Quote (Black XistenZ @ 19 Feb 2021 03:29)
Like I said: the Bernie 2016 approach of colorblind investment in all poor communities is the correct path forward - it will automatically reduce racial inequality without pitting races against each other. Move in against explicit discrimination, but do it in targetted fashion instead of 'guilt by association'.
Generally speaking: the main cleavage in American politics should be rich vs poor, not white vs non-white. It really baffles me that even high IQ people like you fail to see how modern identity politics are a deliberate (!!) distraction amped up by the billionaire class via their allies in politics, media, NGOs and academia. It's textbook "divide and conquer", why cant you guys see that?
It won't work in 95% of those communities. Why do you think people like Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jordon aren't heavily investing their billions into poor black/white/red/yellow/brown communities? Why do you think Bill Gates isn't investing his billions into poor white/black/red/yellow/brown communities? For that matter, why is it, do you think, that poor communities tend to stay poor?
If your community is burned down every 3-6 months in riots, what use is it to invest? Who benefits? If gang violence and related crime is so through the roof, and kids are dropping out to join those gangs, or while they're still a tad young to drop out, are simply skipping out, does it matter if some school administrators get a few million extra added to administrative staff paychecks?
If you have methed out community, where 80% of the males are convicted felons, meth production is everywhere, and 95% of the females are single mothers on welfare, can you find the labor to even properly staff a business?
You can't just "throw money" at a problem. Look at Baltimore. "Racist policing". Okay, so they replaced their primarily white police force. Trained up a bunch of black police, transferred black police in, and in general, made their department black. Did that stop the riots, did that stop rioters from attacking them, firebombing them, and shooting them? Did it stop the outcry and proceeding riot when a black police officer, who was actively being shot at returned fire in self defense? Of course not.
Bernie's an idiot who held up Venezuela as the model example on why socialism works. How'd that go? It led to a crashed authoritarian state where a wheel barrow of money won't buy you a single roll of toilet paper, the population is starving and without proper medical care or services, while the "President" sits fat and happy in his palace.
This post was edited by InsaneBobb on Feb 19 2021 06:51am