- 07 Oct 2017 18:26
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This is true. I think what people have become tired of in this regard is that this method of "crowd control" is without a spine. It relies on condemnation and not action. There is no 'affirmative' action attached with it. It imagines that if we can just get people to stop using the "N-word" (I am infuriated every time I am forced to use this term) that somehow the problems in the black community will just work themselves out. Put a few black people on TV and all is good to go. Count minorities in big business and not weigh their influence. Just make sure we talk like all is well.
Spot on. Discussions about racial, ethnic and gender discrimination are all but impossible to have in our schools. Add to this our obsession with science, technology, engineering and math and we are forcing out the very fundamental knowledge (call it a liberal arts education if you wish) that give individuals the tools to understand and effect social change.
Like all forms of discrimination it is based upon feelings in search of some reasoned justification.
They can. There are good examples of just that happening. The problem is that the deck appears to be stacked against that happening.
The could. In the current political climate they are impossible in some areas.
First you have to have a consensus that recognizes that the problems exist and is compelled to do something about them. If one can't discuss white separatism in housing or black on black crime because candid discussions are squashed by the thought police, this will be unlikely to happen.
Of course not.
The more we drive racist/discriminatory feelings underground the further we are from a solution. But first there must be "Men and Women of good will" who are prepared to step forward and lead us toward solutions. There are practically none now. Lots of people bitch.
As a conservative I see as extremely disturbing the alliance between my fellow conservatives and racist movements. Or at least racialist movements. Though our founders were slave holders they looked forward to a day void of slavery. Though they had to concern themselves with the doable and not the ideal they were nonetheless idealists. Now we are, many of us, looking backward. That is a shame.
Tanari99 said: My opinion Buzz is that too much political correctness has happened and people are sick and tired of the 'language' police telling them how they should phrase things. Part of the culprit of this are white liberals in the power elite who whether they admit it or not want to shape how other groups talk about each other and to each other. I find it ridiculous. Part of the reason why Trump became so 'popular' was he was not guarded in his language and he appeals to the common person in the USA's ways of phrasing things.
This is true. I think what people have become tired of in this regard is that this method of "crowd control" is without a spine. It relies on condemnation and not action. There is no 'affirmative' action attached with it. It imagines that if we can just get people to stop using the "N-word" (I am infuriated every time I am forced to use this term) that somehow the problems in the black community will just work themselves out. Put a few black people on TV and all is good to go. Count minorities in big business and not weigh their influence. Just make sure we talk like all is well.
Part of the blame lies on the poor educational system the USA has. Part of the blame is about lack of analysis of what social and economic oppression and its history in this country and around the world is-- and how it is understudied subject in this country of the USA.
Spot on. Discussions about racial, ethnic and gender discrimination are all but impossible to have in our schools. Add to this our obsession with science, technology, engineering and math and we are forcing out the very fundamental knowledge (call it a liberal arts education if you wish) that give individuals the tools to understand and effect social change.
Some might argue that racism is different than other forms of discrimination.
Like all forms of discrimination it is based upon feelings in search of some reasoned justification.
So is logic enough? Can the black and white communities come to grips with each other?
They can. There are good examples of just that happening. The problem is that the deck appears to be stacked against that happening.
Can real steps be taken, to help encourage education and family unity?
The could. In the current political climate they are impossible in some areas.
How would a nation, or a world for that matter, go about equalizing opportunity and legal standards?
First you have to have a consensus that recognizes that the problems exist and is compelled to do something about them. If one can't discuss white separatism in housing or black on black crime because candid discussions are squashed by the thought police, this will be unlikely to happen.
Are the equal now?
Of course not.
The more we drive racist/discriminatory feelings underground the further we are from a solution. But first there must be "Men and Women of good will" who are prepared to step forward and lead us toward solutions. There are practically none now. Lots of people bitch.
As a conservative I see as extremely disturbing the alliance between my fellow conservatives and racist movements. Or at least racialist movements. Though our founders were slave holders they looked forward to a day void of slavery. Though they had to concern themselves with the doable and not the ideal they were nonetheless idealists. Now we are, many of us, looking backward. That is a shame.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh.
Voltaire