09-02-2020, 07:28 PM
OK... it may be my opinion... but she seems to have the best features of both races, at least in appearance.
Bigots do not handle ambiguity well, which explains why they can't even accept dilution of a once-uniformly-oppressed minority (and poor blacks are still oppressed) as a solution to political and economic polarization dangerous to a nation as a whole. Her lips establish that her off-white skin color comes from Africans, and not from South or Southeast Asians or American First Peoples.
I show her, but I don't show how she talks, let alone her cultural values. Her mother is German, and there is certain music that although having an appeal across time and place has its origin in the German-speaking world. For me, musical taste would be something important to share, as much of my cultural identity is with classical music.
(OK... she is nearly forty years younger than I am, so she is obviously off limits for that reason alone. Who do you think I am -- Donald Trump?)
Bigots do not handle ambiguity well, which explains why they can't even accept dilution of a once-uniformly-oppressed minority (and poor blacks are still oppressed) as a solution to political and economic polarization dangerous to a nation as a whole. Her lips establish that her off-white skin color comes from Africans, and not from South or Southeast Asians or American First Peoples.
I show her, but I don't show how she talks, let alone her cultural values. Her mother is German, and there is certain music that although having an appeal across time and place has its origin in the German-speaking world. For me, musical taste would be something important to share, as much of my cultural identity is with classical music.
(OK... she is nearly forty years younger than I am, so she is obviously off limits for that reason alone. Who do you think I am -- Donald Trump?)
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.