... I watched a video yesterday where a white woman was running for school board on a platform strongly opposing DEI….when asked to give her definition of DEI and how it was being implemented in their particular school system…..the chick looked like a deer in the headlights 😂😂...
I was a Home Depot getting help when this Karen woman walked up. I mentioned to the helper I needed gate locks because someone broke into my wife's Tesla and stole her registration and garage door opener. Karen blew up and said, "You're one of those! Electricity is a limited resource and will end. Gasoline lasts forever. Don't get me started!!!" Too stupid had realize she had already started.
Which right-wing media source is convinced this Karen that electricity was a finite resource and gasoline was infinite?
Forget the homes. Any descendant of a slave holder should have to work at subsistence level for a black family until retirement. That's the only way to re-balance justice in America.
When you present an extreme case to trivialise something that's critically important it only enlightens me on your ignorance, fears and immaturity but even more so your lack of empathy.
The Letsaltright.com message board brigade is out heavy on this one.
What you said would be true if I had trivialized "something that's critically important." But I did not. Reparations to blacks that are to be paid now in the year 2023 for slavery and civil rights violations against blacks in years/generations before (or any other characterization you may wish to put on the subject matter of this thread), is most definitely not "something that's critically important" and your belief that it is something of critical importance only enlightens me on your ignorance, fears, and immaturity. And it also enlightens me on some other thing about you (lack of capability for logic and reason, inability to address cognitive dissonance, etc.).
The SJW hysterics brigade is out heavy on this one.
When you present an extreme case to trivialise something that's critically important it only enlightens me on your ignorance, fears and immaturity but even more so your lack of empathy.
The Letsaltright.com message board brigade is out heavy on this one.
What you said would be true if I had trivialized "something that's critically important." But I did not. Reparations to blacks that are to be paid now in the year 2023 for slavery and civil rights violations against blacks in years/generations before (or any other characterization you may wish to put on the subject matter of this thread), is most definitely not "something that's critically important" and your belief that it is something of critical importance only enlightens me on your ignorance, fears, and immaturity. And it also enlightens me on some other thing about you (lack of capability for logic and reason, inability to address cognitive dissonance, etc.).
The SJW hysterics brigade is out heavy on this one.
When you present an extreme case to trivialise something that's critically important it only enlightens me on your ignorance, fears and immaturity but even more so your lack of empathy.
The Letsaltright.com message board brigade is out heavy on this one.
What you said would be true if I had trivialized "something that's critically important." But I did not. Reparations to blacks that are to be paid now in the year 2023 for slavery and civil rights violations against blacks in years/generations before (or any other characterization you may wish to put on the subject matter of this thread), is most definitely not "something that's critically important" and your belief that it is something of critical importance only enlightens me on your ignorance, fears, and immaturity. And it also enlightens me on some other thing about you (lack of capability for logic and reason, inability to address cognitive dissonance, etc.).
The SJW hysterics brigade is out heavy on this one.
I never specifically mentioned reparations. I suspect you have a sensitivity to it or feel threatened by it so you seemingly have so reacted.
Hundreds years of American, global history in fact, is clearly something of critical importance particular when this period has ended relatively recently with critical political, social, economic implications and ramifications to roll on still.
Continued understanding is needed, to work solutions, yet while that seems obvious it receives heavy resistance(DeSantis). It looks stupid. I'll just bury my head in the sand instead of addressing this huge hundreds of years issue that cuts across global politics, society and historic global economics.
Great article, thanks for posting.Very cool to see people using their position of privilege to help others who historically have had less opportunities to leapfrog their financial circumstances, especially in America.
For some people who do not have religion, it fills the gap.
This is basically it. Nothing new at all, just a very common psychological phenomenon. Churches have exploited peoples' consciences for centuries with their pay to forgive schemes.
At the end of the day, who's to blame? If someone's susceptible to fall for this kind of sh*t, then tough t*tties imo.
I mean, nobody on here can deny how racist redlining was. And that came after a country was founded even though millions of people were living here and after millions more were brought here as slaves. It's obvious that family wealth matters when, despite the assurances of the American Dream, you're most likely to fall under the same income bracket as your parents. Some people were able to accrue wealth in the US, while others were not. That's never been rectified and then public policy helped white people set themselves up in suburbs. Communities that are hurting in the US are hurting by design. They need investment. But there isn't investment because a lot of people are convinced they got to where they got to without any help. If that's your position, fine, but this is a choice individuals are making and you should be supportive of individuals doing whatever they want, or something.
What you said would be true if I had trivialized "something that's critically important." But I did not. Reparations to blacks that are to be paid now in the year 2023 for slavery and civil rights violations against blacks in years/generations before (or any other characterization you may wish to put on the subject matter of this thread), is most definitely not "something that's critically important" and your belief that it is something of critical importance only enlightens me on your ignorance, fears, and immaturity. And it also enlightens me on some other thing about you (lack of capability for logic and reason, inability to address cognitive dissonance, etc.).
The SJW hysterics brigade is out heavy on this one.
I never specifically mentioned reparations. I suspect you have a sensitivity to it or feel threatened by it so you seemingly have so reacted.
Hundreds years of American, global history in fact, is clearly something of critical importance particular when this period has ended relatively recently with critical political, social, economic implications and ramifications to roll on still.
Continued understanding is needed, to work solutions, yet while that seems obvious it receives heavy resistance(DeSantis). It looks stupid. I'll just bury my head in the sand instead of addressing this huge hundreds of years issue that cuts across global politics, society and historic global economics.
Marx had some ideas on addressing "huge hundreds of years issues that cuts across global politics, society, and historic global economics" as well. You guys are too stupid to realize that you're just rebranded Marxists for the 21st century.
What you said would be true if I had trivialized "something that's critically important." But I did not. Reparations to blacks that are to be paid now in the year 2023 for slavery and civil rights violations against blacks in years/generations before (or any other characterization you may wish to put on the subject matter of this thread), is most definitely not "something that's critically important" and your belief that it is something of critical importance only enlightens me on your ignorance, fears, and immaturity. And it also enlightens me on some other thing about you (lack of capability for logic and reason, inability to address cognitive dissonance, etc.).
The SJW hysterics brigade is out heavy on this one.
I never specifically mentioned reparations. I suspect you have a sensitivity to it or feel threatened by it so you seemingly have so reacted.
Hundreds years of American, global history in fact, is clearly something of critical importance particular when this period has ended relatively recently with critical political, social, economic implications and ramifications to roll on still.
Continued understanding is needed, to work solutions, yet while that seems obvious it receives heavy resistance(DeSantis). It looks stupid. I'll just bury my head in the sand instead of addressing this huge hundreds of years issue that cuts across global politics, society and historic global economics.
Styles wrote:
I never specifically mentioned reparations. I suspect you have a sensitivity to it or feel threatened by it so you seemingly have so reacted.
To be clear: I made a sarcastic joke. Not a very good one, but a joke nonetheless. You were the one who reacted with a degree of sensitivity.
Are you denying that you were referring to "reparations" when you said I trivialized "something that's critically important"? That is primarily what the NPR article is about.
Styles wrote:
Hundreds years of American, global history in fact, is clearly something of critical importance particular when this period has ended relatively recently with critical political, social, economic implications and ramifications to roll on still.
Is that what you think I trivialized? Hundreds of years of global history? That's so broad as to be meaningless. You are trivializing the conversation with overblown generalizations.
Styles wrote:
Continued understanding is needed, to work solutions, yet while that seems obvious it receives heavy resistance(DeSantis). It looks stupid. I'll just bury my head in the sand instead of addressing this huge hundreds of years issue that cuts across global politics, society and historic global economics.
You keep dancing around things and never say what "this" is or what "solutions" you are referring to. And it's hard to take broad, wordy, yet almost meaningless statements like "this huge hundreds of years issue that cuts across global politics, society and historic global economics" seriously. Who taught you to argue like this? It doesn't work.
To the extent your statements can be understood, many "solutions" to your undefined issues have been presented and enacted over the last 60 years. Some good, some bad, some sensible, some illogical. Many reasonable and empathetic people consider the solution of Reparations on the enormous scale you seem to be advocating for, to be illogical and arbitrary and lacking in nexus to the problem it claims to address. When you do NOTHING other than dance around that with broad, sweeping conclusions, and label anyone you think opposes your loosely defined views as "immature," "lacking in empathy" "stupid" or "burying their head in the sand," you are engaging in last-resort politics and show the lack of substance in your own opinions.
If it's nobody's business as you and other people have said, then it's not news. It's just virtue signaling so that people can feel good about their faux religion.
But you seem to think that the behavior of black people is something critically important to your conception of civilization, so why wouldn't you want to do something to change the trajectory of that segment of the population whose ancestors went through slavery and segregation in this country?
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