Aye, I wonder now who he thinks are his “betters” and if he thinks he is anyone else’s “better” (and why).
[Aunt Eller]
“I don’t say I’m no better than anybody else,
But I’ll be danged if I ain’t just as good!”
[/Aunt Eller]
You got it all wrong. He’s a bookie, and he is just respectful to his clients, that seems fair.
I’m cool with that as long as we replace it with another bank holiday, like say election day.
Yep, the trend is in the air.
They’re changing the name of a few high school around here named after confederate generals including JEB Stuart. Its going to cost about $1 million for each school. Some of these districts can’t fully staff their special programs (like music, art, languages) because of budgetary constraints. Is this the best use of resources?
Perhaps it is. I don’t know if we will ever have another opportunity to remove their names from the public square and relegate them to the dark corners of museums and libraries for those who give a shit about who was on the wrong side of the civil war?
The words indicates a difference between what people considered the state then versus today. Its not grammar policing
Before the civil war people referred to “these United States” after the Civil war people referred to “the United States”
How the heck can it cost a million bucks to change the name of a school? More to the point, whose pocket is that million ending up in?
I don’t know. We just had a special election for a Republican school board member who resigned (if she had resigned 10 days later we wouldn’t have needed the special election and could have had it in November with all the other elections, the election is costing the county $250,000) and the name change was one of the issues. The estimated cost of the name change was $700,000- $1 million depending on who you ask.
I have no idea how they came up with that number, but I was shocked as well. Between uniforms, architectural changes and changing the names in everything that has a JEB Stuart name on it (books in the library, etc.) I can see the cost getting pretty high unless most of the work is performed by volunteers.
Who are your “betters” and who are you “better” to? I think we all want to know the
So the idea is we should leave up racist monuments because bad stuff has happened in the past, which means we can’t take them down now?
And yes, that was the time for clean justice, and we missed the opportunity. As a result, we now have a choice between unclean justice, or unclean injustice.
My “betters” are people in any service industry, and also elders/seniors. It’s just a fancy of saying I was raised to address people in service industries as “Sir”, “Miss”, and speak politely to older people. People who work hard in the service sector and such or who are doing me favors are worthy of an extra mile of respect as are the elderly and aged.
I know SJWS like you keep wanting to pretend I said I’m in favor of the statues, but I’M NOT. Do I have to say it again and again and again and again and again?
Until you stop making arguments that support keeping the statues up, no one is going to believe your claim that you’re fine with them coming down. Repeating it won’t get people to believe that your argument that trying to fix things now is something that shouldn’t be done is an argument that we shouldn’t try to fix things, like the statues, now.
Also calling me an SJW is pretty hilarious. I’m anti-racist, and since that includes things like “I don’t believe that hairstyles should be segregated by race” throws actual SJWs into conniption fits.
A thing that pretty much exists only in the minds of the alt-right.
Where have I made an argument for keeping them up?
I said my only concern was it would lead to a slippery slope afterward. It is valid to have concerns considering that SJWs pretty much despise Western culture in total.
Lol okay.
So a person who believes in:
-Intersectional Feminism
-White privilege as something that needs to be paid for
-Cultural appropriation as something that is evil and must be stopped
-Manspreading
-Mansplaining
-Imperialism is evil
-Capitalism is evil
-Wall Street is evil
-Memorial Day and the Star Spangled Banner are racist (as per the recent Salon article)
-Children should be raised genderless
-There are 72 genders, and if you don’t believe that, you’re transphobic
-Christianity is evil
-America is a bad country
Has no ideology that could be described as “Social Justice”, eh?
SJWs are the most incredible liars. “Not I” said the SJW, “I believe none of those things” said the SJW, while furiously arguing for them elsewhere.
Is that the definitive profile of an SJW? Promise? No take-backs? No later addenda? From the beginning?
Really, all that looks like is a list of opinions—several of them nothing more than strawmen—that you disagree with.
And then there’s the entire ethos of actually trying to behave as if the phrase “social justice warrior” can possibly describe something negative. If someone is seeking social justice, and you label that person as being that, then you’re taking a really weird position by suggesting that’s a bad person.
That seems like a distraction, Reddy.
Several of us have asked since you believe you have “betters” does that mean you also have “inferiors.”
Yeah? Why the hell not? I have the privilege of being able to operate a motor vehicle on public streets – but I have to pay for it. Which I think is fair. If being white gives you privileges, what makes you think you ought to get those for free?