You should judge people as individuals, not simply based on their race or gender.
Privilege is not an attribute of an individual. It is a status that society proffers based upon an attribute or set of attributes.
I do not blame you for being elevated beyond your abilities or innate qualities. I blame society. You're just the lucky beneficiary who otherwise wouldn't be able to cut the mustard. And yes, I mean you as an individual. Now I might blame you for lacking the awareness to recognize the benefits you have been afforded, however. Again, I mean you personally.
Really? Both sides have dummies, that's a given. Wanna see some links to BLM or anti-Trump riots? Those are not geniuses in the crowds. How about the ObamaPhone six-time voter of 2012? Poking fun at the low end of either side isn't productive.
Yeah, but the low end of your side is now in charge.
As a white male with a disability that makes it difficult to keep a job (companies don't follow anti-discrimination laws despite being able to do the work), I consider anyone saying white males have innate privileges for being white and male to be illegal hate speech against me. Please remove all content referencing male privileges and ban the related accounts.
Saying "You are privileged because you are white and male" isn't hate speech, no matter what you pretend.
Saying, "Cripples like you shouldn't be allowed to hold jobs that would be better off with able-bodied people and you shouldn't be allowed to procreate and should just be shoved into ovens which would save society a lot of money, plus you all smell bad and are whiny parasites on the rest of us." is probably hate speech.
Do you see the difference, or does your disability preclude you from having any discernment whatsoever?
It does not mean precisely what you think it does. Trump has total and complete control of all houses of government, plus now the supreme court, and him and his party has complete freedom to quickly ram through their entire, radical agenda, which his appointments make clear he will do.
Right now he barely has control of his Twitter feed. And one thing that people on your side of the aisle are learning quickly, it's that things probably aren't going to work out the way you thought they would when you voted for him.
Second, that popular vote "winning margin" is almost entirely in California...if you subtract California from both candidates' total votes, trump won the popular vote.
And if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle. You wanna start subtracting states? Can we subtract Texas, South Carolina and Mississippi too while we're at it?
The majority of Americans have accepted that the election is over and that Donald Trump won.
They also accept that he got 3 million fewer votes than his opponent. Will he be president? Almost certainly. Will he have a mandate? Certainly not. Will he be considered legitimate at any point in the 18 to 30 months he'll be president? Nope.
One group says "I don't believe in this global warming stuff - it has the same pattern as everything else the left made up to seize power." The experts say "the science is settled, shut up you denier". Result: Trump is president.
That's an interesting take. I guess that means that when Obama won two elections and leaves office with a higher popularity than Ronald Reagan, during those eight years climate change was real?
Or are Trump voters kind of stupid people? I heard Ann Coulter today complaining that Donald Trump is betraying his supporters. She remarked, "It's not my fault".
Despite the fact that she wrote a book titled, "In Trump We Trust". Yes, it appears that Trump supporters make up most of the ass end of the Bell Curve. I assume you've joined their brilliant #DumpKellogs boycott in which they buy Kellogs products and then post selfies of them dumping out those products. That they just bought. Before that, they held a boycott of Starbucks in which they went to Starbucks, bought a $6 coffee and then forced the girl at the counter to write "Trump" on their cup. Not quite clear on the whole, "boycott" concept, but they sure are enthusiastic.
So here what: Trump and his supporters will not be normalized. There will be no point over the next two years when Donald Trump is accepted as President in any normal sense. And when it comes right down to it, there are 3 million more people who voted for someone everybody hated instead of Trump. He's going to have a hard time claiming any mandate or legitimacy. He's the second Republican president in a row who got fewer people to vote for him than the losing candidate, and he has to make sure to stop any effort to actually count all the votes and audit the election process in order to hold on to power. He's already a lame duck and he hasn't been sworn in yet.
Experts thought the knew the outcome to a 98% certainty at its highest, and on election night, is only went down to somewhere in the 80's and in the end got it totally wrong.
Not totally wrong. The winning margin in the popular vote, which is now approaching 3 million, is almost exactly where most of the "experts" put it.
As for the Electoral College, those votes still haven't been cast and the recounts haven't taken place. Expect an interesting few weeks.
Ronald Reagan not only supported and armed the Taliban, but he also gave arms to Iran. If he hadn't played the part, very convincingly, of a senile old man, he would have gone to jail along with Oliver North.
The media coined a phrase early in Bush's presidency. It was call 'mcjobs' and they went out of there way to 'explain' that even though X jobs were added most were 'mcjobs' and not 'real' jobs.
Can you cite an example besides your memory of what the "media" did? One link to "mcjobs" will do.
"that word doesn't mean what you think it does" regarding "decimate"
I'm pretty sure Stephen Hawking knows what "decimate" means, and his use is absolutely correct.
Either definition is true. Automation has already reduced a large percentage of the jobs in manufacturing (def. 1) and has at least replaced one in ten workers in traditional manufacturing (def. 2).
That Stephen Hawking. He think's he's so smart, amirite?
Just in case their crazy-sounding warning happens to come true.
It's all those Marxist SJWs in the US Military pushing their climate change agenda based on a Chinese hoax just so they can get money from George Soros.
Give me a second, and I'll work in a reference to #pizzagate, pedophilia, third-wave feminism and corrupt games journalists.
That's why I always carry at least two, and some crack just in case.
OK, OK. You guys made your point.
I should have said, "possession of marijuana in Tennessee and Florida is a felony for as little as 3/4 ounce. I could find more than that in the shag rug under my coffee table."
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Privilege is not an attribute of an individual. It is a status that society proffers based upon an attribute or set of attributes.
I do not blame you for being elevated beyond your abilities or innate qualities. I blame society. You're just the lucky beneficiary who otherwise wouldn't be able to cut the mustard. And yes, I mean you as an individual. Now I might blame you for lacking the awareness to recognize the benefits you have been afforded, however. Again, I mean you personally.
I'm not attributing anything to him. I'm attributing privilege to whiteness and maleness, which is provable.
Yeah, but the low end of your side is now in charge.
Saying "You are privileged because you are white and male" isn't hate speech, no matter what you pretend.
Saying, "Cripples like you shouldn't be allowed to hold jobs that would be better off with able-bodied people and you shouldn't be allowed to procreate and should just be shoved into ovens which would save society a lot of money, plus you all smell bad and are whiny parasites on the rest of us." is probably hate speech.
Do you see the difference, or does your disability preclude you from having any discernment whatsoever?
This coming from someone who believed Barack Obama wasn't a legitimate president because of his skin color.
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Right now he barely has control of his Twitter feed. And one thing that people on your side of the aisle are learning quickly, it's that things probably aren't going to work out the way you thought they would when you voted for him.
We'll see what happens.
And if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle. You wanna start subtracting states? Can we subtract Texas, South Carolina and Mississippi too while we're at it?
They also accept that he got 3 million fewer votes than his opponent. Will he be president? Almost certainly. Will he have a mandate? Certainly not. Will he be considered legitimate at any point in the 18 to 30 months he'll be president? Nope.
See my link to the history of the Muslim Brotherhood elsewhere in this thread.
They were started and encouraged by the anti-Communist right-wing in the US.
That's an interesting take. I guess that means that when Obama won two elections and leaves office with a higher popularity than Ronald Reagan, during those eight years climate change was real?
Or are Trump voters kind of stupid people? I heard Ann Coulter today complaining that Donald Trump is betraying his supporters. She remarked, "It's not my fault".
Despite the fact that she wrote a book titled, "In Trump We Trust". Yes, it appears that Trump supporters make up most of the ass end of the Bell Curve. I assume you've joined their brilliant #DumpKellogs boycott in which they buy Kellogs products and then post selfies of them dumping out those products. That they just bought. Before that, they held a boycott of Starbucks in which they went to Starbucks, bought a $6 coffee and then forced the girl at the counter to write "Trump" on their cup. Not quite clear on the whole, "boycott" concept, but they sure are enthusiastic.
Here are some more enthusiastic Trump supporters:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11...
So here what: Trump and his supporters will not be normalized. There will be no point over the next two years when Donald Trump is accepted as President in any normal sense. And when it comes right down to it, there are 3 million more people who voted for someone everybody hated instead of Trump. He's going to have a hard time claiming any mandate or legitimacy. He's the second Republican president in a row who got fewer people to vote for him than the losing candidate, and he has to make sure to stop any effort to actually count all the votes and audit the election process in order to hold on to power. He's already a lame duck and he hasn't been sworn in yet.
Not totally wrong. The winning margin in the popular vote, which is now approaching 3 million, is almost exactly where most of the "experts" put it.
As for the Electoral College, those votes still haven't been cast and the recounts haven't taken place. Expect an interesting few weeks.
Let's see who the snowflakes are. In the past week or so, Trump supporters have been triggered by:
1. A Broadway play.
2. Starbucks
3. cornflakes
The main Trump, Donald even tweeted a demand for a safe space at the theater:
https://twitter.com/realDonald...
There is nobody more sensitive and thin-skinned than a Donald Trump supporter.
Unlike you, he was able to pass the entrance exam.
Here is the history of the Muslim Brotherhood and it's connection to US anti-Communist groups.
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2...
He sold weapons to Iran, who used them to spread terror.
The Muslim Brotherhood was formed with help from American anti-Communists. It doesn't have anything to do with the Left.
No, sorry, you're wrong.
Ronald Reagan not only supported and armed the Taliban, but he also gave arms to Iran. If he hadn't played the part, very convincingly, of a senile old man, he would have gone to jail along with Oliver North.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Can you cite an example besides your memory of what the "media" did? One link to "mcjobs" will do.
And that New Deal led to the most prosperous period in US history, and FDR was elected president four times.
Call me when Donald Trump wins his fourth presidential election.
So, Franklin D. Roosevelt was not a leftist? The New Deal was not leftist? You mean you've been bullshitting about him for all these years?
Back to the Breitbart of Deplorables for you, lad.
Last time you guys tried that, SJWs and leftards kicked your ass all the way back to the bunker, Adolf.
I can assure you that peeing on a computer will not necessarily kill it.
Please don't ask me how I came by this information.
I'm pretty sure Stephen Hawking knows what "decimate" means, and his use is absolutely correct.
Either definition is true. Automation has already reduced a large percentage of the jobs in manufacturing (def. 1) and has at least replaced one in ten workers in traditional manufacturing (def. 2).
That Stephen Hawking. He think's he's so smart, amirite?
There hasn't been an ACORN since 2010. You may not have seen that on your favorite fake news site.
It's all those Marxist SJWs in the US Military pushing their climate change agenda based on a Chinese hoax just so they can get money from George Soros.
Give me a second, and I'll work in a reference to #pizzagate, pedophilia, third-wave feminism and corrupt games journalists.
Could you give an example? I think you might be misremembering (as GWB put it).
When it comes to economic news, the media seems to be pretty evenly distributed across a center-right section of the spectrum. .
OK, OK. You guys made your point.
I should have said, "possession of marijuana in Tennessee and Florida is a felony for as little as 3/4 ounce. I could find more than that in the shag rug under my coffee table."
Happy now?