I don't think that's true. Racism has been faked for political reasons but I don't think people are harbouring or expressing it. As far as misogyny goes it too has been played up for political purposes. But let's face it, if you are feeling "down" raising yourself up is the remedy but pushing the other guy down is not.
How are we different ?
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Tazx
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Racism never left, it was just disguised. Humans have been racist since the beginning of time, and too some degree always will. It's encoded in our genes. Of course it is wrong, but it will never change. I feel racism is less than ever before, but still exists.
If you are referring to immigration and the current situation, well that's not racism, that's what type of people are being allowed in. In the US crime has risen dramatically in every state that large numbers of immigrants are in. It is well know that gang members, murders and rapists came in over the borders. It's not the color that is the big deal, it's who. Regardless of your beliefs, and unfortunately, that anyone from below the US that came across the border is a different color/race. It's not racism to say that. It's a fact. And the fact that a person wants to clean up the criminals, and sorry but they all came from latin america, and again are in fact a diff color.
As for here in Eu, the problem again in the massive influx in crime in Germany, UK, France is a different race. Once again sorry to burst your bubble, but that's the reality of people in different areas of the world. If area A comes to area B, and crime goes up for the first time in a long time, it is directly correlated to the new group A. There is no way around it. We have family in Canada, and they say that in certain areas they have become the minority, and the new minority is the 50 percent increase in crime. So what or how do you say that without being or rather sounding racist. Another race is currently creating a problem.
Heres a good example, were in Mexico for 9 months. We heard and saw a lot of racism towards whites. The cost of living has changed for mexicans because of our willingness to spend more money than they can afford on rent, clothes and even higher end foods. This inflates their cost which in turns creates division and anger towards whites. They are wonderful people, but have become racist towards white people. Justified? Maybe, but you can't blame them. We are the problem.
As for misogyny, once again it gets blurred into a definition. Men do not hate women. Maybe some do, but in general this is further from the truth than you can imagine. Women actually have attacked men for the last I would say 20 years in general. It started in mid 2000's with the big push of abortion. I do not want to get into it. But it became a big push, and took men out of the equation. But in all reality, you didn't get pregnant on your own. It is a 2 person job. But I will stay out of that discussion.
Then there was the meetoo movement which destroyed many mens trust in women. I don't know about the US or anywhere else, but in Canada it turned out that 67 percent of all the cases were falsely brought against men. Then many hi profile cases were thrown out because the women were caught on camera in hotels, bars etc acting contrary to their affidavit statement. A further erosian of trust.
Also, I think men finally read some of the womens forums, where women admit they use men to get what they want. Use them for money, sex, houses, gifts, dinners etc. They admit (some of them) that they will date until a better one comes along. So once again using men. We have finally understood this.
Now according to Psych stats 70% of women say they can't find a man who will date them. There are videos easily found online of women crying saying they will never meet someone etc. Cause men won't date them.
Now none of that excuses hatred or violence or mistreatment. Of course that is wrong, no excuses. manners. But to to make a blanket statement that men hate women is ridiculous. That's like saying all dogs bite!
The current political climate doesn't make a difference. Life is no better under any leader than any other. LAWS don't change, they haven't and won't regardless of who is in office or the political climate. All people are equal under the law. There are no laws that protect one sex more than another.
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What do you expect from your country, your laws, your expectations of how it should be?
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If the point of that statement is to assert that racism implies prejudice, then I disagree. We recognize hundreds of things all the time that informs us of differences. Just wanted to see if you meant "prejudice", IDK.
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Equal protection.
I distain racism but prejudice can save you from harm and heartache. I harbour quite a lot of prejudices and I am not ashamed of them.
I know many of you believe this is what God wants you to do. While some of you find proselytism offensive. I feel offended when someone ignores what I am saying and acts as though s/he knows all that is important and I do not. That is so inconsiderate and disrespectful, isn't it?
Never mind the history of enslaving people, and genocide and forcing people off their land and destroying the planet those people think we should protect while maintaining Christians have not done terrible things, and their continued effort to suppress the truth of their wrongs. Really this needs to stop.
There are so many wrongs in the wake of Christianity, it can not stop soon enough.
Thank you. I thought this fact was never going to come up. We have this problem in the US because in 1958 we changed the purpose of education and left moral training to the church. I want to quote from a 1939 first-grade textbook.
The book is titled "Health Stories Book One." Every page contains moral lessons about cooperation and consideration, as well as practical steps to staying healthy. Before the 1958 National Defense Education Act totally changed the purpose of education, the primary goal of education was preparing the individual child for a well-rounded life and good citizenship.
If there was an organized effort to return education to its original purpose, we would not be led by someone who calls many of us the enemy from within and Christians would know democracy comes from Greek and Roman documents and native Americans, not the Bible. Without literacy is Greek and Roman classics, our democracy is not protected, and our civilization is not civil despite Christian myth and domination.
Thomas Jefferson understood the importance of education for a strong and united democracy.
I have an old movie titled "What's So Bad About Feeling Good?" The jest of the story is exactly what you said. People feeling good isn't good for the economy. 
But the American dream coming from the Enlightenment is we don't have to wallow in filth and ignorance and believe a God is going to punish us, or a demon is going to possess us, while a few powerful people take advantage of us because we believe that is the way God ordained things to be.
Old text books for in second-hand stores, show how we made America great with education for personal growth and individual power over our lives based on morals taught in literature and folklore.
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Hum, how does this logic work? Some diseases are spread in the air we breathe and during a pandemic, thousands or millions of people can die because of the spread of the disease. The best things we can do are
1. avoid being around people
2. keep as much distance between ourselves and others if we must enter a room full of people
3. as a last resort cover our mouths and noses to reduce the possibility of being infected or spreading the virus. That is the same thing as wearing medical people wearing masks, except they have access to better masks. The concept of wearing masks is the same.
Enough people understood this logic well enough to buy up all the supplies for making masks when there were none to buy. It was a long time before we could buy high-quality masks but when they came on the market people who understood the science, bought the higher quality masks and when we went to the grocery store we hoped we were not standing a Christian who insisted on going to church and selfishly refused to cooperate with a national effort to reduce the number of infections. Talk about the enemy within. That Christian refusal to be a cooperative citizen, putting religion above science, made the forces of ignorance and evil strong.
I was a Christian but given what we know today, I can not understand why people continue to interpret the Bible literally. When Christians united against the rest of us and started using our government to force Christian preferences on all of us, non-Christians became increasingly vocal about what is wrong with Christianity. Intentionally increasing my chance of being infected by a deadly disease is not acceptable behavior. Turning against us is not acceptable behavior. We are not the powerless native Americans or people of color. We are white and we talking about right and wrong.
Preventing disease is more than our health steps. It also requires a spirit of cooperation and consideration. Old test books do a better job of teaching values and morals than modern ones.
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Well morals and ethics work both ways. Many of the people who said the unvaxxed should die were religious. Where was the compassion or the teachings of god there?
I had morals when I put my life on the line for my country and yours. I served without any thought for myself. It was my duty to do so to ensure a future for my family and yours. But...I volunteered. I made the decision using research, logic, ethics, my personal ethos and what I believe in.
Where I draw the line is others telling me what to do against my constitution, and my own values. And if I do research and find 12 medical files that say masks don't work for pandemics, and you find 12 that say they do, that is where I use my choice, my judgement, my morals and ethics to make a decision that is best for me. All things being equal, I come first, then my family, then others. Because if I don't make my self the most important, I can't be there for my family, or for others.
Here is a google page of mask research and they have been proven effective.
research on the effectiveness of masks - Google Search
I read a heartbreaking book about the struggle to get the media and government to respond to the pandemic. Trump had dismantled the group of pandemic specialists that Obama put into place so we were totally unprepared for a pandemic and Trump didn't want to hear anything about it. Trump gave us bad information and favored denial.
While preachers bragged about how Christians do not fear death, making their denial and refusing to cooperate a badge of honor for brave Christians who don't fear death. These people increased the risk and the number who died and "nice" people are not supposed to say anything about this. Saying something that might offend a Jew or Christian is either taboo or close to it. But we can lie about immigrants eating people's dogs.
I think the next 4 years are going to be very interesting.
I do not agree you have the right to put me at risk but you are not alone with that understanding of your rights. Hopefully, that position includes a woman's right to an abortion.
Together we stand and divided we fall.
PS this is the google page I got when I asked for research saying the masks don't work.
research masks do not work - Google Search
Please pick 12 that say they do not work.
research on the effectiveness of masks - Google Search
I read a heartbreaking book about the struggle to get the media and government to respond to the pandemic. Trump had dismantled the group of pandemic specialists that Obama put into place so we were totally unprepared for a pandemic and Trump didn't want to hear anything about it. Trump gave us bad information and favored denial.
While preachers bragged about how Christians do not fear death, making their denial and refusing to cooperate a badge of honor for brave Christians who don't fear death. These people increased the risk and the number who died and "nice" people are not supposed to say anything about this. Saying something that might offend a Jew or Christian is either taboo or close to it. But we can lie about immigrants eating people's dogs.
I think the next 4 years are going to be very interesting.
I do not agree you have the right to put me at risk but you are not alone with that understanding of your rights. Hopefully, that position includes a woman's right to an abortion.
Together we stand and divided we fall.
PS this is the google page I got when I asked for research saying the masks don't work.
research masks do not work - Google Search
Please pick 12 that say they do not work.
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