Why do people want Trump?

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Now, there *is* a very good way of avoiding the whole issue without blaming either the teacher or the students. Namely, just don't worry about race altogether. Just say that "this many humans passed, this many humans failed" and forget their race. Thtas the option right wing people are happy to take but left wing people aren't.

Screw statistics when it comes to judging people as people.

You believe one thing—I KNOW what you believe is not true.

I’m a strong advocate of an even playing field.

Actually "the fact" is that they don't perform just as well. The part where the speculation comes in is "reason why". Are they just as intelligent as whites but are less hard working? Are they just as hard working as whites but are less intelligent? Are they just as hard working and intelligent as whites but don't have financial means to get educated? Are they experiencing systemic racism? Which one(s) of these reasons (or others) it is due, is just a speculation, I agree (although its a bit of a stretch to say that some of the blacks we all see in the downtown are very hard working). But the fact that they perform worse is a fact.

Actually "the fact" is that they don't perform just as well. The part where the speculation comes in is "reason why". Are they just as intelligent as whites but are less hard working? Are they just as hard working as whites but are less intelligent? Are they just as hard working and intelligent as whites but don't have financial means to get educated? Are they experiencing systemic racism? Which one(s) of these reasons (or others) it is due, is just a speculation, I agree (although its a bit of a stretch to say that some of the blacks we all see in the downtown are very hard working). But the fact that they perform worse is a fact.

Again though the above refers to statistics. There are blacks that are both smart and hard workign AND perform just as well as whites. I remember some examples from my own life. But if I think of any of those examples, I don't think any of those people ever benefitted from things like affirmative action or any other help liberals want to give blacks. They would have done well regardless. When we are talking about blacks needing special treatment, we are not talking about that kind of blacks. We are talking about the other kind of blacks (such as what we see in the downtown). And that other kind of blacks that we see in a downtown still stays in the downtown despite all this extra help.

Now, again, not all blacks are on the streets of downtown (the "smart blacks" I was thinking of are at the universities, and I respected them just like I did all my other colleagues) and not everyone in the streets of downtown are black (I saw some white ones and they were just as disgusting). But the fact that there is that statistical correlation that a lot of them are black, thats what makes liberals want to help them out. I am sure if they were all white then liberals would happily ignore them, as they should. Well, if they are as colorblind as they claim to be, then maybe they should ignore them even if they have a lot of blacks. As Martin Luther King said "judge not by the color of the skin but by the content of the character". Well, the "content of the character" of the people in the downtown (of both races) is not that good. While the blacks with good "content of the character" (the smart ones that I mentioned) are doing well without any help.

By the way, as someone Jewish, you should know that back in the 19-th century Europe Jews were discriminated just as badly as blacks were in America. Yet look at how well they are currently doing. So that shows that it "is" possible to overcome the fallout of a discrimination few generations ago. Now ask yourself why blacks couldn't do the same.

Oh well it's just that Canadians have a tendency to copy America's politics a lot, so whichever political party is in charge in America does greatly effect Canada therefore. I fear that a lot of the unrest going on in America will be copied by Canadians therefore, and therefore needs to change in the US, in order for it not to spread to Canada. I don't think Trump should be President, but not Biden either, but someone different entirely.

Where you seem to be coming from is fear. Fear that the disorder and violence you see in the news here in the US is going to spread to your country. I dont think that you hafta worry because North American history just doesnt "work that way".

In the EIGHTEEN Sixties we had a civil war, but it didnt spread to Canada. In the Nineteen Sixties the US had riots in the Black ghettos across the nation...Watts, Detroit, DC, etc. Just about every inner city in the nation was burned down. But Canada stayed peaceful. Canada didnt have the high crime rate that the US used to have in the mid to late 20th century.

Now we have violence again. A revival of street riots similar to the Ghetto riots of the Sixties, and we had a mob try to seize the Capitol building. But I dont see either phenom spreading to Canada. Your political scene is just too different. despite the fact that Canada probably does follow some American trends.

Thats what I am saying. Somethings Canada copies, and some things it doesnt. You dont have Black ghettos so you're not going to copy our inner city riots. Even the things it "copies" arent really copied anyway. Like pot legalization. Americans and Canadians were like two horses running abreast moving in that directions already, and some American local juristictions crossed the finish line before Canada did. It wasnt really Canada imitating us.

I didn't follow American politics as much until after the last election when all of this stuff blew up with the the riots. But I didn't know what Trump was like before he lost the last election much. Why do so many hate him? I mean he wanted to waist money on building a wall it seems, but why else did they hate him or what else has he done? People blame him for rushing vaccines too fast, but then when Biden was elected, everyone loved the vaccines all of sudden, so that can't be it it seems. What did Trump do that I apparently missed?

Me too.

I just don't think the left would side with even playing field. Its the right that supports it as is.

Left position is: make the field un-even in order to favor the team that has a statistical tendency to lose.

Right position is: make the field even. Regardless of who wins or who loses.

a) If there are two people, one white and one black. And black performs better than white. I say hire the black person.

b) If there are two people, one white and one black. And white performs better than black. I say hire the white person.