07-18-2020, 03:36 PM
(07-18-2020, 03:08 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(07-17-2020, 10:42 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Minnesota was not Wild West, and the good citizens of Northfield, Minnesota showed the James-Younger gang practically the end of the line for most of them.
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I doubt that you know many black people.
The first rule is to assume the right to equality of dignity with people of different origin until lyou see compelling, fault-worthy reason to believe otherwise. I have learned how to size people up from the content and quality of conversation, giving an allowance for age and gender. Think of the sorts of clothes that people wear, Possessions? No. All people have differing priorities. A semi-literate person with an expensive car impresses me (that could be a pimp or a drug pusher) less than does an intelligent person who drives an econobox vehicle (some people think that status symbols are for schmucks). In New York City, not having a car is commonplace, so that's not good for much.
Yep, Minnesota wasn't the Wild West or at least that's what the James Gang thought before they were completely decimated by a bunch of well armed American citizens (rednecks) who lived in Northfield, Minnesota. I bet I know and I have met more American blacks and Hispanics and Asians than you. You may feel better about yourself or less racist towards blacks because you watched the Cosby Show or The Jefferson's. Dude, I went to high school with black kids like the Huxtables before the show was popular.
The concept of the Wild West didn't emerge until after it was gone. The James-Younger gang miscalculated about Minnesota.
My involvement with blacks, Hispanics, and Asians depends upon my location and vocation at the time... As for Asians, there were lots of them where I went to college (the University of California at Berkeley)... mostly nice, likable people. The females are wonderful if you prefer powerful brains to big breasts, or at least such was my impression. The problem is that they looked like jail-bait due to small size even if they acted middle-aged. (Smart people around age 20 tend to act middle-aged long before their time). I'm surprised that I didn't end up marrying one. Not 'women's-libbers'? Any woman would become a militant feminist with me as a husband in view of gaps of personality not of my choosing if she weren't a feminist beforehand. Hispanics completely defy stereotypes other than those of class. And, yes, I have much more in common with the black bourgeoisie than with many white subcultures.
OK, I apologize for the sexual allusion toward you. Maybe you don't patronize prostitutes of any kind.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.