asian americans who look at the scotus decision and think it’s a win for us — it’s not. unless you are a legacy kid or a donor kid, you are never guaranteed a spot in your dream ivy or whatever other private institution you want to go to. forget about not understanding the way the education system is so wholly unequal and broken in this country; meritocracy is a myth, and only the people at the top (white elites) benefit from this.
model minority myth alert!!! they’re using us, and you’re naive enough to fall for it. pitting us against other racial minorities has been a staple in keeping us in check, and the anti-black and colourist biases in our communities only help.
you want college admissions to be fair? maybe turn your energy away from the 4 black kids that got in and put it towards the 30 white legacy kids that got in instead of you. maybe try to be as smart as you think your grades show you to be and realise that the entire racist system is the one that needs dismantling. want fairness? this system was never built for fairness. the system needs to be changed, not the one thing making it marginally less terrible.
No, this is a victory for “Asians,” it’s just a loss for “Progressives.”
Right now, you think of yourself as a loyal Democrat - you might refuse to call yourself that, because “the Democratic Party isn’t far enough to the left” - but you think you have to defend whatever the “Progressive” wing of the party comes up with this week, which is the part that matters.
The truth is, actually, you don’t.
Activists are willing to let you make a complete fool of yourself trying to rationalize their actions, and they don’t actually care whether their actions are beneficial or not.
They’ll do something like posting “eliminate whiteness” to a major medical journal, then expect you to bend yourself into a pretzel trying to defend it when if it were said about any other race, people would immediately recognize it as eliminationist.
They will leave you up a shit creek, like George Bush humiliating Republicans with the implication that Iraq had a nuclear weapons program, only to find a few leftover chemical warfare shells (and in poor condition) as “WMD.”
You may certainly vote for Democrats, but the broader Democratic Party will not improve if you continue to cover for their mistakes.
To understand the actual situation, you should research current K-12 school funding, and what K-12 programs most benefit underrepresented minorities in a measurable way, and by how much.
This will give you a better practical idea of where the situation is, what can actually be accomplished, and how, and what’s just hot air from activists.
He had a record. Including felony possession of a firearm. Served a single day in jail for it then was released. Your gun control doesn’t work.
how many more?
All of them.
Nobody tell OP about gang violence
Seems like the real issue here is the shit criminal justice “reforms” that keep letting violent repeat offenders back on the street. If the city and/or state this guy is from did it’s job, he would never have been in the position to commit this crime in the first place.
Although I do tend to favor government policies supporting children, in what world is this a failure of Capitalism?
1. It should be funded through State/Local governments, not the Federal government.
2. It’s ultimately a failure of parenting (in most cases).
3. You’re literally complaining that the state is misallocating funding to societal needs.
To these people, “Capitalism” is literally, not figurative, but literally defined as, “There was money involved”.
Capitalism is when the government spends money on things I don’t like
While I do like the idea of having hot meals cooked in schools and made available for students, it’s a horrendous false dichotomy to say that if you don’t, the children will starve.
This is because it changes it from a functional discussion to a “if you oppose this, you obviously just want children to starve”.
If the government doesn’t feed the children, who will? The parents.
What about poor parents? We have welfare and food banks. Whether we think these programmes work especially well is a different story, but we literally have programmes who’s main goal is to get food to poor families.
If the Federal Government doesn’t feed the kids, who will? The state/provincial government. Local government. School board. Which is also something that Americans need to learn when looking at Canada, as Education is Provincial, not Federal.
Are there any alternatives to the state? A number of schools setup not-for-profits to make school lunches, and then sell it to the kids below market. I remember having a good school lunch programme that cost 50 cents.
We can also do state/private partnerships, or have the government pay part of the price of the meals.
If this was Capitalism, it would simply to rent space on school grounds for restaurants to open up.
This one is even more dishonest than usual. That takes effort.
This one appears to be the result of a large infusion of money that the federal government didn’t have anyway, but what the hell we’re making it out of thin air for Covid relief so let’s make sure the kids get fed, not something I’m gonna complain about in a “emergency” situation.
Now that that has ended school districts that had the cash they had been spending on feeding kids going somewhere else now have to reassign that money back to feeding kids instead of whatever bullshit they decided to spend it on.
As for the fed, does anyone else remember when ‘thanks obama’ really took off
Hungry school kids remember
Again, millionaires that want to be taxed more you can write a cheque to the fed and buy some new bombs or you could do a good thing and sponsor a school’s lunch program.
It sure as hell feels like the beginning of an actual war with Right Wing Nuts going around simply shooting groups of people who are just going to the grocery store, the movie theater, the schools & even their workplaces.
Computer bring up murder rates by county
Take a wild fucking guess what way the red counties vote @ms-cellanies
@durkin2082 I’m not sure of your source. Here are 2 links for each state & the mortality rates for each:
By population nearly all states with the highest mortality are RED STATES.
Urban areas in red states are still democrats, rural areas in blue states are still republican. Democrats are responsible for like 90% of all murders you psychopathic lunatics.
I literally love that pork fat was sacred to Hestia. Goddess of Workin’ the Grill, Goddess of Throwin’ Some Honey Mustard On that Bad Buoy, Goddess of Autism Be Damned.
Hestia knows the difference between a house and a home is a pot of bacon grease by your skillet
A frustrating part of the mainstream vegan “love all animals and protect the environment” mindset is the fact that things need to die
in real-life ecology
all the time but deer hunting season makes icky feelings
and carp culls aren’t cottagecore
The vegan “any animal death ever is morally wrong” mindset doesn’t hold up when:
We don’t have any of the large predators we used to (black bears, mountain lions, or gray wolves) but still retain large deer populations. If nothing is removing animals, they’ll quickly overload the carrying capacity of the environment and have massive losses to starvation and disease that can also pass on to livestock. Human hunters replace the large predators that our landscape can no longer support.
It’s kinder to euthanize an un-releasable hawk rather than try to find it a permanent home with humans. Wildlife rehabs have extremely limited space and resources and are usually run entirely on donated money and volunteer time. Only a few are large and stable enough to care for permanent residents long-term, and those spots are few and far between.
An invasive species poses a danger to threatened native wildlife. I will admit- Australian possums are adorable. But not in New Zealand, where they’re an invasive species that eats the eggs of ground-dwelling birds that previously had no such predators. The landowners I worked with replanting native bush, all native Maori, had no qualms about setting the dogs on them.
I don’t know how to end this except. Sometimes things just gotta die and acting otherwise just isn’t a realistic expectation.
Highlights from the notes over the past 6 months include a lot of angry vegans saying “you’re blowing things out of proportion, no vegans actually think like this!” and a lot of people who work in conservation and education saying “Every day. I have to fight people who think like this.”
As a bonus this post was originally inspired by the vegan who called me racist for saying we should kill invasive species
The main thing wrong with vegan activist ideology is that it’s removed from reality. It plays pretend that we live in a world where things don’t need to eat other things, don’t need to struggle and die, and where people don’t need to participate in the ecosystem, to live, to rectify mistakes, and to help maintain order.
Vegan ideology says food comes from the grocery store. How does it get there? From a pretend land where all of the land occupied by livestock is actually suitable for farming and could be used for that instead. Where California isn’t wasting endless millions of gallons of water to make almond milk. Where swathes of the Amazon aren’t being slashed and burned and farmed by child workers to produce agave and quinoa and shit like that.
Vegan ideology says that a human is not just an animal with thumbs and imagination, and that prevents its followers from meaningfully engaging with reality and from respecting animals and our ecosystem for exactly what they are.
I couldn’t agree more. That kind of vegan mindset establishes humanity as some sort of divine entity, that exists beyond nature and its rules. It pretends that we exist in a bubble outside of the ecosystem, instead of directly inside of it. No matter how far we go, no matter how much humanity advances, we are simply animals, and we exist as a part of this world, and we have an absurdly big role in almost all ecosystems.
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