Since it is relevant, I am 40 years old and black. I have a very large extended family and pretty much all of my cousins have drunk the "racism is everywhere" kool-aid and especially this past year. I have gotten into plenty of arguments with them and I finally realized it was just pointless. As well as with some friends. I think I have gone over police statistics, actual crime stats, and the world history of slavery so many times that I talk about it in my sleep but it is pointless. One of my cousins was talking about reparations and got mad when I asked him if he was going to hold the African leaders who sold our ancestors to the Europeans accountable or if he is so anti-slavery why doesn't he donate to organizations who fight modern day slavery instead of obsessing over slavery that ended over 150 years ago.
A white friend of mine has turned super woke since George Floyd and he got really pissed when I told him that he was so brave to condemn racism and thanked him because I didn't realize I was oppressed until I read his facebook posts. He then told me that he couldn't believe I would work so hard against my own people. I had a good laugh about that one, although being called a white supremacist was the best laugh, followed by when my relatives and I did our DNA/Ancestry test. I am about 20% European and also have a little Native American and Asian. One of my more militant cousins told me that i may have brown skin, but I inherited a "white personality" from my white ancestors.
Sadly in my early teens I went through a brief "everything is racism" period so I can understand how that sucks you in, plus I think it is human nature to a degree to want to be a victim about something. I remember complaining to my mom about my school not having any black history lessons and she told me that I was free to pick up a book and read on my own. My mother was big on reading and my parents taught me to learn about your culture/history and then learn about other cultures. That was eye opening because it was then I learned that every race/ethnic group has been oppressed or has been oppressors and that land conquest was as old as time along with slavery. Another thing was the fact that my grandfather never had any sort of grudge along with my other elderly relatives so I felt stupid and realized that if you look for racism everywhere you will find it.
Honestly if I had billions of dollars my reparation plan would be to buy land in any non-white majority country of their choosing and ship everyone of any race who can't shut up about how evil America and the west are. America is not a perfect country but to act like zero progress has been made (I actually heard a lady say that very little in regards to race relations has changed since 1776) really pisses me off. A little research will show anyone that if you are born in a western country you are in the world privilege group.
Sorry for the long post, but I decided from now on I can't talk to people who have that victim mindset or can't shut up about racism.
What frustrates me is that I have some cousins who are very successful and some have started their own business yet they still have that woke victim mentality.
Luckily we live in a time where we can access older entertainment to escape. I have my modded Skyrim.
Have you been called a race traitor?
I gave up bringing up the topic. I thought I could change minds.
Awesome. My brothers wife is from Laos and I’m pretty close to her family. Her dad was able to come to the US because he helped the military. A lot of her older relatives despise wokeness due to having lived in a communist system.
"I thought I could change minds."
Oh dude, it's a herculean effort, and it almost requires a masters in psychology and a doctorate in patience.
The amount of time it takes to unpack the load of horseshit that constantly spews from their mouths, is longer than it would take you to actually discuss the subject in question with a sane person.
So from the moment you even bring it up, you're being dragged away from what you actually wanted to say to them. They'll find these avenues constantly, with or without you acquiescing to their new tangent.
What’s really crazy is when one finds themselves immersed in a group that is all “woke”, and they start talking about it. Like if you try to hang out with some new people and don’t know what they’re like, or if you’re dropped in a group at an event like a wedding, etc. I have had this happen and feel like I’m in the matrix when it does.
They always sound like NPCs getting old news from their approved list of publishers about things that real people knew about a year ago. Or talking about some bullshit conspiracy theory, woke ideology they are just parroting, or the latest narrative the cathedral is pushing.
"Hey did you hear about the new trend? WaPo says that eating cicadas is in this year. Our local bodega already put in an order for X Brood. I totally can't wait to try some ."
That's a shame. Someone with children should be even more responsible and honest, leading by example.
It also makes people more risk averse, and everyone who breaks the NPC boundary learns very quickly the risks associated with expressing truth and honesty in the current system.
There's also the point of having your child go on a based monologue in the middle off a school history lesson.
So far, I've settled for the historic basic version without going into modern-day politics. They'll have a whole adult lifetime of modern-day politics when they grow up...
Man I relate to that last comment ☹️
Victim mindsets had lead to massive culture regression historically. How Japan, Israel, and multiple other countries throughout history have handled oppression/ genocide/ war, lead to them taking a superior position in the area. When a culture is based off victim hood they lose any sense of progress.
Agreed. What boggles my mind is that America has a lot of successful and wealthy black people who insist they are oppressed. But it seems that being oppressed is very fashionable these days.
Being "oppressed" gives someone power and prestige. It's the exact opposite of being actually oppressed.
A common theme in left-wing identity politics is the weaponization of victimhood. They use it to get advantages or tell others what they are allowed to say, think or do. One might argue that makes them the oppressor because they gain power over others.
I honestly wish these college and high school students could be forced to live in some third world hell hole for a few weeks.
One of the biggest arguments that is never mentioned because “racism” is that black Americans and Europeans had far more economic and social mobility compared to any other black across the globe. Yes discrimination can be bad, but it is not nor ever has been an issue in a vacuum. This idea that anything racist is solely motivated by race is also insane. We have seen larger ethnic genocides and slavery than racial, and seen massive clashes between different ethnicities of the same race.
Or work on a farm in the US for a couple of months.
Nothing teaches you more than getting up at 4:30 AM for first milking and other chores. Or spending 50 hours a week chopping weeds out of oats. Or putting out grass fires due drivers tossing their butts out of their cars.
Exactly. It's a tool, a weapon.
The mayor of the largest non-costal city is black and she's dealing with racism every day, so much so that she'll only answer the failings of her city to people who look like her. The wife of the formerly most powerful man on the planet supposidly had racial slurs thrown at her on the daily but there's no proof of that. One of the most wealthy americans, with multiple movie deals and his face across the globe, can openly make a threat against a government worker but then give a simple "Whoops I didn't realize this wouldn't be a popular stance" and it's all good.
When you actually type it out it really highlights the absurdity
It’s just as absurd as how every race is now treated based on different ethnicities that have suffered persecution over time. These broad, sweeping generalizations leave African blacks recently migrated on the same discrimination as blacks whose ancestry traces to the slave ships. These same broad generalizations place Irish, Slavic, English, Scottish, French, etc in the same oppressor category despite the massive inter-ethnic discrimination that existed side by side with the longevity of racial discrimination.
Absolutely. Best example would be the fighting between Irish and English
Its luck of the Irish: we become white just in time for it to be a bad thing.
Yep, the Irish have had it rough. But of course y’all have privilege
Technically Irish have always been white, Poles and Italians on the other hand have not been.
But yea, your skin color gives you privilege no matter how bad you have it. Michelle Obama on the other hand is such a victim of the system.
Which highlights how absurd this entire woke identity politics really are.
Basically this: https://babylonbee.com/news/powerful-lebron-james-pulls-over-to-lecture-homeless-man-on-his-white-privilege
"No dogs or Irish allowed"
It’s to keep them off the shit list of the left, Oprah Winfrey saying anyone is more privileged than her is her way of lowering her intersectional status.
-Hitler
Wow
Fucking hell, that last sentence has always sent chills down my spine.
Is this quote true? It falls to well in to what we are seeing today. Is almost like Hitler was debating people in r/politics
That would be because most "intellectuals" arguing for the Left today can trace their critical analyses back to the Frankfurt school, which began in Weimar Germany.
So yes, Hitler was in fact debating people in r/politics. They have the same base ideas
It's towards the end of Chapter 2 of Mein Kampf.
If you read anti-socialist books from that time period, such as, The Road to Serfdom and The God That Failed, you'll find that leftist tactics have not changed in the last 100 years.
"Inherited a white personality" What does that mean. Trying to better yourself? Trying to work for a better future than playing "Mommy Danniel hit me 150 years ago"? I like the casual racisim in that too, like you can't be your own person, you're either with the team or you're out. Crabs in the bucket don't want you to be out.
Yep. I remember during the riots the media was making every excuse for rioting. “We can’t expect you to act like you have some sense so please go out and destroy your cities”. Too bad Thomas Sowell doesn’t have as much influence as grifters like Sharpton.
Thomas Sowell has influence with the educated not the indoctrinated.
Very true. I love his books.
One of the worst things lost to this is the loss of individuality.
One of the inherent problems with the modern victimhood mentality is that, by design, it turns people into machines, robbing them of their humanity. People have free will, and can act in spite of something, not because of it, and people are defined by what they do, not what's happened to them, or their progenitors, or others of their race. If you can boil down someone 100% to their circumstances, rather than what they choose to be and do, they're no longer human. They become a machine that if you know the inputs you can calculate the outputs. This also ignores quantum physics and Gödel's incompleteness theorems.
Victim mentality also holds people back. Even if everyone that was purported to be a victim actually was, the best thing to do for them is not define them as a victim. When someone views themselves as a victim it means they don't think they can achieve because of all the forces arrayed against them. If they do succeed, it must be some sort of fluke in their mind. This makes the "victims" less likely to work themselves out of their victimhood, or better themselves in any way, surrendering to the ebb and flow of what happens to them, rather than being an active participant and taking control of their own life.
I commend you for fighting the good fight. It's hard for "us white folk" to say anything that would resonate with the woke crowd. I've lost all my black friends from high school as they all think I'm apart of the KKK now after I called a friend out who was calling white people racist and holding down the black people. My message to him was basically: "You and I went to the same high school, you grew up in the better part of town (richer), and you went onto a great university for FREE due to the levels of melanin in your skin. You went on to get 2 masters degrees. You now live in the basement of your parents home, selling drugs, doing drugs, and fucking married chicks (side note: he fucked and "stole" a friends wife, and now they smoke meth in front of my friends kids and laugh about it). But you think the system is racist and holds you down and say I have privilege...my success is due to the color of my skin. I didn't realize that my success wasn't because I worked throughout my undergrad years, unlike you, so I could pay for undergrad upfront since white males don't qualify for 95% of the grants and scholarships (went to a lower end uni...at the time was about $3k/semester - about 15 years ago). I also started an online business while in undergrad and working the job that paid for my school. I then went on to grad school, taking out loans, and then paying them all back after about 4 years out of grad school. I got my doctorate and built a practice, my online business doing well (tell me, can you tell someone's skin color of the owner of a website when you go to it?), bought a home, and have 2 kids now. All my successes are due to my color and not my work ethic and sleepless nights. K."
Got blocked by him and removed by almost all the black people I went to high school with after that post on fb. I hate the victim card. Growing up, my family was poor. Not due to lack of work ethic, no! Dad worked 80 hour weeks to pay the medical bills bc my youngest brother was diagnosed with leukemia 2-3 months old (he's still with us and doing great btw!). It wasn't until I got to undergrad that my family started doing well. Dad started his own business while still working those long hours with the company he was with until it got to the point where he couldn't do both and had to quit his job. The stress that man went through at that time...I can remember like yesterday. He had saved enough where if the businesses didn't make any money, he knew he would have to go back to work after 2 years. Thankfully, his hard work ethic paid off and he ended up doing really well years after I moved out of the house and continues to do well. So I've seen, first hand, what it takes to build the life you want for you and your family. It isn't playing the victim card. Never will be.
I’m sorry to hear that. Yea I saw some friends and relatives start acting like they were so oppressed. Some got mad when I gave actual police stats. The real kicker was when I asked them why they didn’t get angry about the many kids in the inner city gunnned down. I’m all for punishing bad cops but the narrative around cops right now is very dangerous
That’s just it. Booker T Washington compared this to a doctor who doesn’t want to find a cure because he makes so much money with treatments
And I’ll add racial harmony scares the powers that be.
Somewhat. Lack of homogeneity and increased faction provides a legitimate need for authoritarianism. They never had to divide people, because humans have natural in-group bias. Our self-evident differences were always enough to do that work.
It took a lot of work and indoctrination to reach the 90s state of mind on race. I don't think we'll go back to that place again.
That's rough buddy.
And there's no "sadly" to being an SJW in your early teens. Most of the heaviest propaganda efforts are aimed at early teens, and you've got other concerns like hormonal changes going on at the same time leaving you emotional and easily swayed by arguments about emotion. It happens. Look at it instead as "luckily it was JUST in early teens".
I had a stint as an SJW too. It isn't uncommon. Right through until my Masters' degree. My studies and research did not back up the mainstream propaganda, and I had been rightly taught that an experiment that does not produce the result you expect isn't a failed or flawed experiment, it's an interesting one. Don't discard it, investigate it. Why wasn't diversity training in the workplace leading to increased productivity in any example?
You can make people buy specific types of wine in an alcohol store just by playing with the radio: One of the most well-respected and well-regarded marketing studies out there, endlessly repeated and re-proven. It shows that humans are easily manipulated fools easily parted from their money for spurious reasons. So if humans are so easily manipulated... Why isn't formal training doing anything good? In fact, it normally causes active harm... IF your goal is social cohesion. Throw out that assumption, and do the research again, and you see a clear picture. The leaks from big business giants about how they use diversity to weaken the commoners, to stop unions and ruin interpersonal relations in the office to reduce in turn the risk of them asking for raises or benefits, reduce the risk of them turning on the ruling class, merely confirmed what I learned there.
A lot of really rich people have a lot of money invested in making sure the average person HATES every other average person, for as many reasons as possible. To that goal, they gaslight, they propagandize, they censor, and they lie.
So keep your channels of communication open with those "walls". You may not wish to talk politics with them, that would suck, but you never know what might lead them into realizing a bitter truth of their actual abuse by power.
Great points. That is the reason I’m not too hard on teens or college students who spout the trendy virtue signaling stuff. They may wake up when they get older.
I was a full-blown Marxist in my early teens, and a fiscal conservative by the time I left high school. I actually credit that early "infection" with mostly inoculating me from most leftist nonsense.
He imagines you're an Uncle Ruckus but you're probably a Tom.
And in the book Uncle Tom was a hero.
There was a South Park episode some years back about concentration camps for intolerance. There has to be a fix for it.
I'm all for reparations, we shouldn't even take back the trillions of dollars already given away, give every black a good chunk of money
But no more fucking ever
EVER
No social programs, no blacks on welfare, no preference in schools, jobs, the military, government agencies, the court, nothing. No leniency in sentencing. if they get in a fight in an airport, watch list for life and noted as a domestic terrorist, same as if any other race acted that way. Commit a crime, get an unretractable police record.
If they commit a crime they go to prison. All the money saved from social programs will build more prisons and open up a new department to watch all those that received reparations. If they aren't working legally and have to supplement their income through crime they do time. If they have a kid that's eighteen years of support, no running away.
The black problem in the US would be solved in a couple of generations.
I guarantee that right off the bat, the first night they receive reparatons thousands would go to jail and ruin their lives after trying to rob other niggers of their reparations. It would be an immediate return
I remember when FEMA gave all the nigs money after they lost their houses in Katrina. I had friends in surrounding cities they moved to tell me there was a run on liquor stores and strip clubs. For a week or so it was partying, then the money ran out and crime skyrocketed. All we need is some cops to watch and put the cuffs on them as soon as the money runs out. Start making them accountable for their crimes. I'm tired of nigs being let off to terrorize again.
Quoting one of my black managers to a coworker that was seeing racism everywhere:
"You do know we are free and don't have to live on the plantation anymore. You are the number one reason that you are a success or failure."
Great words. I was always puzzled why my older relatives had that mentality yet people in my generation or younger can’t seem to understand they are free
I would have told him he was a racist for declaring that lowlifes who prey on the innocent to get their fix are "my own people."
I should’ve said that. But it’s true. I don’t “see myself” in criminals.
So...you're sick or racism. I guess now isn't the time to tell you how old school nascar is the superior form of racing and all modern races are just pale imitations that have been pussified just to sell merchandise to dumb people.
Ha! I never watched much NASCAR but when I was in the Air Force I watched a lot of it because one of the sergeants was from Alabama and would always have a cookout when a race was on. NASCAR fans are alright with me.
Lefties dont care about their families and they sure as hell dont care about their friends. You need to make new ones, simple as that.
All American wealth is siphoned off by the world banks. It's not that you aren't a victim, it's just that your perpetrator isn't even on the same continent as yourself, let alone the same city block. The very fiat banking system is designed to deprive you of your rights and wealth.
Racism is just a distraction from this fact, giving you someone close at hand to blame. It also helps to create division, as those in control do not actually want the citizens collectively bargaining, or creating anything resembling the socialism they claim to crave. These are all just tools used to control the masses.
White, Black, Asian, we are all just slaves in their eyes.
The numbers just don't make sense for anything they're saying. It is mostly history now as your saying, and digging up history is just stupid. People forget the Pilgrims were also being persecuted by king George in England. Should white people (Anglicans) start crying about how king George was so oppressive and all that? Should they ask for reparations or go back to England? This is all nonsense.
It is all woven into the culture. I smoke tobacco here and there, and from what I understand this came from native Americans, and of course there's no need to mention black people's influence on the culture. Everyone that was here contributed somehow and it's why American culture in all its forms was exported around the world, from jazz and movies, to fast food and basketball.
We're going through and identity crisis, and if we follow the trail, it leads back to communists wanting to destroy everything, and doing so in a cunning, methodical way that spans across generations. Right now they are attacking individualism heavily, because that's the antidote to collectivist, hivemind thinking that is blinding people into group think and escape goat mentality.
I like to imagine that Thomas Sowell didn't actually age, and he just looks like that from explaining these things to people over and over again for 60 years.
That face when white people call you a race traitor.
Oh good, more blood and soil arguments from the Left.
Yea I don’t know how Dr Sowell has done it all these years. I wish his books were required reading in public schools.
See, to me, that's the core of the problem.
If we're engaging in the stupid collective-only reasoning that social justice types of all colours choose to indulge themselves in, what hope have any black people got of doing better when any attempt to do so is immediately written off as being some kind of coconut?
I genuinely don't understand the mentality that would denigrate the choice to go to get qualifications, work hard, and do well. My in-laws, who are Ghanaian, would not either, I suspect, given that they've all done basically that.
I’ll never get that mentality either. It’s like you are expected to plug into a hive mind.
Talking from a perspective of a Filipino, whose history is about being occupied from the Majapahit Empire, to the Spaniards, the Americans after the Spanish-American War and under Imperial Japan during World War 2, I feel your frustration.
Actually a tiny bit of my Asian ancestry was Chinese and Filipino. I guess a very distant Filipino ancestor got mixed up with an African ancestor. I used to work with two Filipino women and they would speak to each other in Tagalog. I’m fluent in Spanish and I asked them what they were speaking because I could understand every three or four words. So that’s how I learned about the Spaniard influence on your history. I used to wonder why Filipino people I met had Spanish names.
The history of the world is full of conquest all over the place. It’s very dishonest to act like the United States is the only country to ever take over land or have slavery.
Oh man, Philippine history was all about being invaded, occupied, liberated and repeat. It's only the time of the Spanish colonial rule that our country had some sense of civilization because of what the conquistadors brought from Acapulco to Manila. Our language itself is a mish-mash of Malay, Indon, Spanish, some Mandarin, American English and some Japanese.
Exactly. What has always annoyed me is the obsession with past injustices that some black Americans have. So many ethnic groups have negative history. I can’t change what happened to my ancestors but I don’t think they would appreciate me using them as a crutch. I remember my grandfather telling me to take advantage of the opportunities I have.
If blacks still thinks that it's the "racism" that holds them back, then they are not worthy to ascend into society. Those Filipino soldiers who fought during WW2 and the Korean War did get bread crumbs, but they're actually proud of it. Never screamed racism, never cried racism. They did what they could do and proud of their contributions to the cause.
If these "minorities" in the West really want to get up in the ladder, by all means, but if the mere presence of "racism" holds them, I just laugh at them. They are not even worth cleaning the pair of sandals that I'm wearing.
Agreed. My mom went to segregated schools until she was a teenager. She said her teachers would tell them that they would face racism but they would have to stay focused on their goals in life. That’s good advice for everyone. You will face some sort of adversity. Don’t let it stop you. And now racism is so vague that they actually say “well it is hidden now unlike in the past”. Any excuse. Smh.
Thanks for giving your perspective on this.
Do you have any friend or family that thinks the same way as you do?
I think it's important that we all get some allies since Marxism is spreading like cancer and we are the last ones that can fight it.
My parents and siblings are conservative. My dad was a democrat till he got disillusioned with Carter in 80 and decided to give Reagan a chance
That's great, I got the hint that your parents were conservative from your post and I'm glad to know that your siblings are too.
And yeah, Carter disillusioned a lot of people but sadly not enough it looks like...
I wanted to explain something related to the current discussion in length, because it explains a lot in the OP and beyond.
People are designed to suffer.
Lets say God took heed the suffering and pleading of man on earth, and decided to improve our lot. For clarity, lets define human existence on a number line. All negative numbers denote negative human experiences, and the bigger the negative number the worse the experience. All positive numbers denote positive human experiences, and the bigger the positive number the better the experience. God relents and changes the universe in our favor, removing the worst half of human experience (removing all negative numbers up to zero). The only experiences left are the positive numbers down to zero (the top half).
At first, everyone is overjoyed and thankful. How wonderful life has become. Then, after some time, the elation wears off. After some more time, they get used to it. After enough time, it will largely be forgotten. This is due to people being inherently imperfect, finite, and mortal. There are some exceptions to this, however, the important part is that we have imperfect memory and imperfect information sharing (so people understand what it was like before the change). It should also be noted that, due to people living different lives, inherent to life and the nature of the universe itself, all people experience different things.
This difference in experience breeds resentment, greed, and jealously of the lot of others. There are still people, for whatever reason, having bigger positive number experiences than others, and relative to them, others are experiencing worse things. Also, through our imperfect memory, we'll only be able to determine that low positive numbers are now the worst possible human experiences. What used to be the best half of experiences, has been bisected again by humanity, and the new neutral has shifted to the middle of positive numbers. Why does God let such horrible things happen to us? Why won't God help us?
God relents again, and removes the worst half of human suffering again (zero to the mid point of positive numbers). Now people are only capable of experiencing the top 1/4 of human experiences...and the same process occurs again. People are initially happy and thankful, then get used to it, then forget it, then redefine their existence relative to others.
The only way for this process to stop is for God to limit all human experiences to the exact same thing, where we all experience the same thing. This would rob us of our humanity, and would we even be alive if all our experiences were directed and controlled? We wouldn't even have free will in such a circumstance.
This hopefully highlights some things about people, and what's currently happening. This isn't a complete list, but some things I wanted to bring up:
1.) Even though black people today have it much better than their ancestors, they still lament to have more, if not for the evil white people keeping them down.
2.) Even though most people alive today have it better than their ancestors, due to technological progress and capitalism/mercantilism bringing up the lot of the average person, with things like cars, A/C, heating, electricity, abundant food, refrigeration, TV, computers, phones, internet, abundance of clothing, relative peace, etc., people still lament their lot in life and suffer.
3.) This explains why people nowadays are bitching about smaller and smaller things. People used to bitch about getting eaten by predators, or wondering if they'd be able to gather enough food to survive through winter. Now people bitch about someone saying something online they disagree with, or the delivery guy taking too long to deliver their food. The more our lot is improved, the more trivial the things we'll bitch about.
4.) One of the ways politicians gain power over us, is by pointing out the differences in human experience, and paint it in a way where they can divide people and pit them against each other, saying "it's their fault you're suffering", or "if it wasn't for them you'd be living blissful and happy". I'm not saying those statements can't be true, just that it's an easy way to manipulate people. This is what the mainstream has done for non-white people against white people (all white people are racist), for women against men (feminism), younger people against the older ("OK boomer"), etc.
5.) Even though degredation of society is inherent to continual improvement, there are some things we can do to alleviate it (at least with what I can think of). One way is by forming and keeping traditions to continually remind ourselves how good we have it and where we come from. Oddly, modern praying (giving thanks at meals or before bed) fulfills this, and even if one isn't religious it would still be a good thing to begin doing. Another way is by teaching everyone (via schools, parents, or cultural stories) how good we have it and where we've come from. The last way I can think of is by keeping people as close to nature as possible, regardless of how much we can insulate ourselves from it.
One of the main reasons society devolves is because as society improves, more and more roadblocks keep being put between us and nature, which prevents stupid people from earning immediate reprisal from mother nature. We don't have that now, because through modern technology and conveniences, we don't have to worry about making fire (heating and electricity), or foraging for food (grocery stores and restaurants everywhere), or hunting (meat just appears in the grocery store!), or being eaten by a bear (unless you're dumb enough to take a selfie with one), or failing at our job (unemployment and welfare), etc. This can either be done by everyone all the time, to where most people are self sufficient living on their own homesteads, which in my opinion seems somewhat inefficient on the large scale if we want to continually improve our technology, or we can have a coming of age right, where people are forced to live on their own in nature (or possibly in a small enclave) for a certain amount of time, and if they survive, they can re-enter society as an adult.
Thanks for reading and have a good one.
Thank you! Very well said
Check out Liberia
I know some people from there interesting history. The people that are so “oppressed” by the United States can move there
I had a friend that had a conversation that went like this.
There was so much wrong with that statement I just tried to go with something we could potentially agree upon. I mean, I don't really agree with it, but I've got to try any point of common ground
Mother of God. ... Again, common ground, build rapport.
Whatever you're thinking of right now, I already thought of it, but he went to a different tangent.
... I said the one and only thing I could think of in the face of such insanity.
That's when something in his brain kicked in.
So I had to explain to him how the British Labour Party had effectively become Socialist/Communist, and that the Democratic Party had shifted closer to them in recent years.
I basically tried to use Britain as an example of the the problems with the Left because I assumed I wouldn't get anywhere with a discussion about the American Left without having to explain how Fabian Socialism works.
We did get to a point of common ground:
I mean, I feel like my boy is a stone-cold midwit; but Jesus Christ I was not prepared for takes as blind as that.
155 days of non-stop race rioting for Leftist causes, endorsed by every major corporation on Earth, communist flags being flown all around, Leftist infiltration of every corporation, Bernie Sanders (an avowed Socialist) nearly won the Democratic nomination twice... and the political Left doesn't even exist.
It's like he thinks the political Left is exclusively Maoists, and he doesn't seem to understand how popular Mao is in Academia and among the progressives.
Yea I’ve heard that nonsense that the left doesn’t exist. That along with the excusing of the rioting. I don’t know how you kept a straight face with that conversation
I confess to doing a Tucker-face at one point.