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  1. 2 hours ago, Dahobbs said:

    Also your bit on Trump is nonsense. Trump knew China shutdown cities filled with millions of people in fucking January. His administration was told many times by our agencies the seriousness of the situation. It didn't matter what anyone told him about the scale of the problem, he didn't want it affecting his ratings. Just accept that. 

    Trump is ON TAPE in February of 2020 saying how dangerous an airborne disease it is. He lied to the American people, and he knew the danger but "didn't want to scare people"

  2. 13 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    @Cheeseweasel is really upset that I negged his new attempt to create a blatantly political safe space for covid discussion in DT. He really missed their old bullshit post misleading memes and links and then complain about liberals thread.  

     

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    lol @Cheeseweasel is such a fucking snowflake. He blocked me for calling him "Fuckweasel" because calling people mean names hurts his fee-fees

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  3. Salient to our discussion shitslinging here:

    https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/majority-black-detroit-left-behind-as-economic-recovery-benefits-white-and-wealthy/Content?oid=27217522

    For years, local advocates have warned that Detroit’s celebrated recovery and economic comeback were misguided, concluding that the beneficiary of these economic gains was largely white and wealthier, leaving the majority of Black Detroiters behind. A recent report published by Detroit Future City (DFC), "The State of Economic Equity in Detroit," seems to bear this out.

    The report states that between 2010 and 2019 the median income of whites in Detroit increased by 60%, compared to the 8% increase in median income among African Americans — an astonishing 52% percent difference. We believe there is a stronger connection to be made between these outcomes and intentional policy decisions championed by our elected leaders over the past decade.

    Policies that have called for the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars in public tax abatements to corporations and developers have fallen short. Based on the data reflected in this report, the promise of jobs and economic mobility for Detroiters have failed to materialize. To the contrary, Black Detroiters tend to be overrepresented in low-wage, high-turnover jobs in industries like hospitality, leisure, and entertainment. These are not the middle-wage jobs characterized in the report that offer a path to middle-class benefits like homeownership. It’s not surprising that Detroit is surpassed only by Cleveland as the city with the lowest percent of middle-income households in the nation.

    As local advocates have predicted, it turns out the beneficiaries of these policies and promises are not majority Black Detroiters. Responding to the report, life-long Detroiter and founding member of Detroit People’s Platform Ron Turner, shared, “these findings are not surprising to me given the lack of economic opportunity I witness every day across Detroit neighborhoods”

  4. Sigh. There is no getting through to Baby Aga. He's so certain that his facebook page will never mislead him.

    He's just ignoring what we're saying and shitposting about MARXISM and COMMUNISM and how any sort of affirmative action to address structural inequity is really just REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH!

    Give me a fucking break. His smoking gun is the headline of a paper that examines how ownership and wealth have been the prime mechanisms for inequality - like it's some sort of radical thought historically. White folks in America - which is to say more broadly the American government and nation - have a long history of outright theft of property from non-white owners (Oklahoma and the trail of tears was a thing), enslavement of black people for their own personal gain, and the continued marginalization and stripping of representation from black (and generally non-white) peoples.

    Shit, especially in the context of our post-citizens united world where money == speech it's now even codified into law that white people have a disproportionally larger voice than black people in our nation's discourse. 

    But noooooooooo, let's just get reductive and use our UNGA BUNGA brains to call everything marxism because you can make a tortured comparison that your other all lives matter folks can repeat ad infinitum to dismiss and derail any sort of conversation.

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  5. Just now, BabaYaga said:

    As for the paper?  So you've read it.  Cool.  I gave you the name of the body of work.  Since of course you have not read it, yet are so certain they are "out of context", then that tells us all we really need to know about you.....

    Well it turns out since you're the one making the claims, the burden of proof is on you - not on me the reader to disprove your unsupported position.

    So again, show me in the paper where chris fuso/facebook/OANN/fox told you to point to when challenged on this point.

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  6. 1 minute ago, BabaYaga said:

    Sourced from the Marxist.  Good thing no "right wing" sources are ever used, as they are biased...and bias is bad......next he can tell us why it didn't really fail.  It was just "implemented wrong"

    You do realize that we aren't disparaging the sources you use because "they're right wing" - we're disparaging them because they are completely devoid of substantive arguments that are supported by evidence. The fact that that is a common characteristic of right wing sources is just a correlation, not a cause. 

    You still haven't actually supported your argument from before that CRT means "redistributing property from whites to blacks" with anything more than the headline from an academic paper from two decades ago and a couple out-of-context sentences from the abstract.

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  7. 49 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Oh cool.  So Cheryl never said any of these things?  Good to know?

    “‘rights,’ ‘equality,’ ‘property,’ ‘neutrality,’ and ‘power’”—are mere illusions used to maintain a white-dominated racial hierarchy.

    “rights mean shields from interference; equality means formal equality; property means the settled expectations that are to be protected; neutrality means the existing distribution, which is natural; and, power is the mechanism for guarding all of this."

    The solution for Harris is to replace the system of property rights and equal protection—which she calls “mere nondiscrimination”—with a system of positive discrimination tasked with “redistributing power and resources in order to rectify inequities and to achieve real equality.” To achieve this goal, she advocates a large-scale wealth and property redistribution based on the African decolonial model...sourced with her very own publication:  "Whiteness as Property"

    “Property rights will then be respected, but they will not be absolute and will be considered against a societal requirement of affirmative action.”

    Anything else?

    Again, you're not actually citing anything at all. You're leaning on empty rhetoric and inference. For example: can you specifically indicate from her 50+ page thesis where she says we should take property away from whites and give it to blacks? (Hint) it's not in there. 

    Your snowflake is getting melted by saying property rights aren't absolute - no shit they aren't, ever heard of imminent domain? Stop grasping at straws and defend your position with actual information and detail and not just the fucking headline of an academic paper. 

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  8. 3 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

     In the name of "equity", UCLA law professor and critical race theorist Cheryl Harris has proposed suspending private property rights, seizing land and wealth and redistributing them along......take a wild guess......racial lines.

    This is a wild fucking mis-attribution of what I'm assuming you mean to be this Harvard Law journal (because you and yours so graciously never link to the texags/facebook page you pull this shit from). Funnily enough when googling "cheryl harris redistribute property" I did find a republican facebook page making your EXACT argument against her, point for point which was sourced from this same christopher rufo fox wannabe.

    Care to actually source your outrageous and inflammatory claim here? Or just want to move on to the pearl-clutching outrage circlejerk with WWS and johhny silver spoon?

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  9. 1 hour ago, NorthLoop said:

    The difference is now we're already getting civilians getting wasted on the reg. Things could get dark. 

    dude yeah I wasn't expecting that civ speeder bike rider to get fuckin zapped lol. Very interesting to see how they walk the line between kid-friendly show and telling the story of the rise of a fascist/authoritarian dictatorship

  10. 1 minute ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    This is why I said it has to be made (if it’s going to succeed and you get the buy in you want) in a logical and emotionless way where people aren’t feeling attacked because of something they didn’t do. 

    Once again: this is an example of privileged people viewing equality as oppression. It's not THEIR fault, but they are the beneficiaries of it and in some cases the unknowing perpetuators of it. It's not that it's a personal thing, it's that when economic policies like tax cuts affect everyone equally but a byproduct of them is that minorities are hurt worse than whites.

    It's because privileged folks don't want to acknowledge that their opportunities were made possible at the expense of minority groups. Just ask Lee Atwater how it got started.

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    Atwater: Y'all don't quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying, "N****r, n****r, n****r." By 1968 you can't say "n****r"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "N****r, n****r."

     

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  11. 6 minutes ago, UT_OB1 said:

    She’s certainly not whiney and I’m sure he had a plan for her. 
     

    Nice tie in to mandalorian / book of boba 

    I'm curious if Omega is effectively a female Boba, could certainly add some interesting wrinkles to Book of Boba. 

    God, it's just so nice to have active and growing storylines for star wars again. Can't wait to see what they do with Thrown in the Ahsoka series

  12. 4 hours ago, nineliveslost said:

    episode 4 , I dislike her more

    episode 5, I hope she will die 

    I'm curious to see what her character arc will be like. When Filoni first introduced Ahsoka, he intentionally wrote her character to be easily disliked so that she would have room to grow. I'm not too hung up on Omega yet, and she's been a nice foil to the bad batch's warrior lifestyle

  13. 22 minutes ago, CDAK said:

    This is quippy and a good soundbite but I don't think it's reflective of what people are concerned about in K-12 schools.

    Can School be ‘Antiracist’? A New Superintendent in Evanston, Ill., Has a Plan - WSJ

    This school district outside Chicago prioritized in-person learning for black and brown kids, and special ed and LGBTQ+ kids. If you are white and straight, you learn remotely. If you're black or brown, you can come back to school. Is segregating kids by race and allowing them back in person based on their race what equality looks like and white people are just so used to privilege that it feels like oppression?

    Can you copy/paste that article? From the first few paragraphs before the paywall there was no reference to different timelines to return to in-person depending on race. 

  14. 10 minutes ago, Macklemore said:

    If you are white, to be a true anti-racist "ally" it seems that you have to atone for your heritage and through a performative self-flagellation, where you are expected to say nothing good about our country, its founding or its heritage. CRT is infused with Marxism - an ideology responsible for the deaths of millions. Having your kids at a Christian school being indoctrinated by Marxist claptrap is intolerable considering the contempt Marxists have for Christianity. 

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  15. 1 minute ago, Johnny Sack said:

    Yes I do.  If we want to have a legitimate conversation about race on a collective basis where we generalize people on race, then let's discuss violence.  Particularly interracial violence, where 90% of the time in a violent interaction between a white person and a black person the white person is the victim.  Maybe we should have our own version of "the talk".

     

    23 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:

    Has anyone pointed out yet that the minorities are the real racists? 

    Oooh weee were getting there

  16. 13 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    It's sort of a self-fulfilling prophesy. As the GOP radicalizes, only the shittiest people run for office and they all project their own moral failings onto their opponents.

    The sustained belief that everyone but them is terrible is what enable their own malfeasance. It's why the "both sides" argument is so caustic - it boils everything down to relativism and dismisses objectivity 

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