You reduce crime by eliminating poverty. The reason so called nice neighborhoods have lower crime rates is because people’s basic needs are being met. It is not because of police, alarm systems, or neighborhood associations. Poverty creates crime.
A short list of everyone who got reparations:
- slave owners who went bankrupt after the Civil War
- Jewish survivors of the Holocaust
- Japanese survivors of US internment camps
- Native Americans through the Indian Claims Commission and multiple other legislation
- Miners for radiation exposure
- Sterilization victims
- U.S. farmers during Trump 1.0
There is no reason Black people shouldnt be compensated for centuries of slavery and decades of segregation. We’re not even out of Jim Crow.
"Female genital cutting is worse than male genital cutting" is a red herring and dangerous ground.
Making it a severity Olympics implies #FGM would be acceptable so long as it were equal to or less severe than #MGM.
All forced genital cutting is morally repugnant. #circumcision
@retiredbsmtwife What if hubby lost a testicle to cancer or in an industrial mishap?
What if daddy had a tattoo?
This is the dumbest excuse to injure the genitals of a perfectly healthy child.
Again, of what?
You're clearly passionate here, but this is not a valid line of argumentation. FGM is misogynistic and mutilative, providing no benefit and clear harm to every woman or girl so maimed.
You hold an MD. Assess the evidence: What evidence is there that FGM benefits its subject in any way? If it's not even comparable to the evidence of circumcision benefitting men, which you dispute, then you aren't advancing that line of reasoning in good faith, are you?
@jpclemens Saving lives? Tell me...Who has died from not having their penis mutilated? Also you never answered my other question: how would this not apply to any other body part?
@jpclemens By your logic....we need to remove Breast buds from infant girls at birth. The average woman has a 1 in 8 chance of getting breast cancer.
The HIV studies....the mutilated men were given condoms and couldn't have sex for the trial, which has been pointed out to you here
@jpclemens You are the one saying circumcision benefits men. So if so...tell me what medical benenft comes from removing non pathological skin before any pathologies show up..don't dance around it now.
I fully agree w/ everything except the $3 part. The MTA should be free for every rider forever. We have more billionaires per capita than any other city in the states. We can fucking afford free transit! Especially if we take a few billion outta the NYPD's bloated budget.
“Men don’t suffer from trauma because of circumcision unlike girls so it’s fine to keep mutilating them”. These are the people we’re dealing with ladies & gentlemen, the ignorance and confidence while being wrong. Circumcision DOES cause trauma, that’s only one of the many issues
Nobody wants to work anymore.
CORRECT. No one wants to work 50 hours a week for a salary that hasn't kept up with inflation since 1979, pay 40% of it in rent, get 10 days PTO, no sick days, no pension, no job security, and be told they're replaceable at any moment.
You solved it. That's the full sentence.
nypd will wake up people just napping on the train late at night on a commute home, who are clearly not trying to use it as a refuge, and it's just a miserable fucking policy all around. absolutely embarrassing creeps inflicting their fake job on everyone else with real purpose