On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 9:19:51 AM UTC-4, Quadibloc wrote:
On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 6:37:54 AM UTC-6, wsne... wrote:
On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 8:27:26 AM UTC-4, Quadibloc wrote:

In Canada, unlike the United States, persons of indigenous origin are a
sufficiently large proportion of the population that they loom as large in our
awareness as descendants of the victims of the slave trade do in your country.

Today's descendants of the victims of the slave trade are not themselves
victims of the slave trade.

Well, I suppose they're better off than they would be had they been born in
Africa.

Had the history been different, none of us alive today would have been born, anywhere.

However, they certainly are, on the average, disadvantaged - and this
disadvantage has its roots in slavery and what followed slavery.

What disadvantage?


The United
States, for some reason, immediately following the Civil War, failed to
institute a vast program to educate the black people - at the expense of the
Southern states - so that within no more than one generation, black Americans
would be, on average, identical to white Americans in all key demographic
aspects... same average household wealth, same average educational level, same
average income.

Ah, socialism, again.


As long as kids keep getting robbed of their lunch money at knifepoint...

I don't do that.

oh,
wait, they've solved that one with metal detectors and plastic cards... it
won't be possible to get the thinking of all the American people, even ordinary
working-class ones who can't afford to live in gated neighborhoods, fully in
line with educated and sophisticated opinion on racial matters.

I am fully informed on such matters. You seem not to be. Preach elsewhere.



This is intolerable.

What is intolerable?

And people like you, who say the taxman is just as much a thief as a mugger,
stand in the way of making America a nice happy country filled with sunshine
and smiling faces.

Ah, socialism, again.


Of course, as the tongue-in-cheekness of the above suggests,

So your comments were a waste of time.

while I may not
agree with all your opinions, I have not lost sight of the fact that *social
programs cost money*, and ambitious social programs cost even more money.

Ah, socialism, again.


Which is why we have to accept that we live in an imperfect world.

No ****!?