Politics And Current Events
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2021 1:16 pm
lol no. I'll admit I'm not too familiar with the legal ramifications of congressional hearingsThose are rhetorical questions, right?
A Pittsburgh Penguins Hockey Message Board
http://www.fifthavenueforum.com/forum/
http://www.fifthavenueforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=19
lol no. I'll admit I'm not too familiar with the legal ramifications of congressional hearingsThose are rhetorical questions, right?
I agree with this.I think the vast majority of people are normal, in that they don't really hold strong views on race one way or the other. There are white people they like, and white people they don't like. They probably have some black friends (forgive the cliche), and there are some black people they don't like. And so forth.I wonder how many people have actually felt like
a) they’re being discriminated against because they’re whites.
b) they feel like they need to beg for the forgiveness of non-whites.
I think this lost some context, but agree it's not something that a principal should be sending out. It won't do any good, in all liklihood.That said, I don't think "white people are so fragile" is a valid response every time something like this comes up. Go back a few pages and look at that ridiculous document that was sent to all parents at East Side Community School in Manhattan about the "eight categories of whiteness". Now bear in mind, this is a school where Caucasian kids make up 18% of the population, yet are being singled out for their "privilege" by the school administration.
This is where you lose me a bit, and kind of what I was getting to with the questions I posed. I think it's a miniscule minority that are wielding a small amount of influence. That "influence" gets publicity because of it's extremes. And I agree, those extremist views are bad. However, "traditional" racism is a much more common and prevalent issue. It has been for years and years, and while things have improved, it's still a much bigger issue than this white privilege stuff. So I don't really see it as a pendulum swinging back and forth, because that would mean that the pendulum has swung dramatically away from people hating people of color. There's still a lot more that needs to change in that arena.The vast majority of people do not want racism, and want people to just live happily together. The problem is, there is a *very* vocal, extreme minority that is wielding a ton of influence in the social justice/racial justice movement. Many of these Black activists that come up with this stuff are themselves opposed to interracial marriage, etc. and hold other views that could be construed as leering towards Black supremacy.
IMO, the pendulum is swinging way too far. It started with acknowledging your white privilege, but there is more and more rhetoric that just the act of being born white is a sin in itself. Taking this tack will not end well.
I so badly hope that he goes through with running again in ’22.This clown has really gone off the deep end.
You can in Texas. As long as both verbally agree, and fists only.I wish people could still challenge each other to duels. Stuff like this needs to end immediately.
Radical moderate.I’m not familiar with her ideology (if it exists) and her pre-senate career is probably kind of a bummer, but as far as stepping in front of the mic, holding attention, speaking with lucidity and stating effective messages - Klobuchar is the A#1 asset in the Democratic Party. I very much wish Harris wasn’t on the table in ‘24.
i mean...even that's kind of perfect. she seems to do very little purely for twitter points and can reach biden voters better than Harris. they're gonna F this up. but is she can't be prez, she should have schumer's job yesterdayRadical moderate.I’m not familiar with her ideology (if it exists) and her pre-senate career is probably kind of a bummer, but as far as stepping in front of the mic, holding attention, speaking with lucidity and stating effective messages - Klobuchar is the A#1 asset in the Democratic Party. I very much wish Harris wasn’t on the table in ‘24.
Dude, Harris will be president long before 2024. Just ask NAN or Shaf.I’m not familiar with her ideology (if it exists) and her pre-senate career is probably kind of a bummer, but as far as stepping in front of the mic, holding attention, speaking with lucidity and stating effective messages - Klobuchar is the A#1 asset in the Democratic Party. I very much wish Harris wasn’t on the table in ‘24.
I'll put 20 on that, too.Dude, Harris will be president long before 2024. Just ask NAN or Shaf.I’m not familiar with her ideology (if it exists) and her pre-senate career is probably kind of a bummer, but as far as stepping in front of the mic, holding attention, speaking with lucidity and stating effective messages - Klobuchar is the A#1 asset in the Democratic Party. I very much wish Harris wasn’t on the table in ‘24.
The accident happened 5 hours ago, but as recently as just a couple minutes ago there were still 5 news helicopters on scene.I hope Tiger is OK but I can do w/o the wall to wall news coverage of a golfer.
She was the first big name to drop from the primary though. What happened there?Re Harris
She is a ginormous bag of campaign contributions. She raised over $1.5 million for herself the 24 hrs after she announced, other candidates got more click-through on their own emails if her name was in the re line, and Biden raised over $360 million the month he announced her as his VP choice.
Like her or not, she isn't going anywhere.
I said she was a cash machine, not an adroit campaigner.She was the first big name to drop from the primary though. What happened there?Re Harris
She is a ginormous bag of campaign contributions. She raised over $1.5 million for herself the 24 hrs after she announced, other candidates got more click-through on their own emails if her name was in the re line, and Biden raised over $360 million the month he announced her as his VP choice.
Like her or not, she isn't going anywhere.
Or twitter.Good. He can’t Facebook from a flip phone. More than likely.