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2016-11-17 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by badanov 2016-11-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Everybody's somebody's problem sometime.

Apologies to Dean Martin...

Posted by M. Murcek 2016-11-17 03:16|| 2016-11-17 03:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Actually, he's perfectly logical.
(a) "Black" people been given a lot of advantages, so they can achieve parity with "white" people.
(b) "Black" people did not achieve parity with "white" people. (Actually, they're worse off than they used to be)

Three possible explanations.
(1) The advantages given are actually counter-productive.
(2) Black people intrinsically different from white people.
(3) White people, unconsciously, sabotage black people.

Since (1) and/or (2) are totally unacceptable to the author ...

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-11-17 04:05|| 2016-11-17 04:05|| Front Page Top

#3 the insane fallacy that you are a self-made man

Aw, Jeez, are we back to that "you didn't build that" crap again?

So 2011.......

Posted by no mo uro 2016-11-17 05:40|| 2016-11-17 05:40|| Front Page Top

(2) Black people intrinsically different from white people.

The Piripukura, Gaviao, Mattis, and Awa of the Amazon regions would probably have a difficult time if relocated to the hunting and fishing grounds and communities of the Aleuts, Yuit, Tingit, and Haida.

I know this sounds racist and non-inclusive, but perhaps, just fok'n perhaps, it was meant to be this way.

What intervention could have possibly taken place to disrupt what, from all appearances, appears to be....the original plan ?

Posted by Besoeker 2016-11-17 07:16|| 2016-11-17 07:16|| Front Page Top

#5 My whiteness and average stature and size seems to have hurt me only when I wanted to be an NBA or NFL player and possibly when dealing with government bureaucrats.

Posted by JohnQC 2016-11-17 07:42|| 2016-11-17 07:42|| Front Page Top

#6 You can feel however you want. That’s a fundamental human reality. You can rage, cry, gnash your teeth day and night about the shifting systems of power under your feet.

Or you can go out and vote has the largest and newest 'special interest' group in the nation. Then watch all the grievance mongers do exactly the same thing. A republic or democracy is different from other forms of government in that its the interests of the overwhelming majority that it represents. The Left has no interest in that form of government.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-11-17 07:48|| 2016-11-17 07:48|| Front Page Top

#7 "You hear the term “Black Lives Matter,” and it pisses you off. You think," ... only when a cop is involved because looking at black-on-black crime statistics show that the term is a sham.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-11-17 10:31|| 2016-11-17 10:31|| Front Page Top

#8 You can rage, cry, gnash your teeth day and night about the shifting systems of power under your feet.

Or you can not do these things and just live your life. That kind of goes for *everybody* come to think of it.

Posted by Secret Master 2016-11-17 17:31|| 2016-11-17 17:31|| Front Page Top

#9 If you let them, they might even make your life a little bit richer, opening up new opportunities and perspectives your anglo-centric imagination couldn’t grasp on its own.

Uh... that's a really weird thing to say. My "anglo-centric" imagination grasps all sorts of things. Like, say, when I'm reading self-hating progressive thought speak!

Posted by Secret Master 2016-11-17 18:07|| 2016-11-17 18:07|| Front Page Top

#10 I wonder what the demographics of Mr. Piatt's neighborhood are?

Posted by charger 2016-11-17 18:32|| 2016-11-17 18:32|| Front Page Top

#11 What’s more, the fact that this axis is shifting actually will be a good thing for all of us in the long term.

Historical determinism has a long history, and an even bigger corpse count. 'will be a good thing for all of us in the long term' was the mantra of the communists and probably every authoritarian regime ever.

What I find disturbing, is these people have no idea how dangerous they are.

Posted by phil_b 2016-11-17 19:28|| 2016-11-17 19:28|| Front Page Top

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