Everything posted by Bozo_Casanova
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The Lost Generation essay
What? No. One of the weirdest things about this thread is the conflation of empathy, which is merely an effort to understand and accept the reality of another person’s experience and view of the world with some kind of performance, like an admission or apology or explanation or whatever. It’s just super odd.
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The Lost Generation essay
Exactly
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The Lost Generation essay
Evidently the counter argument to that position is “quit blaming minorities,” and “bringing back racial covenants.”
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The Lost Generation essay
If this means that it was something I thought was worth talking about, indeed that’s why I wrote that. No. That’s not what that means, which is only what it says- if I personally were a millennial male who was denied opportunity, I would be bitter about it, and I have to imagine a subset of those people (ie “a few”) were radicalized by the experience. Thank you for a close read, however: That is not my worldview or anything like it, so let me make this clear: - I very much do blame our current situation on affluent white progressives for abandoning majoritarian middle class economic interests in favor of narrow social issues and reinforcing their own economic security and social status. - I have NEVER proposed giving back goddamn inch on anything, particularly when it comes to opening up opportunities in the workplace. - I spent a good bit of my career working on this stuff, which is why I’m trying to be thoughtful about how we could have done more and better. Hope that helps. As for the screed at the bottom, it’s got nothing to do with me, what I think, what I said, or what I do, but if it made you feel better to get it out, I’m glad.
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Media Bias Thread
I can’t find it, but apparently they had DOJ and DOD on the record. That’s the executive branch, ie, the White House. Meanwhile, Megyn Kelly can’t decide who to be today:
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The Lost Generation essay
Yeah I was like “don’t give up on the ticket scalping.”
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25-26 Dallas Mavericks Thread: The Season of Our Discontent
“That’s not the game these days” because elite 3s that can attack the rim through traffic are so rare.
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The Lost Generation essay
Totally agree, and it illustrates how intellectually captive we’ve become. Fixing this is a handful of pretty straightforward changes to the tax code. But in order to do that, you need a major political movement to capture a political party and put the economic solidarity of the middle 60% of net worth ahead of literally everything else. I don’t mean it has to exclude everything else. The opposite- it can’t exclude anyone as long as they are willing to put economic solidarity first.
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Wordle [spoilers inevitable but discouraged]
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Trump’s America
Worth mentioning that the English who invaded were also French
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Media Bias Thread
Is that right? Wow
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The Lost Generation essay
I should hope so. I repeatedly said it did. My viewpoint “started” because what the author of the essay described aligns with my (and others who also posted) first hand experience as an older person watching/involved in the hiring/promotion/layoff process while we tried to correct historical underrepresentation of women and minorities. I questioned how much we accomplished at the time because it seemed like the people benefitting were already mostly products of extraordinary privilege and it had zero impact on the power structures involved, but I really hadn’t thought about the cost or negative impact in generational terms. Indeed, so I’m not sure what it has to do with what I posted. It would be asinine to suggest that diversity efforts are the primary reason millennials or even millennial males struggle, and it would also be inconsistent with hundreds or perhaps thousands of observations on the labor economy I’ve posted here and in previous incarnations of this community over the last 20+ years. I’m not sure what you think my worldview is. That’s why I asked about my angle.
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Media Bias Thread
Ouch: a thread
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Media Bias Thread
Get em Yash The 60 Minutes Story Bari Weis spiked
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The Lost Generation essay
I have no idea what this means. What’s my angle?
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The Lost Generation essay
Where’s the fun in that?
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The Lost Generation essay
Neither. It means to sit with them in their feelings, listen, and not argue with them or attempt to explain them away. It’s what separates empathy from sympathy.
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The Lost Generation essay
Could’ve been a lot worse. apparently “Frodo” was in the mix.
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The Lost Generation essay
Yes, I agree with you and I made no such proposal that was something we should do in order to get people back into a voting coalition. I think we have to meet people where they are to confort them, and we have to accept the truth of their personal experience do them. But that is a far cry from validating their most corrosive and misplaced resentments. The upshot of the essay, after all, was that minorities and women didn’t do anything wrong. They just got jobs.
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The Lost Generation essay
I got the impression that he didn’t read it based on his reaction, which seemed to be more of a reflexive response to a light skin, but if you did in fact read it, @wildcat09, I apologize. This: What proposal? Why would anybody ever talk to an angry kid that way? It’s pure projection and totally bizarre.
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The Lost Generation essay
I dealt with this for years, because I have a very unusual ethnic name. When I was a kid it meant the Church of Christ elders coming to my house to tell my folks we were going to hell, and my grandparents initially refusing to call my by my first name. When I got older it was unreturned phone calls and jobs I didn’t get an interview for. I know a lot of blacks and Hispanics who have been in the same boat and I’m not going to judge anybody for anglicizing their name or using an alternative. I didn’t make that choice personally, because it was their loss, not mine. I’m way past that point now, but I’m glad I didn’t give up my name to accommodate bigotry.
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The Lost Generation essay
No, because it was sloppy argumentation. You didn’t read the piece before you reacted, and then compensated by putting thoughts and motivations into the minds of people you don’t know, and then proposed a truly bizarre counterfactual scenario that involved me taking a position I wouldn’t. We’ve interacted enough that you know I try to give as good as I get, which is what I did then, too. That’s why i dismissed it that way.
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The Lost Generation essay
I am not white enough to understand the analogy
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The Lost Generation essay
Good post. Two things 1) In the bolded above you’re saying they “lost privilege.” I don’t think they had it to lose, but were denied opportunities. It’s a narrow but important distinction, but we agree that the most privileged people did not lose much if anything when efforts were made to establish a level of parity. 2)We haven’t really talked about this, but my own observations of the period was that the people who did benefit were themselves almost always enjoying other forms of privilege - affluent, well connected, etc. To the extent that “greater diversity” was achieved, it came at a cost of making class and power structures even more rigid and impenetrable.
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