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Apex73

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  1. I mean if you mean by cooperate to just agree 100 percent with all the demands that is just compliance not cooperation.
  2. I also think a lot of the real issues get conflated with just overall sjw nonsense. Which isn't fair. But the fact that we've had a lot of people in the country screaming about nonsense and aligning themselves with black people isn't doing anyone any favors. Now it's harder to make the distinction between black people going through real issues and just sjw nonsense. Sucks.
  3. Yea I don't think that is what this is about. That would make sense if they were all demanding like cars or material bullshit but this is different.
  4. Yea twitter's main problem is it's limited amount of caricatures allows people to generalize what someone says and take it completely out of context very easily.
  5. Ive been saying that for years now. Nuance almost seems completely lost in today's society at least in the way we listen.
  6. Both sides need to listen carefully to each other. Compromise rarely happens when people are demanding and screaming or tone deaf and dismissive.
  7. Glad he's taking the time to do this. I don't 100 percent agree with all of it but it's a conversation that needs to be had. Good for him.
  8. Well in a sense he has but a lot of that is on him.
  9. Don't feed the political troll dude. You are arguing with the equivalent of a light post.
  10. Yea once again there all different viewpoints on this issue and none of them are necessarily wrong but she comes off like she's not really willing to listen.
  11. They are kids. Kids today are all about instant gratification. And when they don't get it they throw a fit on social media. But hopefully the conversation is headed in the right direction.
  12. Everyone is just venting and nobody is listening. You have to have a conversation from a similar starting point meaning agreeing on what the facts are not letting your opinion dominate the conversation. Everyone is starting from opposite ends and not moving towards each other at all. We are all guilty of it.
  13. Dude I never said I was withdrawing anything from the school. I said I donate a lot of money every year so I felt my concerns were valid. I never said I was going to stop giving money to the school. And I don't have vast wealth. You are assuming quite a lot.
  14. I didn't blame you for anything. And yes even though Ive changed my opinion that doesn't mean I didn't have anything of substance to add before I did. I'm saying if you're going to continue to come after me over a trivial issue like the song then you have no interest in having dialogue. You just want to smash people with different opinions than you. Which on a message board I guess is fine but I'm not going to engage in conversation with you anymore if you have nothing of substance to add.
  15. It was but that's neither here nor there at this point. Are you going to continue to come after me or be apart of having a productive conversation? Because it sounds like its more important for you to be right at this moment than have anything of substance to add.
  16. I think that's a real trivial thing to be upset about personally but like I said, not everyone has tough skin and thinks about things like that the way I do. I think we have and continue to make this a place where people feel welcome based on the countless testimonies of friends, classmates, former players, and everyone involved. The overall experience has been remarkably positive. But I agree that it gets the ball rolling in the right direction.
  17. Not that it doesn't exist to a certain degree, but the problem with white privilege is it's often used as a way to shut down conversation meaning you can't have an opinion on this topic because you are white which is absurd. I just don't think that term is an effective way of having a productive dialogue about sensitive issues like these. It alienates people who might otherwise agree with everything you say because it comes from a place of racial divide.
  18. I disagree because they don't seem to have a well laid out plan. I still think this will die down in a few weeks and everyone is going to think job well done and it's over until the next time something bad happens. Maybe they do, but I doubt it since they are kids. If I know anything about today's 18-22 year olds, it's all about instant gratification. And they will probably get that, and I'm afraid it will take something else horrible to exact actual change. But hey, Rome wasn't built in a day.
  19. After a deep conversation with myself and one of my friends, and examining my own unconscious bias, I have changed my opinion and come to the conclusion that systemic racism does exist. Particularly in since of two things. 1. The drug wars long lasting effects on the community. 2. And politicians constantly zoning lower income predominantly black neighborhoods into the inner cities. This has created a long lasting effect on the populations that grow up in these neighborhoods. Not all obviously because I come from a similar lower class neighborhood in Southeast Dallas. I should take notice that myself and my friends resilience to be able to come out of that isn't shared by everyone in that community and that's not their fault because they are set up to fail. You couple that with the other facts that most of the people I grew up around didn't have fathers and you have no direction and what seems like no hope. So you are crippled before you even start the race. And I consider myself very lucky to have a father even though he was an abusive asshole. I would like to continue the dialogue with a more open mind and heart going forward. Sometimes even at my age I forget that I can't expect everyone to have the same attitude against the odds as I do no matter how helpful I think it might be. However, I do think we are attacking this issue the wrong way and I still believe the kids are going for low hanging fruit but that's what kids do. They don't understand the big picture yet and that's ok. I also think systemic racism is a very amorphous term that's used in so many different ways that it kind of makes the argument unsustainable the way it's presented. And I also stand by what I said that a lot of you are pandering and have too much white guilt because some of the things said have been absolutely ridiculous but I guess some of the things Ive said have been too. I would suggest based on some of the responses Ive got, y'all should do the same thing and have a deep conversation with yourselves. And I think there are still far bigger issues at play facing the whole community. In short, I always will support the team and the players. It was never about shitting on them so much as it was the execution of the ideas. Longhorn for life. Hook Em.
  20. That's really not what I meant by that but if you want to take that out into far left field then that's on you.
  21. I'm aware of what it means. Iv'e studied it extensively. I wasn't trying to frame it as an ethnic issue. I was trying to explain the danger of a collective mindset that subjugates guilt on a group of people. It wasn't about comparing it to the song. It was a response to saying America is full of white privilege. That is targeting a specific group. If you can't understand that then you don't know what words mean. You took everything I said completely out of context in what it was in response too. It wasn't about the song shithead. Btw I love how a song that everyone was fine singing and repping until recently becomes "my little song" once it becomes unpopular. Apparently when it's wrong I have sole ownership. That's rich.
  22. I think it's a pretty ignorant thing to say that I have never been treated unfairly especially on an individual level but I'll play along for now. I will address all of those things in a little bit.
  23. My post wasn't designed to take apart all of those things but I can go into greater detail about all of that and I will shortly. It was designed to show you the madness of collective thinking attributing guilt to a whole group of people.
  24. I explained my case on this above but it doesn't sound like you bothered to read it. What's ridiculous is you think you can just label someone a racist without any evidence of them being racist. There is evidence that people of all races are screwed over to a certain degree but in the 21st century if you are born in America, you have way more privileges than people born anywhere else. And the data doesn't back your claim. This is what people do when they have no argument. They label you as racist, hateful, etc.. if you don't agree with their point of view. You are nothing more than a ideological bully and not a very intimidating one at that.
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