This is it for me. I mostly read and laugh at the outdated and out of touch postings here while rarely posting myself. I’ve been chastised for posting links to The Root from some calling it a hate site…and not long after saw others do the same. But that’s beside the point, other than my own amusement over which messenger is listened to! There is a valid point to the pitting, but I absolutely see the near glee which some are approaching getting the chance to attack a black person. Not just to pit him, which is totally valid. It’s just many comments show a very thin veneer covering some deep-seated racism that is dying to come out.
I’m not going to defend Huey in this, although I’ve definitely appreciated his voice on various topics in the past. I’m also not going to pretend I don’t see iiandyiiii’s and Hellestal’s points. This board is intensely racist and misogynist and dated in the very worst way - by pretending not to be.
That’s nonsense. Treating people equally means treating people equally. No special rules for fragile pet classes in order to build favor and then exploit.
This is why using an irony meter on the Internet voids the warranty.
Robust progressivism absolutely crushed the last election, whereas weak-tea neoliberalism lost the previous one, so no, actually, I wonder no such thing.
That’s ridiculous. People don’t have equal needs. People who have diabetes need insulin. People who don’t have diabetes don’t need insulin. Equal treatment would insist on either giving everyone insulin or giving nobody insulin. Both of those plans would kill people.
Black people in America suffer far more from racism than white people in America do. So black people in America should get more protection from racism than white people in America get.
White supremacists are some of the most fragile people in the world.
The only thing white supremacists are more afraid of than people of color, queer people, and black and brown skinned immigrants is other white folks that aren’t afraid of people of color, queer people, and black and brown skinned immigrants.
White supremacists are the true “snowflakes” who can’t compete on a level playing ground. This is why they won’t accept the “prejudice plus power” definition that would make the term racist a useful term. They are too cowardly to even have a conversation that is framed in the way the people speaking to them intend. Their fragile terrified asses are to terrified to do so.
I wouldn’t expect a “men’s right” advocate such as yourself to understand how to open a package of potato-chips let alone understand social constructs and issues. I am surprised you didn’t resort to calling me a SJW!!!
I have servants for the Pringle’s openings. Seriously though, why is it so hard to get it through the thick skulls on this forum that double standards aren’t the solution to double standards? It’s almost as if you folks like the backlash against hypocrisy.
See, having one set of standards and proper definitions deprives the left of an intellectually dishonest linguistic bludgeon.
