MeisterEckhart wrote on Jul 17^th, 2022 at 10:11am:


Given this is your bizarre hate fantasy, I won't bother asking for evidence

Wait, let me expose your ignorance.

Prove it

greggerypeccary wrote on Jul 17^th, 2022 at 10:38am:

Here he is. You've wheeled your dad out again.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Jul 16^th, 2022 at 8:13pm:


Individual self-reliance associated with self-interest, personal responsibility**,  anti government-regulation of private sector activity, 'laissez faire',  small government, meaning low taxation - except for national defense, associated with nationalism and anti -internationalism.

**the only worthy item on this list which can be part of promoting universal well-being and security.

Didn't you know? 

Kendi’s thesis—that if the races are equal, then racial disparities can owe only to racism and must be rectified through “antiracist discrimination”—is a simplistic reiteration of critical race theory’s core concepts. As journalist Aaron Sibarium has documented, Kendi has borrowed ideas from critical race theory and translated them into a media-friendly narrative. “When I see racial disparities, I see racism,” Kendi says, excluding other explanations. His logic often descends into circularity: when asked to define the word “racism,” he told attendees at the Aspen Ideas Festival that it is “a collection of racist policies that lead to racial inequity that are substantiated by racist ideas.”

In another nod to 1960s-style radicalism, Kendi also claims to oppose capitalism. “The life of racism cannot be separated from the life of capitalism,” he says. “In order to truly be antiracist, you also have to truly be anti-capitalist.” But Kendi, like fellow traveler Patrisse Cullors of Black Lives Matter, is a prolific capitalist in his personal life. He charged Fairfax County schools $20,000 an hour for a virtual presentation and has merchandised his entire line of ideas, releasing self-help products and even an “antiracist” baby book. He has accepted millions from tech and pharmaceutical companies on behalf of his Antiracism Center. Fighting against capitalism, as it turns out, is a lucrative enterprise.

Posturing aside, Kendi’s actual proposals, from “defunding the police” to restricting free speech, are alarming. Kendi advocates race-based discrimination, arguing that “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.” He proposes a federal Department of Antiracism that would be unaccountable to voters or legislators, permanently funded, and granted the power to suppress “racist ideas” and veto, nullify, or abolish any law at any level of government not deemed “antiracist.”

As Americans begin to consider his ideas more seriously, Kendi finds himself on the defensive. In recent months, he has released a series of short-tempered articles and statements, claiming that “there is no debate about critical race theory” one moment, then distancing himself from critical race theory the next—notwithstanding that, only two weeks before, he had claimed that critical race theory was “foundational” to his work. When he’s put on the spot, Kendi reverts to word games and deflection, rather than defending his position on substance.

https://www.city-journal.org/ibram-x-kendi-master-marketer

https://www.city-journal.org/search?searchterms=Critical%20race%20theory

Word games, circularity,  deflection - lefty radicals are all like that.

Frank wrote on Jul 17^th, 2022 at 11:43am:


Explain why POC are worse off in every western society.  Explain how Jim Crow was not racism

thegreatdivide wrote on Jul 17^th, 2022 at 11:56am:


This is WHY Democrats and Labor are not left wing