Random Politics & Religion #00

Being defensive about being racist must also lend more truth to the claim that you are racist than anything.

See how that ploy can work against you?

But Sparthy does! And he loves him some KKK Wednesdays.



Those Krispy Kreme Donuts are to die for.

Sparth.

Sorry!

defending myself? God you guys are getting desperate.

Hate it when your own arguments work against you?

I'm sorry, I can't take any opinions seriously that were offered by deflecting racists.

I think we need a amendment to racism doctrine. You have to prove you are racist without a reasonable doubt !

That's your opinion.

That is up to the jury to decide or for lawyers to plea bargain with.

You have to be proven racist in a court of law. Make an official certificate of racist.

I don't think that worked out how you wanted it to.. try again?

Careful now. The more you talk the harder it is to fight back those tears.

I love that you think this is my own argument... lol...

Just let em out then man... It's ok I'm sure King will be there to hold you.

How can you argue at a time like this racism is running rampant in our streets !

Left unchecked racism will kill you and everyone you love !

I think the funniest thing about this whole couple pages of ***posting is that I never once called either of you racists...

Can we get back to who killed detroit because I would like to take credit for it.....

I was talking about your tears. Then again, I would expect a deflector to play it as if I was talking about myself.

The medical examiner and independent investigators ruled it a pretty clear homicide and the prosecutor is laying down dozens of charges. Even to quell political unrest, that level of zeal is pretty over the top. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out, but when you weigh the evidence presented in similar incidents recently and their failure to produce even an indictment, I'd imagine the evidence in this case is pretty overwhelming.

Sure. Let's start with why they left. Clearly they should have been more focused on the welfare of the city than protecting their own business interests. You know, like a business typically does.

Asian car manufacturers are a major reason Detroit failed. With foreign cars coming onto the market and having a better reputation than American ones, market share was lost. American cars have long had mixed opinion from their consumers but for a while, you could only really buy American!

Couple that with the fact that American cars had been trending towards muscle and inefficiency versus the more cost-minded Asian variants. Gas goes up, people want more fuel efficient car. Not some ***spewing my money everywhere. You saw this same problem pop up again recently in the SUV era. Asian cars trended towards efficient. Americans wanted giant house-sized cars guzzling gas and your paycheck.

Blacks and other poor people went to Detroit for jobs but when that shrunk, many of them got left behind. You can see the same problems in eh... any old rust belt, former manufacturing town. Poor whites, poor blacks, poor hispanics et al.

Jobs got outsourced, new players divvied up the market further. Talk about unions or partisan *** if you want but forces above politics exist.

At the outset, it wasn't necessarily a bad business climate. It wasn't until the auto-makers started to collapse under their own weight that it was advantageous to get your money out of the city. Those withdrawals only hastened the inevitable crumbling of a metropolitan area whose foundation was set on an industry that had been in sharp decline for decades.

You can't blame people for jumping a sinking ship, but you can blame the oarsmen who put it on the rocks.

Well we have to blame somebody, dang it. If we can't put a partisan spin on this, then how are we supposed to feel morally superior?

I blame Al Sharpton cause *** it that's why !

lol!

YES I CAN!

We abandoned them!

I couldn't care less about partisan viewpoint, both sides are guilty as hell in the case of Detroit. Allowing foreign imports to dominate the market by undercutting domestic manufacturers, unions bleeding the companies dry with legacy costs paid to spouses and dependents, city zoning essentially designing slums, poor education, suburban shifts and reversion...

There's plenty of blame to go around, but the question is: Why are we allowing a major metropolitan area to reduce to a blown out combat zone? Why did we allow a domestic industry to collapse while parading the success of their foreign manufacturing shifts? Why do we still allow foreign goods to compete with domestic goods while not requiring them to meet the same fair practice and compensation standards?

You're the one adding partisan *** when the oft-worshipped free market is the reason Detroit failed.

I mean, that was the reason Mitt Romney said it should have all failed. No bailout. Because that's the business answer. Funny enough, telling Americans your job isn't worth the paper it's printed on doesn't go over well politically. On either side.

Commence spin.

Accuses me of partisan spin with Detroit... and then immediately begins partisan spin. Huh.

Jassik's response was better.

I can do it in one word: racism. That's what killed Detroit !

According to my racism rulebook. Racism is the cause of all our problems.

Look at the Detroit riots of 1967 also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Detroit_riot

If only complex issues could be boiled down to a single "ism"... Conservatism! Liberalism! Racism! Sexism! Botulism!