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Re:Sorry, your wife is Indian, landlord won’t rent to you by shlant on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @09:01AM (#32495754)
> that the USA has mitigated it all, because that’s easily disproved by speaking to any minority person.

The OP literally said "It’s not perfect, but we strive in the right direction" in the next sentence

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Re:Sorry, your wife is Indian, landlord won’t rent to you by wikfwikf on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @09:08AM (#32495831)
The claim that the US is not perfect and the claim that it is far less racist than the rest of the world are very very different.
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Re:Sorry, your wife is Indian, landlord won’t rent to you by DiggyJohnson on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @09:21AM (#32495987)
I don’t see why that is the case, other than the fact that you disagree with the second sentence and not the first. Doesn’t make the sentences logically incompatible.
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Re:Sorry, your wife is Indian, landlord won’t rent to you by wikfwikf on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @09:37AM (#32496189)
I didn't say that they are logically incompatible.

If Henry the Eighth said "I am not perfect, but I have treated my wives far better than anyone else in the world", then the admission that he is not perfect should not be sufficient to dismiss factual challenges to the second part of the claim.

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Re:Sorry, your wife is Indian, landlord won’t rent to you by dismantlethesun on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @09:40AM (#32496230)
They are just different claims. Which is what the Op was getting at.

Does the US have to be better than the rest of the world? All counties, everywhere?

This isn't really even allowing for equality with say Canada.

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