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Okay, so we agree racism's not okay. Where things diverge is when you think any attempt to so much as acknowledge the existence of it is fighting racism with racism, and that's just about the stupidest fucking idea I've ever heard. But there's obviously no changing your mind on this, and there's no shortage of links to online stories of extremists who you believe prove your point. Continue plugging your ears with your fingers and pretending that everything's just peachy, nothing to see here

They are more effective than predicted, a lot more effective. They were one of the most effective vaccines ever developed in human history actually. The problem is 45% of the entire US population is still unvaccinated and probably only 25% of the world population is vaccinated. That's kind of a problem when trying to get to herd immunity... If all this antivaxxer bullshit would cut the shit and get with the program, the virus would be extinct in the USA by now. I hope the vaccine mandates and restrictions for the unvaccinated keep piling on. The more pressure to get people to listen to science instead of Facebook, the better.

Woke: “Aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)." ~Merriam-Webster Woke: "past of wake." "Alert to injustice in society, especially racism." ~Oxford. Words are used to communicate. They change over time and take on new meaning as society adopts them into the use of language. To be woke is to be aware. To be woke is to be attentive. To be receptive. To be aware, attentive and receptive are positive traits. Therefore, the title, "Woke is a Joke" is to be un-woke or unaware, inattentive and unreceptive. Personally, I find these traits to be unappealing. Unfortunately. the title "Woke is a Joke" leaves no room for exploration. It can only be defended. It's human nature to defend a hard line proclamation. As we get older, we learn that not everything is so definitive. Even math has a flaw. I know I said that I was done with this, but It's been eating on me that we as a society can't even agree, with all the evidence, that while we may have made a lot of progress in civil rights since 1962, we have much further to go. I also have a hard time understanding veterans who served with just about every race, color, religion or national origin - who by the very nature of being in the military had to rely on those who were "different" to stay alive - would not be at the front of social justice; rather than the rear.

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He is completely race blind; he only sees the content of their character, not the color of their skin. Now, the people who talk about how blacks have been discriminated against in America - they're the real racists! Because all they see is "black" not the fact that many of those type of people are lazy and fatherless.

Yep. Like they say, words mean things. I have often found that the last refuge of the Internet bloviator is the attempt to redefine a word so as to win his argument. I've seen it in science forums quite a bit; when someone gets cornered on one of the many perpetual-motion claims, for example, a not-uncommon reply for them is "well, what is efficiency, really? Couldn't it mean that XXX" where XXX is some alternative definition of efficiency, chosen so that his perpetual motion machine is not violating the laws of thermodynamics. I find it is often fruitless to continue the discussion after that point.

Hi Keith, During my four yrs of enlistment, I found dipsticks of every race there was. The worst was a white guy from one of the Carolinas; as lazy as the day is long. And, just as sloppy. Opposite of that, were a lot of great guys *; a few I still get together with every year or so. Just as it is in civilian life. Jerry Baumchen * There were no women enlistees in any unit I served in. However, there were a few female nurses I would have liked to have 'gotten to know' a little better.

The endless references to 'science' are more reminiscent of Thomas Dolby than Louis Pasteur. It would be refreshing to have data to support the various stances, hopefully correlated with a vanishingly small P value. Enough of the papers I've come across indicate that the mRNA vaccines are both leaky and allow further spread of infection at a pace identical to that of the unvaccinated. Hardly 'the most effective vaccines ever developed in human history.' The hysteria surrounding the pandemic seems to be augmented by the Dunning Kruger effect, if anything. BSBD, Winsor

You would agree if you would just listen to Winsor explain Critical Jewish Theory one more time.