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Bruce Miller's avatar

This almost could be taken as comedy. Parody. Something from the old National Lampoon. If you treat everyone equally, you're a "racist." So colossally idiotic, it takes one's breath away.

But isn't that the way of the modern progressive? Up is down, right is left....

Even funnier is that UC Santa Barbara wastes time and money on an entire department devoted to "Black Studies."

What an idiocracy we have become.

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Corey Smith's avatar

And if you claim not to be racist, you are racist for thinking you're not racist.

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Bruce Miller's avatar

Which is why one would be foolish even to play their stupid game.

But this jihad against whiteness will "succeed" only in making actual white nationalists where now only a vanishingly small number actually exist.

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Celia M Paddock's avatar

I fear that too. When you demonize people due to an immutable characteristic, there will always be some who decide to fight back. Now that Democrats are labeling Republicans "White Supremacists," the term will become as meaningless as "racist" has, and the opprobrium associated with the term will fade. That's a bad thing.

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BigT's avatar

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

Racist...apparently.

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El Monstro's avatar

What racist said this?

At the very same time that America refused to give the Negro any land, through an act of Congress, our government was giving away millions of acres of land in the West and the mid-West, which meant that it was willing to undergird its white peasants from Europe with an economic floor.

“But not only did they give the land, they built land grant colleges with government money to teach them how to farm. Not only that, they provided county agents to further their expertise in farming. Not only that, they provided low interest rates in order that they could mechanize their farms. Not only that, today many of these people are receiving millions of dollars in federal subsidies not to farm.

“And they are the very people telling the black man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. And this is what we are faced with. Now this is the reality. Now when we come to Washington, in this campaign, we are coming to get our check.”

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Peter Schaeffer's avatar

The Homestead act was far more than 100 years ago. Right now Singapore is 'only' 34X richer than Haiti. Right now, Canada has the same black/white income disparities as the US with no history of slavery or the Homestead act. Must be 'systematic racism'.

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Comprof's avatar

Ok, how about that G.I. Bill?

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Comprof's avatar

Daaayum! Slow down, El Monstro! They're not ready for all that.

They only know the one partial, out of context MLK "content of character" quote. That's their favorite one.

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El Monstro's avatar

MLK was in favor of affirmative action and reparations. I guess that makes him racist to you, right?

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Bruce Miller's avatar

Nope. Just makes him wrong.

And btw, he was not saint.

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Comprof's avatar

There it is!

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