Looks like RFK Jr. supports affirmative action.
(twitter.com)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (75)
sorted by:
This is what happens when you start to think there might be a based Democrat. Turns out, nah. This delusional poison is bone deep.
Same thing with 95% of Republicans.
Did you happen to catch that interview with Mike "Putin started this unprovoked war and the American people need to be leaders of the world" Pence?
Generational bias. Affirmative action is so old that even Republicans think its normal.
Probably a bit of that as well. And I'm ok with people not having an opinion on it.
What's going to be interesting is seeing how many establishment Republicans suddenly come out hard against racial discrimination now that it's shown to be popular.
Pence was never a Republican.
You need to let go of your team jersey and realize that the Republicans were always your enemy.
I took this particular blackpill 4 or 5 years ago. Republicans are not good, they're just markedly less bad than Democrats.
Does 'based' mean that he agrees with you 100% of the time?
By Democratic standards, he is extraordinarily based. Hell, he's probably way too based to have a chance. I wish he'd be less based.
Based means not being a DIE shill, and it looks like he's a DIE shill.
It's amazing -- when he talks about vaccines or the corrupt intelligence agencies, he's clear, provides specifics, and it all makes sense.
When he starts talking about things like this or "climate change," he starts waffling, speaking in unquantifiable generalities, and defers to appeals to authority. It becomes very clear that he no longer actually knows what he's talking about.
Everybody has their blind spots. Some people simply have sacred cows, and they can't introspect their way out of the situation.
It's like the bowl of poison M&Ms, except the analogy actually works here.
The problem with granting any ground to racist programs like Affirmative Action, means we end up where we are now. The problem with this fellow right here, is that he defends that like it wasn't observably and painfully a failure.
And it was the poster definition of slippery slope in practice, as everyone opposed to it knew it was back then. When it was sold as a policy it was "this isn't racial quotas, this is just guaranteeing everyone gets a fair shake during interviews and hiring" and within 5 years it was racial quotas to ensure you were doing that 'fair shake' thing.
Affirmative Action had its partner slogan of Equal Opportunity. Everyone who followed the AA mandates could brand themselves as "An Equal Opportunity employer" in their advertisements and solicitations. It was a sham because all of the impositions of the policy were that you did NOT give equal opportunity to anyone because you first filtered them by 'race' and 'gender,' and later they tacked on 'sexual orientation' because gays and 'religious affiliation' because muslims. And people would want to know if you were an Equal Opportunity employer (caps palpable) and you had a legal barrier to replying to that honestly lest you be in violation of a technicality of this policy since they owned those two words now.
This is a fundamental issue of our times and culture. Disagreeing on this isn't merely missing out on a 100% compatibility mark. And he is doing more than disagreeing, he is defending the provable failure of the last 30 years with very modern, very Marxist reasoning that they didn't even use then because they lied about what it WAS then. He's buying the premise of what it turned out Affirmative Action IS and defending THAT. It is beyond unconscionable.