Australian in U.S. on baseball scholarship murdered by teens because they were bored

Adebisi_sl said:

3. Al Sharpton and friends not putting more effort into dismantling the american thug culture.

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Dumar_sl said:

Removing both is the requirement to get rid of one.

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fanaskin_sl said:

they don't take advantage of the opportunity around them nearly enough, thug culture is causing a feedback loop to entrench itself, it encourages men not to raise their children and be anti education. the thug culture is repressing their economic opportunity, by providing them a bad framework of existence that's a dead end, being a drug mule or petty crook is a dead end existence.

they need more Calvinistic attitudes to make it in this society, it's far more pragmatic and it's far easier for the small subset to conform to the society than to expect the ENTIRE society to re align. atleast if I was them I wouldn't expect anything, the only person that looks out for you ultimately is yourself.

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fanaskin_sl said:

government intervention has become a problem at this point, subsidizing bad behavior is feeding the situation where it's absence would automatically force a correction, it seems highly plausible it couldn't be sustained without it.

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supertouch_sl said:

anyway, a lot of these issues arise from class conflict, not race.

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fanaskin_sl said:

try explaining gini co efficients with these people, there's a certain window after your FORMATIVE years that, you've been doing crazy shit like this for say 30 years, that is who you are. After your formative years and as you get older, it takes increasingly alot more personal growth and mental re engineering of personality to get rid of the effects putting yourself in situations like that.

'Being raped by a gang is normal - it's about craving to be accepted'
Former gang member reveals how women suffer shocking sexual abuse in return for 'status'

I know somebody is going to come around here and argue "well you have no idea if those people are intelligent or not, so what if alot of them gang rape woman"

you know what there's something wrong in the pattern recognition portion of your brain if you can't imagine some correlation.

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Class as Social Relationship - Conflict and Struggle. At several points, Marx notes how the class defines itself, or is a class only as it acts in opposition to other classes. Referring to the emergence of the burghers or bourgeoisie as a class in early capitalist Europe, Marx notes how

'The separate individuals form a class only insofar as they have to carry on a common battle against another class; otherwise they are on hostile terms with each other as competitors.' (Giddens and Held, p. 20).

Both competition and unity can thus characterize a class; there can be very cut-throat competition among capitalists, but when the property relations and existence of the bourgeois class is threatened, the bourgeoisie acts together to protect itself. This becomes apparent when rights of private property or the ability of capital to operate freely comes under attack. The reaction of the bourgeoisie may involve common political action and ideological unity, and it is when these come together that the bourgeoisie as a class exists in its fullest form. In commenting on France, Marx notes that the French peasantry may be dispersed and lacking in unity, but


'In so far as millions of families live under economic conditions of existence that separate their mode of life, their interests and their culture from those of the other classes, and put them in hostile opposition to the latter, they form a class.' (Giddens, p. 37)

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