The "root" is Critical Race Theory, from which Intersectionality was spun off from in the late 80s. Even in the 90s, these ideologies were considered fringe in academia, but around the turn of the millennium, CRT started seeing widespread acceptance in academia, which also opened the door for the intersectionality oppression olympics. Once something takes hold in academia, it metastasizes everywhere due to the nature of "education" being the gateway to influential professions. You see it as gaslighting, which isn't wrong, but it's legitimized gaslighting through subverted institutions.
But even that's not really the root, because CRT is just a spin off of Critical Theory, which itself is a spinoff of Marxism.
Like I said, we'll get mad, and then we'll regroup and we'll figure out where we go now. The town is changing. More people are moving in. So it's not going to be like this forever.
Definitely a "be careful what you wish for" situation.
Really, it was a confederate veterans club at first. It wasn't until the Reconstruction Act divided the south into 5 military districts, whose commanders appointed a lot of illiterate former slaves to government positions, that it started leaning into terrorism.
Well... shit. I really agree with this take.
But because I'm contrarian, I must argue.
You say social mockery is 0. While I don't necessarily disagree, because it isn't physical, it is still escalation. 0 begs for 7, and often begets it, depending on the (american) culture it's occurring in.
Ideally, society allows for social mockery without condoning violence. I think we're way past that now.
Let's keep going and see what happens.
Didn't really consider it that deeply until you mentioned it, but social violence is pretty interesting in its nuance. You have groups that find it foreign, groups that find it commonplace, groups that have fled from it...
Kicking people, stabbing them, and never stop fighting is foreign to me. Violence is nothing but a last resort.
Last resort.
I can't imagine committing myself to violence as a way of life, but instead a means to an end. If that end isn't peace and stability for my family and their future, the point mostly escapes me.
Just spitballing myself here. All humans engage in violence, but like most things, I guess I don't view all violence as equal.
I mean, you're not wrong for the most part, but even if the deaths were the 65+ group, the numbers were still grim. Took until around June before the affected age ranges were fairly clear. Even if they were older, it's still tragic on the individual level for those that lost loved ones. The shutdowns were stupid once containment was no longer a possibility, and once the data showing mask mandates weren't effective, they should have been discarded.
It's a huge power grab, to be sure, but there's a reason why it was such a prime opportunity. It wasn't just manufactured whole cloth.
I still firmly think that the shift towards masks and fearmongering was done first and most immediately for the sake of mail in ballots
Disagree. I think it was done initially because the numbers were grim, and the government had to look like it was doing something, regardless of efficacy. It just morphed into what you said, because a good crisis should never go to waste. The coof killed a lot of people. We saw around a 16% increased overall mortality rate in 2020. Statistically significant, but not really that big of a deal in perspective. Certainly not as deadly as McDonald's, or black neighborhoods.
As to tinfoil takes, covid was a godsend to unfunded liabilities.
While never a major market force, the black farmer was really killed by New Deal policies. Subsidies allowed larger operations to buy up farmland and increase their profitability with a guaranteed backstop, and black owned land was the easiest to acquire.
I'm calling bullshit. Is there an idea that, even if not achieving majority support yet, haven't increased in support over the last 20 years?
It's fucking clown world, my man.
E: Let me rephrase. Is there a promoted idea that, even if not achieving majority support, hasn't increased in support over the last 20 years?
They pump up non-issues so that they always win. They position themselves in the best way to exploit every single group's problems and place themselves at the top with whatever solution comes from it.
I ain't got nothin but a lol.
The only thing the community should be reaching out with is a whip. People used to know how to deal with dregs who could work, but instead leech off the community