B-Man Posted June 15, 2020 Author Posted June 15, 2020 Class, Not Race, Divides America It is the truth that the white progressive dares not to utter. By Victor Davis Hanson Nothing is stranger in these tense days than the monotony of the inexact and non-descriptive mantra of “white privilege” and “white solidarity”—as if there is some monolithic white bloc, or as if class matters not at all. In truth, the clingers, the deplorables, the irredeemables, and Joe Biden’s “dregs” have very little in common with those who so libel them, but superficially share supposedly omnipotent and similar skin color. In the past, we saw such tensions among so-called whites in CNN’s reporting of the allegedly toothless rubes at Trump rallies, in the Strzok-Page text trove about Walmart’s smelly patrons, in the callous coastal disregard for the five-decade wasting away of the American industrial heartland, in the permissible elite collective disparagement of Christian evangelicals, and in the anthropological curiosity about and condescension toward such exotic, but presumably backward, Duck Dynasty and NASCAR peoples. As a result, we have reached the surreal point at which the nation’s privileged whites on campuses such as Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, in the top echelon of politics, and the corporate and entertainment worlds, all deplore in the abstract something they call “white privilege” in others who have never really experienced it. Of course, whatever such a thing is, they possess it in abundance but give no hint they have any intention of giving it up other than rhetorically or through the medieval concept of hair-shirt penance and Twitter confessionals. On the other hand, they are furious that middle-class whites do not join their theatrics of bending the knee and offering abject apologies for original sins. Progressive, affluent whites run most of the blue states that oversee the big blue cities who hire the liberal police chiefs and their unionized officers. So how strange it is for liberal elite white people to damn supposed white privilege for the logical sins of their own ideology and governance. {snip} The racial divide will not be healed by black separatist tribalism. It will not be bridged by the white apartheid guilt of the well off. It certainly will not end by this absurd medievalism of affluent, sequestered, well-meaning, white progressives championing black causes in ways that are loud and public, but ultimately selfish. Much more at the link: https://amgreatness.com/2020/06/14/class-not-race-divides-america 1 3
B-Man Posted June 15, 2020 Author Posted June 15, 2020 HIJACKED: Black organizers in Seattle autonomous zone doubt sincerity of white protesters. The Seattle Police Department has so far been unsuccessful in identifying a clear leadership structure to begin negotiations with protesters, and infighting within the six blocks’ perimeters has continued — most recently as some have tried to change the name of the zone from the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or “CHAZ,” to the Capitol Hill Organized (or Occupied) Protest, or “CHOP.” The Capitol Hill Undercover Menshevik Patrol would like to have a word. 1
Rob's House Posted June 15, 2020 Posted June 15, 2020 This guy just doesn't get it. He needs an upper middle class white millennial to educate him on what it's like to be black in America. 1 2
Koko78 Posted June 15, 2020 Posted June 15, 2020 22 minutes ago, Rob's House said: This guy just doesn't get it. He needs an upper middle class white millennial to educate him on what it's like to be black in America. Clearly he ain't black. 2
BillsFanNC Posted June 15, 2020 Posted June 15, 2020 1 hour ago, Buffalo_Gal said: "unplanned donation" ? More word redefinition. You didn't have your items stolen from you, you made an unplanned donation. 2
B-Man Posted June 15, 2020 Author Posted June 15, 2020 YOU CAN’T RALLY. WE CAN RIOT: The staggering hypocrisy of the Democrats over COVID-19. In the middle of May, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser extended her lockdown order through to the June 8. Two days prior to her own lockdown order was to be reviewed, on June 6, she encouraged mass gatherings of protests, in a tweet saying ‘Let’s all meet here soon #BlackLivesMatter’, with a photo showing off her big block yellow letters painted down a DC street. In a press release about a possible spike in coronavirus cases in her city, after two weeks of protests she encouraged herself, Bowser announced that ‘DC Health has confirmed that a new peak was detected in the data, resetting the Districts Phase One count to nine days of sustained decrease.’ Florida congressswoman Val Demings, who features on the shortlist to be Joe Biden’s VP nominee, tweeted on June 8 that she had joined a ‘Healing and Hope Rally last night to speak with our community as America grieves.’ Two days later she scolded the President: planning to hold ‘mass rallies in Florida and elsewhere as we experience a resurgence in COVID cases is irresponsible and selfish’. If there’s a gaping lack of curiosity about this blatantly hypocritical behavior from Democratic officials, it’s because members of the media are not only purposely ignoring it, but partaking in the same double-standard. 2
Rob's House Posted June 15, 2020 Posted June 15, 2020 @Hapless Bills Fan https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/04/09/key-findings-on-americans-views-of-race-in-2019/ When asked how their race has impacted their own ability to get ahead, about half of black adults (52%) say being black has hurt at least a little. This means 48% of black people do not believe that being black has been a significant impediment to them getting ahead.
Deranged Rhino Posted June 15, 2020 Posted June 15, 2020 You gotta love all those people out there thinking they're protesting "the system" in any meaningful way -- when said protests are supported by every single power center in this country: the government, the media, technology, corporate... There used to be a saying, "the revolution won't be televised". If it is, then it's not a revolution at all. 2
BillsFanNC Posted June 15, 2020 Posted June 15, 2020 6 hours ago, BillsFanNC said: The Ramen dude is awesome. Goes viral by schooling attorney Chris Cuomo on the 1st amendment. 1 1 1
1B4IDye Posted June 15, 2020 Posted June 15, 2020 You will not be allowed to have an opinion. For those that don't know, Mike Gundy is the head coach of the Oklahome State football team and Chuba Hubbard is the star running back at the same school (he also led the entire NCAA in rushing yards last season).
123719bwiqrb Posted June 15, 2020 Posted June 15, 2020 4 minutes ago, Hedge said: You will not be allowed to have an opinion. For those that don't know, Mike Gundy is the head coach of the Oklahome State football team and Chuba Hubbard is the star running back at the same school (he also led the entire NCAA in rushing yards last season). Guaranteed no sports will be played before Nov. 4th. The US has rabies.
Joe Miner Posted June 15, 2020 Posted June 15, 2020 43 minutes ago, Hedge said: You will not be allowed to have an opinion. For those that don't know, Mike Gundy is the head coach of the Oklahome State football team and Chuba Hubbard is the star running back at the same school (he also led the entire NCAA in rushing yards last season). What exactly does wearing an OAN shirt make his opinion?
Buffalo_Gal Posted June 15, 2020 Posted June 15, 2020 6 minutes ago, Joe Miner said: What exactly does wearing an OAN shirt make his opinion? Well, OAN is the only pro-Trump network, so #OrangeManBad. duh.
1B4IDye Posted June 15, 2020 Posted June 15, 2020 5 minutes ago, Joe Miner said: What exactly does wearing an OAN shirt make his opinion? Given that OAN is the only outlet that doesn't attack POTUS more than half the time? #OrangeManNotAllBad In his own words:
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