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Whereas the Democrats of that era were shining emblems of vir . . . uh . . . yeah.
The democrats and Republicans swapped after LBJ. It is called a paradigm shift. Northern Republicans anyone? BTW, a majority of Northern Democrats voted for the Civil Rights Act. All the Dixiecrats fled to the GOP for the most part.
Could you be anymore wrong? I spanked you on LGBTQ issues and I did it again here too.
For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)
Oooh, another hard-hitting piece from the Atlantic about a timely issue: "Why same-sex marriage bans risk Native American sovereignty." We were all wondering that, weren't we?
At the request of a lesbian couple, the Coquille Indian Tribe on the southern Oregon coast has adopted a law recognizing same-sex marriage.
Some do, some don't. End of the day the US Supreme Court is the top court of the land. Even autonomous Puerto Rico had to abide by the ruling.
For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)
It's fair to call out self-destructive behavior as a problem. What is problematic is to phrase it in regard to a race.
By problematic do you mean "politically indelicate" or "logically inconsistent?" I don't believe significant, say, Angolan ancestry causes poor people to respond to social dysfunction in any one particular way--though Black Americans may react differently based on their different historical/social circumstances. For example, I'd expect poor Blacks to be a lot more frightened of the cops than poor Whites. In general, any group of people forced to live in degrading circumstances for a long period of time are going to start showing self-destructive behavior. The precise form of dysfunction may well vary from community to community, and communities in America are still fairly segregated--but at the end of the day, I suspect miserably poor and helpless Americans of any race live remarkably similar lives. On average.
that's interesting because the trump supporters who've been getting the most attention, the so-called 'alt-right', are overwhelmingly young.
It's fairly typical for the most extreme, bat**** insane elements of society to be the youngest, right? Or is it just our era that's like this? Because in twenty years, the middle managers of the American economy are going to be the people currently talking about cultural appropriation, microaggressions, and safe spaces on the one hand; and "cuckservatives," repealing the 19th, and eugenics on the other.
The democrats and Republicans swapped after LBJ. It is called a paradigm shift. Northern Republicans anyone? BTW, a majority of Northern Democrats voted for the Civil Rights Act. All the Dixiecrats fled to the GOP for the most part.
Could you be anymore wrong? I spanked you on LGBTQ issues and I did it again here too.
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This is actually almost perversely impressive. You managed to understand the basic idea I was alluding to (Dixiecrats), but then completely failed to grasp the broader implications ("organization's behavior almost a century ago does not necessarily reflect organization today"), and then somehow logically inverted the whole thing to, if I'm reading you correctly . . . umm . . . were you under the impression that I thought the Dems were still segregationists? Or what? I legitimately do not even understand what you're trying to BAM about here. What you just said here was implied by the very post you were responding to, for those of us who are familiar with basic sarcasm. You sort of got halfway there, and forgot what sarcasm was in midstream? Or are you just doing a defensive stream-of-consciousness as you type, and not bothering to edit for sense?
By problematic do you mean "politically indelicate" or "logically inconsistent?" I don't believe significant, say, Angolan ancestry causes poor people to respond to social dysfunction in any one particular way--though Black Americans may react differently based on their different historical/social circumstances. For example, I'd expect poor Blacks to be a lot more frightened of the cops than poor Whites. In general, any group of people forced to live in degrading circumstances for a long period of time are going to start showing self-destructive behavior. The precise form of dysfunction may well vary from community to community, and communities in America are still fairly segregated--but at the end of the day, I suspect miserably poor and helpless Americans of any race live remarkably similar lives. On average.
It's problematic because in most cases skin color has nothing to do with the issue and addressing issues from a racial perspective inevitably invites the "that's racist" debate to overshadow whatever else was going to be addressed. Also, the entire concept of race is disgusting morally and just plain bad science. Finally it's problematic because using race as if it were a real thing rather than an absurd construct thought up by horrible human beings who were trying to pretend other human beings weren't human beings ... we continue to reinforce the notion that this disgusting, horrible construct has some actual validity.
The only times race does factor in, is when racism (or the appearance of racism) is involved. So we'd solve all those problems if we as society could just drop the concept of race altogether.
But race is very much a social reality, whether it is grounded in good science or not. People of a given broad phenotype and/or ancestry do tend to band together and form common cultures. There are historically and distinctively Black churches, neighborhoods, colleges, forms of music, cuisine, art, language, and everything else, and others with much Whiter roots. I guess we could contrive a really awkward workaround by referring to "cultural clusters" which happen to align pretty neatly with skin color, but that's kind of like the CE/BCE nonsense, only much more hassle because you'd have to memorize a lot more terminology.
This is actually almost perversely impressive. You managed to understand the basic idea I was alluding to (Dixiecrats), but then completely failed to grasp the broader implications ("organization's behavior almost a century ago does not necessarily reflect organization today"), and then somehow logically inverted the whole thing to, if I'm reading you correctly . . . umm . . . were you under the impression that I thought the Dems were still segregationists? Or what? I legitimately do not even understand what you're trying to BAM about here. What you just said here was implied by the very post you were responding to, for those of us who are familiar with basic sarcasm. You sort of got halfway there, and forgot what sarcasm was in midstream? Or are you just doing a defensive stream-of-consciousness as you type, and not bothering to edit for sense?
You fail to grasp a whole lot of things. I'm pretty sure Lincoln would look at the republican party today with disgust and contempt.
Your issue is you try to act smart, but you fall miserably short. You then try to say "oh but I didn't really mean that"... Is your last name Trump?
For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)
Looking at the radical shifts of both Giancarlo and Kidicious, I'm beginning to suspect that, at least on Apolyton, partisanship is a conserved quantity. If that's the case, there must be some special symmetry about political cyberspace which governs it. /me finds an envelope and turns it over.
But race is very much a social reality, whether it is grounded in good science or not.
I'm saying it shouldn't be, and that we can individually choose to observe and reinforce it or not.
People of a given broad phenotype and/or ancestry do tend to band together and form common cultures. There are historically and distinctively Black churches, neighborhoods, colleges, forms of music, cuisine, art, language, and everything else, and others with much Whiter roots. I guess we could contrive a really awkward workaround by referring to "cultural clusters" which happen to align pretty neatly with skin color, but that's kind of like the CE/BCE nonsense, only much more hassle because you'd have to memorize a lot more terminology.
Words have meanings and should be used in ways in which they are applicable. It's stupid to use the same terminology to address rural church choirs, middle class suburban families, our current POTUS, inner city street gangs, immigrants, rastafarians, and countless other people who are different in various ways.
Nothing is solved by packaging people into lazy stereotypes. Most of the problems in the world exist because we do so.
Looking at the widespread actions of Trump supporters these past two weeks, I can confidently say I am 1000% correct. Yes, one thousand percent. Trumps base isn't influenced by economics, rather by delusional hatred of anyone a shade darker than them. Old rooted racism.
Oookay. 1000 percent convinced that the only reason poor white folks would vote for Trump is because they are racist. Weren't you the one saying that poor white folks should be left behind? I would think rhetoric like that would convince poor white folks that maybe, just maybe, democrats don't have their best interests at hand?
Second off, poor white folks are much more politically diverse than black folks.
You said racism. Interesting considering you are a racist yourself.
Mhmm, so you say.
No. I believe progressive policy is dominant.
And that. precisely. is my point. You believe you are dominant so that justifies forcing others to march in line with you. You never stopped being fascist, you just changed the color of your flag.
When did you stop being a religious fascist? Oh wait... You support the Catholic Church. Same Church that helped Mussolini. Fascist huh?
LOL, yes because Catholicism isn't a persecuted minority in the United States. Oh. Wait.
You might want to talk to these folks. Total seminarians.
Here's a piece from the right wing bastion, the guardian.
Progressives and conservatives are in a rare unity welcoming Pope Francis to the US, but anti-Catholicism was rampant before John F Kennedy was president
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Canada has a smart rational leader in Justin Trudeau. Ben was probably a supporter of that moron who came before... The Bush clone. Whatever his ****ing name was.
Stephen Harper. I have in the past both supported and not supported Harper. I liked him for some things, but overall, he was to my left. As I'm sure you'd know if you knew anything about the political right in Canada, which you don't.
Ben is a racist. He at one said that he hates all black men because he thinks they all steal. Ben shouldn't be posting on this subject. He is like Bashar Al-Assad talking about the importance of human rights.
Uh, I never said anything of the sort. Feel free to quote what I actually said.
Ben shouldn't be posting about LGBTQ people either. He had his ass handed to him in this subject. This idiot doesn't even know about the law or the Supreme Court decision (Oberfell). Ben is threatened by queers like me having equal rights.
Right, and it has nothing to do with the fact that the Democrat nominee has stated that she wants to abolish the Catholic church should we continue to teach that homosexuality is a sin. We have nothing to worry about...
Ben is a dumbass by his own admission and will. I am surprised he doesn't jack off to a picture of Trump every night.
But that would make teh Raygun sad.
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Right, and it has nothing to do with the fact that the Democrat nominee has stated that she wants to abolish the Catholic church should we continue to teach that homosexuality is a sin.
More BK BS. Please post the quote that supports your typical made up lie/BS.
She does state that Church attitudes must change, but please find me any quote from Hillary that states she wants to abolish the Catholic Church. The only place you find crap like that is people's opinions on far right religious zealot sites.
So as usual, it's just more BK BS in a lame attempt to make him the victim.
Right. Must change. And just how is she going to enforce that when we tell her no way in hell?
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