more head-hitting. I don't care if it's some stuck up elitist prick in London, or some stuck up elitist prick in Brussels. It's all the same to me. Elitism is part of the world, and I'm not going to be swayed by the argument of "our elite is better than theirs".

Make no mistake, I acknowledge the threats to Western values, and I even appreciate your position with regards to Saudi Arabia (which I do consider to be a threat, unlike ISIS). But the only way to combat that is to unite and stand behind countries that support equality and freedom. And not use the fear to appeal to populist sentiments of xenophobia and hatred to garner support for a political position that threatens those very values that I consider so important. If that means some power to govern the UK is transferred out of my country and into France, so fucking be it. Like I said; I'm sure the French elite are just as stuck up and impossible to work with as the English elite, but I'm not so naive as to think it makes a damned bit of difference. The only thing that matters to me is unity and strength in the face of existential threats like Russia.

And ultimately, who knows about the Trump thing. Maybe people like me did set the consensus. But they are fucking idiots. And I'm not going to grin inanely and pretend that a bunch of fucking morons deserve a place at the table any more than I would humour my dog's input on my morgage. Good for them; they won. I legitimately hope I'm wrong and Trump doesn't immediately fuck everything up like the retard I suspect he is. Maybe he's secretly brilliant. I really really hope he is.

But in my opinion, that's the naive position to take.