I'm generally against the attack on government employees. Vested interest though .
Same. Doesn’t mean I can’t see them as wasteful.
I'm generally against the attack on government employees. Vested interest though .
Same. Doesn’t mean I can’t see them as wasteful.
.As as I said in the first paragraph, I don't know how serious you specifically were. I even pointed out a reason for the doubt. Still, your diatribe certainly resembled diatribes from many people who are perfectly serious and quite unaware of their privileged status.
For all I know, assuming you are in all the categories you listed, you could still be disadvantaged in any number of ways. I'm lucky enough to be on the positive axis of every category of privilege I've seen described, except for religion, and it has given me tremendous social power I did not earn. I do make efforts to use that power for those with fewer privileges.
If this were a board game of trying to win votes, I would care. I think it's sad that people who get enormous social advantages can't take the time to appreciate them and help others.
Sorry, but when white people tell black people when and where to protest, it always seems to be "in the time and place where I don't have to bothered by it". When men tell women what feminism means, it always seems to mean something that makes the men more comfortable. Real social change creates bother and is uncomfortable. Not telling people the actual effects of their whitesplaining/mansplaining is not doing anyone a favor.
While I don't claim to know everything about anyone life, I do know what privilege does for that life and the many ways it can help a life even when times are rough. It's my lived experience, and I'm not going to stop talking about that simply to make other people comfortable.
Only one of us is casting "listening" as "assumptions" and casting "help others" as "divisiveness".
I eagerly wait your long list of injustices done to "the other side", after you calculate in the effects of years of social planning, redlining, exclusion, etc. I mean, you're not going to pretend that everyone gets an equal start right now, equal treatment in elementary schools, etc., are you?
Why continue assuming you know the thoughts of this group you allege is unaware of whatever privileges yet to be defined that you assume they are unaware of?
And you assume others of unlike disposition dont?
I dont live in the world you describe so I cant relate, really.
On a political note, I'm of the opinion that our current Republican party should do all in its power to support protests and actively support measures that help underprivileged vote even though that would likely cost them seats. I dont know the legal aspects there but it seems not right for a political party to sponsor quick, easy voting locations. People would be way too leery.
Both on the POV that you think others dont realise their station in life and that your opinion makes them uncomfortable. I'm not discomfited by you expressing yours, are you? I appreciate that you do.
Yes I am casting a philosophy based on dividing people into groups based on a scorecard as divisiveness, by their very own definition. What of it?
If you believe that marginalizing, castigating, and systematically attacking large swaths of people isnt an injustice then the entire notion of standing up for those similar classes of people is empty. It's a philosophy centered on your opinion of who deserves your protection and focus. Broken philosophy.
Enough of my high horse. My main goal here is to explain the thought process of a group of people who generally do a terrible job at it on their own.
OB's world where people physically tried to keep people from kneeling? Where, when,? Yeah dude, I dont live in the alternate reality you portray.
I don't recall saying "physically". I think threatening to fine players and refusing to hire Kapernick count as "trying to stop".
Germany started a universal health care program under Bismarck, not Hitler. More than half of Europe had a version of it before WWI.
we are destroying western cultures. the left is actively destroying and suppressing western christian judeo cultures
My dad worked as a civilian contractor at Hill Air Force Base in the 80's working on F-16 HUD's. He was literally called into the office and told that he was working too hard and that he needed to back off because he was making everyone look bad. That's my reference regarding gov't employees.Same. Doesn’t mean I can’t see them as wasteful.
One Brow... there are so many of his posts lately that I have to stop and think about, really think, and still come away wondering if he is truly serious or intentionally obtuse. The jury is still out.
My dad worked as a civilian contractor at Hill Air Force Base in the 80's working on F-16 HUD's. He was literally called into the office and told that he was working too hard and that he needed to back off because he was making everyone look bad. That's my reference regarding gov't employees.
do they spit on them and use violence?You mean, like when women have to be careful about how they dress going through an Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn, or certain parts of the country dominated by fundamentalist Christians? We're suppressing that by them having to be careful around fundamentalist Muslims instead?
do they spit on them and use violence?
In Israel, there have been similar concerns. Though no modesty committee was overtly involved, there has been anger over ultra-Orthodox zealots who spit on and insulted an 8-year-old girl for walking to school through their neighborhood in a dress they considered immodest.
got any other source