Shake747

No eye damage in Ottawa, just brain damage

Lol! Touché

There’d be hardly any parents left if you could jail bad parents on whim based on a singular observation.

Then many of those kids would be even worse off…

Thinking back to the very “concerned parents” of my childhood, they were usually the over protective lunatics

I definitely read “sharting” at first glance

This is so pedantic it hurts. I don’t know how to dumb this down any further. You win, racism will never end and let’s just put everyone in jail. Enjoy!

Not a lot of real world analysis (that’s not a priori) that I could find specifically on race, but here’s one regarding this issue but with prejudice against transgender:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aad9713

It’s also enabled everyone to see cultures and ways of life they would never be able to before. People can share their differences and traditions more openly too. Knowing more about cultures, practices and different people is what opens doors to not being racist

You’re forgetting that we have technology that connects most of the world now, even across languages. This definitely changes things.

But it sounds like you’d prefer to live under a government like the CCP. That way you don’t have to worry anymore because they’ll take care of everything for you

You’re asking me to predict the future, maybe it doesn’t happen. Maybe 1 lifetime? Maybe 2?

Who knows, but all we can do in the meantime is continue to actually talk with people caught in the storm.

If the government tries to force speech, what do you think that will do? Do you think everyone will say “oh ok”, and just quietly live out their lives at home in resentment or in prison for this never to return?

It’s a bandaid to a problem where we’re just supposed to trust that governments will always use this power correctly

Why do you trust powerful governments so much?

Racism isn’t an implicit call to violence. Violence is one of the ways it can manifest if it’s deranged enough, but most racism is just sorta quiet and often unconscious.

It’s not a good idea for the government tell you what you’re allowed to say - that change has to come naturally from the bottom up, not artificially from the top down

That’s exactly how I’d expect a government to use this. It’s not a good path

Well articulated! I wish we could operate in that space more often.

Healthy discourse might get us humans somewhere instead of infighting with our neighbors

That’s fair, and I’m glad you’re in a part of the world that allows you to express yourself freely.

If being on the stage, dressing different, or playing the drums is something you want to go at, I’d say do it. You won’t know it until you’re in it. There will be some aspects you like, and some you won’t. What you perceive and what actually is, are often different.

I’ve always found that the things I excel at, are the things I’m genuinely interested in. And when I follow those paths for a while, they all have similar lessons. It’s like an all rivers lead to the ocean kinda thing.

Counter intuitively though, I also feel more liberated when I’m disciplined about getting little goals done on those paths. When I follow my exact, in the moment emotions, it usually leads me to addiction and forms of laziness. Just gotta push through the bullshit for a bit lol. “Beauty stems from pain” sort of fits with what I’m saying here. Might not be the same for everyone though, but for the past few years I’ve been excited to get out of bed lol.

Anyways, listen to your heart and you’ll feel full. Good luck!

What do you mean specifically when you say you want to explore yourself more? What would that entail?

Energy producers (one of the largest industries) of all kinds input propaganda into the world about their business - and their business is tied to climate research for public perception. Climate is definitely a manipulated message in one form or another

“Misleading Ads, funding experts, lobbying opinions”

This is also just every large industry/corporation ever

The L that the feds deserve! Amazing. My faith in our systems has almost been restored

Let’s see how the inevitable tax payer funded appeal goes

This is pretty accurate

I 100% went back and checked, after I was told it’s “very small” and probably wouldn’t notice it.

I appreciate you trying to help out though, thank you. You’re the most competent CRA employee I’ve ever spoken to