He certainly should get some psychiatric help, but he certainly should not get released into society.
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You are also a leftist who thinks people who disagree with this (self)flagellation of white men are "snowflakes". Of course you feel welcome.
What top positions do you have in mind? It is certainly not disputed that Biden only considered black women for SCOTUS seat vacated by Breyer. Nor is it disputed that Newsom only considered black women for the US Senate seat from California.
I am not a leftist by any reasonable interpretation of the term. I do not agree with everything the Democrats stand for.
Do you not understand the what the term "overwhelmingly" means? You are using very small samples to make your point - something you disparage when others use them to make a point that you disagree with.
Because that's when the 19th Amendment was ratified.
Whose Jim Crow laws? Of the women? Because that's the antecedent to "their". And why were women's Jim Crow laws what? Your sentence is missing a word.
No kidding! Is anybody denying that?
Yes. Relevance? Trump being racist and sexist in one direction does not justify Toni being racist and sexist in the other.
The odds have been stacked against whites and men through "affirmative action" for decades. Young men and young whites today have no responsibility for Jim Crow and other injustices in the past, and should not be punished for them.
Nobody is claiming that top positions are "overwhelmingly" occupied by non-whites and women. That part is gospel's straw man that I chose to ignore. But it is clear that DEI stacks the deck to the point that politicians like Biden and Goodhair can casually pledge to not consider people for top positions based on nothing more than their skin color and genitalia. And that is injustice, no matter how you try to justify it.
Obtuseness does not suit you. The point is that women were prevented from voting by white men. That Jim Crow laws were instituted by white men.
It is evidence that racism and sexism is still acceptable to a large segment of the US population. We elected a racist convicted felon and rapist for President. That has prompted the meme of "your body, my choice". It is insulting and despairing that is to sizeable fraction of women in our country.
Do you realize how pathetically petty your medical admission hobby horse sounds in comparison to having elected a racist, sexist, rapist felon as the leader of our country?
How so? You are certainly more left than most who post here, and this is a left-of-center forum already.
That is clearly the case, and I never said that acknowledging history is self-flaggelation. But those people are also long dead.
Inertia and slow change also increases the danger of overshoot, especially when the change is abrupt. There was a sharp change of direction in the 1960s with "affirmative action" and we are in the overshoot phase. What is (self)flaggelation is to claim that white people can't compete in a fair system (as Toni claimed) or that opposition to racial preferences is somehow being a "snowflake".
Maybe Dems should have done a better job courting that demographic. Instead of calling us "snowflakes" or "selfish bullies" that can't compete for being against racial preferences.
It is not injustice - it is politics where positions are not simply functions to be fulfilled, but symbols of society. In order for gov't to gain and keep the trust of citizens, it has to appear that it looks like them and cares about them.Nobody is claiming that top positions are "overwhelmingly" occupied by non-whites and women. That part is gospel's straw man that I chose to ignore. But it is clear that DEI stacks the deck to the point that politicians like Biden and Goodhair can casually pledge to not consider people for top positions based on nothing more than their skin color and genitalia. And that is injustice, no matter how you try to justify it.
What makes you feel that way?
For example, I do not agree that deficits do not matter. I do not agree that markets are necessarily wrong or necessarily need to be corrected. I think effective price controls are an inferior method of dealing with access to goods or services.
That is irrelevant to the history and its inertia.
PS. Human beings have been around for thousands of years.
Certainly white people didn't think they could compete in a fair system in the past. Why else rig it? Why else complain when it is getting derigged?
Calling people names does not induce them to join you, even when the names are accurate.
Omg: you are right! Looking at the CEOs, CFOs, heard of corporations, doctors, lawyers, elected officials, power brokers: all of the sudden they are…..still overwhelmingly white and male.
You are shifting the goalposts. You accused white men of being lesser than others. This is what you wrote.
Toni said:It's actually the opposite. Decades of racial preferences have made blacks and Hispanics complacent.
If they don't have to work nearly as hard in high school as their white and Asian brethren to get into a good college, most will not.
If they don't have to work nearly as hard in college as their white and Asian brethren to get into a graduate/professional school, most will not.
I have posted this before, and you and your side never has a good apologetics for it:
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Many of them are. Not all, but it taints everybody. That's the perversion of AA/DEI. Just like the nephew of the company owner is not necessarily an incompetent nepotism hire, but he or she will be under suspicion of that at least until they prove their mettle.
Same with AA/DEI. It not only harms groups discriminated against by those efforts, but also the groups ostensibly helped. Why is it so controversial to just treat applicants as individuals, and not discriminate against one group or another?
I think Biden administration/Democratic Party holding steadfast to the concept of racial preferences is part of the reason they lost in 2024. "Affirmative Action" is so unpopular that it even lost when it was on the ballot in California of all places. And yet:
‘This Is Not a Normal Court’: Biden Denounces Affirmative-Action Ruling
Read the room!
Thousands of years now? How so?
To make this even slightly on topic, I can see the same reality inversion field operating on the subject of shootings. Even though blacks kill people at a rate ~5-6x that of whites, the leftosphere always claims that it's white people with AR15s that are the real problem, never black bangers with Glocks.
FBI Expanded Homicide Data Table 6
I could not find a chart comparing offenders, only victims, but since vast majority of homicide is intraracial, the rates are not very different. It also shows that this "blame whitey" attitude predominately harms black victims of gun violence.
Maybe the fact is that you are not actually against racial preferences, just racial preferences that do not rate white and male as #1 priority. Because that has been the preference in the US and most of the western world for the last several centuries.
Nope, I’m sure he does not. Instead he embraces victimhood because not everybody is on board with persecuting women and persons of color. He should cheer up, tho. That will all change come Jan. 20. *
Nah. The fact is that white racist snowflakes are already a minority. So much so in fact, that ignoring them entirely in favor of courting other minorities became a viable political option in 2020.
