You’re missing my point, but considering the intense and personal hostility you’ve expressed towards me as a person, I’m not interested in continuing this discussion with you.
To be honest, I think one of the best things America could do to create a national identity is to reinstate the draft combined with an option for some other kind of national service. The draft mixed people from diverse backgrounds and classes in a way that you just don’t see anymore. Won’t happen though.
No I got your point. If you don’t want to address my counterpoint that is understandable.
For once I find myself agreeing with some of what WillFarnaby writes! Two comments:
Just now I learned that there is a big difference between the British word /dɪˈmɒk.rə.si/ and the American word /dɪˈmɑː.krə.si/ !
[QUOTE=Cambridge Dictionary]
democracy: the belief in freedom and equality between people, or a system of government based on this belief …
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[QUOTE=Merriam-Webster Dictionary]
democracy: government by the people; especially : rule of the majority …
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If we take these definitions literally, persecution of the 49% by the 51% is the natural form American-defined democracy will take, while this is proscribed by the British definition.
I’m happy to discourage those with inferior ideas from participation in politics. But complete non-participation is the way to cede complete control to the kleptocrats.
How many colleges and universities have you been to that have “black only” events and areas? Most universities, especially public universities, have anti-discrimination polices that absolutely forbid such things. I have been in academia over two decades and the only “black only” areas I have encountered have involved several fraternity houses (that were not on the actual campus property; therefore not bound by their universities open access polices).
Yeah, you are asking how we can heal the wounds, while they are still stabbing you. (at least it is front stabbing.)
Non-participation would make the line between society (the victim) and the government (the aggressor) more apparent, which is why I encourage it.
Non-participation would make society the victim of a government that they are not participating in.
Participating in the government makes people the government.
The government is not some alien entity that is imposed on from an outside source, unless the population refuses to participate in it, in which case, that is exactly what it is.
I’m unconvinced by your claims of psychic powers.
Let’s see if I have this straight.
Robert Byrd was a Democrat. He was in the KKK. He later renounced the Klan, repudiated racism, and worked for decades for racial harmony. Therefore the proper takeaway is “he was a Democrat; all Democrats are smeared by association.”
Strom Thurmond was a Democrat. He was an avowed bigot his entire life. He eventually shifted over to being a Republican because that was at the time the more congenial party for bigots and kept working for hatred his entire life for a party that aided and abetted and cheered him on. Therefore the proper takeaway is “he was a Democrat; all Democrats are smeared by association.”
Do I have that right? Sure looks like I do.
Well this one at UC Berkely was them demanding “safe spaces” only for persons of color and they were demanding no whites allowed. Their was a similar demand for “No Whites” spaces at the University of Michigan. At UCLA they are demanding $40 million and black only spaces.
Granted they didn’t always get their wished.
So at your college what would happen if they put up a sign that says basically “No White People Allowed”?
What would happen at your college if they had areas or buildings where they actually made a point of turning back white people from using a building like they did at UCLA?
Well, some of them, I assume, are good people.
“Radicals ask for extreme things they don’t get” = “OMG! They already exist everywhere.”
I guess all I can say is that your way of seeing the world is consistent.
Do you condemn or endorse these actions? Do you think there should be more of this type of segregation?
If no one asks for the moon, we never get the moon.
We will always have fringies making unreasonable demands, on any and on all sides. Each trying to push the overton window in their prefered direction.
When the fringies are the ones in charge, as they seem to be in the current republican party, that’s a much bigger problem than when the fringies are ignored and marginalized, as they are in the democratic party.
I condemn white supremacy and those who support it. I condemn white privilege and those who deny it exists. An intolerable world has been created. Naturally, people will push back against that, in a wide variety of ways. I condemn those who speak far more loudly against those protesting the intolerance than against those perpetuating it. Stop the provocations and the responses will also stop.
I’m not sure I see an answer to the question in this - it kind of looks like a “yes” but I can’t say for sure.
“Intolerable”?
Just how many Nazi’s do you imagine there are out there?
There are many, *many *people with casual, and even unconscious, racist views who would recoil at that name. That’s who he’s calling out, not the actual swastika-wearers or the Stars and Bars wavers.
There are thousands of black writers speaking out today, along with writers from other groups who find themselves targets daily. They are eye-opening. And they find no need to go in search of Nazis to find subjects worth commenting on.