JasSmith

Oh wow. I didn't know it was that easy!. Just stop being racist!.

What do you think racism is? From Cambridge Dictionary:

Noun: Policies, behaviours, rules, etc. that result in a continued unfair advantage to some people and unfair or harmful treatment of others based on race

So yes, it really is as easy as stop being racist. If you disagree, explain yourself, because right now you sound like a racial supremacist.

The people who are racist and who did racist things MUST BE PUNISHED. If they get away with it then racism will never end.

Cool, do that. In the mean time, STOP BEING A RACIST SHITHEAD.

Saying that they should get away with all their racism is disgusting

I didn’t write that. You just keep making shit up because your position is so fucking gross that you can’t stand to own it for even one comment.

You quoted a tiny little bit, the overall bill was racist. It sought to strip rights away from the Maori and only the Maori in this country… The bill was structurally racist.

Which part? Be specific. Quote the parts you’re referring to.

Then why is it so widespread amongst ACT and NZ first and National voters?

Just because you think your political opponents are racist doesn’t give you the right to be as evil.

It's the foundational document of our nation.

That’s not a good excuse for keeping institutional racism. Slavery used to be a foundational part of American society but they changed it.

Then why are the racist in this country trying to reinterpret it?

I don’t know who you’re referring to by in this case they’re clearly just stating they want legal equality.

You can stop racism right this second, by not being racist. That’s it. All that is required is that you stop hating people because of their skin colour and treat them equally in law. That you would argue against that is horrifying.

We are not all equal under the law though.

If that were true then why oppose a Bill making everyone equal under the law? That’s clearly not true.

Why are you pretending there is no racism and everybody is on equal ground and we can just ignore race?

Quote where I make those claims. You’re fighting ghosts.

This bill was not about racial equality.

I quoted the actual legislation which shows that it is clearly about racial equality.

The treaty is the treaty. One signatory can't unilaterally decide they don't want to be bound by it anymore or that they get to decide how it's interpreted.

Are you arguing that the Treaty requires structural racism in New Zealand? If so, fuck the treaty. Racism has no place in a modern society. I should also inform you that, legally speaking, the Treaty is non-binding. Neither the government nor the people have any requirement to follow any part of it.

While the Treaty is widely seen as a constitutional document, its status in New Zealand law is less than settled. At the moment, Treaty rights can only be enforced in a court of law when a statute or an Act explicitly refers to the Treaty.

https://www.justice.govt.nz/about/learn-about-the-justice-system/how-the-justice-system-works/the-basis-for-all-law/treaty-of-waitangi/#%3A%7E%3Atext=The+Treaty+of+Waitangi+was%2Cby+our+government%5C%5C)%20and%20M%C4%81ori.

I’m convinced there’s almost nothing they could do to lose net subscribers. The average person seems perfectly fine with this stuff.

The bill calls for racial equality. You oppose that. You are racist.

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PIA abides by a strict, independently audited No Logs policy that was proven in court.

https://www.technadu.com/private-internet-access-wins-against-fbi/30987/

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You didn't just "contextualize." You minimised the number: "Yeah, that totally sounds like a lot in a country of 84m. /s" Those are your words, verbatim.

It was 3,000 officers. Germany has 333,000 full time officers. That's 0.9% of the force. Hardly grossly disproportionate to the benefit. There are undoubtedly far less "efficient" endeavours they use police resources on. The clearance rate for burglary in Germany, for example, was 19.5% in 2001. If we extend your logic, police should just stop investigating burglaries. I might even agree. I consider catching smugglers and terrorists more important.

Act’s bill was pretending to be racial equality, which it isn’t

I quoted the bill above and I'll do it again here because you seem to have an issue with reading comprehension:

Principle 3

1. Everyone is equal before the law.
2. Everyone is entitled, without discrimination, to— a) the equal protection and equal benefit of the law; and b) the equal enjoyment of the same fundamental human rights

The Bill literally, explicitly, an unequivocally calls for racial equality. There is no amount of Orwellian doublespeak you could possibly utter which could twist opposition to this as anything other than ugly racism.

No one claimed acknowledging past racism is racism. It’s the racism I’m claiming is racist. If you don’t support racial equality, you are racist.

What is the distinction for the player? Both Counter-Strike and Control were funded by Valve and Epic, respectively. Both ended up with exclusivity. To the player, what different do the intro logos make?

It sounds like you’re trying to win by technicality.