Well unfortunately for you guys, you are caught under a post modernist/communistic/neo-marxist interpretation of history, the present, and our selves. Further more you all deny God, or at best, attempt to recreate God in your own image, though without actual knowledge and experience of God, without conscious, you will remain trapped in the proverbial cave chasing after shadows, and having no foundation from which your values have sprung.
In overview on the whole, this is whataboutism and white apologetic talking points mixed in with some zealotry... Classic right wing tactic.
I am sorry to be the one to have to break this to you, but religion in the US is falling out of favor more now than it has in previous generations. The ability to break apart inconsistencies in the histories, the lack of modern day relevance, and the corruption of many religious institutions has left many not wanting to partake in organized faith. Even more than this, of course, certain faiths encourage division and violence on a grand scale as there is the obvious presupposition that practitioners are starting from an absolute and perfect origin for their world views that non-believers do not share and thus are lesser stock in need of conversion... or death. Nobody is missing anything by not drinking your kool-aid, comrade, but you come off as awful hostile implying we're blind without your faith.
Sure you talk about a love for humanity, a community spirit, and this and that, but where did you get those values from? If life is nothing but flesh, economics, and the inevitable worm, then who is to say that any one value is more significant than any other?
Generally... society? The collective consensus of the masses involved? Kinda the whole game there, really. People are social animals, we come together to form a stronger collective than could be achieved by individual actions, and in the process establish culturally accepted practices and ideals.
If you guys would spend more time trying to understand rather than come across as constantly condescending know it alls, then these little conversations may actually lead to something meaningful.
You're accusing folk of being ignorant slaves, then mock them as being know-it-alls. Irony intensifies.
It's like above, you just assume that anyone that does not agree with you and your post modernist clan here, is merely longing for some past that never existed, yet I don't recall anyone longing for such a thing, though I do see a lot of people taking dead things from the distant past and hooking them up to life support to use as political leverage.
Isn't "taking dead things from the distant past and putting them on life support" the same as "wishing for aspects of a past in the present"? You can use whatever terminology makes your naughty bits tingle, but at the end of the day you've been talking about returning the status of law to what it was in the past, both with abortion and gay marriage... and you imply a pretty hefty religious ideal that would be akin to governments of the very distant past.
Take the African slave trade as an example. It marks a period in history where African slaves were being carted away out of Africa and into other countries, and guess what, America wasn't the only place! In fact slavery began long before the African slave trade, it existed all over the world and it could care less what color you were. Contrary to the Marxist Narrative, is was Western Civilization that made a stab at ending slavery, and we even had a blood bath over it! Then because of Democrats and Big Business, the blacks faced a lot of set backs that they would not have otherwise.
Three things. First, nobody debates the African slave trade as anything but bad, but everyone condemns its use by the western powers. Second, this really isn't covering the USA which was the topic being discussed, but while we're here the civil war took place well after other western powers caught the notion that it maybe wasn't such a good idea ever. Lastly, and this is important, time moves in a line and things change. The Democrats of yesteryear are not the Democrats of today, and studies have been very clear that the Southern Switch was a thing and you can see in the party lines today that this is obviously the case. Preaching this line makes you seem like a disingenuous grifter... kinda like your avatar and title...
Though you know what, South of Texas they kept their slaves for quite a while longer than us, but that's never talked about. In fact there are Slaves currently in China, the Middle East, etc. etc. though you never hear about them except maybe once in a while through national geographic. Where is your heart felt concern for all of them?
Even if modern news doesn't highlight it all the time, it doesn't mean human rights violations across the globe aren't an issue for the left. Hell, I can dig up plenty of left-leaning news sources that do bring these sorts of things up quite often.. how about the right? What's that? Hate crimes against immigrants is almost exclusively done by the right and they celebrate human rights abuses while even the center-left shamefully tries to minimize their involvement when they are causing an issue while the far left protests it altogether? How very odd.
Also, again, nobody celebrates slavery anywhere and what happened south of us doesn't make the actions of our homeland somehow magically better.
How about the natives, people always bitch about Americans killing the natives and eroding their culture, and in part that is true, but there are other stories, that separate the Natives of North America from the Mexicans and South Americans. I.E. How come in America we have reservations, and we still have the various "tribes", have preserved some of the language customs, etc. yet down beneath the boarder of Texas everyone assumes they are Latin/Spanish, embrace Catholicism and speak Spanish?
Because absolute genocide was averted but what happened was still terrible. See what happens when you don't view the world in black and white? Also, the atrocities of others doesn't make our own issues less relevant within our own borders. Please try to stop shifting, you're absolutely tanking your credibility.
I am unsure what set all you kids on this Post Modernist/Communistic/Neo Marxist kick, but it is misleading you, and if there is any sincerity in your heart, it is being corrupted and used against your self and others. There is real evil within this world, but you've got to take off the Main Stream VR head set to see it. And no, reality is not some Matrix-esque homo erotic rave in the underground somewhere, it's something much more real, much more relevant, and with a much higher purpose than mere feeling.
Besides, the author of the Book the Matrix director's were influenced by hated the movies and said that if The Matrix were to make a movie, that The Matrix is exactly the kind of movie it would make.
Again, you presume that people are mislead because their views don't match yours, but you don't really have anything to show of it. You throw out the idea of a vague evil force, sprinkle in some homophobia, and complain that a relevant pop culture source has a naysayer involved in the media presented... woo. I'm not married to the movies and can critique them as popcorn trash too, but it doesn't make the comparison any weaker.
All in all... your posts are just hateful junk without advocating for anything but the same old nonsense that got my poll to the numbers it received. History was largely dictated by theocratic ruling class people and lead to dissatisfaction, and you still cling to the idea that going backwards is the way to fix the problems today. I would advise some introspection!
a) Please clarify what you mean by greater good. I could not discern it.
b) What can be done to level out the playing field with regards to Asian-Americans outperforming European-Americans in terms of earnings and academic achievement?
c) You cannot help everyone if you declare one group the problem and help the other at the expense of the former. If you limit the number of Asian-American table tennis players you are obviously hurting that group.
a) Wrong quote of mine, but the greater good is in reference to aiding a community over one's own interests.
b) In the US? Those two ethnic blocks don't really need a lot of support, but naturally increasing the quality of schools and funding things like state managed child care and medical services would help everyone get on the same playing field and narrow the academic and wage gap.
c) I don't think I've ever seen anyone in this form scream "Kill the asians!" or anything, but I'm presuming that you're saying the "harm" is not offering the top tier opportunities to every high performing (or well funded) asian student who reaches the benchmarks for enrollment. I actually have a whole bunch of asian stepsisters who all went to high end colleges, so I'm happy to address this!
It isn't that bad of an issue at the best of times now, as they tend to get opportunities at some high end college or another (my middle step sister didn't get into Berkeley despite crushing her pre-reqs, but she went to Davis and did just fine for herself) and at the worst of times in a hypothetical leftist progressive nation... well, surprise surprise, evening out the resources and talent pool of teachers between schools would allow EVERY ethnic group the same opportunities for advancement, including the high performers! Raise all boats and all that jazz. Just because you don't offer the best for the most capable doesn't mean you're inflicting harm, it just means you're counting on their ability to procure resources and training to keep pushing them forward while focusing on those who may need more assistance.
Hyper-individualism is a bit of a curse, and exceptional people will always find a way to be exceptional and their contributions should of course be celebrated, but it isn't going to end the world if those celebrations are toned down a bit and the resources available to the best aren't quite as grandiose and expensive. People will still be motivated to do their best even if they aren't given super ultra trophies and monetary compensation, and at the end of the day... even Asian Americans aren't properly represented in the highest wealth pools, so obviously skill and success aren't completely hand in hand now.
One group wants to decentralize power back to the states and just wants to be left alone and another group wants to centralize power in the federal government to rule over the people. The left is so brainwashed, they advocate for an authoritarian central government while calling everybody they disagree with fascist. The cognitive dissonance with the left grows stronger by the day. Communism is a helluva drug.
Sorry love, but the idea of States acting as Countries isn't how it works here. There was already a disagreement about it a while back called the Civil War, didn't end well for the rebels, get over it. Human rights are a federal issue, sustainability is a federal issue, health and safety is a federal issue, and terrorism response is a federal issue.
