JoeParrish

Look at the labor exploitation of farm workers, those in the fishing industry, domestic labor, the construction industry, the mining industry. All of those have had past issues with child labor. Did we ban them and arrest the workers? No that wouldn't make any sense. Instead, we past laws to protect the workers and make sure that children are not working in those industries.

I love how you express this point so intelligently and so briefly. Such an easy truth, and yet it occurs to so few of us.

Who was worse: the Nazis or the Red Army?

That's a tough one, but probably my favorite question yet.

I think my views on race relations are different. Most Republicans seem to deny racism is around anymore, and Democrats primarily seem to think that there is still a lot of racism left over from the Jim Crowe days.

I think there is racism, but I don't think it's just the remainder of Jim Crowe. I think it corresponds specifically to socioeconomic class, namely because when this nation started its trajectory toward inequality, black Americans had largely not yet had ample time to rise from the lower-income tiers of society.

As such, black Americans have become the face of poverty, as have Latinos to an extent, and I think negative attitudes toward blacks and other minorities is an extension of this bizarre attitude of disdain Americans have toward the poor, not direct hatred of the race itself. That said, it's no less of a problem when people still get shot dead by the police.

How does it feel to be a "best friend" in the truest sense of the term, perhaps ever?

I feel like doing that works better if you have some name recognition.

Also, my username is my name, so I kind of don't need to.