(07-13-2023, 11:53 AM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(07-13-2023, 06:03 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: I don't find it hilarious at all.   We have seen our government go from campaigning against discrimination, and outlawing discrimination in the 1960s, to endorsing discrimination and encouraging it, starting in the very next decade.  That is a horrible thing to do for race relations.  

No, it's not comical.  It's not comical to go from outlawing discrimination, from trying to teach everyone that discrimination is bad, to saying, unless it's discrimination against white males, then it's okay.  Government policies like that are a recruiting tool for right wing extremists.  To turn civil rights on its head, and say everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others?  Not funny at all.

LOLWUT??

Who is "endorsing discrimination and  encouraging it?"

I'm talking about affirmative action, quotas, diversity programs, stuff like that.  It's legalized racial and sex discrimination.  

And who is endorsing and encouraging it?  The government, major colleges and universities, large corporations.  

It's creating a new set of victims to replace the old set of victims.  And this new set of victims is co-opted and politically exploited by right wing extremists.

Now, in one thread, you were concerned about right wing extremists, but over in this thread, you think one of the things that is causing this right wing extremism is funny.  It's not funny.  It's causing the very thing you are concerned about.

Why do you think Trump's base consists mainly of white people without a college education? These are people who are constantly in fear of slipping out of the lower middle class.  And then they see that the world is favoring one group or another over them.  I personally would never vote for Trump.  But I have to admit these people have a grievance, and they don't see the government being on their side.  

This whole idea of favoring one group over another is pure poison to our society.  And yet for the past 50 years, this idea has been pushed forward by our government.

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