Are you from America?
Maybe the racists aren’t such a big deal after all?
I think it’s fine to be bothered by bad outcomes. I just don’t agree that government can fix all or even very many of them.
Defunding the police is just one example where doing nothing different at all would have worked out a lot better.
C’mon man. I don’t know that you’ve ever explicity said it, but based on past profile pics I can presume that you are…a racial minority here in the States. As am I. I understand the confusion regarding “pride”…like, “Am I really proud to be an American?” But it’s still a helluva lot better to be an American than to be from many other countries. And I do believe that we should be grateful that, while we did absolutely nothing to deserve living here, we get to.
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It is better but that’s only because of my parents. I’m privileged. I’m grateful for my parents to gone through the rat race so I can type this rn.
You changed your post, so now I gotta reply to this. I would say that this might actually be the opposite…we did have slavery. We did mistreat Native Americans. We did have segregation. We have done other bad stuff. That’s all human rights stuff, right?
We also won world wars. Invented things. Etc. I guess I’m just saying there’s a lot to be proud of except for how some humans were treated, which while I don’t think has been “fixed” I do think is better now than it had been, for sure.
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I meant fixing that stuff even though it never should’ve happened in the first place.
Yeah I guess inventions are cool and fast food.
If America is as bad as you say, what country best represents your ideals about governance and policy?
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Most don’t. The majority of blacks are middle class.
What I truly want is a pipe dream but this will do.
America as it is right now but with
-Living minimum wage
-Affordable housing (make use of those vacant homes around the country as well)
- No sugar-coated history being taught to children so racism doesn’t get repeated
- Equally funded k-12 schools
-Prisons similar to the ones in Norway
-Renovation of run-down buildings and areas in poor neighborhoods - Affordable college
- Probably some policy to reduce pollution
I mean, wouldn’t this be nice. The only question is how.
If I was you, and you actually live in America and you hate your country, then by all means, leave.
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Moby-Dick
Huck Finn
The Wright brothers
Thomas Paine
Orson Welles
Jazz
The Blues
John Ford
Jimi Hendrix
Marvin Gaye
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That doesn’t answer the question, but you put effort into a response so you get props for that.
I’m 41 and a product of American public schools in Indiana. There are fewer places where real white supremacy with real KKK members had such a recent hold on society and the levers of power in government. 60 short years before I was born roughly 30 percent of whites Hoosiers were open Klansmen. That’s what real institutional racism looks like.
I learned about Indiana’s Klan history in public school in the 80s and 90s, btw. By then we were all wearing Air Jordan’s and Thriller was the shit.
Klansmen, not so popular…
I’d put my history education up against anything being pushed by CRT today. It is hard to imagine a history topic Americans are more generally aware of today than slavery.
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What even is critical race theory. Have you studied it or is it just a boogeyman?
Check these out, on CRT.
EDIT: You didn’t ask me, but I’ll answer. @tlgains - I believe CRT is an ideology. I don’t believe that it is merely trying teach history from more diverse perspectives, which I really have no issue with. I think it is an ideology that teaches people what to think and how to think, and I don’t believe that its teachings will do anything to bring about unity amongst the races or whatever the hell the goal is. That’s another thing - I don’t believe that unity is their goal, and I disagree with that too.
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I have, at least enough to understand it is a racist set of nonsense you should only expect to hear at a bar or in the halls of academia. Yet there is a major push to indoctrinate the next generation with this poison.
CRT is a framework for examining the world through the lens of race. It is also a framework for leftist activism. I’m not an expert on it, but I don’t aspire to become an expert on shitty ideas.
When someone says they want children to be taught about slavery differently than my generation did, I assume they mean teaching CRT. I oppose teaching CRT just as much as I oppose teaching Klan ideology as fact or Marxist ideology as fact.
If you meant something besides CRT, feel free to explain.
What’s wrong with examining the world through the lens of race. We all see race. The damage is already done. It’s USA’s fault the world is that way.
Is your race all you are? This is my issue with some people. I used to hear people say “I’m not just gay” and “I’m not just black” and “I’m not just a woman” but then those things appear to be 100% of their identity. I’m Native (and male and straight but those aren’t anything to be proud of) but that doesn’t describe me, it’s just one characteristic of me. That’s my issue with viewing things through the lens of race.
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It’s not all what I am but it is apart of me. Not my fault there’s a label. I didn’t decide to screw up the world and make these retarded labels.
Because that’s literally racist. Judging people by race leads to no improved outcomes.
Remember that guy who said something about content of character instead of color of skin?
I’m guessing you don’t if you believe the USA is to blame for the state of the world.
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