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SFGbob
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SFGbob
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Problem solved. HTH
Seriously, what the fuck do you think you’re arguing when you say democrats think black people are too dumb to get IDs? That democrats don’t actually want to help black people because they’d lose their votes?
I cannot believe the outrage at your own argument being repeated back to you.
By your own unit.
Through law? Not really.
Through Education? More and more each day.
Through Media? Fuck yes. Without question. Cashing in, to be honest.
It is what it is.
Don’t judge people for speaking out against it.
We argue in defense of a defined system of governance in which We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
We argue that we live in a nation where men not judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
So anything perpetuated and espoused against those very basic principles is, by definition systemic racism, regardless of which melanin superiority group promotes it.
What I have come around to believe, both by reflecting on some past life experience and actually listening to other people, is that there are plenty who actually do co-opt the agency of the oppressed. I've known admissions officers, for example, who have it baked into their brains that black kids "need a leg up." When you think like that about a given group, no matter how much your experience informs it and no matter your real motivations, you are going to start thinking about them differently.
I have had many Seattle liberals make comments in conversation that led me to draw a reasonable inference that they assumed my kids, and in some cases I, got into certain schools because of affirmative action. They are quick to add how great they think that is; but you see the problem. If my last name were Smith or Bannon, they would assume we had great grades and test scores. That carries through professionally too and frankly never completely goes away.
So, you get to this simple issue about ID. If we were arguing that ID, for anybody, is government oppression, then that would be a different conversation. But ID, only as applied to particular minorities, is a problem? Why? Honestly, with all the rhetoric thrown around on this issue, I've not heard or read one cogent argument for why it's problem.
And, you can't deny Biden's dementia comments aren't a prime example of what I'm talking about. He thinks Obama is the clear exception because he's articulate. He said rural and inner city black people can't use the internet. That is the kind of paternalistic shit from whitey to black America that should be called the fuck out. I guess he left room for suburban blacks who can Google. You don't come across as stupid, like the other guy who played your role here. I think you know this.