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Food for thought... please read
UnstoppableForce:
--- Quote from: Buddy Holly on October 21, 2003, 09:11:25 PM ---
--- Quote from: BALLAtician on October 21, 2003, 04:26:21 PM ---Good post.
BTW, I was thinking about applying to the Univ. of Texas at Austin, but when I read that part about it being predominantly white, I have come to the conclusion that I won't attend a school full of racist crackers.
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...but yet you're not racist, even though upon hearing that a school was white, you call them all racist crackers? Fuck you, this is the last reply you get from me in any post, because you're a fucking racist, and if that's the way you think, you don't deserve my presence. I'm going to go talk to some people I can at least have hope for.
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BTW, Sub-Z, if you're so fed up with minorities complaining then maybe you should leave and go somewhere where minorities don't complain. Or just fuckin go wherever your cracker ancestors came from because if you can't be a patriotic American who values the visions of our fouding fathers then you don't belong in this country. 8)
budsmokeronly:
good articles. I think I read them all before in a college class a few years ago. I never really realized a lot of that shit till I had that class. It's sad to see how uneducated people in this world are.
Woodrow:
This is a nice article written by the big homie Bret Jacobson. It's an opposing view to the articles first posted up.
No Room For Racism
There is a common perception in America that conservatives are racist -- they are small-town hicks with little education and a fear of change. They chew chaw, spit on the sidewalk and have beady eyes... and they probably have a shotgun rack in the window of their pickup truck. Right?
Wrong.
The ideology of conservatism is inherently non-biased, non-racist and non-bigoted because it is an ideology of results. Conservatism is about finding the right person for the right job. A true conservative believes that individual organizations -- whether a large corporation, a nonprofit, or a small family -- make the best decisions for finding the ways to success. If a company believes customer service is the key to success, they will hire friendly employees. If technical excellence
is the order of the day for a biotech company, it will do its best to hunt down the best chemical engineers and doctors. The most important ingredient is to serve what customers value most.
That is a powerful lesson for those who dont understand conservatism, because in a society driven by the bottom line and public relations, there is no room for racism, bigotry or narrow mindedness. Customers do not like to hear that they are associated with racist companies, and the most cut throat business person will never think about any employee factor besides the economic impact of job candidates. While there is no room in conservative orthodoxy for racism, modern liberalism is built squarely on a foundation of "the soft bigotry of low expectations." From every syllable of their
condescending rhetoric to policies that promote poverty, liberals constantly reinforce the idea that minorities are automatically underprivileged and therefore require extraordinary legal and social protections.
Bigotry is a common tool in the quest for power and a sense of self-righteousness evidently desired by "progressives." Liberals would have no crusade to fight if everyone knew that America is increasingly reaching the nobility of a merit-based playing field -- a scary proposition for those who believe those lacking talent or drive must be protected from themselves by the more enlightened (read: better-bred). But by reinforcing the notion that there is a vast group in our society that is constantly tread upon, and so defenseless that they cannot possibly be expected to fight for their rights in the same way every other group in American history has done, the implication is that minority groups must be patronized and pandered to.
Quickly examine the policies favored by progressives. They constantly fight the battles of yesterday as they continue to focus on affirmative action, women's rights and class warfare. But those issues have essentially been settled for decades and ganging up on the few violators under
the pretense of a critical mass facing societyis worthy of ridicule and scorn.
While it may feel wonderful to fight for a perceived underdog, every individual in the real-world America will continue to be judged on how much value their mentaland personal acuity add. That leaves "civil rights leaders" such as Rev. Jesse Jackson, women's rights activists such as Gloria Allred and Gloria Steinem and the conglomerated hordes fighting for affirmative action with a very real problem: a vacuum of legitimate issues that must be filled with a sound and a fury that signifies nothing, save perhaps their own inflated sense of self-purpose.
If middle-class white kids want to make it a more just society for all American citizens, they should take responsibility for their own actions and mind their own damn business. No self-righteous marches, no sit-in demonstrations and definitely no poetryladen coffee hours. As P.J. O'Rourke has noted, the best duty a citizen can perform is to obey the laws and pay one's taxes. If you follow that prescription, you will judge others based on their relative merits, which is the ultimate form of justice.
There's some food for thought. Condescending liberals get their rocks off by patronizing minorities, do you?
Miss NWA Whoorider:
this is not a conversation til I get into it.Now bigotry is something the devil uses,it's a tool he uses to make us not get along.Open your eyes and see,it keeps you farther from God and causes you not to be able to see your neighbor for who they are yor neighbor,instead of some black or white person that lives next door.It seperates us,digs its claws in and if we don't do anything about it in the end can kill us just like any of satans other tools....................
M Dogg™:
Fuck a conservative or a liberal, because both sides don't want the true story of racism, and white privilage out there. The facts are this, the idea of white privilage is that the United States has underlining racism. And because of this, true conservatism cannot work, because people still see race. The right man maybe a white man, it maybe a black man. Would a great man like Martin Luther King ever run for president. NO, race is still seen. Collin Powell was the man the Republicans felt would be great for president, why, because he is the bast man for the job. Who did the Republicans nominate, George W. Bush, someone that has shown to not half the skills of leadership that Collin Powell has shown by Collin Powell looking for many alterative ways to fighting the whole Middle East when he meet with all the Middle Eastern leaders, and tried to be a goodwill person. Bush and Powell don't usually see eye to eye. So why put in George W. Bush as oppose to Collin Powell, well, Powell would have actually won the election. Hell, why would Powell not except the nomination, because even he knows race is a huge reason why they wanted him in. Yeah he was the best man, but at the sametime, race was seen, and that taints the facts. A black man can't even run for president if his the better man, because race is still seen. A white man still can, because we don't see white race, we see a white person. That is the trust form of white privilage, what happened to Collin Powell and why we have George Bush as president now is exactly what I'm talking about white privilage. And you know what's funny, not a single minority really talks about white privilage, its what most white people talk about. It's there, and it's not liberal or conservative, because in politics, both parties want to have as many votes as possible, and don't want to be seen as racist. It's really just an underline thing in American culture.
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