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RE: Professor Angela Putman "Hard Work is a white ideology"
(10-02-2017 05:07 PM)umbluegray Wrote: (10-02-2017 05:03 PM)Hood-rich Wrote: I knew it. bet she dates black dudes.
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She dates dudes?
Wait.
That's a "she"?
I was 2000 keystrokes into telling my pathetic Vikings they had a new right guard.
Thanks for the save!
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Fo Shizzle
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RE: Professor Angela Putman "Hard Work is a white ideology"
(10-02-2017 08:34 PM)wmubroncopilot Wrote: (10-02-2017 07:54 PM)geosnooker2000 Wrote: (10-02-2017 07:41 PM)wmubroncopilot Wrote: Many of you bring up good points and I totally agree that devaluing hard work is not the way to go.
I also disagree that the idea of America being a true meritocracy is inherently racist. I do, however, believe it is classist in the sense that the idea has been pushed for centuries by politicians and an upper class in order to motivate a working class that never truly had a way out of poverty. Things have slowly gotten better for the working class but it was through political means and tech advancement, not entirely hard work.
This is a nuanced subject and although the professor's remarks are a bit radical and off base, dumbing them down and twisting it to "hard work is a white ideology" is pretty unproductive and akin to the left crying racism at every turn.
That is a load of crap. The problem is, too many people think they should just *poof* transport out of poverty within a few years. It takes some families a generation or two, but it can be done, and is done from every type of community out there. I am living proof.
It is possible, yes. In a world of six billion people (or country of 300 million) there will be lots of outliers. I am speaking generally, and in general the odds are stacked so heavily against many communities (not just racially based) that saying "work hard enough and you'll make it out" isn't really true.
Blame it on the minimum wage that eliminated entry level jobs for the unskilled.
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Fitbud
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RE: Professor Angela Putman "Hard Work is a white ideology"
(10-02-2017 04:34 PM)Niner National Wrote: Must be why white culture has ruled the world for 500+ years.
The white culture has ruled the world for 500 + years?
Really?
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Lord Stanley
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RE: Professor Angela Putman "Hard Work is a white ideology"
(10-03-2017 09:41 AM)Fitbud Wrote: (10-02-2017 04:34 PM)Niner National Wrote: Must be why white culture has ruled the world for 500+ years.
The white culture has ruled the world for 500 + years?
Really?
Then who?
Honest question? Who since the 1500s has ruled the world?
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Fitbud
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RE: Professor Angela Putman "Hard Work is a white ideology"
(10-03-2017 09:44 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote: (10-03-2017 09:41 AM)Fitbud Wrote: (10-02-2017 04:34 PM)Niner National Wrote: Must be why white culture has ruled the world for 500+ years.
The white culture has ruled the world for 500 + years?
Really?
Then who?
Honest question? Who since the 1500s has ruled the world?
No one. Last time I checked, we still were not part of a "New World Order".
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VA49er
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RE: Professor Angela Putman "Hard Work is a white ideology"
IMO, this lady is just perpetuating the "victim" mentality. That does no one any good.
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10-03-2017 10:03 AM |
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