Browbeating

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A commenter asked why the slaughter of blacks in South Carolina recently was not used for browbeating like the Orlando slaughter and all the others. Here was my reply:
The mass slaying of black churchgoers by Dylan Roof has indeed been used for browbeating, including multiple times in speeches by Barack Obama and by a great many leaders at the

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[deckardcanine]

America is unquestionably the least racist country in the world

For certain values of "unquestionably." Many DO question if not deny that claim, judging from how frequently the accusations fly. But for my own part, I can't think of a nation I know to be less racist. Maybe the Vatican, but that barely counts.

[allaboutweather]

America's the most tolerant country too, but the left ignore that and the fact that the only real democracy in the middle east is israel. That, and the fact that most Muslims countries are authoritarian and many of them persecute Christians.

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Well, Elvis is unquestionably dead. But several percent of the population believe that he's alive.

===|==============/ Keith DeHavelle

[deckardcanine]

I looked up "least racist countries" and did find the U.S. at #1 on at least one study (there were two reports two years apart, possibly of the same), but its only criterion was how many survey respondents would tolerate having a neighbor of another race. Several of the same countries were counted among the most racist countries on other sites, some even putting the U.S. at #1 that way. That said, those sites don't give any study details; they just talk about nonstatistical observations, including not-so-recent history.

What all the lists have in common (with the possible exception of sites that ask for popular votes) is that India belongs among the three most racist.

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Thanks for the work.

In not-so-recent history, the US had slavery - like almost all other countries. No one expended as much time, toil and blood to get rid of it. Brazil, recently touted as "superior" to the US regarding slavery, actually maintained it for decades after the US outlawed it.

===|==============/ Keith DeHavelle

[deckardcanine]

Who touted it that way?! I could've told you off the top of my head that Brazil was the last New World nation to outlaw slavery. (Some nations still haven't, but their slavery appears not to have a racial basis or be nearly as prevalent as in the 1860 Deep South.)

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A recent BBC(?) documentary on Western Civilization did. WC is all bad, bad, bad, and "dominated" the rest of the world through a number of "killer apps."

===|==============/ Keith DeHavelle