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Re: Systemic / Institutional / Societal Racism

Posted: Thu February 03, 2022 9:29 pm
by Bammer
Bammer wrote:
wease wrote:
spike wrote:Constructs laws to ensure procreation of species while challenging temporary mandates that would prevent extinction of millions.
‘Merica!
Johns Hopkins reports that lockdown has prevented covid deaths by a factor of 0.02%

(In other words some people were always vulnerable no matter what anyone did, while everyone else has been just fine - temporary mandates rendered worthless. Basically.)
Take that 0.02% of people … let’s just imagine that represents 100,000 people for argument’s sake.

How does that compare to the number of people lost to suicide, drug OD, etc. induced by the lockdowns. These are people who were basically told “just stay home, you serve no functional purpose in society”

Re: Systemic / Institutional / Societal Racism

Posted: Thu February 03, 2022 9:46 pm
by Mickey
If you're not just looking to score a rhetorical point through a graphic and unfalsifiable claim, and in fact do care about suicides driven by a sense of meaningless in contemporary society, you're gonna have to look beyond a one time lockdown as your root cause my man.

Re: Systemic / Institutional / Societal Racism

Posted: Thu February 03, 2022 11:20 pm
by Bammer
Mickey wrote:If you're not just looking to score a rhetorical point through a graphic and unfalsifiable claim, and in fact do care about suicides driven by a sense of meaningless in contemporary society, you're gonna have to look beyond a one time lockdown as your root cause my man.
I’m talking specifically about the extra ones over the past 2 years that your local blue governor is personally responsible for.

Re: Systemic / Institutional / Societal Racism

Posted: Thu February 03, 2022 11:29 pm
by Mickey
Right so you're looking for the number of people whose suicide notes said something like "I am killing myself because of the covid lockdown, in no way does my current state of mind gloam onto any other forms of immiseration endemic to contemporary society, if it wasn't for the lockdown of April 2020 I would still be alive."

Good luck!

Re: Systemic / Institutional / Societal Racism

Posted: Fri February 04, 2022 1:25 am
by B
Weren't suicides down in 2020?

Re: Systemic / Institutional / Societal Racism

Posted: Fri February 04, 2022 2:55 am
by Bammer
B wrote:Weren't suicides down in 2020?
I don’t know. Look it ip and report back. Pay attention to demographic groups that were most negatively impacted financially by Covid (job loss) and corresponding suicide rates.

Re: Systemic / Institutional / Societal Racism

Posted: Fri February 04, 2022 2:08 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Aren’t you the one trying to make the point, bammer? You look it up

Re: Systemic / Institutional / Societal Racism

Posted: Fri February 04, 2022 2:20 pm
by Bammer
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Aren’t you the one trying to make the point, bammer? You look it up
I don’t think you understand my approach to RMing.

Re: Systemic / Institutional / Societal Racism

Posted: Fri February 04, 2022 5:00 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Bammer wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Aren’t you the one trying to make the point, bammer? You look it up
I don’t think you understand my approach to RMing.
Sorry, I was just bammin' around!

Re: Systemic / Institutional / Societal Racism

Posted: Fri February 04, 2022 5:25 pm
by Bammer
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Bammer wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Aren’t you the one trying to make the point, bammer? You look it up
I don’t think you understand my approach to RMing.
Sorry, I was just bammin' around!
:nice:

*Nothing to apologize for

Re: Systemic / Institutional / Societal Racism

Posted: Fri February 04, 2022 6:09 pm
by B
Overall rate down in 2020.
Down for men, but down more for women.
Up for 25-34. Up insignificantly for 10-24. Down for all other ages.
Up for Hispanic men. Down for Hispanic women.
Insignificant increases for most other races.
Down for whites, because ... whites.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/VSRR016.pdf

Re: Systemic / Institutional / Societal Racism

Posted: Fri April 29, 2022 1:00 am
by Bammer
I’m surprised that here in America, circa 2022, it’s still perfectly acceptable to refer to neighborhoods as Chinatown, Koreatown, Little Italy, Little Havana, etc.

Re: Systemic / Institutional / Societal Racism

Posted: Fri April 29, 2022 1:29 am
by washing machine
Bammer wrote:I’m surprised that here in America, circa 2022, it’s still perfectly acceptable to refer to neighborhoods as Chinatown, Koreatown, Little Italy, Little Havana, etc.
In progressive Houston, we call it "Asiatown" now.

Re: Systemic / Institutional / Societal Racism

Posted: Fri April 29, 2022 1:32 am
by spike
Bammer wrote:I’m surprised that here in America, circa 2022, it’s still perfectly acceptable to refer to neighborhoods as Chinatown, Koreatown, Little Italy, Little Havana, etc.
Are those derogatory?

Re: Systemic / Institutional / Societal Racism

Posted: Fri April 29, 2022 1:43 am
by E.H. Ruddock
Bammer are u mad your neighborhood isn’t called little caucasia?

Re: Systemic / Institutional / Societal Racism

Posted: Fri April 29, 2022 2:09 am
by Bammer
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Bammer are u mad your neighborhood isn’t called little caucasia?
Bro more like Little Karachia or something

Re: Systemic / Institutional / Societal Racism

Posted: Fri April 29, 2022 2:10 am
by Bammer
spike wrote:
Bammer wrote:I’m surprised that here in America, circa 2022, it’s still perfectly acceptable to refer to neighborhoods as Chinatown, Koreatown, Little Italy, Little Havana, etc.
Are those derogatory?
I don’t know, but SOMEBODY is fucking offended and I can’t believe these names aren’t cancelled by now.

Re: Systemic / Institutional / Societal Racism

Posted: Fri April 29, 2022 2:21 am
by washing machine
Bammer wrote:
spike wrote:
Bammer wrote:I’m surprised that here in America, circa 2022, it’s still perfectly acceptable to refer to neighborhoods as Chinatown, Koreatown, Little Italy, Little Havana, etc.
Are those derogatory?
I don’t know, but SOMEBODY is fucking offended and I can’t believe these names aren’t cancelled by now.
I wasn't joking about Asiatown. That's the compromise now, at least here. There's also a Mahatma Gandhi district in place of former Little India off Hillcroft Ave.

Re: Systemic / Institutional / Societal Racism

Posted: Fri April 29, 2022 2:47 am
by Bammer
Ours is officially called Chinatown-International District

Re: Systemic / Institutional / Societal Racism

Posted: Fri April 29, 2022 3:17 am
by macphisto
spike wrote:
Bammer wrote:I’m surprised that here in America, circa 2022, it’s still perfectly acceptable to refer to neighborhoods as Chinatown, Koreatown, Little Italy, Little Havana, etc.
Are those derogatory?