(01-31-2022 10:03 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(01-31-2022 09:59 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(01-31-2022 09:33 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(01-31-2022 09:08 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(01-31-2022 06:55 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  Spicy.

You seem pissed at being asked to explain yourself.

So I will do it for you.

Condescending or nah? I thought you guys thought that was only for the lefties on this forum.

Quote:Lad and other leftists think racism is OK, even absolutely good, when it is "for" certain groups, and against it when it is against those same groups. It is not racism itself that is bad, but the targeting of certain preferred demographic groups. Very much the same as in 1930's Germany.

They think of this racism as 'Make up calls" in the game of life, except the game they are playing started millennia ago and has no end, making it OK to discriminate against people in 2022 for what someone in their racial group may have done in 1619.

I am sure black women were not given equal consideration for SCOTUS in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. heck, they couldn't even vote until 1920. But let's make up for that by excluding everybody now who isn't a black female. Yeah, that will even the slate. A black woman ignored in 1879 versus a white man ignored in 2022. Two wrongs make a right. This is standard modern Democratic philosophy.

Biden's problem was announcing that he was going to pick a black female. Now it appears (rightly so) to be exclusionary of > 90% of the population. Nobody would have had a problem with it if he didn't mention his plan and ended up picking a black female justice.

Of course, he announced it in a namby-pamby attempt to generate votes. Just like Reagan did in 1980. Long list of politicians on both sides of the aisle making craven campaign promises that don't pass the sniff test.

Also... I always love when affirmative action (you know, trying to make sure POC get a chance to get into good schools) gets compared to 1930's Germany.

Both are, at their core, are cases of racial exclusion and race-based determinism. Are they not?

Sure... but you bring in all the obvious baggage associated with Nazis/the Holocaust/etc.

It's like if a J. Crew manager in Chicago decided he should hire a black employee because heretofore all of his employees were white and he thought his customers might appreciate a diverse staff. Bringing Nazi Germany into that discussion would seem pretty ridiculous, no?

"Hey, Bill... you know who else practiced race-based determinism??? The f-ing Nazis!! Do you want to exterminate Jews, Bill!??!?"

Great, then lets call them Afrikaaners for all I care. Or is that also too much a hot button of racial exclusion and race-based determinism to be mentioned?