Race

[McCann'sCans]

Because everyone has been treated terribly at military schools for all eternity. It’s not a secret.

People are beaten cussed and toyed with for “training purposes”

Whites aren’t “excluded” from the abuse based on their skin color.

Correct. The training practices of military institutions is an entirely different conversation that impacts all cadets and may or may not be necessary- frankly, I have no idea if it is or not.

Cadets calling each other racial slurs in the hallways or sexually assaulting each other in the dorms is what is being discussed in the review of the institution.

 

[sturg33]

Considering the virus was likely created in a lab and possibly intentionally released, I don't really shed tears for stating a fact of where it originated

 

[nsacpi]

Considering the virus was likely created in a lab and possibly intentionally released, I don't really shed tears for stating a fact of where it originated

Actually that makes it worse. It associates people of a particular ethnicity with a malign action. But keep on tap dancing.

 

[sturg33]

Actually that makes it worse. It associates people of a particular ethnicity with a malign action. But keep on tap dancing.

**** the ccp

 

[McCann'sCans]

Let's pretend we know the virus was created in a lab. And then let's say the Chinese government decided to intentionally release it and kill millions of people around the world including many of their own citizens.

I would still be against encouraging the average American to view the average Chinese person as their enemy.

 

[sturg33]

Let's pretend we know the virus was created in a lab. And then let's say the Chinese government decided to intentionally release it and kill millions of people around the world including many of their own citizens.

I would still be against encouraging the average American to view the average Chinese person as their enemy.

So would I... Leftists should really stop viewing everything from the lens of race

 

[McCann'sCans]

Ultimately, it's all about context and how it's being used. There is a long history of the 1918 flu pandemic being named the Spanish Influenza despite not originating in Spain and the impact that it had on how other European citizens viewed Spain at the time. Other European countries censored coverage of the pandemic, but Spain didn't- ultimately the other European countries jumped at the chance to blame it on them.

The intent behind calling it Kung Flu or Chinese Virus was pretty clear, particularly when you consider the source and the fact that everyone knows what you're talking about if you say Covid-19 or coronavirus but you're choosing to call it the Chinese Virus instead (see photo)- the added specificity is purely to rile people up against a rival country.

I would also draw a distinction between naming something after where it originated and naming something after an ethnicity. I don't really have a problem with the Wuhan Virus, tbh, particularly as it seems to be proven that it originated there one way or another. But I do have a problem with the Chinese Virus or Kung Flu. For example, we call it Lyme Disease because it originated in Lyme, Connecticut. I would have a much bigger issue if it were referred to as the American Disease.

I actually think we agree here. Naming it after a location shouldn't be a big deal.

 

[Runnin]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/opinion/tom-hanks-tulsa-race-massacre-history.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR2lipZZvffm-njW77FGQtycodu7TvOqjIvyY3ktu1_VJ0xw8Y6ku3cr8UQ

It seems white educators and school administrators (if they even knew of the Tulsa massacre, for some surely did not) omitted the volatile subject for the sake of the status quo, placing white feelings over Black experience — literally Black lives in this case.

 

[thethe]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/opinion/tom-hanks-tulsa-race-massacre-history.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR2lipZZvffm-njW77FGQtycodu7TvOqjIvyY3ktu1_VJ0xw8Y6ku3cr8UQ

It seems white educators and school administrators (if they even knew of the Tulsa massacre, for some surely did not) omitted the volatile subject for the sake of the status quo, placing white feelings over Black experience — literally Black lives in this case.

Poison. That’s all the left has because their policies have failed minorities for decades.

Disgusting people.

 

[thethe]

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[striker42]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/opinion/tom-hanks-tulsa-race-massacre-history.html?smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwAR2lipZZvffm-njW77FGQtycodu7TvOqjIvyY3ktu1_VJ0xw8Y6ku3cr8UQ

It seems white educators and school administrators (if they even knew of the Tulsa massacre, for some surely did not) omitted the volatile subject for the sake of the status quo, placing white feelings over Black experience — literally Black lives in this case.

There's a lot to unpack here. First, I find it detestable that white feelings are implicated in this. Why should anyone feel guilty about what people who they share a phenotype with did 100 years ago? There should be no guilt or hurt feelings learning about Tulsa. The perpetrators of Tulsa are long dead and those living today are not morally responsible for their actions. We need to do more teaching that you are responsible for you and you alone. The sins of your predecessors are not your sins.

Tulsa needs to be taught to prevent reaching such a breaking point of racial strife again (regardless of the races involved). It needs to stand as a warning to everyone. It's not just something regarding the "black experience". It's part of our shared American history. It needs to be studied as such. I loathe sweeping things under the rug. History should be taught with the goal being accuracy, not narrative.

 

[Runnin]

Black, Brown, and White: Thoughts on Psychoanalysis, the Blues, and Marginality

 

[Runnin]

There's a lot to unpack here. First, I find it detestable that white feelings are implicated in this. Why should anyone feel guilty about what people who they share a phenotype with did 100 years ago? There should be no guilt or hurt feelings learning about Tulsa. The perpetrators of Tulsa are long dead and those living today are not morally responsible for their actions. We need to do more teaching that you are responsible for you and you alone. The sins of your predecessors are not your sins.

Tulsa needs to be taught to prevent reaching such a breaking point of racial strife again (regardless of the races involved). It needs to stand as a warning to everyone. It's not just something regarding the "black experience". It's part of our shared American history. It needs to be studied as such. I loathe sweeping things under the rug. History should be taught with the goal being accuracy, not narrative.

Yes, I'd like to know more about the racial strife and the breaking point that caused a town to do what it did to its Black community.

You can read more about it here.


Or here.


On May 30, 1921, Rowland attempted to enter the Drexel Building elevator. Although the exact facts are in dispute, according to the most accepted accounts, he tripped and, trying to save himself from falling, grabbed the first thing he could, which happened to be the arm of the elevator operator, Sarah Page. Startled, Page screamed, and a white clerk in a first-floor store called police to report seeing Rowland flee from the elevator. The white clerk on the first floor reported the incident as an attempted assault.

But it doesn't feel so long ago to me. I wonder how Blacks and Whites in Tulsa feel about it. "The past is never dead. It's not even past," said somebody who may have known a thing or two about racial injustice. Those events don't just get swept under the rug, they become accepted, enter the psyche and inform the next generation's children how to behave. The Tulsa Race Massacre didn't just happen, it was allowed to stand unpunished, and thus given the stamp of approval. No? It took 80 friggin' years before a commission even tried to count the dead.

 

[nsacpi]

Yes, I'd like to know more about the racial strife and the breaking point that caused a town to do what it did to its Black community.

You can read more about it here.


Or here.


On May 30, 1921, Rowland attempted to enter the Drexel Building elevator. Although the exact facts are in dispute, according to the most accepted accounts, he tripped and, trying to save himself from falling, grabbed the first thing he could, which happened to be the arm of the elevator operator, Sarah Page. Startled, Page screamed, and a white clerk in a first-floor store called police to report seeing Rowland flee from the elevator. The white clerk on the first floor reported the incident as an attempted assault.

But it doesn't feel so long ago to me. I wonder how Blacks and Whites in Tulsa feel about it. "The past is never dead. It's not even past," said somebody who may have known a thing or two about racial injustice. Those events don't just get swept under the rug, they become accepted, enter the psyche and inform the next generation's children how to behave. The Tulsa Race Massacre didn't just happen, it was allowed to stand unpunished, and thus given the stamp of approval. No? It took 80 friggin' years before a commission even tried to count the dead.

The past is never far away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG3YKBO08k0

 

[thethe]

Maos red guard doing the good work injecting poison within America.

 

[Runnin]

Maos red guard doing the good work injecting poison within America.

The politics of fear has found a new boogieman. What happened to Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden?

 

[thethe]

The politics of fear has found a new boogieman. What happened to Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden?

We have seen this playbook play out numerous times across the world. You and your ilk are just mad people are waking up and seeing it. Get this poison out of America. We are a great nation that provides the best world to people of all walks of life. If we were so terrible why are people risking their lives to come here.

Can’t wait till we dispel loons like you from the public discourse as your numbers dwindle. We know what the rot is and where it started. We will fix it.

 

[nsacpi]

We have seen this playbook play out numerous times across the world. You and your ilk are just mad people are waking up and seeing it. Get this poison out of America. We are a great nation that provides the best world to people of all walks of life. If we were so terrible why are people risking their lives to come here.

Can’t wait till we dispel loons like you from the public discourse as your numbers dwindle. We know what the rot is and where it started. We will fix it.

To acknowledge its imperfections and try to remediate them is not to question the greatness of our country. As an immigrant, I suspect I am more appreciative than most of what makes this country special.

 

[thethe]

To acknowledge its imperfections and try to remediate them is not to question the greatness of our country. As an immigrant, I suspect I am more appreciative than most of what makes this country special.

There is a difference between learning about our unfortunate past and implying and assigning guilt to current society and a certain portion of the population. That is what is causing the rot in the nation and we are taking back the country one school board at a time.

We have never been a greater nation and each day we move past our unfortunate past to create the most inclusive, fair and loving society that has ever existed.

 

[nsacpi]

There is a difference between learning about our unfortunate past and implying and assigning guilt to current society and a certain portion of the population. That is what is causing the rot in the nation and we are taking back the country one school board at a time.

We have never been a greater nation and each day we move past our unfortunate past to create the most inclusive, fair and loving society that has ever existed.

Progress is not linear and does not come without commitment and effort. We took an enormous step backwards the last four years. Your dude promised to protect suburban moms from the bogeyman. He told cops it was ok to rough up certain people. He wanted more immigrants from Norway and fewer from ****hole countries. He associated Mexicans with rapists. He said a judge couldn't give him a fair trial because he had Mexican ancestry. One of his first acts in office was an attempt to restrict travel by people belonging to a particular religion. And of course there was his starring role as a purveyor of the racist lie known as birtherism. All of this happened in our not-so-distant past.