Recent content by Emily Lake

I disagree. The real issue is religion. Islam is the problem, not what color someone is, or what their country is called. It's a toxic, and fundamentally undemocratic religion and it has a stranglehold on that part of the world, and it's spreading.

Do you really want the US to oversee the forcible change of government and power that this would require?

Conceptually I'm with you. Where I get hung up is on who gets to make those decisions and oversee that change? I'm not sure I trust any government or organization with that kind of power.

Both. I mean, it's not always nice, but that's what being an ally means - that you spend a lot of money to defend your ally when they're attacked even if (and sometimes especially if) they're a tiny sliver of land that the vast majority of people don't care about. I'm not even sure the...

I can't think of anything that Biden tried to do that were somehow blocked. I also can't think why anyone would believe that the Trump administration wouldn't use different methods of letting citizens get fucked over by our own government than the Biden administration used. I mean, of course...

Wouldn't that be nationist rather than racist? Or are you suggesting that Somalians are a different race than all other people of predominantly african descent?

In order to successfully change a thing, you have to first understand the thing. If you actually want to get rid of racism, you have to actually understand how it came about, and what evolved behavior underlies it. We're a social species, and just like any other species we compete for...

Gospel I get what you're saying, I do. And yes, you're correct that identity documents didn't exist in ancient civilizations. Nor did codified bureaucratic nation borders, by the way. Nor did standardized law and rights. All of those things developed with each other But all of those are...

Rather than interjecting, I'm going to try to make it a holistic response. Modern racial bureaucracy: I get what you're saying, but I disagree with the underlying premise. Yes, modern nation-states have documentation of identity. I don't disagree with that. But you seem to be approaching...

I will say it's arabs doing what arabs have been doing since arabs first became a thing. I'll also remind you that the civilized world is an arabic development.

You keep trying to force a bright line onto something that is and has always been gray. Ancient arabic slave systems were based on ethnicity, and that was based on the definition of ancestry being permanently and biologically "other". The Indian caste system was based on ancestry being a...

I mean, not really Gospel. It was something that you wrote multiple times, in multiple posts, as clarifications to your initial post... and it really hasn't changed the meaning any. It's not like NHC is stuck on one single phrase in one single post.

Autism therapy fraud is a thing that is going on in multiple states right now. It spans from diagnoses and treatment for non-existent people, to fraudulent diagnoses for non-autistic people, to billing for hours of therapy not actually delivered, to charging one-on-one therapies that are...

Hmm. This should be fun. How long do we give this guy?

I think you're oversimplifying this in a way that ends up being malicious, albeit perhaps inadvertently so. I would say that most Americans personally know some jewish people, work with them, are friends with them, and in a rather large number of cases, those Americans ARE jewish people. How...