10-07-2020, 11:16 AM
(10-07-2020, 09:13 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(10-07-2020, 08:48 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:(10-06-2020, 07:40 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Black Lives Matter is today's version of the Black Panthers. Whatever... America doesn't care because America mainly views them as a Democratic problem these days.
Your idea of what constitutes America is very different from mine. We all have the responsibility to accommodate statutory law as a basic minimum of decency in behavior. We have no obligation to accept that any people are second-class citizens or worse.
People very different from me can be just as American as I am.
The Black Panthers were roughly comparable with today's Antifa. They are willing to go violent if the opposition does. Black Lives Matter is more compatible with Martin Luther King's Civil Rights protest. Their objective is to protest, not look for an excuse for violence.
I do not trust Antifa. Dr. King sought to create a broad coalition based upon shared conscience that refutes tribalism in politics while recognizing the validity of cultural differences.
Quote:The difference is one between tribal thinking and more abstract principle like 'all men are created equal.' There is no denying the Cavalier culture contains a dash of tribal thinking, and that the Cavalier heirs contributed much to America, as did the Roundheads. To this day, people can be incredibly stubborn in clinging to one or the other. Stubborn or principled, depending on whether one is talking about them or us. Still, Classic calling only one pattern American is rather obtuse even for him.
The Cavalier culture came to hold that all white, property-owning men are created equal. Take away the qualifications for race, property ownership, and gender and one has it right.
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.