Warp wrote:
>   The United States is a capitalist country. There is racism in the United
> States. Hence capitalism causes racism.

Nobody said capitalism causes racism except you.

>   If he didn't make that claim, then what did he claim, in your opinion?

That totally unrestricted capitalism allows people to exercise their 
existing racism as long as that racism is profitable in that marketplace. 
Just like unrestricted capitalism allows people to pollute as long as that 
pollution is profitable in that marketplace. By singling out the one remark 
about racism, you seem to have indicated that you missed the point, which 
was that with less and less government restriction, one moves away from 
socialism, communism, and fascism, and towards capitalism and anarchy, and 
that movement is not always what we'd call socially beneficial even if it 
maximizes the profits/financial health in a particular market.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Human nature dictates that toothpaste tubes spend
   much longer being almost empty than almost full.

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