The Myth of White Fragility: A Field Guide to Identifying and Overcoming the Race Grifters: 1 (Freedom Manuals to Defeat Social Justice Socialism)

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Pound-of-flesh for pound-of-flesh, it’s hard to think of anyone who benefited more from coronavirus while simultaneously being responsible for so many deaths. Mismanaging the early crisis, the governor failed to shut down the state of New York in a timely manner, condemned people in nursing homes to the plague, and let scheduled hospital cuts go ahead in the city’s darkest hour. But he was on TV. Americans love a guy on TV so much that many people even convinced themselves that Andrew Cuomo was a handsome and cool guy. After all, he was saying bad things about the other guy who got famous for being on TV! Now, Cuomo has written a successful book that’s stuffed full of lies, has managed to spin a series of disasters as expert leadership, and has been outed as a notorious sexual harasser, but nobody cares. He’s presidential material. Race and culture are two seperate things. We can and should assert Secular based human rights, it maximises the amount of people that can be happy and free, it doesn’t rely on race either anyone from anywhere can have those values, Some of our traditions are also lovely and should be celebrated!

If you need money to pay the rent and fear eviction, consider other options before taking a payday loan. It’s worth asking your landlord for an extension rather than resorting to a payday loan that will leave you in much worse shape soon after your bill has been paid. intersectionality focuses too much on group identities, which can lead it to ignore the fact that people are individuals, not just members of a class. Ignoring this can cause intersectionality to lead to a simplistic analysis and inaccurate assumptions about how a person’s values and attitudes are determined.Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it 4 out of 4 and wrote "This is a movie of plot, not episode. It's not just a series of things that happen to the characters, but a web, a maze of consequences." [15] Box office [ edit ] She told me that the dinner had changed everything for her, and asked if we could do another,” says Rao. The friend invited other guests, Rao reluctantly agreed, then hated that second dinner, too. But then white women began flooding her inbox asking her to do it again. Why do we have to reject the idea that we are racist, why not accept it and embrace it and assert our right to enjoy our long settled culture, traditions and history?

The bloated corporate version of the mom-and-pop apple pie grift, the folks at the Lincoln Project—a coalition of “Never Trump” Republicans and other professional dorks— have managed to separate quite a number of #Resistance fools from their money. While ostensibly funding Democratic campaigns, the Lincoln Project has funneled a large chunk of the donations into ensuring its cadre of “consultants” gets paid very, very well. This could be viewed as some kind of sinister Republican plot to target innocent Democratic voters, but it’s simultaneously more banal and more depraved. This is “non-ideological” centrism at work in its purest state: Washington business-as-usual, where the purpose of any action is to make sure more milquetoast centrists get elected, who will proceed only to ensure more milquetoast centrists get elected, as they are the only “electable” candidates. In the process, everyone gets rich as Croesus, spending it all on bland suits and American flag pins and prim D.C. mansions full of beige, interchangeable corridors through which their own empty minds echo in the middle of the night.

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The project originated with Martin Scorsese who subsequently brought in Stephen Frears to direct while he produced. [3] Frears had just finished making Dangerous Liaisons and was looking for another project when Scorsese approached him. [4] The British filmmaker was drawn to Thompson's "tough and very stylistic" writing and described it, "as if pulp fiction meets Greek tragedy". [4] Scorsese looked for a screenwriter, and filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff recommended Donald Westlake. The next time some smart ar5e “comedian” says that Boris Johnson is a racist, or some repellent student activist says that Jordan Peterson is, that individual should be criminally charged with libel. They can, if they wish, then plead Not Guilty, and produce their evidence of racism to a jury, offering the defence of truth. If they can’t persuade the jury, they are convicted.

Here’s an example from just yesterday, courtesy of one of the most popular contemporary race grifters: More than a century ago Booker T. Washington exposed a similar sharp practice. “There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public,” he wrote. “Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.” But fair play to them, theirs was not a world of anti-discrimination laws, hate-crime legislation, quota systems enabled to produce an equality of outcome in which minority status increasingly trumps merit. “When people get used to preferential treatment,” says Dr Thomas Sowell, “equal treatment seems like discrimination.” Then, as now, there was nothing to say when confronted with these attitudes. I understood that a sense of belonging was central to the view of young people born into a country in which they remained the alien immigrant. This changed following the riots in Brixton, St Paul’s and Toxteth and elsewhere at the beginning of the 1980s. They forget those same skills also saved millions…and even without science we’ve been killing each other quite successfully for millenia.) I’ve been saying exactly this since my earliest days at The College Fix. In the middle of my teaching career, a gentleman whose past comments aren’t quite as bad as Khilanani’s (he “merely” engaged in crude racial stereotypes) came to deliver a workshop titled “Courageous Conversations (on Race).” But this gentleman, Glenn Singleton, immediately invalidated the very title of his program by declaring certain considerations verboten, like students’ home life, socioeconomic status, and quantity of discipline issues.

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Humans have many instincts that we need to consciously overcome in the name of ethics and morality. Rape is one. Male animals of many species ‘rape’ the females. This behavior is instinctual and has evolutionary benefits – the male’s genes get transmitted to the offspring. Humans have instituted many restrictions around male sexual aggressiveness to curb this immoral behavior, from marriage to burkas to jail sentences. Experiments have shown that people will sacrifice more for those most closely genetically related to them, and that what they are willing to sacrifice will reduce as genetic proximity reduces. For example, I would readily sacrifice my own life for that of my children. This is how some Westerners, and most of the non-Western world operate. Have you heard the acronym WEIRD before? – Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic. Westerners are unique and view the world in a unique way. The data shown here may open your eyes to just how different we are: In arguing that white supremacy describes a socio-political system of domination based on racial categories, DiAngelo sees no issue with relying on this very same system of racial classification to draw her arguments. The other problem is that that the special interest groups for each category claim to represent the individual. For example feminism claims to speak universally for all women! – I find that idea laughable! I require and wish to speak for myself! I don’t condone special interest groups to be made on my behalf creating policy I don’t condone. policy that is made and created in an undemocratic way.(Fewer than one in five young women would call themselves a feminist, polling in the UKand US suggests.) Intersectionality: People are viewed in terms of the number of claims to victimisation that they have, and through this ideology, which wants to place people into broad racial categories, moral and immoral is determined based on how much power a person’s particular racial group has.