[yters]

What are the facts supporting your claim?

[throwaway2048]

This definitely seems like a good faith attempt to litigate the history of black oppression in the USA from first principles.

[yters]

I am not aware of facts supporting the claim that african americans live under an authoritarian regime.

I am aware that a number of african americans have been unjustly killed by police. That is a different claim than african americans are systematically oppressed by the US government.

For instance, compare what is happening in the US to a real authoritarian regime such as the USSR. The government made millions of innocent civilians disappear into the gulags en masse. Try to imagine even the hint of due process, let alone rioting and protests, within that regime.

Or compare what is happening here vs what is happening in China. The CCP places millions of Uighurs into concentration camps for no reason. In the US, we have thousands rioting violently in the streets, and I suspect the majority of the rioters will see little to no consequences for their actions.

[jessaustin]

Why do you believe what you're told about a faraway land, but disbelieve what you can see for yourself in your own community?

[yters]

why are you asking loaded questions?

[jessaustin]

Just trying to help! How do you know what you think you know about people you've never met?

[yters]

i would ask you the same thing

you have never met me, but seem to know a whole lot about what i do and do not know

how did you get this information about me, and how do you know it is true? or are you just making a bunch of baseless assumptions?