I think most of the MAGA crowd is concerned that it's a zero-sum game. Basically, that it's their turn for the "tragic". At least that's what the woke crowd keeps telling them. Especially ironic since the modern day woke crowd never experienced any "tragic" themselves.
Zero sum thinking is certainly a big, big problem with many aspects of life. If you think about the psychology of change, if I eat no vegetables today and you tell me that I have to start eating two servings a day, I might decide at some point that you are pushing me to vegan. I see two clear things. Post Civil War, we did 11 years of Reconstruction that resulted in blacks getting elected locally and nationally and just taking "too much" power, so we ushered in the Jim Crow era saw the rise of the KKK and all the race issues that persisted, to some extent, to this day. We did pass the voting rights act in 1965 and now, in the 2010's white america sees it's majority shrinking, and it's power along with it. Turns out that "those people", who now have some ability to shape policy, don't think the same as "we" do, so we end up with violent conflict (e.g. 1/6) that really boils down to the world is changing in a way that I don't like.
Not a crazy take. A stupid one. Nobody is worried about being forced to be open-minded or tolerant or empathetic. Wokeness is usually an excuse to be the opposite of those things. It's an excuse to engage in activities that are considered to be moral wrongs under classical liberal values, such as punishment based on "collective guilt", racial discrimination, sex based discrimination, elimination of single sex bathrooms and other spaces, and hell, even property damage.
Racial equality is one thing. The whole movement to elevate gender and sexual identity above any and all things? Pumping minors full of hormone replacement therapy? Allowing biological males to compete in women's sports and destroy the female competition, winning championships? Using tax dollars and applauding the death of unborn children? Encouraging and incentivizing victim mentality? Advocating communism? Defunding police like we're seeing in Portland? Silencing conservative thought like we saw on Twitter? That's the woke idiots that have their crazy ideals amplified on social media.
I understand that perspective and certainly see some of that among the far Left. It's the difference in recognizing that systemic injustice is still having ripple effect but not falling into systemic injustice is the cause of ALL ills.
I would argue it's the new "feminism/feminist". Take a pretty bland idea that most everybody agrees with, and then use sort of a motte and bailey technique until it's more or less roughly half the population thinks of it in the terms of the bland, non-controversial ides and half the population associates it with controversial if not stupid ideas.
No doubt. And the funny thing is that the world has been headed that way since the World Wars. I mean, the MAGA crowd's ancestors fought a war (or at least half of it) against the father of white supremacy. It's like that gets forgotten.
You derived a lot more from the word "Equality" than I did. Make of it what you will.
You aren't aware that for more time in this country than not, we were splitting up and selling families? I'm sure you have the character qualities that would allow you to move through life as an island, but for most of the world their trajectory is formed by their past, familial support and history, etc.
Maybe it is. Someone once said "what you measure out, will be measured back to you." So, maybe it's simply a spiritual law of cause and effect that just happens - it's "built in" so to speak. If so, they might be right. If not, the guy who said "what you give out will be given back to you" was wrong. c'est la vie.
Last I checked, they don't give their crops away for free.
Fair enough, but I'm not going to sit here and be a useful idiot for my own demise.
This is an example of what Rush Limbaugh described as "Symbolism over Substance".
good to know. But not I'm sure what you meant and at this point I don't care
I don't know that I'd look to a guy who broadcasted “Barack, the Magic Negro” on his radio show for any advice, but I did notice that you refrain from answering one single question that I posed with a salient, thoughtful answer. They are all legitimate questions...
"everyone should be a 1 seed!" "every game should end in a tie!"
Nobody should discount or ignore the horrors black people went thru in The U.S. The point I'm making is that our past history is today symbolic based on equal opportunity that exists in the present which is actual substance. The SJW Crowd is barking up a tree that has a fake possum up in it.
Speaking of d/e/i, a couple of years ago my former employer jumped on the d/e/i bandwagon as so many did. As part of that initiative they made all of the management teams from every division go through training. One of those training sessions was sitting thru a speaking engagement with the VP, d/e/i for a team in the NBA. Upon conclusion the speaker gave us his email address if we had questions. A co-worker of mine wrote him asking what the NBA was doing to attract a more diverse representation of players and citing MLB's efforts to attract more inner city youth to the game. Answer, "crickets". He wrote back a second time and again received no response. Studies are now showing that d/e/i initiatives are doing more harm than good.
But conservatives have always said that "now" things are fine as a means to perpetuate inequality, and here you are discounting and ignoring that. Remember "separate but equal"? Well the cons were saying it's equal so what's the problem, right? If you think equal opportunity exists today then you are doing the exact same thing they did back then and are no better than they were. Hell, your side won't even let them be taught that history that you say no one should discount or ignore.
