Why the fuck did the "journalists" even ASK that question? Where are their questions on, idk, Epstein and why the fuck we kidnapped Maduro for "oil" that our own companies do not want, or why the fuck we are destroying our ties to our allies to cozy up to despots?
Don't forget field hockey and lacrosse! And talking about test bias. 40 years ago a friend taking the MCAT was asked a question about the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. While I enjoy Gilbert and Sullivan as silly light hearted fluff as much as the next guy or gal, I am pretty certain that all that knowing about the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company establishes is that you are an upper class twit and measures nothing about your aptitude or intelligence.
I want to start out by making a specific point of saying that I do NOT want to venture into "All lives" or "Both sides" territory here.
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Some whiny dipshit on social media was complaining about "being discriminated against" because she was conservative. Apparently she did not get the apartment that she was looking at, and she's positive that it was because the landlady somehow knew her conservative beliefs.
The thing about that is, EVERYBODY has a race, or a religion, or an ethnic group, or a political belief[s]. Only one person (or at most two) could have rented that apartment. Was the landlady also discriminating against everybody else who looked at the apartment, and didn't get it?
I guess my greater point being that it's pretty hard to prove intent, unless you have a consistent pattern of discriminating against one specific group, going back to the early 1970s or so...
Know what DID happen? Rich assholes like Donald Trump bought their way into college and paid others to write their papers and take their exams. They took up places that could have gone to deserving students who did their own work. So yes, some people did get cheated out of education they deserved and should have received, but by and large it wasn’t minorities who took advantage - it was people like Trump.
"When asked whether protections that began in the 1960s, spurred by the passage of the Civil Rights Act, had resulted in discrimination against white men, Mr. Trump [sic] said he believed “a lot of people were very badly treated.”
“White people were very badly treated, where they did extremely well and they were not invited to go into a university to college"
A few points:
* The Fulvous Fuckwad's "a lot of people..." is just a reboot of a line from his 15 Aug 2017 speech "there were "very fine people on both sides." Depending which side of the fence you were on, it was ambiguous enough that you could say it made your point since he also said in his statement that White Supremacists and Neo-Nazis should be completely condemned.
* If I recall the time when I was applying to colleges your application was either accepted or rejected. The only people "invited to go into a university to college" were legacy, a major contributor to the school, or your family bought your way in.
* T address the Coral Codpiece's concern" "Center for American Liberty" https://libertycenter.org/ (from their "About" page)
> "The Center for American Liberty is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to defending the civil liberties of Americans left behind by civil rights legacy organizations.
Founded by Harmeet K. Dhillon in 2018, the Center for American Liberty leverages its nationwide network of attorneys to zealously advocate for individual liberty and to combat illegal discrimination.
The Constitution guarantees individual liberty rights, but as we’ve observed, there is a coordinated assault on our civil liberties from corporations, politicians, socialist revolutionaries, and inept or biased government officials. The Center for American Liberty is leading the fight against this assault on liberty by holding those who destroy our civil liberties accountable through the courts."
For the life of me I just can't grok how these folk (bless their hearts) can look at themselves in a mirror and not see a hypocrite looking back.
A couple years ago I interviewed with a charity focused on empowering only black people. I'm white and they were accomodating, provided me with a zoom interview, rather than an in person meeting, as I was living six hours away at the time of the interview. I was so impressed that they followed up afterward with a phone call to wish me well but choose another candidate who lived in the city where they are located already, explaining their decision. Perhaps I was just a token white woman to interview? I don't think so. The process was so inclusive and respectful and felt simply sincere.
Perhaps the time has passed for "civil" disobedience, and people need to be uncivil And disobedient. " I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact, that the country so overrun is not our own, but
ours is the invading army." (Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty f Civil Disobedience")
Off topic I know, but if hegseth is going after senator Mark Kelly, imagine what's going to happen to hegseth during a Democratic administration. I would expect the next Democratic administration to haul his ass in for a courts marshall, followed by at a minimum being stripped of all of his rank and having his pension revoked. Then they need to dig up that j6er Ashli Babbitt from Arlington cemetery where she has no right to be and just toss that fucking rotten corpse into a ditch somewhere. Fuck all of these people. They think they are the only ones who can do retribution? Shit. Put me in, coach. I'll make these assholes look like pikers. I am asymmetric, petty, angry, and have an amazing imagination.
How weird. I am a white woman, and I applied to and was accepted at FIVE well-known universities back in 1974, which was 10 years after the Civil Rights Act was passed. All five offered me scholarships, too. And when I got to the one I selected, I found that there were hardly ANY minority students enrolled there. There wasn't a single one in my dorm.
Oh, I forgot...I'm a woman, so in the USA I'm a minority, even though I'm technically in the majority, because I don't have a penis.
As a white male growing up, I experienced a good deal of discrimination. Because my family was poor and dad was an alcoholic in a small (lily-white) town.
Nobody ever, even once, discriminated against our family because we were white. Not even once has anyone I know not gotten something they had earned because they were white and non-white (or, if male, non-male; if hetero, non-hetero) people got special privileges.
Not once.
Once I got out of the small town where everyone knew or thought they knew our private business; once I got some decent clothes and shoes and didn't have to tell anyone I was poor and they didn't already know; since then the only time I haven't gotten something was because somebody else deserved and needed it more.
You remind me of my father, who was the eldest of 6 children born to a lead miner in southeast Missouri in 1918. In 1930 my grandfather was injured in a rock fall in the mines, and could never work again. In 1930 there was no SSDI or food stamps or worker's comp or Section 8 housing, they were just screwed. My father was 12 and got 3 jobs to help support his parents and younger siblings.
My uncle said they were the second poorest family in that tiny lily-white town (it was illegal for Black people to live in that county at the time) and everyone knew it, and boy-oh-boy were they discriminated against. My dad was by far the best baseball player in his school, but he was never picked to play on the school team...only the sons of middle- and upper-level mine administrators got to play on the teams. Even the local library discriminated against the poor children of lead miners and restricted the number of books they could check out per week.
My dad was very handsome, but I never heard him speak about dating any girls in his teens or early 20's, so I asked him about this. He said "I didn't have any decent clothes or shoes, and I couldn't afford movie tickets or even a soda at the dime store, so I couldn't go on dates."
And then WWII started, and he was drafted even though he was the sole financial support of his parents and 3 of his younger siblings. That was against the rules, but if the draft board hadn't met their monthly quota, the rules were ignored. But it worked out because he had most of his army pay sent to his mother, and after the war he went to college on the GI bill and his life changed dramatically.
We were poor but educated. Had Dad not had his addiction, we’d have been middle-class and urban.
But that’s not how it played out.
Rural folk really disliked that we were poor, looked-down-upon, but never downtrodden. We didn’t know our place, they thought.
But they were wrong. What we knew was that that wasn’t our place. We all left and are all highly successful each in our own way.
That’s why I take pains to say that being poor and being in poverty are not the same thing. Being poor can be solved with an opportunity and some money.
Poverty is much harder to solve because it involves other factors like a profound lack of stake in society that prevent the opportunity and short-term money from helping.
We were never “in poverty” like others I’ve known.
Good on your dad for sure. He knew how to make it work, not that it was easy (or right that it was that hard).
Why the fuck did the "journalists" even ASK that question? Where are their questions on, idk, Epstein and why the fuck we kidnapped Maduro for "oil" that our own companies do not want, or why the fuck we are destroying our ties to our allies to cozy up to despots?
Hard hitting as usual, NYT
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I'M A WHITE GUY, AND I'M SO OPPRESSED!!!!!!!!
JFC, these people get more ridiculous by the day.
Don't forget field hockey and lacrosse! And talking about test bias. 40 years ago a friend taking the MCAT was asked a question about the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. While I enjoy Gilbert and Sullivan as silly light hearted fluff as much as the next guy or gal, I am pretty certain that all that knowing about the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company establishes is that you are an upper class twit and measures nothing about your aptitude or intelligence.
All of it except, ahem, 37 is not middle-aged.
I want to start out by making a specific point of saying that I do NOT want to venture into "All lives" or "Both sides" territory here.
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Some whiny dipshit on social media was complaining about "being discriminated against" because she was conservative. Apparently she did not get the apartment that she was looking at, and she's positive that it was because the landlady somehow knew her conservative beliefs.
The thing about that is, EVERYBODY has a race, or a religion, or an ethnic group, or a political belief[s]. Only one person (or at most two) could have rented that apartment. Was the landlady also discriminating against everybody else who looked at the apartment, and didn't get it?
I guess my greater point being that it's pretty hard to prove intent, unless you have a consistent pattern of discriminating against one specific group, going back to the early 1970s or so...
Oh, wait.
But we all know by now that conservatives are the world's biggest victims..
https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelharriot/p/the-doj-just-made-it-harder-to-prove
Majority of billionaires - White
Majority of millionaires - White
Majority of business owners - White
Majority of CEOs are - White
Majority of COOs are - White
Majority of CFOs are - White
Majority of people on the Forbes Lists - White
Not sure but I'm starting to see a pattern here.
Know what DID happen? Rich assholes like Donald Trump bought their way into college and paid others to write their papers and take their exams. They took up places that could have gone to deserving students who did their own work. So yes, some people did get cheated out of education they deserved and should have received, but by and large it wasn’t minorities who took advantage - it was people like Trump.
"When asked whether protections that began in the 1960s, spurred by the passage of the Civil Rights Act, had resulted in discrimination against white men, Mr. Trump [sic] said he believed “a lot of people were very badly treated.”
“White people were very badly treated, where they did extremely well and they were not invited to go into a university to college"
A few points:
* The Fulvous Fuckwad's "a lot of people..." is just a reboot of a line from his 15 Aug 2017 speech "there were "very fine people on both sides." Depending which side of the fence you were on, it was ambiguous enough that you could say it made your point since he also said in his statement that White Supremacists and Neo-Nazis should be completely condemned.
* If I recall the time when I was applying to colleges your application was either accepted or rejected. The only people "invited to go into a university to college" were legacy, a major contributor to the school, or your family bought your way in.
* T address the Coral Codpiece's concern" "Center for American Liberty" https://libertycenter.org/ (from their "About" page)
> "The Center for American Liberty is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to defending the civil liberties of Americans left behind by civil rights legacy organizations.
Founded by Harmeet K. Dhillon in 2018, the Center for American Liberty leverages its nationwide network of attorneys to zealously advocate for individual liberty and to combat illegal discrimination.
The Constitution guarantees individual liberty rights, but as we’ve observed, there is a coordinated assault on our civil liberties from corporations, politicians, socialist revolutionaries, and inept or biased government officials. The Center for American Liberty is leading the fight against this assault on liberty by holding those who destroy our civil liberties accountable through the courts."
For the life of me I just can't grok how these folk (bless their hearts) can look at themselves in a mirror and not see a hypocrite looking back.
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A couple years ago I interviewed with a charity focused on empowering only black people. I'm white and they were accomodating, provided me with a zoom interview, rather than an in person meeting, as I was living six hours away at the time of the interview. I was so impressed that they followed up afterward with a phone call to wish me well but choose another candidate who lived in the city where they are located already, explaining their decision. Perhaps I was just a token white woman to interview? I don't think so. The process was so inclusive and respectful and felt simply sincere.
Perhaps the time has passed for "civil" disobedience, and people need to be uncivil And disobedient. " I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact, that the country so overrun is not our own, but
ours is the invading army." (Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty f Civil Disobedience")
"I never want Americans to pay higher Electricity bills because of Data Centers," Trump posted on Truth Social.
WE'RE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US GETTING OUR VERY OWN BARREL OF VENEZUELAN SOUR CRUDE!!!!!!
Nobody wants to ask about their plan to build those environment-polluting monstrosities in Black and Latino neighborhoods
https://youtu.be/mqs1CL0cBt4?si=xekoV1U9Dpp9KpWp
https://youtu.be/t-8TDOFqkQA?si=O-mx03d85wZ5nLUG
https://youtu.be/pmjkTWbJn_k?si=zM3l9Po_uoa_U6ru
Just like in Robert Moses' day they built the HIGHWAYS through Black and Latino neighborhoods
Off topic I know, but if hegseth is going after senator Mark Kelly, imagine what's going to happen to hegseth during a Democratic administration. I would expect the next Democratic administration to haul his ass in for a courts marshall, followed by at a minimum being stripped of all of his rank and having his pension revoked. Then they need to dig up that j6er Ashli Babbitt from Arlington cemetery where she has no right to be and just toss that fucking rotten corpse into a ditch somewhere. Fuck all of these people. They think they are the only ones who can do retribution? Shit. Put me in, coach. I'll make these assholes look like pikers. I am asymmetric, petty, angry, and have an amazing imagination.
"Come and see the violence inherent in the system!"
How weird. I am a white woman, and I applied to and was accepted at FIVE well-known universities back in 1974, which was 10 years after the Civil Rights Act was passed. All five offered me scholarships, too. And when I got to the one I selected, I found that there were hardly ANY minority students enrolled there. There wasn't a single one in my dorm.
Oh, I forgot...I'm a woman, so in the USA I'm a minority, even though I'm technically in the majority, because I don't have a penis.
https://youtube.com/shorts/rmras84AIZQ?si=HhAqCXe73mYDyuq8
https://youtube.com/shorts/TGqx-vwOPoU?si=YGrs0gZ1o4pM8Gsh
It was very remiss of you to be born without a penis. You will have to try harder next time.
Next time I want to be a cat.
As a white male growing up, I experienced a good deal of discrimination. Because my family was poor and dad was an alcoholic in a small (lily-white) town.
Nobody ever, even once, discriminated against our family because we were white. Not even once has anyone I know not gotten something they had earned because they were white and non-white (or, if male, non-male; if hetero, non-hetero) people got special privileges.
Not once.
Once I got out of the small town where everyone knew or thought they knew our private business; once I got some decent clothes and shoes and didn't have to tell anyone I was poor and they didn't already know; since then the only time I haven't gotten something was because somebody else deserved and needed it more.
You remind me of my father, who was the eldest of 6 children born to a lead miner in southeast Missouri in 1918. In 1930 my grandfather was injured in a rock fall in the mines, and could never work again. In 1930 there was no SSDI or food stamps or worker's comp or Section 8 housing, they were just screwed. My father was 12 and got 3 jobs to help support his parents and younger siblings.
My uncle said they were the second poorest family in that tiny lily-white town (it was illegal for Black people to live in that county at the time) and everyone knew it, and boy-oh-boy were they discriminated against. My dad was by far the best baseball player in his school, but he was never picked to play on the school team...only the sons of middle- and upper-level mine administrators got to play on the teams. Even the local library discriminated against the poor children of lead miners and restricted the number of books they could check out per week.
My dad was very handsome, but I never heard him speak about dating any girls in his teens or early 20's, so I asked him about this. He said "I didn't have any decent clothes or shoes, and I couldn't afford movie tickets or even a soda at the dime store, so I couldn't go on dates."
And then WWII started, and he was drafted even though he was the sole financial support of his parents and 3 of his younger siblings. That was against the rules, but if the draft board hadn't met their monthly quota, the rules were ignored. But it worked out because he had most of his army pay sent to his mother, and after the war he went to college on the GI bill and his life changed dramatically.
We were poor but educated. Had Dad not had his addiction, we’d have been middle-class and urban.
But that’s not how it played out.
Rural folk really disliked that we were poor, looked-down-upon, but never downtrodden. We didn’t know our place, they thought.
But they were wrong. What we knew was that that wasn’t our place. We all left and are all highly successful each in our own way.
That’s why I take pains to say that being poor and being in poverty are not the same thing. Being poor can be solved with an opportunity and some money.
Poverty is much harder to solve because it involves other factors like a profound lack of stake in society that prevent the opportunity and short-term money from helping.
We were never “in poverty” like others I’ve known.
Good on your dad for sure. He knew how to make it work, not that it was easy (or right that it was that hard).