The Glade 4.0

What the **** NF, not everyone that disagrees with you is a blind sheep suckling the teet of Steven Colbert. We have opinions, and they differ from your own! Holy ****, we must be retarded!

/straight face

I don't see anything in those clips that are a big deal.

He talks about being Christian and how he got their through a particular minister (if I recall right that speech was before Wright went off the deep end)
He talks about how the response was different between 3 major disasters (it was) and how it was wrong (it was)
He talks using an accent relative to the audience he's speaking with (an odd political habit but not unique to Obama or dems)

Seriously, in all honest, what do you think I'm missing?

I don't know apparently...

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

Nevermind. Won't matter.

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

The Dems only had a supermajority in the Senate for a handful of months during that 2 years, though. (See http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/did-th ... -how-long/ for the breakdown.) That's not much time to get anything through, especially when Congress in general seems to want to avoid doing any work.

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When he's underwater does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead?

The fact that one might think the response to Katrina was in any way related to race, when the mountain of evidence suggests rank ineptitude, incompetence, mismanagement, and ineffectuality at so many levels indicates that Obama's perception of race is wildly skewed.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Show me where in those clips that Obama mentions or even infers that race is the reason.

I would say they were correct insofar as by 1972 it was gone in its most overt/Jim Crow sense as actual discriminatory laws were gone and court challenges had pretty much failed by 1972. That left another 20 years of rooting out the under-the-table discrimination.



There is no such vast bulk of studies. Racial disparity is not racism. Studies are successful at showing racial disparity, but they cannot demonstrate that it is due to attitudes based on race. Eliminating racism, by itself, does not eliminate racial disparity. It takes a very long time to do so. The previously-discriminated-against are still generally poor and undereducated and that is self-perpetuating regardless of discrimination.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Tell me what other logical reason he would have to make that comparison in that speech.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

When you have a majority, you control the schedule, what comes up for debate, what gets voted on, etc. It's huge. The argument that they are not to blame because they didn't have a super majority is basically saying they couldn't just do whatever they wanted without even conferring with Republicans. If they can't get a LOT done with majorities in both houses, they are completely useless. No, they couldn't just steamroll things through, but come on.

I'm more on the side of uselessness. Buncha worthless **** we got running this country.

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Holy shitsnacks!

My 6 year old 1/4th Chinese stepson was spit on punched for being a "dirty Mexican" yesterday. Please tell me more about how racism no longer exists in America.

Well to be fair, a lot of Mexicans don't even like Mexicans.

That's institutional racism that doesn't exist anymore. Something tells me that elementary school children don't represent institutional racism especially when they can't tell which race is which.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Where do you suppose a six year old learned that behavior.

A six year using words like "dirty Mexican" probably learned it from his shit-bag parents.

And those parents couldn't possibly be in a position to hire people? Or award a contract? Or vote?

It depends on the Mexican.

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Holy shitsnacks!

MSNBC

What is it, exactly, that you're trying to get at? Racism exists everywhere, across the globe. White people hate illegal immigrants, black people hate white people, Mexicans hate paisas, Asian societies shun everyone else. Who cares? It is literally part of our nature, we're all a little racist.

1. Voting has zero to do with institutional racism.
2. If they are in a position to award contracts or hire people there are legal avenues to correct any discrimination, and a system that is highly sympathetic to complaints of discrimination, to the point that it's basically guilty until proven innocent.
3. The kid could have learned that almost anywhere. Older sibling or their friends, TV, even parents talking about someone else using the term. Kids repeat all kinds of **** without understanding it.

Sorry about your kid, but anecdtes are anecdotes. Institutional racism is a lot more than just "bigots exist". Especially 6-year-old bigots that can't even accurately identify the targets of their supposed "bigotry".

Finally, as Lenas points out Mexicans don't even like Mexicans that much. Neither do Puerto Ricans. We don't know anything about this kid. Maybe he's black? I know black-hispanic bigotry is common. I can hear Mexican men using the N-word all the time.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Not to nitpick, but do you believe this statement is still accurate if you take out the word "illegal"? Do white people hate immigrants?

Because if the "illegal" is necessary, I think you're missing the point. Perhaps it's the "illegal" that's the problem, and not race.

What's a paisa?

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Holy shitsnacks!

I think it's a recently immigrated Mexican that doesn't speak much English.

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