And you were doing so well, DK.
There's nothing vile about acknowledging the reality that the world is a brutal place, and that reserving criticism solely for Western civilization is foolish.
Yeah, see the issue is no one is doing that whole "reserving criticism only for the west" thing. No one is being blind to the rest of the problems of the world. Only in your deluded perspective of the leftist criticisms of society do you see this.
Moreover, your response to these criticisms is to point out that other places have more severe problems? Really? Tell me, has pointing out that murder takes place ever once lessened the severity of rape? Saying "The Native Americans had their own shit before we came" doesn't ever fucking mean that genocide is ever fucking okay. "African Tribes sold their PoW into slavery" doesn't make taking the slaves in the first place at all justified. That level of blame-shifting is mind-numbingly ridiculous!
Disenfranchisement is an excuse for causing crime? So how do you propose we enfranchise people? Give them free stuff? That worked so well in Detroit, which collapsed under the weight of all the gifties and goodies it offered. How about we just make saying racial epithets unacceptable in polite society? Done a long time ago. How about we create all-powerful police states that can force the crooked timber of humanity to comply with proper elite consensus? Tried that - the societies defined by it were famous for death camps and gulags. While the rest of your stuff is just strawmen so contemptible they are beneath wasting my intelligence responding to them, I will address free market capitalism.
You sure as fuck love accusing people of straw man arguments, YET HERE YOU ARE DOING ONE YOURSELF. Impressive.
You don't get to cherry pick one word out of an analysis and then go off on a tangent about how solving that issue is, in your opinion, impossible, as if that has any bearing on what he's saying. His analysis was in point of fact, a refutation aimed at your assertion that the reason blacks are arrested/incarcerated at higher rates is because blacks just actually commit more crime, and thusly isn't necessarily about race. He agrees it's not about race, but actually because of poverty and the disadvantages tied to it. Black people are "more likely" to commit crime not by virtue of being black (as you were implying), but because more black people are impoverished, and therefore disenfranchised, than any other race.
The fact is, free market capitalism has replaced starvation with obesity as the greatest health problem among the poor. Free market capitalism has driven the innovation that even lets us have this discussion online. Free market capitalism - which is based on the founding principles of Lockean Natural Law to which the Founding Fathers subscribed - built a nation of the most industrious and innovative people on earth, and then exported it across the globe. Free Market Capitalism has led to societies that abolish slavery while societies that opposed free market capitalism set up death camps, gulags, or quite frankly never developed past tribalism and its attendant slavery in the first place. Even the ones that didn't descend into tyranny are instead ruled by the cartoonishly stupid, like Francois Hollande's France. To whatever extent the United States has problems, it's because the interventionist / "too big to fail" / intrusive superstate was selected to address the problem rather than letting the market work itself out.
Beautiful heart-warming speech about how gloriously outstanding capitalism is, and how gloriously outstanding America is. I mean no one mentioned criticisms on capitalism so I don't know why you bring it up, and honestly don't want to go through explaining why nearly 100% of that paragraph was pure propaganda, and not factually sincere in any possible way.
I will however point out how incredibly hilarious that last sentence is. U.S. problems are caused by the interventionist state not letting the free market work itself out? And you say this while quoting a phrase that is literally from the
direct antithesis to your fucking point? The lack of interventionist state regulation is precisely what allowed the banks to manipulate the free-market into the bubble that popped in 2008. This self-same bubble pop being the provenance of your "too big to fail" quote. Tier 1 Analysis skills there, bro.
I don't propagate racism OR bigotry, you just like to charge that because it's the only arrow in your debate quiver.
I'm sorry, but trying to imply that genocide of the Native Americans, or the enslavement of Africans were at all okay because "they did bad shit too", or that black people are simply more likely to commit crimes than other races by virtue of being black is practically the textbook definition of propagating racism/bigotry.