# Living while black in America

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 9, 2018, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611 "2018-07-09T21:17:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611/559 "2018-08-06T19:11:27Z")

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> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> Fictional people (do you have a cite for this poster, or any other Dopers on their side, wondering about this?) supposedly wondering about a simplistic (and incorrect) straw-man mischaracterization of nuanced arguments about a difficult topic? Fascinating!

You aren’t being the best iiandyiiii you can be. Shame! Worrying about a bit of a broad brush when it paints your sacred cows? Yet noticeably silent when your ideological allies use an even broader brush.

> [@septimus](#):
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> To advise a Jew in Nazi Germany to leave the country would be good advice. _ **But we wouldn’t view it with kindness if it came from a Nazi.** _ Who do you vote for, **cephalopod**? The side that favors social justice or the side that is now actively promoting white nationalism?

The side that gives me, in my personal and subjective analysis, the best possible result. I did vote for a (D) in the recent past.

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> And I don’t know where you got the peculiar idea that anyone here claimed “voting with one’s feet” is necessarily racist?? Especially on an issue (guns) only tangentially related to race??? Your finances are fortunate if moving to a less gun-crazed country is an option for you (though I fear the number of gun crazies will go up in your destination after you emigrate). Have you acknowledged that changing countries is not a realistic option for most people?

If it’s a matter of survival emigration is available even for the poor. Cite: the southern border.

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> Nobody expects you to join in the next BLM march, but at heart _you’re on one side or the other._ If your “solution” to racism is to keep voting for the racist party and to offer only smug smirky answers here, then _ **you are a racist.** _

BLM, Kaepernick, etc. have a valid point and I haven’t criticized Kaepernick. I support his point of view actually. I’m more against extrajudicial punishment than most on this board. You won’t see me making prison rape jokes like some of the sadistic perverts here.

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> BTW, I mentioned that guns are only “tangentially” related to racism. Do you follow the news well enough to understand that the Second Amendment is not generally extended to blacks? That cops have murdered several blacks for no reason other than their legal possession of a fire-arm?
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> \*\*\* Until you acknowledge the problem, you are the problem.\*\*\*

Lol. I never said racism doesn’t exist. I said liberal double think and hypocrisy aren’t helpful.

@guinny and sunny. I thought you’d appreciate some more snark material.

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