12-22-2020, 09:14 AM
(12-22-2020, 01:21 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(12-20-2020, 10:25 AM)David Horn Wrote:(12-20-2020, 07:59 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(12-20-2020, 07:40 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Identity Politics goes against equality by teaching/promoting inferiority and reliance upon the state. It's backwards and counter productive and impedes progress. The Democratic party is still racist and still uses racism as a political tool today. I'd suggest that you stop using it and playing with it like them before it blows up in your face.
It occurs to me that if the early part of the crisis, before the trigger and regeneracy, resembles the unravelling, then the younger generations have seen nothing but the unravelling. The suggestion that the arrow of progress is decisive is most true of the crisis, and least true of the unraveling. It this seems prudent to point out which side is which.
The side that tries to suppress the vote by frivolous lawsuits and throw away elections would be autocratic. The side that tries to run get out the vote campaigns and wins the election just before the federal regeneracy is democratic.
The side that is endorsed by the Neo Nazi and KKK would be racist. The side which is associated with the NAACP and NOW would be for equality.
The side which tears children from their parents and puts them in concentration camps is against human rights. The side which respects all peoples rights would favor the arrow.
You can try doublespeak. You can try to define the wrong end of the arrow as the pointy end. It just makes you look ridiculous.
I’d suggest you quit the doublespeak before it blows up in your face.
C-Xer and his allies believe -- deeply believe -- that white America is under siege, and being attacked from all sides. They also believe they are the true Americans, and their opponents are <insert your degrading characterization of choice>. If you believe that, and you also believe your adversaries are anti-American, then it's easy to declare a no-holds-barred standard in opposing them -- and that's where we are.
You have to admit that white America is taking a bunch of crap/flack for a sin associated with the Democratic party. We aren't no holds barred yet. We need to see some more of the same to get to that point. Oh, the Democratic side is really good at showing us more of the same these days. We're watching and waiting dude. I know one thing, I wouldn't want to be you or a Democrat in office when the war starts.
"White" more establishes what one is not than what one is. "White" people do not form a monolithic mass, as America comprises people of disparate origins even if from Europe, and all sorts of composites. Most white people pick and choose, most likely the result of one's ancestral culture, but not always. I would not expect Finnish-Americans to act much like Cajuns...
So if someone wants to be proud of the Polish culture of his Polish ancestors, then such is fine. In my case I look at the average of the origin of the music to which I listen, and if I were to describe where I would place it it would probably be somewhere in the old Austro-Hungarian Empire. I do not have Austrian, Czech, or Hungarian ancestry... but even at that if I were to pick the best folk culture in music I might pick Czech or Polish.
People proud to be white are proud of nothing.
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.