You are conflating the artist and intellectuals in Cuba with the self- proclaimed illiberal academics in the United States. You sound like a proponent of CRT trying to claim that being racist isn't really racist.
You are conflating the artist and intellectuals in Cuba with the self- proclaimed illiberal academics in the United States. You sound like a proponent of CRT trying to claim that being racist isn't really racist.
It's always been the case that the leading dissidents in any totalitarian society are the artists and intellectuals––the free thinkers. They are liberals. Conservatives tend to be the ones who conform to and defend society's norms and traditions. It might seem strange but even in a Communist society, the people who support the government tend to be conservative personality types. Conservative personality types tend to value things like loyalty and respect for authority.
The US founding father's were absolutely free thinking intellectuals. They also had different political ideologies, but a shared interest in open debate and critical thinking. They aimed to actually solve problems.
Sadly, modern day US academia is nearly void of true intellectuals, along with most of our media and political "élite." Echo chambered sheep is a more accurate description for all of those groups. It's sad that the political left in this country, which I unfortunately supported through my early 30's (and Obama - which I regret in hindsight), has become illiberal and insane.
Lacking actual intellectuals with a voice, today those in the US who see themselves as "intellectuals" are mostly comprised of illiberal pseudo-Marxist. Rather than support those seeking freedom in Cuba, they excuse and ignore their plight. Worse, many Democrats and "academics" in the US openly praise totalitarian "revolutionaries." It's a dangerous path we are on indeed. Castro lead a "revolution" in Cuba. "Professors" in the US cheer their students wearing Che Guevara shirts. It's sick.
My great hope is that the true Cuban intellectuals win - the genuine freedom fighters.
I'm pretty sure a bunch of people here are going to condemn the next generation to an insane version of Marxism - one where immutable biological sex is ignored at the expense of actual women and girls. I fear for my daughter.
One that also involves dividing everyone by skin tone. Not sure where my kids would fall in that assessment. With both it requires the public to be gullible and compliant enough to ignore objective reality. On the former, ignoring that for all mammals sex is binary and immutable and that even deformities like intersex are in fact deformities within each sex, not between them. On the latter, it requires the public to ignore that modern humans are biologically ONE race.
At least Democrats preview their intentions, as they do everything. They are crystal clear that their world view is that biological males can access female private spaces and competitions at any time and for any reason. On race, Democrats very openly explain that past discrimination is justification for current discrimination, and that this current discrimination will be the justification for their future discrimination.
If those seeking true freedom win in Cuba, I have a place to flee with my family. My husband's mother is Cuban, he has relatives still in Cuba, and we love the Caribbean. If Cubans find freedom, we find a place to flee the Marxist takeover in the US, with the Cuban family connection that will likely be necessary to be allowed to do so.
You seem to see Democrats as the infallible moral superiors despite an abundance of evidence, particularly over the last 18 months, to the contrary. I'm curious, have you ever considered what happens to you if the Marxist complete their take over the party, and the country? Have you ever thought about what that would actually mean for you? Do you ever wonder if Mao gave the peasants land for murdering the landowners or how supporters of the Bolshevik revolution ended up dying by the millions in the gulags? Or do you ignorantly think "that will never happen here?" Or worse, do you buy the revisionist history that the murdered Bolsheviks weren't "true believers" of the movement they murdered others in the name of?
I'm sorry, but you are delusional. Democrats are not Marxists. The vast majority of the Democratic coalition believes in civil liberties and democracy. We nominated Joe Biden because he is NOT a radical. He is squarely in the mainstream. The radicals have no power in the Democratic Party.
And I consider Robin Diangelo and Ibram X Kendi to be intellectuals. I think they are revolutionizing America in a good way. They will make the country less racist, which will be a good thing for all Americans. (That thought will get me banned and ostracized from conservative circles.)
You wrote: "Worse, many Democrats and "academics" in the US openly praise totalitarian "revolutionaries." It's a dangerous path we are on indeed. Castro lead (sic) a "revolution" in Cuba. "Professors" in the US cheer their students wearing Che Guevara shirts. It's sick."
I can't think of any prominent Democrat who has EVER praised a totalitarian regime. Not even Noam Chomsky praises toatlitarians. And did you see a youtube video of a professor praising a kid in Che t-shirt? Do you think this kind of thing is happening all across America, on every campus? That's insane!
Hahahahah. Sanders ran for president as a DEMOCRAT and has been praising Stalin and Castro since before I was born. Jimmy Carter often referred to Castro as his "friend" and upon his death said of Castro that he would "remember fondly our visits with him in Cuba and his (Castro’s) love of his country." Obama infamously posed in front of a Che Guevara mural during a trip to Cuba. Barbara Lee (D-CA) claimed Castro "lead a revolution that lead to improvements for his people." Would you like me to go on? I could reference many pages of examples where Democrats praise communist dictators.
Diangelo is a white woman who has deemed herself ruler of woke white people. White fragility is the most condescending, racist, pile of crap I've ever read. It's a modern day guide on how to become a racist. It's the same message as the KKK wrapped up in a "progressive" cloak.
X Kendi is no intellectual. He can't even define racism. He can't articulate solutions other than never-ending racial division and hatred. MLK could articulate tangible solutions and worked to make those a reality. A Kendi would spit on MLK given the chance. If X Kendi were interested in actually following through on his "values," which claim racist systems need to be torn down, he wouldn't promote the Democratic party. Not only are Democrats the party of slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow, destroying Black families in the "Great Society" and their "standard bearer" the person who gave a speech calling young Black men "jungle creatures" in the 1990's to justify locking a generation in jail, but their overt racism continues today. They are the party of closed schools, opposed to school choice, and engage as a matter of policy in the bigotry of low expectations. Their claim CRT is "anti-racist" is like claiming beef isn't really meat.
According to CBS news, Atlanta, GA has the largest racial wealth gap in the US with Washington DC in second. A different study reported by NPR found Washington DC tops the list.
In a February 2018, in a widely covered report by the Urban Institute, researchers found that the largest racial home ownership gaps are in Minneapolis, Albany, and Buffalo.
In January 2020, Brightbeam published the research of Patrick J. Wolf, Ph.D., and James Paul which found that San Francisco and Washington DC have the largest racial achievement gaps in the nation while Fort worth TX and Anchorage AK had the lowest.
These most racially unequal cities have been run uninterrupted by Democrats for decades - all for years to more than a century before I was born (note uninterrupted - no "big switch") - Atlanta since 1879, DC since 1967, Albany since 1921, Minneapolis since 1978, and San Francisco since 1966. In stark contrast, Fort Worth and Anchorage both have Republican mayors.
Considering these facts, other than regurgitating propaganda, do you have any actual FACTS to back you up??? The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result - thus its insane to vote for Democrats and expect the racist Democrat party to stop being overtly racists or for their policies to result in tangible improvements and opportunities for minority populations.
Democrats oppose civil liberties for political foes - which is totalitarian. They cheer Facebook censoring TRUE information that conflates with their narrative. They REFUSE to allow open discussion about Covid, masking, vaccination risks to children, or anything else that conflates with their insane mantras.
Amazon has 7 pages, on a desktop, of Che Guevara t-shirts alone - who do you think is buying them??? Cubans?????
A man will never be a "real" woman, and judging people on their skin tone will always be racist. The only response Democrats have to those objective facts are to name call like toddlers because they can't stand free speech.
Please give examples of Democrat or leftist "intellectuals" freeing people from totalitarianism??? Lets say 3? Freedom IS a conservative value. Oppression is a leftist obsession. Most true intellectuals hold conservative values.
You are conflating the artist and intellectuals in Cuba with the self- proclaimed illiberal academics in the United States. You sound like a proponent of CRT trying to claim that being racist isn't really racist.
It's always been the case that the leading dissidents in any totalitarian society are the artists and intellectuals––the free thinkers. They are liberals. Conservatives tend to be the ones who conform to and defend society's norms and traditions. It might seem strange but even in a Communist society, the people who support the government tend to be conservative personality types. Conservative personality types tend to value things like loyalty and respect for authority.
The US founding father's were absolutely free thinking intellectuals. They also had different political ideologies, but a shared interest in open debate and critical thinking. They aimed to actually solve problems.
Sadly, modern day US academia is nearly void of true intellectuals, along with most of our media and political "élite." Echo chambered sheep is a more accurate description for all of those groups. It's sad that the political left in this country, which I unfortunately supported through my early 30's (and Obama - which I regret in hindsight), has become illiberal and insane.
Lacking actual intellectuals with a voice, today those in the US who see themselves as "intellectuals" are mostly comprised of illiberal pseudo-Marxist. Rather than support those seeking freedom in Cuba, they excuse and ignore their plight. Worse, many Democrats and "academics" in the US openly praise totalitarian "revolutionaries." It's a dangerous path we are on indeed. Castro lead a "revolution" in Cuba. "Professors" in the US cheer their students wearing Che Guevara shirts. It's sick.
My great hope is that the true Cuban intellectuals win - the genuine freedom fighters.
I'm pretty sure a bunch of people here are going to condemn the next generation to an insane version of Marxism - one where immutable biological sex is ignored at the expense of actual women and girls. I fear for my daughter.
One that also involves dividing everyone by skin tone. Not sure where my kids would fall in that assessment. With both it requires the public to be gullible and compliant enough to ignore objective reality. On the former, ignoring that for all mammals sex is binary and immutable and that even deformities like intersex are in fact deformities within each sex, not between them. On the latter, it requires the public to ignore that modern humans are biologically ONE race.
At least Democrats preview their intentions, as they do everything. They are crystal clear that their world view is that biological males can access female private spaces and competitions at any time and for any reason. On race, Democrats very openly explain that past discrimination is justification for current discrimination, and that this current discrimination will be the justification for their future discrimination.
If those seeking true freedom win in Cuba, I have a place to flee with my family. My husband's mother is Cuban, he has relatives still in Cuba, and we love the Caribbean. If Cubans find freedom, we find a place to flee the Marxist takeover in the US, with the Cuban family connection that will likely be necessary to be allowed to do so.
You seem to see Democrats as the infallible moral superiors despite an abundance of evidence, particularly over the last 18 months, to the contrary. I'm curious, have you ever considered what happens to you if the Marxist complete their take over the party, and the country? Have you ever thought about what that would actually mean for you? Do you ever wonder if Mao gave the peasants land for murdering the landowners or how supporters of the Bolshevik revolution ended up dying by the millions in the gulags? Or do you ignorantly think "that will never happen here?" Or worse, do you buy the revisionist history that the murdered Bolsheviks weren't "true believers" of the movement they murdered others in the name of?
I'm sorry, but you are delusional. Democrats are not Marxists. The vast majority of the Democratic coalition believes in civil liberties and democracy. We nominated Joe Biden because he is NOT a radical. He is squarely in the mainstream. The radicals have no power in the Democratic Party.
And I consider Robin Diangelo and Ibram X Kendi to be intellectuals. I think they are revolutionizing America in a good way. They will make the country less racist, which will be a good thing for all Americans. (That thought will get me banned and ostracized from conservative circles.)
You wrote: "Worse, many Democrats and "academics" in the US openly praise totalitarian "revolutionaries." It's a dangerous path we are on indeed. Castro lead (sic) a "revolution" in Cuba. "Professors" in the US cheer their students wearing Che Guevara shirts. It's sick."
I can't think of any prominent Democrat who has EVER praised a totalitarian regime. Not even Noam Chomsky praises toatlitarians. And did you see a youtube video of a professor praising a kid in Che t-shirt? Do you think this kind of thing is happening all across America, on every campus? That's insane!
Hahahahah. Sanders ran for president as a DEMOCRAT and has been praising Stalin and Castro since before I was born. Jimmy Carter often referred to Castro as his "friend" and upon his death said of Castro that he would "remember fondly our visits with him in Cuba and his (Castro’s) love of his country." Obama infamously posed in front of a Che Guevara mural during a trip to Cuba. Barbara Lee (D-CA) claimed Castro "lead a revolution that lead to improvements for his people." Would you like me to go on? I could reference many pages of examples where Democrats praise communist dictators.
Diangelo is a white woman who has deemed herself ruler of woke white people. White fragility is the most condescending, racist, pile of crap I've ever read. It's a modern day guide on how to become a racist. It's the same message as the KKK wrapped up in a "progressive" cloak.
X Kendi is no intellectual. He can't even define racism. He can't articulate solutions other than never-ending racial division and hatred. MLK could articulate tangible solutions and worked to make those a reality. A Kendi would spit on MLK given the chance. If X Kendi were interested in actually following through on his "values," which claim racist systems need to be torn down, he wouldn't promote the Democratic party. Not only are Democrats the party of slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow, destroying Black families in the "Great Society" and their "standard bearer" the person who gave a speech calling young Black men "jungle creatures" in the 1990's to justify locking a generation in jail, but their overt racism continues today. They are the party of closed schools, opposed to school choice, and engage as a matter of policy in the bigotry of low expectations. Their claim CRT is "anti-racist" is like claiming beef isn't really meat.
According to CBS news, Atlanta, GA has the largest racial wealth gap in the US with Washington DC in second. A different study reported by NPR found Washington DC tops the list.
In a February 2018, in a widely covered report by the Urban Institute, researchers found that the largest racial home ownership gaps are in Minneapolis, Albany, and Buffalo.
In January 2020, Brightbeam published the research of Patrick J. Wolf, Ph.D., and James Paul which found that San Francisco and Washington DC have the largest racial achievement gaps in the nation while Fort worth TX and Anchorage AK had the lowest.
These most racially unequal cities have been run uninterrupted by Democrats for decades - all for years to more than a century before I was born (note uninterrupted - no "big switch") - Atlanta since 1879, DC since 1967, Albany since 1921, Minneapolis since 1978, and San Francisco since 1966. In stark contrast, Fort Worth and Anchorage both have Republican mayors.
Considering these facts, other than regurgitating propaganda, do you have any actual FACTS to back you up??? The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result - thus its insane to vote for Democrats and expect the racist Democrat party to stop being overtly racists or for their policies to result in tangible improvements and opportunities for minority populations.
Democrats oppose civil liberties for political foes - which is totalitarian. They cheer Facebook censoring TRUE information that conflates with their narrative. They REFUSE to allow open discussion about Covid, masking, vaccination risks to children, or anything else that conflates with their insane mantras.
Amazon has 7 pages, on a desktop, of Che Guevara t-shirts alone - who do you think is buying them??? Cubans?????
A man will never be a "real" woman, and judging people on their skin tone will always be racist. The only response Democrats have to those objective facts are to name call like toddlers because they can't stand free speech.
Grow up.
Thank you.
Almost always. Is that better? I can't think of an exception but I'll grant that it's possible.
Please give examples of Democrat or leftist "intellectuals" freeing people from totalitarianism??? Lets say 3? Freedom IS a conservative value. Oppression is a leftist obsession. Most true intellectuals hold conservative values.