Can we have a jury full of living former Presidents and VP’s? Might make for funny TV. Just keep the interns away from Clinton and apparently HW in his wheelchair.
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Presumably then you aren’t one of these things, or you are accusing yourself of being part of the problem for "SGI"s in the chart. Either you personally are holding "SGI"s back or you want to waste tax money. So which is it, do you support the status quo of the flow chart cycle, or do you actually want to waste taxpayer money?
I mean, assuming the flow chart is correct, to break the cycle, I as a white taxpayer who doesn’t want to waste taxes, would need to change one of those 3 things. So, ED which of those things should we try to change to break the cycle? Should I not identify was white? Should I stop paying taxes? Or should I start wanting to waste tax money?
Lots of ways to ‘break the cycle,’ none of which involve your silly, insincere inferences. But as you’re more interested in trolling me than actually discussing it, rather than answer your disingenuous questions I think I’ll abstain, preferring not to re-animate this long-dead corpse of a contentious sidebar.
IE, you admit you are taking an active practice in continuing the cycle of keeping minorities in that negative cycle. Got ya. It’s either that or the chart (and your ideology) is garbage.
Or, as I said, you’re engaged in disingenuous trolling. Not sure why so many bees suddenly got in your bonnet on this ancient subject so early on a Tuesday, but dragging up a sidebar-horse that was flogged to death almost 6 weeks ago is downright bizarre. Wadda ya say we just let this drop before it becomes as unpleasant as it did the first time.
Why do you hate minorities and desire that they fail?
So much for appealing to your sense of decorum and/or respect for the forum. By all means, feel free to continue trolling like an adolescent–it’s no skin off my nose; you’re only embarrassing yourself. But henceforth you’re going to have to do it without benefit of responses from me.
The existence of white tax paying people who don’t want to waste tax money is listed as a critical chain item on that flow chart. It is also the only one on the chart your or I directly participate in. You accept the flow chart as correct. Therefore, if you wanted to break the chain at the only link you directly control, you would need to change one of the 3 critical items listed. You either must want to change your race, stop paying taxes, or start desiring to waste tax dollars. As absurd as that is, it’s what the chart claims. If you don’t want to change one of those 3 things, and you accept the correctness of the chart, you do not want to change your direct causal link in the suppression of minorities. I must admit that I made the slight logical jump to you not caring, but it is unusual to care about something like that and not want to change your direct role in it.
What held minorities back in the past were racially motivated polices, public and private, in other words, they were victims of active oppressive forces beyond their control.
What is holding minorities back now are non/anti-racist policies, public and private, in other words, they are now victims of passive oppressive forces that tell them their victim-hood is beyond their control.
Just look at inner city schools. We went from, “we don’t care if you can read and might not even want you to be able to read,” to, “it’s OK if you can’t read because it’s not your fault. We don’t expect you to perform as well as those who are more privileged (so you don’t/won’t need to).”
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so, the soft bigotry of low expectations …
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Which is why labeling certain behaviors and “values” as cultural is a bad thing. Or at least qualifying that label with a racial or ethnic designation is a bad thing. Treat people as individuals rather than manifestations of some supposed cultural stereotype. But that requires a rejection and attack on victim-hood mentality.
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First of all… astoundingly stupid. Second of all, plague? Like kills 75% of Europe plague? Ruh-roh.
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There are ~8 cases of plague every year in the US.
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but do the relatives of the deceased dig them up and dance with them is the question?
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Turns out that good hygiene and sanitation actually make it much less scary. Still deadly, but not many cases. Also, don’t play with rats.
Also interesting, it appears that residual bubonic plague immunity in European populations also leads to some immunity to HIV (maybe?).
Another wingding.
“Part of what I’ve learned is that the white-nuclear family is one of the most powerful forces supporting white supremacy,” she wrote.
White people having children facilitates “transfer of wealth” and the “outright worship of ‘the sanctity of the family’ which pervades pop culture,” Daniels continued.
“I mean, if you’re a white person who says they’re engaged in dismantling white supremacy, but + you’re forming a white family + reproducing white children that ‘you want the best for’ – how is that helping + not part of the problem?” she wrote in consecutive tweets.
Having children with a partner of a different race is also problematic for Daniels:
“If you’re white + forming a family w/ multiracial children + not dealing w/ your own racism or systemic white supremacy, how’s that helping?”
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Since you brought up Zombies.
They’re having an outbreak of vampirism in Malawi.
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Her phrasing was inartful, to say the least. But if you work your way past that, she makes some valid points.
Further, that website is doing its damnedest to present her assertions in the most slanted and inflammatory manner possible. I think it (that website) is low-rent intellectually speaking, and is frankly unworthy of your eyeballs’ time.
Shhhhh…according to a particular poster here this is just an anecdote and not evidence of some systemic issue in academia.
Someone needs to tell her to relax. She can always get another cat.
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