after further review and thought, i really don't see how removing a monument or statue that may be truly offensive to a large group of people is in some way rewriting history.. i think of germany or other parts of europe.
you don't see swastikas on buildings or statues of hitler or mussolini or other upper level generals in public.
would it be good for a person (think jewish) to drive around a city and see hitler in a public park, even though it is "historical?
That is exactly democracy. That is the people speaking up. It isn't pretty and orderly, but it is a form of democracy. Democracy isn't always calm, peaceful, and under control
Pure and simple hogwash. That is not democracy. Democracy is when the majority of the population dictates how the people get governed. It's not when a small minority decides they will go to the streets and destroy properly that belongs to everybody else.
i’ve heard from a few trump voters that they are getting tired of the whole trump thing.
one person yesterday said he lies.
another person said she hears from her clients in her business that the constant drama and push back from all sides against trump is fatiguing.. i remind people that before this worldwide pandemic, we had the best numbers in jobs.
a new fox poll says biden is up by 12 percentage points.
of course, most other polls say trump will be trounced this time around.. do you think the polls might be right this time?
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The minute Biden enters a podium and thereby the media spotlight, the real numbers will start coming in.
I'm afraid Biden will not be able to hold his own in a debate. Pretty sure Trump will roll all over him. We will all cringe to see Biden in confused daze tripping all over his words.
The only shot that Biden has is if he picks a very decent mate, and even then, at this point I just don't see him winning.
a new fox poll says biden is up by 12 percentage points.
of course, most other polls say trump will be trounced this time around.. do you think the polls might be right this time?
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I will not vote for Trump, but I believe that Trump has best shot to win in this present moment than he had 3 months ago.
The state of the economy due to the virus presented a real problem for him, but this lunacy of anti-police rethoric, race baiting, oppression olympics and PC, has given him a real shot at a comfortable win.
It continues to amaze me how the left continues to shoot itself in the foot with it's own antics. It's so obvious that the key for the left to win is to steer just a bit towards the center, and yet it insists on aligning itself with the crazy fringes.
we have to get rid of these racist relics.
i propose that we destroy all these bottles of syrups and burn every pancake box !
we need to get rid of anything that reminds us of anything negative concerning slavery.. in boston they decapitated the head of christopher columbus and got rid of his statue.
Evidently, tomorrow the world will be a better place because of this. The sad thing about this is the lack of backbone from the leadership in these companies. They are terrified that the mob will get from them, even if they are not justified in doing so.
All along, this has exactly the opposite effect in society at large who quietly look in disbelief, while tuning out of any shred of support for the calls of equality which otherwise their intuitions would align to.
so as things are now opening up and food never ran out, i've been dipping into our emergency supplies.
they say that spam doesn't have a shelf-life, it has a half-life, but i kind of wanted to see if it was like i remembered as a kid.. as it turns out spam fritters are as delicious as i remember, probably better ('cause i did fancy ones).
i used this recipe and they were glorious.
Spam is good emergency food for protein. I would not make a habit of incorporating it on my diet otherwise.
I have built a shef unit in my basement where I've started to stockpile things that have shelf live, mostly canned food, but I actually don't have spam. I have tuna, salmon, sardines, beans, corn, and several other things. But I will probably also buy some spam and keep several around.
It's only a matter of time until the next event happens and this is the time to stock up on things while they are available. I have thought of buying a dehydrator to store some fruits and vegetables as well.
lately that’s all i’ve been hearing about!
i’m sick and tired of listening to white people begging for forgiveness simply because they are white.
in a nearby town, a six year old girl asked her mom, “ why don’t we have a black lives matter march here?
I don’t believe anyone is privileged. The reason can be seen in siblings coming from the same family. Some have economic success. Others don’t fare so well. Why is that?
So just because there are cases where some people are not able to make use of what they have going for them, that means they never had an advantage?
If you and I are running the 100 meter dash, and I start 10 meters ahead of you, but you have worked out and watched you diet, and ended up passing me and won, this mean I didn't have an advantage to begin with?
You know that's nonsense.
lately that’s all i’ve been hearing about!
i’m sick and tired of listening to white people begging for forgiveness simply because they are white.
in a nearby town, a six year old girl asked her mom, “ why don’t we have a black lives matter march here?
I don't think it is. Anyone can make it and be successful, the formula is a very simple one:
Sure, but I don't think that conflicts with what I said. I'm simply saying that the majority of middle class and especially upper middle class is white, this does not mean that anybody else can't join it if they pull the right levers in life.
lately that’s all i’ve been hearing about!
i’m sick and tired of listening to white people begging for forgiveness simply because they are white.
in a nearby town, a six year old girl asked her mom, “ why don’t we have a black lives matter march here?
Privilege is a multi dimensional phenomenon. Every person has some sort of privilege compared to other folks. It's not white vs black.
Blacks have an advantage for playing in the NBA, or Football. They are most likely to succeed as a rapper and many other things.
Likewise a white upper middle class kid with a stable family probably has an advantage in some sense of having parents that prioritize education and career mindset. Are there more white folks in middle class? Yes, but so what? that has hundreds of years in the making.
Bill Gates' kids have an advantage over countless people, but so do Denzel Washington's kids. If you are poor black person with nearly nothing living in Detroid, you have an advantage over a black kid growing up in a village in Somalia.
You can't regulate advantage. The only thing you can regulate is to have a framework of laws that gives the same opportunity to people.
i agree with people who say all lives matter.
i think blm is a racist group.
if white people pushed an agenda saying white lives matter, some people would have a conniption..
In 1492, the first blacks slave arrived on American shores
in 1865, slavery was officially ended.
It took about 372 years for that change to take effect and another 99 years for the Civil Rights act to be signed.
Change takes time
...that's exactly my point. Whatever change happened was done by addressing the problem as a whole. BLM is for all intents and purposes an anti-police movement, in the same vein as Occupy Wallstreet and similar anti establishment groups.
But you deflected the question (don't think I didn't notice). I'm not asking if BLM has saved the world. I'm asking what is BLM doing in that space to effect change, aside from waiting for the next black person to die in police custody?
