Quote:The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the House Democrats’ powerful campaign arm, has just abruptly purged half a dozen staffers. Why? Because they are white.
It appears that no one had anything against these particular staffers ... except for the color of their skin. Although roughly half the committee’s full-time staff (13 of 27) were nonwhite, this was not enough for some Democratic members of Congress. They complained DCCC Chairwoman Cheri Bustos of Illinois had brought in too many white staffers when she won the position. And they put enough pressure on her that she sacrificed her loyal staffers to the god of diversity.
Even if all these staffers ended up with cushy lobbying jobs as a reward for their loyalty, this is still a lot more shocking than people perhaps realize.
There are two possible interpretations of this mass-purge at the DCCC. Either a few Democrats are making a racial issue out of a patronage question, once again knifing each other under the cover of intersectionality, or Democrats are genuinely angry that half the staff at the DCCC are white. As often happens with the Democratic Left, it is difficult to tell just where the insincerity ends and the fanaticism begins.
But either interpretation implies that this is not a party fit to govern.
Nobody wants to see whites take up identity politics or demand a certain quota of jobs anywhere. But that isn't what this was about. This is about an organization that fires people from their current jobs because of their skin color. The insinuation that racist influences led Bustos to choose her staff and pass over better nonwhite candidates marks a continuation of what New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez started when she absurdly accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of racism and sexism.
This firing, and that’s what it is, not a free resignation, sends a message to everyone, and especially to young people of any race who are interested in politics. If an organization is actually willing to fire you from your job just because you’re white, do you really want to be involved with it?
Would you even want to vote for it?
It's not healthy for American democracy that racial groups should turn against one another politically. And the country should look forward to the day when politics are less racially polarized. But according to exit poll data, whites have been increasingly abandoning the Democratic Party in the last 20 years. They voted just four points more Republican than the median voter in the 1982 midterm election, but 18 points more Republican in 2018.
That's still not enough to prevent Democrats from winning, but it already means they can't win in most states without consistently holding together 90% of the black vote and vast majorities with other minority voting blocs.
Do they really think that's a realistic winning strategy in the long run? If so, then this week’s purge might have been a smart move.
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So under represented by whites and that was still to many.
It's sad to see an organization THAT focused on nothing but race. It's shameful.
(07-31-2019 01:00 PM)VA49er Wrote: [ -> ]It's sad to see an organization THAT focused on nothing but race. It's shameful.
Come on man. Its the best they can do. When their party platform is free ish for everyone on the planet at the expense of the American middle class, race baiting is all they have.
Aren't the Yankme's still something over 70% in this once great Country? Is this a winning strategy for the leftist loons looking to Venezuelan our asses?
Who is a legit competitor from this 18 carton of eggs? Beta? the 3 or 4 70 YO's that would and could never keep up? Tain't Gillibrand, liar Corey with the silver spoon in his mouth, or any of the guys no one here could pick out of police lineup.
I guess the strategery is to simply vote anyone not named Trump into office, whacked out policies or not.
Live by the sword, die by the sword. Sad.
Carville must be on his 30-eleventh tv by now.
(07-31-2019 01:30 PM)Kronke Wrote: [ -> ]As Nick Fuentes pointed out last night, this way of thinking isn't going away and it's only going to get worse.
Mainstream democrats are now on a presidential debate stage, discussing slavery reparations, not if we have to pay (that's a given), but how much: $100 billion (Williamson's plan: "anything less is an insult") or $17 trillion (kamala's plan), and free health care to anyone that can manage to cross the border, which oh by the way, is no longer illegal.
That type of talk would have been an anathema just 10 years ago.
Just imagine what it's going to be like in 20 years whenever it a practical guarantee that one of those people on the democratic debate stage will become the president, and they no longer even have to pander to middle America.
An easy fix for reperation's, do away with their federal tax's.
Is 6 people really a MASS PURGE?
(07-31-2019 02:28 PM)JDTulane Wrote: [ -> ]Is 6 people really a MASS PURGE?
Does the number matter given the reason?
(07-31-2019 02:29 PM)VA49er Wrote: [ -> ] (07-31-2019 02:28 PM)JDTulane Wrote: [ -> ]Is 6 people really a MASS PURGE?
Does the number matter given the reason?
The alleged reason from a right wing editorial. I see no proof or citations or quotes that justify the claim.
If they were fired for their race then they have grounds for a lawsuit and the layoffs were unjustified.
(07-31-2019 01:30 PM)Kronke Wrote: [ -> ]As Nick Fuentes pointed out last night, this way of thinking isn't going away and it's only going to get worse.
Mainstream democrats are now on a presidential debate stage, discussing slavery reparations, not if we have to pay (that's a given), but how much: $100 billion (Williamson's plan: "anything less is an insult") or $17 trillion (kamala's plan), and free health care to anyone that can manage to cross the border, which oh by the way, is no longer illegal.
That type of talk would have been an anathema just 10 years ago.
Just imagine what it's going to be like in 20 years whenever it a practical guarantee that one of those people on the democratic debate stage will become the president, and they no longer even have to pander to middle America.
I think by that point, we may be in the middle of Civil War II
(07-31-2019 02:31 PM)JDTulane Wrote: [ -> ] (07-31-2019 02:29 PM)VA49er Wrote: [ -> ] (07-31-2019 02:28 PM)JDTulane Wrote: [ -> ]Is 6 people really a MASS PURGE?
Does the number matter given the reason?
The alleged reason from a right wing editorial. I see no proof or citations or quotes that justify the claim.
If they were fired for their race then they have grounds for a lawsuit and the layoffs were unjustified.
I agree.
I think the headline makes it pretty explicit what it was all about.
"DCCC faces mass staff upheaval after uproar over diversity"
Why are some people so intent on turning everything into a war about race? It is tactically unwise for a racial minority to start a race war.
(08-01-2019 10:49 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote: [ -> ]Why are some people so intent on turning everything into a war about race? It is tactically unwise for a racial minority to start a race war.
It's a sign that certain factions have nothing of substance to offer platform/policy wise, etc.
(07-31-2019 12:42 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote: [ -> ]Quote:The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the House Democrats’ powerful campaign arm, has just abruptly purged half a dozen staffers. Why? Because they are white.
It appears that no one had anything against these particular staffers ... except for the color of their skin. Although roughly half the committee’s full-time staff (13 of 27) were nonwhite, this was not enough for some Democratic members of Congress. They complained DCCC Chairwoman Cheri Bustos of Illinois had brought in too many white staffers when she won the position. And they put enough pressure on her that she sacrificed her loyal staffers to the god of diversity.
Even if all these staffers ended up with cushy lobbying jobs as a reward for their loyalty, this is still a lot more shocking than people perhaps realize.
There are two possible interpretations of this mass-purge at the DCCC. Either a few Democrats are making a racial issue out of a patronage question, once again knifing each other under the cover of intersectionality, or Democrats are genuinely angry that half the staff at the DCCC are white. As often happens with the Democratic Left, it is difficult to tell just where the insincerity ends and the fanaticism begins.
But either interpretation implies that this is not a party fit to govern.
Nobody wants to see whites take up identity politics or demand a certain quota of jobs anywhere. But that isn't what this was about. This is about an organization that fires people from their current jobs because of their skin color. The insinuation that racist influences led Bustos to choose her staff and pass over better nonwhite candidates marks a continuation of what New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez started when she absurdly accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of racism and sexism.
This firing, and that’s what it is, not a free resignation, sends a message to everyone, and especially to young people of any race who are interested in politics. If an organization is actually willing to fire you from your job just because you’re white, do you really want to be involved with it?
Would you even want to vote for it?
It's not healthy for American democracy that racial groups should turn against one another politically. And the country should look forward to the day when politics are less racially polarized. But according to exit poll data, whites have been increasingly abandoning the Democratic Party in the last 20 years. They voted just four points more Republican than the median voter in the 1982 midterm election, but 18 points more Republican in 2018.
That's still not enough to prevent Democrats from winning, but it already means they can't win in most states without consistently holding together 90% of the black vote and vast majorities with other minority voting blocs.
Do they really think that's a realistic winning strategy in the long run? If so, then this week’s purge might have been a smart move.
Link
Those that lost their positions won't care. In fact, they'll wear it as a badge of white privilege pride.