r/MurderedByWords • u/iTriggerChuds • Dec 11 '19

Murder Someone call an ambulance

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u/CorrectTheRecord-H Dec 11 '19

Yeaaahhh...please explain to me how people are racist when they don't do racist things and simply were born in a certain area and or a certain skin color

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u/CowboyBoats Dec 11 '19

Hypothetical question for you. Is it racist, in your opinion, to accept a gift that was produced by slave labor?

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u/CorrectTheRecord-H Dec 11 '19

If you honestly believe the answer to that is yes, then every single person on the internet or eating food from a store is a racist

Would really make the word meaningless if it applied to everyone.

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u/CowboyBoats Dec 11 '19

If you honestly believe the answer to that is yes, then every single person on the internet or eating food from a store is a racist

Why?

Would really make the word meaningless if it applied to everyone.

If you say so. It just seems to me that every time institutional racism is discussed, triggered white people start coming out of the woodwork with magical arguments about how meaningless it all is. Meanwhile the median white household's net worth in the UnIted States is around $105K, and the median black household's is around $5K.

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u/CorrectTheRecord-H Dec 11 '19

Name a device that connects to the internet that isn't built with slave labor

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u/CowboyBoats Dec 11 '19

I'm confused. You're involved in international efforts to reinvent the supply chains for electronic devices so that they don't exploit people? If so, I 100% support that and want to help.

Or are you just trying to get everyone to throw up their hands and give up on the whole concept of "fairness"? Or what's your angle here?

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u/CorrectTheRecord-H Dec 11 '19

I'm confused. You're involved in international efforts to reinvent the supply chains for electronic devices so that they don't exploit people? If so, I 100% support that and want to help.

Do you? Or do you just want to berate people who you feel have more than you for having it? Every comment you make deals with the past - you make no mention of improving things for any group of people except your own.

Plenty of people today - in 2019 - are being exploited. And you're hung up on stuff that's done and over with.

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u/wehrmann_tx Dec 11 '19 edited Dec 11 '19

So even if all black people were only working minimum wage, you're 5k median implies 3 out of 4 households have no one working.

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u/CowboyBoats Dec 11 '19

Er, no, because net worth and income aren't the same thing. Keep in mind the net worth number also accounts for debt, such as educational debt, and assets such as real estate and so forth. I do see the direction you're trying to steer in, though, and can't say it's not off-putting. Are you trying to say that black people don't participate in the labor force? They do.

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u/wehrmann_tx Dec 12 '19

No, I was using your numbers making the implication yours.

Hell my net worth is less than 0 if that's the standard.