06-03-2020, 10:00 AMteztify Wrote:

06-03-2020, 09:51 AMjRuutu Wrote: Absolutely, but still asking questions and sharing my thoughts on what I see should not automatically lead to me being labelled as the worst of the worst.

Of course not. We need to encourage everyone to have room to grow and learn, and to learn empathy. The problematic part is that you aren't just asking questions - you're sharing dangerous and inflammatory opinions, the kinds of things that create obstacles to equity. You aren't asking how black people - not just in America but the world over - are oppressed. You're saying they're "so-called oppressed". You aren't innocently taking up a discourse here, you're spreading dangerously uneducated, misinformed takes - your opinion has already been formed. You're not only suggesting that maybe the riots have gone too far - you're diminishing and nearly denying the problem exists at all.

It's a shifting of the goal posts to say that if they were oppressed they wouldn't make it out alive. That's literally not the definition of the word, and you can't change it to dismiss the plight of the black community.

I'll help:

And that is what happened, I shared and commented with the information I have. I know for a fact that at least over here in Finland black people are not oppressed, they have the same opportunities as everybody else, but just like everyone else, not everybody goes on to do great things despite having all the same opportunities. We are not all doctors and politicians over here. Just because there is opportunities, that does not mean anything if you don´t use those opportunities. Of course its wrong to not offer the opportunities in the first place. The picture I have about America, the land of the free, is that you are your own boss - you control your own destiny. That is clearly wrong or is wrong nowadays.

I see the riots and people looting, I think what in the fuck is wrong with you people, that business offered jobs to who knows how many, you bought your items there - now you just step and take everything for free and destroy the property. I think to myself why don´t you vote and take interest in your local politics instead. In this thread I learned that voting process is not perfect over there, in Finland only way to make a difference is by voting. The system works, if you don´t vote - you don´t have the right to complain. I thought its the same in the greatest country of the world, but its not the case. That is terrible.