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by dctoedt 3y ago
> the only people calling me “colored” are woke white people. We can be confident that when "woke white people" use the term "colored" today, their intent is very different than it generally was in the South of th
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by dctoedt 3y ago
BTW, the "woke white Republicans" bit was a joke ... as indicated by the typed smiley-face, a widespread (albeit perhaps-dated) typographic convention.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> I have never met a white Republican remotely as racist as Indians, Bangladeshis, Arabs, Vietnamese, and Chinese people I’ve encountered. So maybe even white Republicans are "woke" by comparison? :-) PS do you mean "the
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Why would southern racist democrats switch to the party that had supported the civil rights act even more strongly? Because the GOP — having had their electoral asses whipped for decades, looking for a way back into power, and with t
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Dems didn't "know" they'd be losing the South, but LBJ certainly feared it. He, of course, was the one who pushed the Civil Rights Act through the Southern-dominated Senate; Bill Moyers recounted that: "When he [LBJ
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Nobody opposes legal equality. Possibly that's true now. It was quite different in the South 50 and 60 years ago. (I grew up mostly in the South during that time period: my USAF dad was stationed at different places there.) And
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> But the place I liked doesn’t exist anymore, and the place it is now I don’t like so much—just as a matter of cultural preference. Why isn’t that a perfectly reasonable basis for opposing immigration? Each of us certainly has our cul
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> The super-majority of every group still marries within their group .... That certainly might be the case for the first couple of generations. But it's a movie, not a snapshot. My own kids have ancestry from six different countri
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> People from different cultures are different. Not because of race, but because of cultural socialization, which persists for generations even in a new host country. You've said that your wife's family has been in this count
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by dctoedt 3y ago
I've long used Emacs and org-mode for all my legal writing for Web posting, including my course materials (which have turned out to be a pretty-long PDF for print-on-demand). I once tried to use Microsoft Word, but in really-large docu
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Years ago I read that the first Rothschilds to go into banking (men, of course) were not especially attractive. Financial success supposedly helped successive generations of the men to marry attractive women, so that later generations of me
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> I think American public servants are lazy, overpaid, and unskilled, yes. Sweeping generalizations much?
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by dctoedt 3y ago
I think they'd also say laissez rouler les bon temps (let roll the good times) as proper French grammar.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
Interesting: By that definition (which is very appealing, especially the "Irish" analogy), a Nigerian-born American would not count as "Black" but as "black"?
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> I received a letter for a missing cable in the car and I have been charged 950€. You didn't mistype an extra zero on the end?
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Does anyone know if Amex does something similar? If Chase does this successfully, we can expect every other bank to follow suit.
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> State-level regulation enables greater accountability to local constituents, empowering communities to shape labor policies directly. In theory, yes. In practice: 1. State legislators are heavily influenced by local trade associati
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> I think you might have a federalism problem I don't recall seeing the word federalism in the Constitution. Yeah, there's the Tenth Amendment. But one could make a compelling textualist argument — and perhaps even a histor
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> But because in my culture married couples assimilate into the husband’s family, the kids are being raised with a strong dose of Bangladeshi traditionalism. But your kids aren't watching Bangladeshi TV, are they? And I'm gue
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> core cultural values, such as levels of social trust and attitudes towards the nature of government, are durable across generations Interesting. Does that take into account the mixing of cultures as the generations go by? My own immi
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> created a top-down society that can scarcely be called America. Really? The U.S. is notably less top-down than many other places that either of us could name. And nostalgia for an imagined bygone "British" past is unproduct
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Looking at migrants is a misleading indicator of preference, because the choice to emigrate is an aberrational one. Sure, most people don't emigrate. That doesn't mean it's misleading that the U.S. is the migration des
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> The accommodation of vast numbers of immigrants Let's not forget that (European) immigrants were mostly wanted, so as to provide needed workers. Even the Chinese immigrants of the 19th century were wanted to help build railroa
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> The resulting country is also completely ungovernable. Another way to look at it: By any reasonable measure — and for all its indisputable problems — the U.S. is clearly the most successful large, multi-ethnic society in all of huma
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> State governments are not governments of enumerated powers. They inherited the plenary authority of the British parliament, and have general police powers to regulate the health, welfare, and morals of citizens. How fortunate then th
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Punishment should be good enough deterrent for others. On that subject: The Russians seem to have leaked videos of the accused ISIS terrorists being tortured: "Though the goriest clips were not shown on state television, the bru
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> Nuclear power was “shovel ready” by 1960. The unpredictable fundamental research was done and the “investment” that remained was to build power plants. Shovel-ready, perhaps. But consistent-safe-operation-ready? Highly debatable. (So
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> [Containment] can work, or it might not Well then if it might not work, I suppose we should just let Tsar Vladimir — abetted by his kleptocratic henchmen and his millions of state-media-deluded followers — do whatever TF seems good
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> This is nothing more than "containment" policy, an attempt to restrict another power's freedom of action, which only works as long as they're weak enough to be imposed on. Containment worked with the Soviet Union
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by dctoedt 3y ago
> And they cost us half a century of progress on decarbonization in the process. They also likely prevented more Chernobyls and Fukushimas. Whether that was a net gain is something that can be debated, of course.

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