thanks, clown
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And you are choosing to deny extreme bigotry and misogyny because some people didnāt experience it.
I can assure you this is the exact same argument racists make when saying systemic racism isnāt real.
He didnāt promise $1400 checks on the campaign trail, he promised $2000.
So check and mate!
GG America. (This doesnāt support my position just something interesting about USA#1)
U.S. Census data that showed that the percentage of U.S. blacks who own their own homes today is essentially the same as when housing discrimination was outlawed in 1968. The 1970 census found 42% of black households owned their own homes. In 2017, the number was 41%.
35% of black households owned their home in 1950. 41% do today. Spreading childish imagery of what discrimination looked like throughout our history does not make you a better ally, it allows people to pretend like the progress weāve made is greater than what it actually is.
I hope that itās clear that I am not denying bigotry or misogyny, and Iām not denying that women faced many more hurdles in opening bank accounts in 1975 than men did, and many more than they do today thanks to the passage of civil rights legislation.
I am pushing back on the idea that embellishing facts in a way that amplifies a true, necessary message is still a bad thing to do.
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I bet you donāt!
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For the purposes of propaganda and trying to sway public opinion, itās more important to simplify the message than to be historically accurate. Right-wingers get this a lot better than those on the left.
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Itās definitely about 10x longer than it needs to be, and whatās even more absurd is he later turned it into an entire book. But the central definition of bullshit being an emotional appeal that is at best indifferent to truth is incredibly useful imo, and the distinctions drawn between bullshit and lying are important.
Thereās a Wikipedia entry for the lazy:
Kinda kidding. I had no idea what āpleonasticā meant until I looked it up. It was in the article itself.
This is stomach churning
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Black people could own homesābut only in black neighborhoods, at mortgage rates higher than paid by white people, and at ownership rates much lower than for white people.
Yeah I think it is the thing that might actually get me to stop paying attention. It is all just too painful and hopeless.
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Is Manchin an honest man whose public word should always be believed? Will he be offended if his promise is not good enough for Mitch McConnell?
Iām not a dog person, so I donāt know who to assess this:
The bright side about Manchin us that either Schumer or McConnell should now cave and Ds can take power. Thereās nothing at stake any more.
It would be fun to watch them suffer for this if the stakes werenāt so high. This is so soul crushing.
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Dogs, like democrats, are easily tricked and will still always wag their tail and lick your face.
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Yes, I agree with all of that.
2/3 of those things are still true today, and the third is largely true in practice, even if not as a policy. Describing the problem of housing discrimination in the 1950s as āblack people couldnāt own homesā blurs those similarities and gives a warped view of the civil rights era, its victories and its failures. Banning redlining and discrimination in lending was a gigantic accomplishment. But the neighborhoods donāt look very different in 2020 than they did in 1950. Itās a fight that was never really won.
This is how I feel anyway and why Iāve been posting a lot less lately.
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