Found the following from a Candace Owens video:
Black Lives Matter and Antifa activists are what happen when a society gives birth to an entire generation of spoiled rotten brats who have never experienced any real suffering.
Now there are some great young people to be sure but I scratch my head at people in their teens and early 20s thinking they are heros for posting that racism is bad. Another dangerous thing is the glorification of people with shady pasts like Blake and Floyd. In the Blake case you can argue that 7 shots was excessive but people get furious if you point out that his choice to ignore the cops led to that moment. Sadly people like Canon Hinant or David Dorn don’t get golden caskets and adulation.
One of the worst cases of police brutality I’ve seen is the Daniel Shaver case. If you want to shine a light on bad cops then you can’t act like only black people are treated poorly by cops. Shine a light on all of it while working to establish good relations between the police and the community.
Finally I was born in 1980. Anyone else around my age feel like we were making progress in the racial unity area as a society until Obama? I say Obama because that’s when I remember race being talked about endlessly and I first heard nonsense like micro aggressions and white privilege.
We had it made in the 90s and 00s. Racism was nearly non-existant, save for a few nut jobs. Then Obama came, and all of a sudden race mattered. Racial lines were drawn country wide, and with it on people's minds, racism returned.
The irony is, the majority of the racism comes from the anti-racist movements.
I know! And the way that saying you aren’t racist makes you racist. Or how minorities are called white supremacists if they don’t follow the narrative.
Its not popular to remember, but after 9/11 we had the least interracism ever. At least in America.
In a single moment we all came together, to fucking hate Muslims. Which at the time were a very small unknown minority in the country. Some incidents of Indians being attacked happened, but otherwise black/white hatred was null for a while.
But that doesn't help the powers that be, so the seeds of division had to be sown.
You forget Muslims are not a race. At least where I was, nobody had a problem with middle easterners. However, god help you if you wore a turban, hijab, or had any Arabic tattoos.
I know they aren't, but Muslims and Arabic people are such a huge overlap that in the interest of bigotry they are interchangeable.
Where I was anyone brown but not speaking Spanish was all fair game. Including a lot of innocent Indian folks, unfortunately.
Fair
The government needs to stop collecting race data. The left is right about the social construction of racial identity, and statistics are the vanguard of the managerial state.
Strange, usually it's only leftist arguing that we should stop collecting racial stats, with the argument that the data is making people racist.
I'm not so sure that's the case. Regressives already have bizarro-world views of minorities, due to lack of interaction with them rather than reading any statistics. People's stereotyping of groups comes from their experiences with them (or lack there of) and the depictions of them that are consumed (especially when they lack any first-hand experiences that contradict those depictions). Klansmen that never interacted with a black person are fundamentally no different than SJWs that haven't either, other than the type of depictions of black people they've grown up with. This is just cultivation theory.
This is an absolutely retarded idea. Think about what happens in 10 years when the whites become the minority. If there is no race data the left will blame all shootings on whites. They will blame all poverty on whites. They will claim that whites are still the majority when its obvious they are not. And the right will no longer have any statistics to counter that with, so they will just accept it, much like they do with the mass shooting narrative already. (where most mass shootings are not counted because somehow a gang mass shooting isn't a mass shooting) This is straight up acclerationist, and not the good kind.
Sino Delenda Est
Then the atomization will continue
...Are you from MPC? I don't see terms like managerial and atomization much, but I saw them a lot when I was there.
MPC?
I'll take that as a no, but I'll answer your question. Private forum called mypostingcareer. I used to read it often, had some decent essays and book reviews, but it was public then. Have to pay money just to read it now.
I'll assume you just read books.
The issue isn't the data, but how it's being interpreted. People on the left and right forget that aggregate data does not represent the individual. With in a racial subset of the humanity, there are millions who deviate from the group trend. Treating individuals as if they embody the traits their racial subset trends towards condemns them for something they are not.
Sadly, doesn't seem be be taught very well anymore, if at all.
Looking back, I think things were fine until 9/11. Big event - bad decisions were made that fed into destabilization (ironically and unfortunately giving terrorists a victory). Without those destabilizers, I don't think things could have ramped up under obama the way they did.
Eh, I think a simpler explanation is that the country had just gotten fucked over by "too big to fail" and was ready for a change. Marxists correctly identified the moment as an opportunity to slide in their Manchurian candidate, whose racial identity gave him total immunity from any accountability. Obama was free to implement disparate impact policy, critical race theory, and brazen globalism at every level of government while simultaneously weaponizing every agency against his political and cultural opponents. People have finally caught on to the fact that the democrat solution to neocon globalist corporatism is global communism, which is even worse. Only Trump stood up and said "fuck all that, I'm putting America first", and all the swamp creatures, commies, and neocons lost their minds together.
I won't deny the likelihood. I honestly struggle to piece together the truth of events from that period because I had no political awareness until obama's second term. So I do enjoy hearing other ideas and opinions on that timeframe.