What white people are complaining? You mean about how it's okay to openly say that white people are evil? Yeah, that's bad. It doesn't necessarily affect our quality of life, but it's blatant racism. I'll go Rick here: do you think that saying all white people are evil is racist?

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White people is a broad description. I would say the white people in the Ukraine would rather be here in the United State living in the same economic conditions as our poverty line.

As for Roseanne- I don't really care about her. It was mostly a point about what "racism" has become.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Its racist and very dumb.

Many white people are complaining though. So much so that there is a hashtag movement saying #itsoktobewhite

You seem to be adding things to the question now. It's now about civil wars. I doubt there is much difference between French imperial rule and rules that heavily restricted your rights.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

That's in response to people constantly clamoring that white people are evil and have destroyed the world. Should white people just sit back and take that?

Here's a notion: how about we judge people individually and not based on their skin color for ALL races? I thought that's what the goal of the civil rights movement was. But now it's acceptable to talk shit about all whites, and if the whites respond they're just "complaining"?

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That's just selection bias though. Of course there are people that talk badly about white people just like there are people, including our President, who talk bad about non-whites. If you are going to live your life getting offended by the Julie DiCaro types then you'll end up as jaded and mad at the world as they are.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

So the Facebook group is basically the No Homers Club that Kid Cairo's board was supposed to be. Let's get every modality possible. Is there gonna be a Discord chat for people to shit-talk me, too? How about a Twitter hashtag?

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You are opening this up beyond the scope of what I was discussing with WFR (comparing quality of life across different eras), but certainly that would be best.

There is going to be a time in the future. Not likely while I am still alive but in the sooner rather than later future. When that time comes there is going to be a big bunch of people not really knowing what the hell to do. You see at this time racism will get to a point where it is quite rare and all but done. Further there will be more non white than white people.

What will happen? Not sure. At least it will be different than it is now.

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Elections have consequences.

Probably start hating each other over hair or eye color.

I think there are more Julie DiCaro-types out there than you think. I'm not saying they're a majority or anything, but they are a large segment, and they are also the ones educating our youth.

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If there were, we'd all be gasping for air!


Sorry, that was mean.

More than mean.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Well you consider me one so you may overstate the prominence.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Reported to management.

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I don't think you are one, but I think you defend their behavior.

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I thought I was more obsessed with labels than anyone you've ever met?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I've scrapped like 30 fat jokes about her.

Had a doozy about her looking like Michelle Wolf's before picture, but opted not to use it.

What is with your sensitivity lately?

I do think you like to apply labels, but I don't think you're on Twitter @'ing Matt Damon about his misogyny.

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It's in may ways true, though. Many are teachers and they have already affected our culture. If people are more tolerant, I'm glad, but I'm afraid that they are teaching reflexivity instead of reflection. They also have no idea how to talk about the one thing that binds everyone in every complex society (class or its equivalent). It seems like they are teaching you to recognize that certain words and certain ideas are inherently bad while certain words and ideas are inherently good. Not sure people can discuss things any better than they could in 1980.

It is funny that no one heeded the warnings when all of this sensitivity and speech policing got the seeds sown. Yes, it was back in the preschools around 1995. It was there where the people rising up to rule the world learned that feelings were everything, there will be no bullying, scores don't matter and all of that other silliness that is where we are at now.

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Elections have consequences.

War is a pretty standard condition in the rest of the world outside of the United States since 1865. I certainly considered that when making the comparison. I would say that war is the number one factor in determining quality of life for someone. During the first half of the 20th century the majority of people were living as imperial subjects to major European peoples. They had no rights. And the citizens of all of the major European powers lived on the battlegrounds for the two biggest wars in human history or various civil wars.

I don't know how many people were lynched in the United States of any race- it was a fairly common practice though. I have seen estimates of 30,000, and many of those probably were criminals. It something people did for "justice" at the time. To place this into perspective as many as 1 million Germans starved to death from 1916-1918 due to a naval blockade. There were 40,000 people killed in the United Kingdom during the Blitz alone.

During the second half of the 20th century the majority of the world was involved in some sort of civil war or under Soviet rule or sphere of influence. The entire idea of rights for most people was not considered let alone something debated politically or in the courts because there was no system in place. It was authoritarian rule or civil war anarchy for at least a large period of time.

Nothing has changed from my original argument by the way.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

That's just the best example. There has been a lot of labeling by you about me that closely mirrors the complaints about the evil SJW's.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

When this happens do you want to be around if the narrative is that white people are evil tormentors who have held us down for generations?

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Hell no. Maybe I better encourage interracial grand kids?

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Elections have consequences.

Way before then. I played t-ball in 1985. Every kid got a trophy and every single trophy said MVP.

If your point was that people living under Jim Crow had it better than people who were living in an area with an active civil war then that was one of the most obvious points someone could ever make. I think it was a convenient way to try and walk back your comment some. What's next, people under Jim Crow had it better than people who lived on a volcano that was erupting?
What point are you making here? I'm just so confused as to what exactly these kind of things are supposed to mean. Everyone knows that there were worse things than Jim Crow. You seem to be approaching the straw man that it was the worst thing in human civilization.

As I've said, you can't ever complain about how white people are being treated any more. Yes, this will be a meme. "People living in a civil war have it worse!".

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I am not walking back anything. As you proved with your response about a villager in Vietnam you did not think about the implications of what that meant.

Do you deny any of the facts as presented ? I see you are already uncomfortable so you had resort back to this is dumb. This is bad.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

There was no reason to assume your very general statement about a villager in Vietnam meant they were in an active war zone.

I just looked through my post. I didn't use the word dumb or bad in it.

There is nothing to deny. It's a straw man argument that anyone thinks Jim Crow as the worst thing in the history of the world. It's not even the worst thing in United States history.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

SO now we've resorted to cherry picking various world wide atrocities in an effort to suggest that blacks during Jim Crow didn't really have it all that hard. NOthing that you have posted anywhere supports the notion that blacks under Jim Crow had it "better than 99% of the rest of the world". NOt one post

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