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I don't have any problem with anyone arguing that 99-100% of poverty is all due to discrimination. The issue is how to we approach resolving it? Whatever the cause, poverty is poverty, so let's solve poverty in a color-blind way, because a color-blind approach can still solve a problem created by color based discrimination.

I don't think these disparities aren't serious issues. I just don't think they are as serious as some other existential threats, as well as the general idiocracy affecting a large swath of our population.

If people follow what I propose then it won't "plague" the country, even though there will always be disparities that remain, with the idea that we at some point get to a point where disparities are based on choice and not discrimination. My post outlined a way to resolve economic disparities in a color blind way and then on top of that stressed that lingering vestiges of discrimination should still be addressed. I don't expect all issues to vanish on a particular day, but I think this is how we can actually begin addressing them. I think addressing economic disparity via racial preferences is an inefficient way to address economic disparity.

Eliminate all race based criteria in education and government contracting and replace with economic based affirmative action. All social programs should be designed to affirmatively help those in economic need. To the extent persons of color make up a higher proportion of persons in need, they will receive a higher proportion of government aid. (Poor people should get tuition and room and board and stipend to go to a public university/vocational college with no loan burdens.) While this is occurring, establish programs in the Dept. of Education and DOL and other relevant executive departments that focus on how current economic affirmative action will fall short of combating disparities due to historic discrimination and injustice and create programs to resolve those shortfalls. The idea would be that we would get massive consensus on color blind aid to the currently economically disadvantaged, and still have our pissing matches when we deal with more complex matters based on historical injustices that took root long before any of us were born and whose advantage or disadvantage due to that injustice are hard to measure.

Sarcasm? Which of these dangers would you eliminate first? 1) Climate change? 2) the threat of nuclear annihilation?, 3) The social disruption caused by the lessening need for human labor? 4) the legacy of African slavery in the US (presumably the elimination of wealth and income disparities between white and black)?

Ultimately, all I really want of my fellow citizens is to listen to the news critically (OP, you KNOW what they mean when they say COVID disproportionately affects people of color, so even though you sorted it out in your post, just assume other people know what it means and they aren't tying themselves in knots over it) AND to have some empathy. I don't care if you don't think certain policies (reparations) make sense. I care if you waste time arguing against or whining about what everyone knows - that in general people of color have had more disadvantages than whites in this country and that this fact explains lots of shit.

Shitloads of insufferability + slorch's inevitable talking points = DonkeyCigars?

Mine are all about the 50 year old transgendered woman playing roundball for some Bay Area Junior College. "Why aren't all the radical feminists up in arms about this!? When will the madness stop!"

You know, one day, Judy Woodruff will be dead, and you'll say, "Oh, yes, I've been listening to her work for years."

Your blood pressure would be lowered if you just stop all news sources and start listening to Rachel Maddow.

On the one hand, he looks like a trailer park guy from Ozark. On the other, that's my pandemic hair style.

So does "crowd sourced" mean he's banned, because I treat my neg rep like Mahot McGhandi treated his ejacalit, and I don't want to waste it.

I've got a grandson coming along and he's not going to watch any of that shit. I'm just going to have a copy of Spirited Away around if he needs some animation but other than that we'll just watch nature shows, Three Stooges and Russian silent films.

Thanks, Sleepy Joe!

Yeah, that complete misrepresentation of the 202-21-1 Energy Dept. Order is just a lift from InfoWars, which also mischaracterizes a Dallas Business Journal article, blaming all the rate bumps on Biden. I made a polite correction to the disinformation to my one "cut and paste" MAGA buddy on facebook earlier today.

I'd try the 1992 version with Daniel Day Lewis. I thought it left all the meat off the bone.

Have had a hard time pronouncing "Judas" since seeing Along Came Polly.

I'm starting to get pissed off at you assholes.

In terms of priorities on the tech front, where does it rank?

Ha ha. Princeton roommate Craig Mazin: “Ted Cruz is a nightmare of a human being. I have plenty of problems with his politics, but truthfully his personality is so awful that 99 percent of why I hate him is just his personality. If he agreed with me on every issue, I would hate him only one percent less.”

Lots of bottled water plus this little propane indoor heater, plenty of little propane tanks, and extra CO detector. T That's really it. We'll get enough dry food to get by. I just don't want to freeze.

Amsterdam. I think Brisket would dig it the most.