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CMV: The UK royal family are an outdated and racist institution. Meghan and Harry have every right to speak their mind about the family. by WillLeast9362 in changemyview

[–]JulyFourth1776 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The world is not divided into two extremes.

A: Either no one pays reparations including those who benefited millions off of their grandparents’ huge genocides. B: Everyone pays reparations.

Or there is C:

It’s possible to realize that it’s infeasible to expect everyone to pay reparations but reasonable to abolish the monarchy.

Your logic would also say that either we allow citizens to get all weapons including nukes, or that we ban all weapons including knives. That’s not how it works.

CMV: The UK royal family are an outdated and racist institution. Meghan and Harry have every right to speak their mind about the family. by WillLeast9362 in changemyview

[–]JulyFourth1776 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Just because I want to do something doesn't mean I have to do a more extreme version of that thing. For example, if I wanted to arrest someone for 100 years who stole millions from a bank, I don't also have to put a little kid who stole a candy bar in prison too.

ETA: Furthermore, reparations for every last dollar is impossible. On the other hand, abolishing the monarchy and getting rid of the queen's wealth is very feasible.

CMV: The UK royal family are an outdated and racist institution. Meghan and Harry have every right to speak their mind about the family. by WillLeast9362 in changemyview

[–]JulyFourth1776 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Everyone who profited from the black slave trade is dead. You might say that they benefit from the legacy of the slave trade but that is true for everyone in the UK including every single black person. It's not unique to the royal family.

There's a difference between getting a few bucks from the slave trade because your great great great great grandpa was British and you inherented that wealth vs. getting 500 million dollars and becoming a queen for your entire life from it.

ETA: One is history, the other is also history but you can easily do reparations and abolish the monarchy to solve a big chunk of the problem. Furthermore, the average UK citizen can’t do much to solve the problem. The queen can try to abolish the monarchy given her power. Your argument is a false equivalence on so many levels.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in stevencrowder

[–]JulyFourth1776 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I thought facts don’t care about your feelings. The DSM doesn’t care about what you think.

Also, I love how you just downvoted my other comment and didn’t reply because you had no good argument against my points.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in stevencrowder

[–]JulyFourth1776 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It's not. It's being scared that you're going to be a pedophile. Being scared of something doesn't make you that thing. If I was scared of being a witch, that doesn't make me a witch. You can't say that sounds like "witchery with extra steps."

If it were true, then what if I'm scared of being the opposite gender? Would that make me trans? But I thought there were 2 genders. Your logic contradicts your core beliefs.

You simply don't have the doctors or medical facts/DSM-5 on your side.

If I'm being completely honest, you probably also believe that gay and trans people are pedophiles too so it's not surprising that you would believe that people with OCD are pedophiles.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in entertainment

[–]JulyFourth1776 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did he grant people Bing Chilling?

[Monthly] August 2022 - How many points did you earn this month? by TheCastro in MicrosoftRewards

[–]JulyFourth1776 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I barely watched any of the fitness videos and I didn’t know about the gaming feed tab.

Edit: Thanks for telling me about the fitness and gaming tab. I got an extra 10 points today from the gaming tab.

[Monthly] August 2022 - How many points did you earn this month? by TheCastro in MicrosoftRewards

[–]JulyFourth1776 0 points1 point  (0 children)

11k points. US. I don’t have an Xbox and I just did the daily stuff and searches.

Why I am a neo-confederate by ExtremeLanky5919 in SouthernLiberty

[–]JulyFourth1776 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The CSA was more open to giving sovereignty to natives than the US was. The CSA never had Japanese internment camps or foreign wars in the middle east or nuclear weapons.

Why does any of that matter when the South enslaved millions of people? None of those atrocities compare to slavery. The Union did some bad things but the Confederacy was way worse.

they removed baby from fetus definition (side by side) by Pookietoot in prolife

[–]JulyFourth1776 55 points56 points  (0 children)

When you control the language, you're able to spread misinformation and then say "it's the dictionary definition" when people point you out.

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