White privilege: being a member of the only race that it is impossible to do anything racist towards.
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White privilege: being a member of the only race that it is impossible to do anything racist towards.
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Like white privilege, but different...
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Read this if you haven't. You want to talk about a race war? The incitement in this is astonishing. Import another 30 million 3rd worlders who are ripe for rhetoric like this, led by radical leftist Americans, and we'll see land confiscation Africa style. Wow. The 2nd Am had better hold.Quote:
Originally Posted by BasinCruiser
I'd rather not as I like to maintain my blood pressure at below 200/100.Quote:
Originally Posted by dougrz
If the day ever comes where the U.S. is on the brink of Civil War over racial issues, I'd rather just do the following:
1. Re-locate to the most remote location in Southern Utah and live off the land, away from people, or
2. Re-locate to a different country that is not as crazy -- like Chile, or Australia.
You won't see me sticking around here engaging with the crazies. My philosophy is if you get down and wallow in the mud with the pigs that makes you a pig too.
I'll go back to what I keep going back to in these threads. Do you know anyone in your everyday life that is close to thinking about revolution? Me neither. Are there some nut jobs out there who would like this? Sure. The white nationalists up in Idaho, some of those clowns that took over the wildlife refuge a few years ago, some extreme left wing weirdos, etc., But that vast majority of Americans are nowhere near thinking of revolution. In fact, I know nobody personally who would think that. But if yo live your life online, who knows what you come up with. If you only read tabloid garbage like Huffpo and TheDailyCaller I'm afraid you have a very skewed and inaccurate view of the real world.
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Originally Posted by uintafly
Tend to agree here. I think the majority of folks live in the middle ground and realize that anything that resembles a revolution is going to mean the end of the comfortable life they enjoy now.
Yes I do, many people in fact, several work for me. Not only do they believe an uprising is coming they are stockpiling food, weapons and ammunition for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by uintafly
I honestly can't believe you live in Utah and haven't met a number of "PrePar".
Did you not follow the Clive Bundy deal a couple years back? Bundy's backers were prepared to go to war with the Federal Government. Many in this country will never let another Waco or Rudy Ridge happen again without it breaking out into a large scale armed conflict.
Or maybe I'm just closer to the situation and see a lot more then you as my family sales and manufactures firearms.
I do know a handful of preppers, but they are more along the lines of "shit could hit the fan at some point and I want to be prepared" and not the "If the government (or dems, or repubs, etc) does XYZ, I am not gonna stand for it" type. The "shit could hit the fan" types are not looking for any particular uprising but are worried about all sorts of possibilities: nuclear war, a killer virus, switching of the poles, volcanic eruption, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iceaxe
What do you think Ice. Are we facing any decent chance of some type of civil war in the next decade? If I had to put it at a percentage change it would be in the .001% range. Most Americans are too damn fat and lazy to walk their dogs let alone march off to war with their neighbors.
I have a good friend originally from Croatia. The stories of the war in the 90s, wow. One interesting point is his telling of how neighbors of decades turned on each other. Once society broke down, neighbor killed neighbor, homes were burnt to the ground, old friends killed kids and such. Harrowing, gut wrenching stories.Quote:
Originally Posted by uintafly
The biggest takeaway is, there is no guarantee of civility and decency and order in a society. There is nothing magical about this country to not have this occur. Only the bonds we used to feel as Americans first, family bloodlines second. But that seems to be passe.
Our incredible nation is a freak of history, a delicate butterfly. What ticks me off more than anything are people who do not understand this and treat what we have flippantly. Articles like the above.
So my thought, yes, we are closer to this. You can't import 50 million foreigners who have no particular care for our country, its history, its values, its people and not expect... lack of care for all those. But then worse, of the natives, the vitriol is of a level not seen since the Civil War. The divide is so deep, so unbridgeable in my view. We've never had a radical left in this country and now we do. Hell, William Jennings Bryan, the leftist of his day, would be a Trump wing Republican. We actually had more in common during the Civil War than now.
Do you know your history?Quote:
Originally Posted by uintafly
Do you know what happened the last time the nation was this divided?
Do you know what happened the last time the US had a president that was this hated by this many?
Why do yo think this time will be different?
As for American's being to fat to fight history has also taught us another lesson... the middle of the country is not who leads us to war. It's the extreme ends that always lead us into war and that is what scares me at the moment is the extreme left is leading the charge at the moment.
I've posted this before, we are already at war, we just haven't started pulling triggers yet...
Americans Cold Civil War
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/ameri...anmedinsurance
Who is this asshole? And how many really take this shit seriously? I will admit though, that it is a bit distressing to see stories like this so frequently. Just make MSN your homepage for a week and you'll see what I mean.Quote:
Originally Posted by BasinCruiser
In Hawaii, there's a small but vocal group that wants the Haloe (white people) to get the hell out. They don't want to be part of the United States anymore...which is funny because so many of them are living off welfare chicken. They even have a "protest" radio station on the Big Island..."Statue of Liberty don't mean shit to me"...stuff like that. When the rubber hits the road though, they're largely ignored. A fringe group of losers.
The Croatian War was largely religious and territorial pissings...the aftermath of the breakup of Yugoslavia. But a point well made nonetheless.
If anything looking like a "race war" were to happen, I think it would occur in Europe before it got going here. Keep an eye on France, eh?
I think as long as our grocery stores keep overflowing with food, things will be OK.
Bernie and AOC are working on fixing that...Quote:
Originally Posted by twotimer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOKKvL4jYRY
Fly's assertion that a "revolt" is unlikely is probably accurate. In that a revolt implies something against the govt. No, the risk is leftist action against non-leftists on a personal level, and using the power of govt against such on a wider level. Hence the stories from Croatia about neighbor on neighbor violence being relevant.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iceaxe
You can't have a media megaphone echoing the calling of Trump and his supporters Nazis, and calling their movement "resistance," without a consequence. Nazis are not to be debated or even tolerated. They are to be eliminated. The visceral hatred I see and hear in my leftist relatives and friends leads me to believe that given unchecked power, we non-leftists would be at best isolated from society and at worst jailed (or worse). The risk is that serious, the knife's edge that critical now. We already routinely see professional and personal "death penalties" eliminating unacceptable non-leftists from society.
Add millions of mindless or leftist kids graduating from public school yearly, and the 1.5 million 3rd worlders immigrating who take strife and lawlessness as a way of life, and you get a very bad outcome for non-leftists.
GREAT piece. Really ties together the entire political landscape movement. Very nice link, ice, thanks.Quote:
I honestly don't think we're navigating through uncharted waters today. Things have been this terrible before and we've managed to get through just fine.
The younger generation probably won't recall the atrocities committed during the 1960's and 1970's when tempers flared so violently that the National Guard was shooting innocent college students in the streets.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
Just five days after the shootings, 100,000 people demonstrated in Washington, D.C., against the war and the killing of unarmed student protesters. Ray Price, Nixon's chief speechwriter from 1969 to 1974, recalled the Washington demonstrations saying, "The city was an armed camp. The mobs were smashing windows, slashing tires, dragging parked cars into intersections, even throwing bedsprings off overpasses into the traffic down below. This was the quote, student protest. That's not student protest, that's civil war."
Things were really ugly in the late 60's and early 70's, I remember the turmoil well. The nation came close to splintering.
The radicals of the late 60s were street protestors, seething against the strong conservative institutions of govt. We don't have anything to stop the left now. They are a mere single, and likely, election from transforming the nation quickly. First push will be amnesty, then it's game over.
You can can only get away with this if you’re white.
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Three gay dudes standing in solidarity....
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This is a pretty good article by Kyle Korver, Utah Jazz player. Here is a snip-it.
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en...-utah-jazz-nba
"What I’m realizing is, no matter how passionately I commit to being an ally, and no matter how unwavering my support is for NBA and WNBA players of color….. I’m still in this conversation from the privileged perspective of opting in to it. Which of course means that on the flip side, I could just as easily opt out of it. Every day, I’m given that choice — I’m granted that privilege — based on the color of my skin.
In other words, I can say every right thing in the world: I can voice my solidarity with Russ after what happened in Utah. I can evolve my position on what happened to Thabo in New York. I can be that weird dude in Get Out bragging about how he’d have voted for Obama a third term. I can condemn every racist heckler I’ve ever known.
But I can also fade into the crowd, and my face can blend in with the faces of those hecklers, any time I want.
I realize that now. And maybe in years past, just realizing something would’ve felt like progress. But it’s NOT years past — it’s today. And I know I have to do better. So I’m trying to push myself further.
I’m trying to ask myself what I should actually do."
It's an impossible question to answer until the black community can answer that questions. Some blacks just want an equal opportunity, and I get that... but... some will never be happy until whitey is enslaved as payback.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott Card
Until the Black community steps up, proves direction, takes responsibility and unifies under one voice they will always have trouble integrating. Other people of color doesn't seem to have this issue. Latino, Asian, Pacific Islanders have all stepped up an done a great job of integrating, I'm not sure why the black community doesn't follow suit.
The big item everyone seems to miss is that the white guys with the ships bought the black slaves from the black natives. The black slaves use to be genocided after a black on black tribal war (kind of like the drug wars in Chicago). The white Portuguese said "don't do that, we will pay you for them and take them away where you will never be bothered again by them". So in reality, almost black person in America owes their existence to the white guys that saved their genetics.
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Originally Posted by Iceaxe
Yes -- agree with all of this. And I'll take it a step further. I don't know the exact number, but I've posed the question numerous times in various threads over the years on this forum: What do reparations look like?
It's a serious question -- When the black community speaks of 'reparations', what exactly does that mean, specifically?
I'm assuming it involves some kind of monetary compensation. Does it include a one time payment? A monthly installment? A tax break?
Either way, what the black community is really missing in this discussion is this: When you attempt to compensate a group of people today for atrocities that were committed yesterday, the very act of compensation cheapens and denigrates the experiences of those who endured them in the first place.
In other words, if you try and offer money for utterly heinous acts of rape and murder on a group of people, it minimizes the experiences of those who were subjected to those acts. So they think that you can just buy off years of rape and murder with money? Since when is that ever considered a just or moral solution? To me, that smacks of greed. That they are looking to profit from the hardships that their ancestors endured for generations may well be even worse than the acts that were committed under slavery itself.
I think Dr. Seuss had a pretty good answer and explanation for it all. (The movie is annoying but the message, albeit simplistic, is spot on.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdLPe7XjdKc
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Originally Posted by Scott Card
Dr. Seuss was actually a very scathing political cartoonist before he landed into the realm of children's books.
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Nothing better than woke white people calling out other people to acknowledge their white privilege.
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This was an interesting response to Korver's article by Jason Whitlock, basically tearing him up in "Woke Heaven", calling him out for being a white Twitter celebrity and just echoing what other Twitter celebrities say and repeat for each other's praise:Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott Card
https://twitter.com/SFY/status/1115757029363073025
Which begs the question: Can a rich white guy say anything meaningful about the issue to the black community? Or have we all been judged and condemned?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sombeech
Any real change in the black community will have to come from within.
From the likes of Charles Barkley and Candace Owens.
And no--I don't believe any white folks, especially wealthy ones, can have an impact on the black community, since the obama years.
PSA to all of you bigots that use the ashtag symbol. The left has declared this to now be a racist white supremesis symbol now, so quit using it !!!! 😡😡😡
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Originally Posted by BasinCruiser
Dang--and I still thought it's meaning was "pound":ne_nau:
Y’all got any more of that white privilege?
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Only to have their land confiscated again when they're successful and productive? No thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by BasinCruiser
Truth.
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This shot is taken from her mistaken trip to South America by boat and then finding out they moved the whole damn conference. It's Gold, Jerry.Quote:
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Originally Posted by uintafly
Hey Uinta. How well is this post aging?