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Am I in the other forum, where jackasses bring up trump, racism, and other subjects when people aren’t even talking about them? Jesus. Shut up. Read the OP and start over, people.

If you're telling people to shut up, then you'd fit in just fine on the other forum. They, too, lack adult social skills. This thread started out political, so what do you expect? The people who always complain about disrespect toward the military are usually people who support a draft dodger who has insulted war heroes and POWs. LLL is only mad because Oregon universities wouldn't give him college credit for his military training. It's similar to how he complains about TESU because they wouldn't accept his FEMA credits. He even said something to the effect of TESU being anti-emergency management.

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This paragraph looks a lot like what I've seen on white supremacist forums. The suggestion is that European civilization is only worthy of studying even though the U.S. is racially diverse and wouldn't be where it is without African slaves. Most of the time, the diversity requirement is to take a humanities course in something that is non-Western Civilization. Humanities is humanities. There's no science behind it; it's just the study of culture. If you can't bother to take one course about all the brown people around you (they will soon outnumber white people in the U.S.), then that's pretty sad. 

I'm disappointed that you were so quick to throw out the "racist" ad hominid. What I said is objectively true. You spent 13 years learning about the accomplishments of people who don't look like you because Western Civilization has always been dominated by people who don't look like you. There's no racist agenda to only teach the accomplishments of whites. If you were educated in Asia, you would learn the accomplishments of Asians. I'm glad you agree that social sciences are largely devoid of the scientific method. Ideas like systemic racism are neither provable nor falsifiable, yet they are espoused as though they were fact. It's clear the people in these disciplines are ideologues competing to upend Western Civilization.

I don't think it should be assumed that America wouldn't be where it is without slavery. It's not clear what economic benefit they actually provided. If anything, the lower economic development in the South suggests that slavery didn't provide much economic benefit. It surely didn't help the North, who relied on indentured servants and industrialization to achieve their wealth.

Cutting pay and benefits has real consequences on police officers more so than someone speaking ill of them. The political groups that law enforcement agencies are most warned about are actually far right wing, anti-government extremists. Left wing extremists were mostly a danger in the 60s and 70s. Recently, one of our officers was locked inside a house by a sovereign citizen. I don't know if you would call them right wing, but they definitely aren't mainstream, left wing, and they're influenced by a Christian Patriot movement. When I took my current job, I wasn't warned about hipsters, pro-choice activists, potheads, and liberal Millennials. I wasn't even warned about Antifa. I was warned about anti-government groups, white supremacists, and sovereign citizens. 

We haven't seen much cutting of benefits and pay. The effect of the recent anti-police sentiment in the media surely has a bigger effect on morale than the superficial support you bemoan. Right wing anti-police sentiment occurred in the 1990s, for sure, but there hasn't been much recently. Even when the right did it, it was limited to a few fringe groups. The anti-police sentiment among the left, especially among blacks, is almost universal. It's quite puzzling as well. There's been no study to show an increased rate of police violence against blacks.

Overall, the racial animus among the left, and the constant drive to punish or reward people based on which group they belong to is very off-putting. It undermines the very individualism the liberals have been pushing for over the last 100 years.

Until very recently, polls have shown that most black people support the police. There hasn't been an increase in violence; there has just been an increase in smartphones and social media usage bringing to the forefront what black people have been dealing with since slavery was abolished. Still, I'm not afraid of Black Lives Matter shooting me. Those who study homeland security see most of the domestic threats coming from right wing groups the past few years. Neither superficial support nor vocal opposition of the police are more of a concern to me than people who actively challenge the police and train to "fight" the government.

Many cities have cut police and firefighter benefits; it's a trend that started during the Great Recession.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-p...2120120730

Most right wingers in the South don't blame slavery for slow economic development; they blame Lincoln and Reconstruction. Many historians place the blame on Andrew Johnson.

I never said that the social sciences are devoid of science; I said that humanities courses are. Humanities and social science are not the same thing. The humanities aren't supposed to be scientific. I am a social scientist (and a graduate student in a microbiology/biochemistry program), so I'm used to listening to people criticize something they know little about. The social and natural sciences mostly use the same research methods. As a matter of fact, wildlife biology and the study of animal behavior is not much different from sociology. Physical anthropology is basically biology with a focus on the human body. Psychologists often study psychopharmacology and neuroscience and tend to be good statisticians.