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That is why I think we need to get away from these identity politics ideals that certain groups should have special rights as an accident of birth. It was wrong when white people gave themselves special rights and it wrong to give special rights to others as some sort of white privilege offset. Most people will push back if you tell them someone else should be given a leg up over them and next thing you know Trump is POTUS. They are the hero of the story and since you are trying thwart the hero you are the baddie which justifies their bad behavior and the next thing you the US has fascist radicals and anti-fascist radicals carrying guns to political rallies about statues for people that died a hundred years ago.
That is why I think we need to get away from these identity politics ideals that certain groups should have special rights as an accident of birth. It was wrong when white people gave themselves special rights and it wrong to give special rights to others as some sort of white privilege offset. Most people will push back if you tell them someone else should be given a leg up over them and next thing you know Trump is POTUS. They are the hero of the story and since you are trying thwart the hero you are the baddie which justifies their bad behavior and the next thing you the US has fascist radicals and anti-fascist radicals carrying guns to political rallies about statues for people that died a hundred years ago.
That's an accurate enough diagnosis of why we got Trump, but it makes little sense to me to accept that as ok and move on.
Saying "it was bad to have special rights for White people. Now we recognize it but we won't do anything to correct all the disadvantages that entrenched so either move on or we'll push for those special right again" is nothing short of a tantrum. Why should non-white people put up with it? And how isn't this behavior, too, identity politics?
This message last edited by fionwe1987 on 17/01/2019 at 03:36:18 AM
"Whenever you are offended, you are automatically right!"
- 13/01/2019 05:45:16 PM
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This question offends me. That means I win, amirite? 
*NM*
- 13/01/2019 10:35:07 PM
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*NM*
- 13/01/2019 10:35:07 PM
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Would you rather be correct or right?
- 13/01/2019 11:03:50 PM
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The debate I read the other day....
- 14/01/2019 10:17:39 PM
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I need more context to have an opinion on that.
- 15/01/2019 07:18:10 PM
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The context was non-existant
- 15/01/2019 11:55:05 PM
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Backs away from the debate you are referring to.
- 16/01/2019 04:40:01 AM
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Of course you are becuase that makes you a victim
- 15/01/2019 01:41:48 PM
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Everyone is a victim in their own story ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- 15/01/2019 07:16:04 PM
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why is everybody always picking on me
- 16/01/2019 02:59:10 PM
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But politics are never going to go away
- 16/01/2019 05:00:06 PM
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I agree but it should be need based and not race or some other factor
- 16/01/2019 05:53:06 PM
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Yes
- 16/01/2019 07:49:16 PM
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Do just deserts grow deserving cacti? *NM*
- 16/01/2019 08:04:03 PM
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Woosh
- 16/01/2019 08:12:53 PM
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what you say is true ... (here comes the but)
- 16/01/2019 05:56:19 PM
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas *NM*
- 16/01/2019 06:24:24 PM
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So what are you suggesting?
- 16/01/2019 07:20:39 PM
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I can't speak for you Mookie, you are a mixed kind of being, which is a mixture of wonder and vice
- 16/01/2019 07:41:35 PM
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My tax dollars paid for an original HBO series?
- 16/01/2019 07:59:29 PM
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Well the 3rd thing I recommended
- 16/01/2019 08:11:46 PM
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people who love to reference the maximum tax rates in the 50's and 60's...
- 16/01/2019 08:32:19 PM
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All this is addressed in the Vox's episode
- 16/01/2019 09:46:02 PM
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I listened to the entire episode.
- 17/01/2019 05:12:19 PM
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Charity as a substitute for tax. That's probably one of the dumbest American ideas I've encountered.
- 17/01/2019 05:19:06 AM
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Once again I am forced to yield to the weight of your intellectual superiority.
- 17/01/2019 01:46:32 PM
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Re: why is everybody always picking on me
- 17/01/2019 03:35:52 AM
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Twitter says you're wrong!
- 16/01/2019 09:05:00 AM
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I am offended by your offense, thus my being right has salience / primacy over you being right.
- 16/01/2019 04:45:11 PM
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So let it be written, So let it be done!