I think so too. Plus, you are approachable, a huge plus!
Oh, the criticals you will see!
Horton Hears a Hobgoblin
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Roll for Initiative
The Cat in the Helm of Telepathy
So would you say @DrDeth is engaged in a… ponzi scheme?
You’ve come a long way. I hope that doesn’t sound condescending. I can only hope I’ve grown as a poster as much as you have.
Hah! Sure, by his definition. I think me responding to a post is also a Ponzi scheme, by my own personal definition.
This is really it. I actually don’t think he’s a stupid person, compared to the average American at least. I’ve seen him post intelligently. But he absolutely will not be moved from any position, no matter how well refuted or cited. It seems almost pathological.
Almost?
It’s a almost pathological response
Curse you guys for pointing out that quirk. 
The way I normally read, my eye skips over typos for words like that. Now I won’t be able to not notice.
Personal growth, heck, I’m just glad you came back. 
It’s a remarkable degree of ideological consistency. DrDeth absolutely refuses to believe that there are such things as structural or institutional racism; the only racist acts or words that exist in the world are those deliberately produced by bad, racist people. This is actually not that uncommon a view in the US, sadly.
But obviously the amount of racism in society has decreased dramatically in recent decades. So the logical conclusion of that view is that you have to believe either that the vast majority of people were bad and immoral until quite recent times, or that people 100 years ago weren’t actually any more racist than people today.
Usually, when people who deny the existence of structural racism have this pointed out to them, they hem and haw and change the subject. DD is remarkable in that he plows right ahead, picks one of the two indefensibly absurd alternatives and stoutly defends it.
Hey, I was just looking at the Doper anniversaries and today is Dr. Deth’s twentieth anniversary as a Doper.
/random
Resolved: We should request the mods change the name of this thread to “DrDeth is an fuckin jackass”.
Friendly amendment: “…a absolute fuckin jackass”.
Assuming for this discussion that it is merely a belief system and individuals’ actions, a much larger percent of people believing and doing some things we find immoral is not that hard to swallow. It doesn’t even have to be the “vast majority”: however, take for instance the views on so-called miscegenation. The vast majority of white people (as well as a not-too-small percent of everyone in general) did think that people from different “races” ought not to marry. If that isn’t “bad and immoral” then I don’t know what is.
I second the motion
Call the question.
Aye!
I certainly agree that racism is always bad and immoral. Still, there’s a significant moral difference between going along with racist ideas that almost everyone else in your society holds, and being the guy who clings to racism even after most people around you have rejected it.
Of course.
You’re describing a continuum of beliefs with lots of gray between the extremes. Which is exactly the sort of thing DrDeth has firmly rejected whenever it’s been brought up by just about any other poster.