I am working class left, and I have a huge well of tolerance remaining. Dipped into it just this morning!
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Can you irrigate some of yours over here? My aquifer is just about dry.
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best I got for todays good news:
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You know youāre a redneck when you steal a protest about police killing unarmed black people and turn it into a whine about respecting the flag.
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Iām going to disagree there.
The greater evil is not individual, conscious acts of racism. Itās the systematic racism thatās built in to the very fabric of society and makes virtuous choice irrelevant. Youāre never going destroy that root and branch until you can understand multiple lines of evidence, some of which WILL contradict each other.
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you complain about NASCAR turning to āthe leftā
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Add another one to the list:
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āYes, I said it,ā [fire chief Paul] Smith added afterward. [ā¦] Smith apparently realized that heād made a big mistakeā¦āI am embarrassed at this,ā he said. āI want to apologize. I was frustrated and angry at the Steelers not standing the anthem. This had nothing to do with my Fire Department. I regret what I said.ā
Embarrassed. Regretful. Just not sorry.
Fuck yourself, Paul.
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āmistakes were madeā say the public employees who lecture about YOUR responsibilities to a civil society.
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Even if it were sincere that would be a poor excuse for an apology. Then again if he were sincere he would have offered an actual apology.
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and some just responses near me. Front page in the local rag:
Although, to be fair, even in resignation they donāt get it
āIn a Facebook post, Glynn said his resignation āhas to do with the lack of understanding by the greater community of the offensive nature of comments by many in the community and my personal feelings of a overall jaded pessimism towards the tolerance and respect to those feelings.āā
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I understand and agree with you, but I was responding to her attitude about the degree of racist a person can be, not how transparent.
I believe either you are part of the powerful - and therefore racist, or part of the oppressed, who can be prejudiced but not racist because they donāt benefit from the power imbalance.
I think for the same reasons women can say āmen are trashā, minorities can say we white people are racist because the power imbalance continues.
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Pina saying monkey =/= not a racist statement? Uuuuggggh.
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What a great nonpology she made:
āIt was a mistake to share this message on Facebook and I sincerely apologize to anyone who was offended,ā
I used to have a shred of respect for the state police because theyāre required to be more educated than county or local PD. Thatās all gone now. ::slowclap::
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Iām sure the racial profiling doesnāt extend to her professional lifeā¦ [/s]
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They can make all the anti-gay cakes they want. No one is stopping them. But if theyāre going to sell to the publicā¦
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Yeah, but be careful not to lambaste people describing folks with win/lose attitudes and black/white thinking as the one with, or responsible for, that attitude or thinking pattern.
Describing extreme behavior does not make you a win/lose thinker or one with black/white attitudes, nor does it mean as an observer you are incapable of seeing other things or have taken a shallow look at a thing. Itās just a shallow thing, described accurately.
It means that as an observer, when you use an accurate vocabulary on a these extreme behaviors, and 3rd parties with limited personal experience of it attribute the limited things you observe and describe to limitations of your own observations and your own thinking, for saying such black/white things and introducing win/lose concepts.
Being capable of responsibility around the irresponsible, and their enablers, is a total fucking drag.
People canāt imagine it, so with the best of intentions they very much blame victims. Sometimes they just donāt want to imagine it or believe it about the source, and so with less pure intentions, they blame victims. Or sometimes theyāre just sadists, with every intention to blame victims. Theyāre real too. Each is an evil act, further victimizing.
Iām not so worried about perfect fairness when evil is on the table, are you?
Kushner = Slumlord
āTenants of the Baltimore-area apartment complexes owned by Jared Kushnerās real-estate company have brought a class-action lawsuit against the firmās property management arm over its aggressive pursuit of tenants for allegedly unpaid rent.ā
āThe routine practice of charging tenants illegal fees combined with filing eviction proceedings against tenants who have paid their rent on time is predatory and destructive to hard-working Marylanders and their families. This is yet another example of corporations profiting from deceptive policies,ā
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