Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 14:20:56 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: BLM and Rittenhouse Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv References: <17c1554881e6f860$47316$3081049$52d51861@news.newsdemon.com> <03en0jpsu4ilqgok615mt8t1a6jfp6poe0@4ax.com> <17c2979931d751bb$80145$2218499$46d50c60@news.newsdemon.com> <17c2a38abc279064$139627$3265$48d50260@news.newsdemon.com> Content-Language: en-US From: moviePig In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 36 Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:20:58 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 2666 Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17c2d8242c00cc24$139915$3265$48d50260@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 3045 On 4/3/2024 5:36 AM, The Horny Goat wrote: > On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 22:17:03 -0400, moviePig wrote: > >>>> If a society inherits a racist component, as ours has, what measures can >>>> address it that can't be (mis)labeled 'racist' by those so inclined? >>> >>> Your question rests on a false premise with your use of the word >>> 'mislabeled'. >> >> Your best response is to cavil at my parenthetical editorializing? >> > If despite the racial progress made both legally and in every other > way is STILL considered racist (and the BLM people DO demonize MLK for > advocating equality of opportunity rather than equality of results) > then why persist with legal equality? > > Obviously that's a rhetorical question but my point is that the BLM + > company definition of "justice" and "equality" (which is the same as > the DEI definition which is 'equality of results" not opportunity) is > positively obscene. > > Go back and re-read the ENTIRE "I have a dream" speech and don't just > pay attention to the last minute of it (which is all most of us > remember). If you pay attention to the first half of the speech you'll > see King rips several states quite hard for racism before he gets to > the part about his children that we all remember. > > https://www.npr.org/2010/01/18/122701268/i-have-a-dream-speech-in-its-entirety > > For my money the first half is at least as important as his inspiring > finale. The rub occurs when "racist" measures are needed to hasten the advent of equal opportunity. E.g., for blacks to be accepted as doctors, a few have to be coerced into (also coerced) medical schools.