Good news about race relations in America
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Bill Barr recently said this:
"You know, putting a national lockdown, stay at home orders, is like house arrest. Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history," Barr said as a round of applause came from the crowd.
There was a response from a politician:
Jim Clyburn repsonds"I think that that statement by Mr. Barr was the most ridiculous, tone-deaf, God-awful thing I've ever heard,"
As a black man born in 1940, he's gone his whole life never hearing anything more ridiculous, tone-deaf or God-awful. I think that's progress. Frankly, I would have assumed he'd gotten an earful of some racist hate at some point but I'm proud of our country that he never has. Good job USA. Not for the first time, I am proud of my country.
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American Bill Barr says something fucking asinine, some other American says something fucking asinine, and somehow Horace thinks this makes me look stupid.
They're your politicians chaps, not mine
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@Larry said in Good news about race relations in America:
Yeah except Bill Barr didn't say anything asinine.
Right, because being told to stay at home is a way worse attack on your civil liberty than being sent to die in Vietnam.
'Other than slavery' - what about the Jim Crow laws? You think the stay at home laws are worse than that?
I was only joking
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@Larry said in Good news about race relations in America:
Being sent to war is not a violation of anyone's civil liberties.
That's easily the dumbest thing I've read today, and you're up against some pretty stiff competition.
I was only joking
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@Larry said in Good news about race relations in America:
Yeah except Bill Barr didn't say anything asinine.
Right, because being told to stay at home is a way worse attack on your civil liberty than being sent to die in Vietnam.
'Other than slavery' - what about the Jim Crow laws? You think the stay at home laws are worse than that?
@Doctor-Phibes said in Good news about race relations in America:
@Larry said in Good news about race relations in America:
Yeah except Bill Barr didn't say anything asinine.
'Other than slavery' - what about the Jim Crow laws? You think the stay at home laws are worse than that?
Since you didn't understand that being sent to war is not a violation of civil liberties, I assume you also simply overlooked the fact that Barr said "other than slavery", which would include Jim Crow laws.
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@Larry said in Good news about race relations in America:
Being sent to war is not a violation of anyone's civil liberties.
That's easily the dumbest thing I've read today, and you're up against some pretty stiff competition.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Good news about race relations in America:
@Larry said in Good news about race relations in America:
Being sent to war is not a violation of anyone's civil liberties.
That's easily the dumbest thing I've read today, and you're up against some pretty stiff competition.
It sounds dumb to you because you are quite obviously ignorant of the facts. I suggest you read up on the matter of military service requirements in the US.
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Somebody sure got upset about that chicken joke
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Good news about race relations in America:
@Larry said in Good news about race relations in America:
Yeah except Bill Barr didn't say anything asinine.
'Other than slavery' - what about the Jim Crow laws? You think the stay at home laws are worse than that?
Since you didn't understand that being sent to war is not a violation of civil liberties, I assume you also simply overlooked the fact that Barr said "other than slavery", which would include Jim Crow laws.
@Larry said in Good news about race relations in America:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Good news about race relations in America:
@Larry said in Good news about race relations in America:
Yeah except Bill Barr didn't say anything asinine.
'Other than slavery' - what about the Jim Crow laws? You think the stay at home laws are worse than that?
Since you didn't understand that being sent to war is not a violation of civil liberties, I assume you also simply overlooked the fact that Barr said "other than slavery", which would include Jim Crow laws.
The Jim crow laws were established in 1874 and repealed in 1965. Slavery was abolished in 1833. Jim Crow and slavery ain't the same thing at all.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Good news about race relations in America:
@Larry said in Good news about race relations in America:
Being sent to war is not a violation of anyone's civil liberties.
That's easily the dumbest thing I've read today, and you're up against some pretty stiff competition.
It sounds dumb to you because you are quite obviously ignorant of the facts. I suggest you read up on the matter of military service requirements in the US.
@Larry said in Good news about race relations in America:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Good news about race relations in America:
@Larry said in Good news about race relations in America:
Being sent to war is not a violation of anyone's civil liberties.
That's easily the dumbest thing I've read today, and you're up against some pretty stiff competition.
It sounds dumb to you because you are quite obviously ignorant of the facts. I suggest you read up on the matter of military service requirements in the US.
Because the Vietnam draft was constitutional doesn't mean it wasn't tyrannical. People were sent to jail if they didn't want to go, right?
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No, but any rational thinker should be aware that when Barr said "except for slavery" he was referring to the whole thing.
@Larry said in Good news about race relations in America:
No, but any rational thinker should be aware that when Barr said "except for slavery" he was referring to the whole thing.
I think that's pushing it a bit. If I said 'America had slavery until 1965' you'd say I was an idiot.
