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Wow, there really is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

by xwdv 5y ago

PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago
What is the idea?
- xwdv 5y ago
  It would probably not be healthy for my karma to go deeper.
  - deleted 5y ago
    [deleted]
  - Loughla 5y ago
    Seriously, what idea? This adds nothing to the conversation here.
  - vadfa 5y ago
    Coming to this website every day to get downvoted and flagged is something not to worry about. I mean, have you read the things people say here? The ideas that are popular? Do you really want to be "the upvoted guy"?
    - xwdv 5y ago
      Some of the happiest days in recent memories have been when a comment I made receives a flood of upvotes. I crave the validation of peers above all else.
- twofornone 5y ago
  I'll say it. People are tired of progressive extremism, like at once insisting that "CRT isn't being taught in schools" while with the other hand supporting CRT inspired school programs that teach racial awareness to children, and in particular white guilt to white children. You can look it up on the VA website, where CRT is explicitly mentioned as a part of primary school curriculum. This is arguably the biggest elephant in the room - independents and moderate democrats are increasingly speaking openly about the fact that the democratic party is overtly anti-white. Search for it on reddit; before today at best such comments would be downvoted and at worst grounds for a ban. Now they're sitting at the top of the comment chains. The election results in NJ and VA so far seem to mark a turning point. Hopefully soon enough to avoid the pendulum swinging back into true reactionary white supremacy - you know, the genocide kind. Meanwhile out of touch limousine liberals are doubling down on twitter and in media and blaming white supremacists for the election upsets. Something's going to break, one way or another.
  - malcolmgreaves 5y ago
    From one white man to another white man: you're not being attacked, democrats aren't anti-white (have you looked at the leadership? very white indeed!), and you are still living in the system that our white ancestors made for us. Other people not being oppressed as much doesn't mean your liberties are at risk. It's OK to teach and learn about how racist people made racist systems. You don't need to feel guilty, unless you are out here actively supporting racist systems? If you're trying to use the social privileges that come with being a white man in America to dismantle racist structures, then you're doing great! If you're tried and don't want to do that work, ok, understandable: just don't throw in your two cents I'd you see other people doing this intense labor.
    - remarkEon 5y ago
      >It's OK to teach and learn about how racist people made racist systems. Read: your ancestors are racist, and made a racist system for you >You don't need to feel guilty, unless you are out here actively supporting racist systems? Read: here comes the guilt trip >If you're trying to use the social privileges that come with being a white man in America to dismantle racist structures, then you're doing great! If you're tried and don't want to do that work, ok, understandable: just don't throw in your two cents I'd you see other people doing this intense labor. Read: there it is. At some point I figured people would realize this Kafkaesque formulation really turns people off. Any disagreement with the premise - any at all - and you are now required to retreat to claiming you're not a "racist" in front of someone who has set the rhetorical boundaries where such a claim is rejected outright, always. I actually think that's really the point, and it's nothing more than a new and pathological way to bully someone.
    - omegaworks 5y ago
      This race has proven that it doesn't actually matter whether or not white people are being attacked (they're not) or whether CRT is even being taught in schools (it's not). Republicans effectively created a media moral panic around "Critical Race Theory" and it paid off for them in spades.
      - 5y ago

Wow, there really is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

by xwdv 5y ago

Wow, there really is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago

What is the idea?

xwdv 5y ago
It would probably not be healthy for my karma to go deeper.
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
- Loughla 5y ago
  Seriously, what idea? This adds nothing to the conversation here.
- vadfa 5y ago
  Coming to this website every day to get downvoted and flagged is something not to worry about. I mean, have you read the things people say here? The ideas that are popular? Do you really want to be "the upvoted guy"?
  - xwdv 5y ago
    Some of the happiest days in recent memories have been when a comment I made receives a flood of upvotes. I crave the validation of peers above all else.
twofornone 5y ago
I'll say it. People are tired of progressive extremism, like at once insisting that "CRT isn't being taught in schools" while with the other hand supporting CRT inspired school programs that teach racial awareness to children, and in particular white guilt to white children. You can look it up on the VA website, where CRT is explicitly mentioned as a part of primary school curriculum. This is arguably the biggest elephant in the room - independents and moderate democrats are increasingly speaking openly about the fact that the democratic party is overtly anti-white. Search for it on reddit; before today at best such comments would be downvoted and at worst grounds for a ban. Now they're sitting at the top of the comment chains. The election results in NJ and VA so far seem to mark a turning point. Hopefully soon enough to avoid the pendulum swinging back into true reactionary white supremacy - you know, the genocide kind. Meanwhile out of touch limousine liberals are doubling down on twitter and in media and blaming white supremacists for the election upsets. Something's going to break, one way or another.
- malcolmgreaves 5y ago
  From one white man to another white man: you're not being attacked, democrats aren't anti-white (have you looked at the leadership? very white indeed!), and you are still living in the system that our white ancestors made for us. Other people not being oppressed as much doesn't mean your liberties are at risk. It's OK to teach and learn about how racist people made racist systems. You don't need to feel guilty, unless you are out here actively supporting racist systems? If you're trying to use the social privileges that come with being a white man in America to dismantle racist structures, then you're doing great! If you're tried and don't want to do that work, ok, understandable: just don't throw in your two cents I'd you see other people doing this intense labor.
  - remarkEon 5y ago
    >It's OK to teach and learn about how racist people made racist systems. Read: your ancestors are racist, and made a racist system for you >You don't need to feel guilty, unless you are out here actively supporting racist systems? Read: here comes the guilt trip >If you're trying to use the social privileges that come with being a white man in America to dismantle racist structures, then you're doing great! If you're tried and don't want to do that work, ok, understandable: just don't throw in your two cents I'd you see other people doing this intense labor. Read: there it is. At some point I figured people would realize this Kafkaesque formulation really turns people off. Any disagreement with the premise - any at all - and you are now required to retreat to claiming you're not a "racist" in front of someone who has set the rhetorical boundaries where such a claim is rejected outright, always. I actually think that's really the point, and it's nothing more than a new and pathological way to bully someone.
  - omegaworks 5y ago
    This race has proven that it doesn't actually matter whether or not white people are being attacked (they're not) or whether CRT is even being taught in schools (it's not). Republicans effectively created a media moral panic around "Critical Race Theory" and it paid off for them in spades.
    - 5y ago