The Maelstrom of Violence

[Kinser79]

(09-03-2017, 09:09 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Back in the sixties laws were passed which opened restaurants, ended mandates on bathrooms and bubbles, and otherwise ended non violent but regular demonstrations of white supremacy.

I'm not sure what you mean by "bubbles". I'm going to assume it is an autocorrection for "bubbler" which for people from places other than New England means a public drinking fountain. Yes, non-discrimination is good when it comes to public institutions and private ones that serve the public. Which is what a restaurant would fall under, it is a private business whose business is serving the public.

I don't think that's a major issue, it hasn't been for DECADES!

Quote: Then, there was much to be done and celebration that it was done. The lines of some are arbitrary and personally drawn. No matter how much they might be felt, and sometimes one my choose to acknowledge that feeling, they are just feelings. I choose to value certain other principles higher. Among them are a dislike of identity politics, prejudice, stereotypes and hatred. I will spend a bit of time speaking against these things. I will oppose them regardless of who is practicing them.

In that case you have to oppose BLM as much as the Klan then. In fact the former is far more powerful than the latter at current.

Quote:I do draw a line between blue boomers and red. I lean towards the first. The America of our youth was flawed. Racial equality and gender equality were among the issues that divided the country. Both linger. I’m not going to apologize for thinking so.

If your demand is for equality then you'll never achieve it. If the demand is for non-discrimination then ending Affirmative Action is necessary. As for myself, I don't believe in equality. Different people have different strengths and weaknesses, different desires and abilities. As such equality is not only impossible to achieve, but any attempt to achieve it must result in the pulling down of the smart and the strong to the level of the weak and the stupid.

They have equality in the DPRK for example. There everyone is equally poor, equally indoctrinated and equally expendable to the regime.

Quote:Nixon shaped the Southern Strategy.

Is a myth. Of the Segregationist Governors and Legislators at the state and Federal level only one crossed the floor, Strom Thurmond. The Democrats lost the White South not because they stopped being racist--they are still very racist. I've explained to you how soft-bigotry works at least 100 times Bob. Rather what changed is the Democrats drifted so far to the left as to alienate the largely conservative white southerner.

Quote: If the Democrats wanted the black vote,

The Democrats only care about black votes and black voters at election time. The rest of the time they don't do shit for black citizens. There is a reason why right leaning blacks call it "the Democrat Plantation".

Quote: the Republican should be quietly aggressive the other way.

Unnecessary. The GOP just had to stay conservative, the Democrats drifting left did all the work.

Quote: I believe that if racism went undercover, fell silent for a time, it did not go away.

No it didn't. Racism is alive and well and has been as loud as it has ever been. Simply put the Democratic party cannot allow racism to die its natural death because they need it to deliver black voters (the low information ones anyway) to the polls to pull the lever for the guy with the D after his name.

The rest of the time they spend pushing race quotas, because black people obviously can't get to a university on their own or something. How you can't see the racism in that is beyond me, but whatever. I've already concluded that you are values locked and probably have been since before I was born anyway.

Quote:What was felt generations ago when the nation was openly flawed is resurfacing again, weaker, and often covering their weakness with doublespeak. Freedom of speech, for example, is often used as an excuse to harass and demean.

No, it never went away so it can't be resurfacing. Racism is weaker because the understanding that judging someone on the basis of his race is flawed is much stronger. That would be the universe bending toward justice. As for demeaning others, that is covered under freedom of speech. Again freedom of speech is absolute except in cases of incitement.

I'm going to leave my response to this post here because it is just more of the same refusal to recognize the regeneracy that has already happened because it does not conform to your expectations.