The cancel culture is getting out of control

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#828
Oh FFS...find one person alive in this country that has or is suffering a quantifiable negative impact in their lives due specifically to anything that happened or anyone living in this country prior to 1865.

Current psychological delusions of fabricated repression attributed specifically to that time period are obviously excluded because it’s just a crock of total bull shite. There are way to many that don’t suffer with that mental infirmity who prove it to be a bs excuse.

Racism in this country, or the world in general, is not bound by the constraints of time, nor unfortunately will it ever be. It’s also not specifically bound to a particular shade of one’s skin tone. As long as mankind exists there sadly will always be those who base their judgement and response to others upon exterior appearances.

It’s up to all those who look to character first and foremost to come together and lift each other up in joyous celebration of individual success as an shining example to those still mired in the darkness.

If you are a active part of the political machinations and destructive agenda currently in play in this country to purposefully create divisiveness based on skin pigmentations then you are the racist and you actually are the problem not the solution.

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DynaLo said:
Oh FFS...find one person alive in this country that has or is suffering a quantifiable negative impact in their lives due specifically to anything that happened or anyone living in this country prior to 1865.

Current psychological delusions of fabricated repression attributed specifically to that time period are obviously excluded because it’s just a crock of total bull shite. There are way to many that don’t suffer with that mental infirmity who prove it to be a bs excuse.

Racism in this country, or the world in general, is not bound by the constraints of time, nor unfortunately will it ever be. It’s also not specifically bound to a particular shade of one’s skin tone. As long as mankind exists there sadly will always be those who base their judgement and response to others upon exterior appearances.

It’s up to all those who look to character first and foremost to come together and lift each other up in joyous celebration of individual success as an shining example to those still mired in the darkness.

If you are a active part of the political machinations and destructive agenda currently in play in this country to purposefully create divisiveness based on skin pigmentations then you are the racist and you actually are the problem not the solution.

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Black people weren’t anywhere near equal rights in 1865. Move it up 100 years. Then think about the growth in your family from 1865 to 1965.
 
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volfanhill said:
But your family had opportunity. They had subpar education
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My family MADE an opportunity . Not a soul gave my family anything they had to earn it if they wanted to eat and survive . School taught education was for folks that didn’t have to work in the fields and woods just to survive .
 
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volfanhill said:
Black people weren’t anywhere near equal rights in 1865. Move it up 100 years. Then think about the growth in your family from 1865 to 1965.
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I never said they were. Although shortly after the civil war they were certainly on the right trajectory with the first black Congressmen, both Republicans, elected in the states of Mississippi and South Carolina at the end of the 1860s.

That progress all went to hades due to the Democrat formation of the KKK, the White League and the Red Shirts specifically to harass, terrorize and kill black Republicans. The only way to end the Democrat sponsored torment and save themselves, their families and supporters was to agree to the Democrat demands that they change party affiliation. Thus began a new era of “political” slavery, which continues to this very day, with black people still being held on the Democrat plantation.

Does the current statement of "Well I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black” ring any bells?
 
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0nelilreb said:
My family MADE an opportunity . Not a soul gave my family anything they had to earn it if they wanted to eat and survive . School taught education was for folks that didn’t have to work in the fields and woods just to survive .
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My family was much the same as yours. It wasn't until my grandfather, in the early 1950s, that anyone even attended college, and he only got to go because he won- WON- a small FFA scholarship in a competition. He was born to essentially a sharecropper family in the 1930s.

Neither of my parents grew up with wealth. Dad's side, up to his generation, were all farmers. Mom's side wasn't farmers, but she grew up with her dad in the USAF (my granddad went to LMU, but outside of that no family went to college).

This whole "white privilege" thing is such a crock of idiocy. My family didn't even really see big opportunities to have any actual wealth until at least the 1980s, and I know a lot of white families are the same.

Black people have had 50, 60 years to grow up and move on. They're 13% of the population that is drastically overrepresented everywhere. There are and have been black leaders (that almost universally create more problems for their communities than they fix). They get scholarships and opportunities based on their skin color alone. They've got the entire damn corporate establishment throwing up slacktivist black squares on social media and boycotting advertising outlets. Where is the "systemic racism" or privilege?
 
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0nelilreb said:
My family MADE an opportunity . Not a soul gave my family anything they had to earn it if they wanted to eat and survive . School taught education was for folks that didn’t have to work in the fields and woods just to survive .
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Sounds very similar to my family right down to the logging and sharecropping. Really never had much but they were at least above water by the 70s. My Dad was actually the first one in his family to even attend high school.
 
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GreyWolf1129 said:
This is one of the things that concerns me most. If this keeps up, there is going to be a group of these violent leftists who will attack (a) a group of (or single) peace officers, or (b) a neighborhood or individual business / residence, and they will be met with lethal force when the first rock or molotov hits something or someone. Violence begets violence, and eventually they are going to provoke a response that no one wants.

Hope I'm wrong...fear I'm right. Granted, I live in a pretty conservative area of the country, but all I am hearing right now from people I know, and even people I don't, is "why are we putting up with this crap?" Somewhere south of Atlanta, the tide of tolerance has shifted, and a rock headed one way will be answered by a bullet headed the other.

No idea where or when, but if the current wave of violence continues, then at some point there will be another "shot heard 'round the world."

This time, it will mark the end of a revolution, rather than the beginning.
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This will happen if the madness continues. I do not believe that it will be cops. These mobs burning and destroying simply havent come across anyone YET who truly doesnt give a damn like me. There are millions and millions of people who will return hot lead for a rock, bottle, molotov, or any other projectile headed into their privately owned business or home. How this hasnt already happened absolutely blows my mind....it has to be simply because these domestic terrorists have kept their activities in cities up north with handgun bans etc...other than the Wendy's in ATL that was black owned and apparently nobody felt was worth fighting for .

ALL the folks I know who own small businesses, and the vast majority that simply own homes, are very cautiously watching as this ignorance continues, and are fully prepared to defend their property, livelihoods, families, etc with lethal force ...at the very 1st moment that becomes necessary. My jobsite looks like an NRA convention. Everybody has heat in the truck. Everybody. If this ignorance and insanity continues there will absolutely be a mass casualty event. Since the overwhelming majority of those trashing our country seem to be liberal/socialist white pussboys, I believe the 1st mass casualty event will be the end of this madness. Hope so.
 
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landscapingvol said:
“Things” aren’t the same for a very vocal, very small minority.
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That's where you are dead wrong. The US is experiencing a watershed moment and you are blinded to it by your own hate and chauvinism. Millions are protesting globally and in the US. Major corporations support BLM. Changes are being made in the way police departments operate. People are removing monuments and changing street names. Even Daniel Snyder and the owners of the Cleveland Indians are about to rename their teams. There is a cultural revolution happening now. I don't always agree with everything being done but I am amazed at the major sweeping changes happening right now.

What's changed since George Floyd's death?
 
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Purple Tiger said:
That's where you are dead wrong. The US is experiencing a watershed moment and you are blinded to it by your own hate and chauvinism. Millions are protesting globally and in the US. Major corporations support BLM. Changes are being made in the way police departments operate. People are removing monuments and changing street names. Even Daniel Snyder and the owners of the Cleveland Indians are about to rename their teams. There is a cultural revolution happening now. I don't always agree with everything being done but I am amazed at the major sweeping changes are happening right now.

What's changed since George Floyd's death?
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Let me get this straight, you liberals keep voting in liberal leaders in your urban cities that create bad liberal policies for literally decades and you are amazed that people finally had enough and started demanding change ? What should amaze you ( it won’t ) is the fact you and the same ones demanding change will keep voting the same party leaders back in office in these urban utopias . The definition of insanity quote says what ?
 
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DynaLo said:
Oh FFS...find one person alive in this country that has or is suffering a quantifiable negative impact in their lives due specifically to anything that happened or anyone living in this country prior to 1865.

Current psychological delusions of fabricated repression attributed specifically to that time period are obviously excluded because it’s just a crock of total bull shite. There are way to many that don’t suffer with that mental infirmity who prove it to be a bs excuse.

Racism in this country, or the world in general, is not bound by the constraints of time, nor unfortunately will it ever be. It’s also not specifically bound to a particular shade of one’s skin tone. As long as mankind exists there sadly will always be those who base their judgement and response to others upon exterior appearances.

It’s up to all those who look to character first and foremost to come together and lift each other up in joyous celebration of individual success as an shining example to those still mired in the darkness.

If you are a active part of the political machinations and destructive agenda currently in play in this country to purposefully create divisiveness based on skin pigmentations then you are the racist and you actually are the problem not the solution.

/soapbox]
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Also, have you noticed the United States of America seems to be suffering from this oppressive and racist illness but no other country in the world is? That is the oddest thing considering we are the most generous and the beacon of capitalism and dreams.

I think we all know there is some racism that exists. That is human nature. All cultures suffer with it to some extent. It will never be all gone. We can all say we want the USA to be perfect and guess what, it won't happen. There is absolutely no way to this great utopia. It is phony.

There are areas like criminal justice reform that need to get better. That is controllable. Btw, it was Joe Biden that had a hand in the discrepancy. Democrats are attempting to hide that glaring and obvious stain. So Joe believed in it but now he don't. I'm not saying it was the right or wrong policy, but I am saying the guy and his party are hypocrites.

Also, corporations hiring and promotional practices can be better. There is always a debate for and against affirmative action. I'm not trying to debate that here. I don't think less qualified people should get jobs over more qualified people but what does happen is when it's close or equal the minority candidate is passed over more often. But even that is not bust your balls racism and tends to happen more as comfort. That is where HR departments can get better, need additional training and be held accountable to recognize hiring and promotion shortcomings. This is more than likely not being looked at with unruly teens and marxists focusing on faux issues. Now corporations can say I donated millions to the faux non profit blm so I've done my part.

If you have good grades they don't care what race you are. If you have good credit they don't care what race you are. If you have money to pay they don't care which race you are. But there are going to be some human conditions that will always need to be fixed internally whether you silence people or not. Those come from God. I always find it odd that people find imperfections in other but not themselves. That eagerness to place blame.

Are there only a few examples where the police made the right choices or let someone go in a bad neighborhood versus more where they slam them to the turf or kill them when they shouldn't? Should drug dealing become legal when lives are destroyed and gang violence eventually prevails?

Is the next play reparations? Does someone like Cortez or Omar try to get a check? How about Tlaib?

So I ask again, how is America the great boogeyman of the world with these horrible systematic racism problems when everyone is free? Where apparently any legal citizen of every culture can supposedly thrive in some capacity except black citizens who are oppressed more often than not. Where so many have come from poor backgrounds to be doctors, lawyers, CEO's, etc. Is that not afforded to everyone?

Europe, South America, China, Africa, the Middle East, etc. No systemic racism issues? How about Mexico? We know the Spanish invaded Mexico. How did Israelis overcome this? Or is it the good ole US of A that is a world leader in black oppression, police brutality and systemic racism?
 
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Twitter, Google want to eliminate 'blacklist' and 'black hat' from tech's vocabulary
 
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Purple Tiger said:
Changes are being made in the way police departments operate. People are removing monuments and changing street names. Even Daniel Snyder and the owners of the Cleveland Indians are about to rename their teams. There is a cultural revolution happening now. I don't always agree with everything being done but I am amazed at the major sweeping changes happening right now.

What's changed since George Floyd's death?
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Besides token gestures what has changed? The only real change I can point to is an incredible uptick in violence taking over the void left by the police.
 
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#843
KB5252 said:
Besides token gestures what has changed? The only real change I can point to is an incredible uptick in violence taking over the void left by the police.
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That is the change, chief.

Destruction is what the left wants, full stop.
 
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KB5252 said:
Besides token gestures what has changed? The only real change I can point to is an incredible uptick in violence taking over the void left by the police.
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Let's see........so far I have seen the far left anarchists help the BLM movement by removing Frederick Douglass statue and change the term "Master Bedroom" on house listings.
 
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Purple Tiger said:
That's where you are dead wrong. The US is experiencing a watershed moment and you are blinded to it by your own hate and chauvinism. Millions are protesting globally and in the US. Major corporations support BLM. Changes are being made in the way police departments operate. People are removing monuments and changing street names. Even Daniel Snyder and the owners of the Cleveland Indians are about to rename their teams. There is a cultural revolution happening now. I don't always agree with everything being done but I am amazed at the major sweeping changes happening right now.

What's changed since George Floyd's death?
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“Hate” and “chauvinism” because I disagree with your analysis? You couldn’t be a more pompous, self righteous doucher if you tried. I can guarantee you that if you compare our lives and who has done more actual actions for the African American community it wouldn’t be you. You believe posting on social media and volunteering in pointless protests are actions that are truly benefiting the people you claim to care so much about when in reality it changes nothing in their daily life. But that’s the difference between you and me, I have actually donated hundreds of hours that I could’ve spent with my own children trying to make a difference in their life as opposed to tearing down monuments and making Tweets. My charity extends beyond my keyboard.
 
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landscapingvol said:
“Hate” and “chauvinism” because I disagree with your analysis? You couldn’t be a more pompous, self righteous doucher if you tried. I can guarantee you that if you compare our lives and who has done more actual actions for the African American community it wouldn’t be you. You believe posting on social media and volunteering in pointless protests are actions that are truly benefiting the people you claim to care so much about when in reality it changes nothing in their daily life. But that’s the difference between you and me, I have actually donated hundreds of hours that I could’ve spent with my own children trying to make a difference in their life as opposed to tearing down monuments and making Tweets. My charity extends beyond my keyboard.
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Yep, the idiocy knows no bounds, gather, whine, complain, "protest".......or.......go do anything else that actually could make a difference.

As with the rest of their lives, they live blindly and wander aimlessly and accomplish nothing, and then, will complain about nothing changing.......
 
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landscapingvol said:
“Hate” and “chauvinism” because I disagree with your analysis? You couldn’t be a more pompous, self righteous doucher if you tried. I can guarantee you that if you compare our lives and who has done more actual actions for the African American community it wouldn’t be you. You believe posting on social media and volunteering in pointless protests are actions that are truly benefiting the people you claim to care so much about when in reality it changes nothing in their daily life. But that’s the difference between you and me, I have actually donated hundreds of hours that I could’ve spent with my own children trying to make a difference in their life as opposed to tearing down monuments and making Tweets. My charity extends beyond my keyboard.
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Back up, Angry Dude and reread my post. I was talking about your attitude that nothing had changed in the world since the protests began. Plenty has changed and there is more change to come. I have plenty of experience volunteering with all kinds of people, too, so no sainthood for you.
 
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