Jamezz
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The European elite is running scared, that will never happen. Cry all that you want Merkel.
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The European elite is running scared, that will never happen. Cry all that you want Merkel.
I read somewhere that one of the main reasons for creating the EU was to prevent another World War through integration and mutual cooperation .... would be interesting to see how this pans out now politically across Europe.
candrew
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Brexit and its aftermath is a glaring example of why the adults need to be in charge. I'm hoping the Trump voters who aren't slack jawed yokels will recognize this.
Jamezz
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So you're saying that the majority of people in Great Britain are childish for wanting to leave the EU? This doesn't even make sense. The people of Great Britain have spoken and we should all respect their decision.
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You linked to a tabloid that financially supports the UK Independence Party.
Have you ever provided a link to a news publication that isn't intensely right-wing?
So, anyway, I'm tired of annoying Game.
There's this little fact, when it comes to human bias or prejudices, and how we use language, that the things we say just drip and stink with point of view. Some folks above were throwing the epithet, which I find useless, of "bigotry" around.
"Bigotry" is a useless word because it actually has no meaning, it's an unverifieable and indefinable "insult" that people use to discredit others' points of view and assert that their own are superior somehow.
you can be termed a bigot for having any notion under the sun, any preference of one thing over another. Liberals can be bigots for the presumption that their notions of progress are anything good, conservatives can be bigots for their notions of anything that can be preserved of their comfort zone are preferable in any sense.
you presume a lot in terming some people "adult" and you're a bigot for implying anyone is immature somehow. You are a bigot for implying "Trump voters" are "slack jawed yokels" somehow, and that you're one tiny bit smarter.
What the problem with "Brexist" really amounts to is that a lot of people are dissatisfied with the carefully-developed plans of the super elites for managing the world, Britain in particular.
What people generally realize from their experience with this kind of governance is that they have lost the human rights they cherish, and still imagine they have, and a thousand years of struggle for those rights has been compromised by the smooth-talking charlatans who imagine they are superior to the common man.
Trump is anything but an ideologue, or an intellectual, but he can recognize people's feelings and ideas and respond to them appropriately. That, in my opinion, makes him a genius. If he wants to validate those human aspirations, he's a better leader than the whole ship of fools that is globalism.
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Whole lotta cryin. I hope your Breitbart subscription pacifies you.
You don't have any bearings about the whole of "Western Civilization". Of course global fascism is your ticket, your way forward, why would anyone from a culture that recognizes no human rights think otherwise.
Cameron, the Ho for the global elite, failed to charm the Brits enough to win the vote, and like any good but disgraced. . . . well, anyway, failed. . . . cheerleader for the Matrix, he must fall on his sword and politically die for The Cause.
Breitbart is probably the premier advocate for representative democracy on the planet, for the whole idea of government that can only be legitimized by the consent of the governed. Probably useless to try to pull you out of your Dark Ages mindset, though.
A lot of people are amazed, as I am, that the Brits could still vote for a government they hope to make their own.
Joe Bagadonuts
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I'm interested in your reaction to this situation:
https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/justin-timberlake-wrong-jesse-williams-article-1.2690298
I see it as a real world illustration of what scat said.
RandyForRubio
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It actually is a decent point that deserves an answer.
Don't mix cultures: bigotry
Mix and adopt other cultures: cultural appropriation
So what is the answer? Personally I think we're at our best when we're a great big melting pot. There's not one culture that has everything figured out, but we can sure as hell learn from all other ones.
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the author is arguing that it's unfair how black culture can be used by white people for advancement of financial power & status, while not bringing to light the issues that black people fight in contemporary America. As summarized in this quote:
No one really gave a **** about JT borrowing off of black music. Umm, every contemporary American musician probably borrows off of black music in one way or another.
But then when you make statements like "we're all one race" you're basically implying that there are no race-specific problems in America, which is why so many black people found his tweets hugely problematic. That's the heart of the issue.
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Melting pots don't really work, because the social groups in power force the powerless to conform to what they think is ideal. While something like food may be an example where a "melting pot" approach has worked, things like beauty standards, language, religion, clothing (and countless other examples) are examples where it hasn't. I think the better approach is a "cultural mosaic". Allowing peaceful coexistence and mutual respect/appreciation for separate cultures that are all tied together in one greater picture-- i.e. the 'American identity'. Melting pots involve a "dilution" assimilating process, whereas the latter doesn't.