Zompist Bboard Again

I'm sorry, but you're both missing the point. In this country, lots of people look at me, a brown-skinned man with facial hair, and immediately see a terrorist. Sometimes, people seeing someone like me have actually shot and killed them as a result. A Chump-supporter has already killed an Indian whi...

See? This is the problem with "but this had more victims than that!" Any racially motivated murder is still a racially motivated murder.

Several Indians have been murdered in recent years. I actually can't think of one who was murdered by the police.

Seriously? You can only remember two times that a POC was killed by someone other than the cops?

Wow.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 4:06 pm

Vijay wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 4:04 pm ........Since the entire history of this country?

I'm talking about within our lifetimes. Lynching and like are long gone here in America. The Tulsa massacre occurred before most people alive today were born.

Throughout our lifetimes.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 4:03 pm

Vijay wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 3:58 pm I'm not talking about police shootings, Travis.

Since when are there people who aren't police regularly shooting minorities on sight in America?

........Since the entire history of this country?

I'm not talking about police shootings, Travis.

Or! Maybe you could just stop trying to make this all about the left when many of us are not fortunate enough to guarantee not being shot on sight because our skin color somehow gets us conflated with terrorists.

Moreover, I don't know how trustworthy I would consider an online magazine that is basically saying "both sides!" during an epidemic of racial violence.

I don't know where you're getting any of this talk about "the enemy." Everyone who is on the other side of the dichotomy between us and them . Please cite me one example of left-wingers talking about people who "question white fragility or cultural appropriation" as "the en...

I don't know where you're getting any of this talk about "the enemy."

Is it a Papuan language?

Nortaneous wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 11:07 pmit was indeed taken by a German-speaking missionary, although I'm not sure which country he was from

Apparently, he was from Strasbourg, in which case I guess he was from France.

Are you really the only person here who speaks Irish? (Unless I count, I guess. Sorry, I didn't sleep well, so I'm not sure how well my memory/brain is working).

Is this language Austronesian?

Nortaneous wrote: ↑Sun Aug 01, 2021 12:57 pm

Zju wrote: ↑Sun Aug 01, 2021 5:49 am I can't recall any sources or languages, but there were those two random sound changes in two different oceanic languages, without any apparent motivation or intermediate steps:

1. b > c / #_, nc / V_V
2. gr > kʰ

1 is Sundanese.

Huh? Sundanese isn't Oceanic.

Is it Niger-Congo?

Is it extinct?

Because you then get nonsensical comparisons, because countries with larger populations will naturally tend to have greater COVID cases even if they do a better job of keeping people from catching COVID than, say, Andorra. China has fewer cases than most despite being where it was first reported to...

This is my brother.

I normally don't agree with Nortaneous on much of anything, but comparing countries' total COVID cases, as opposed to COVID cases per capita, makes no sense at all. Why not? Because you then get nonsensical comparisons, because countries with larger populations will naturally tend to have greater C...

Once again, I have no idea what you're going on about except this: The country with the highest rate of COVID cases per capita is Andorra. The US isn't even in the top ten. I wasn't talking about per capita. I was talking about overall. I normally don't agree with Nortaneous on much of anything, bu...