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Hillary Says She Didn't Go Far Enough In Describing Trump Supporters As "Deplorables"
Dang! HC just raised the bar! Now I gotta be at least irredeemably deplorable just to get any street cred. Some days I just can't keep up. I know! I know! "White Supremacy is supposed to be a pejorative. I get it. But of course it is nothing less than racism from another mother. But... The argument that Shakespeare is "White Supremacy" is kind of a self fulfilling prophecy. Think about this: When the Dead Sea Scrolls were written all, 100%, of these "minorities were living in mud huts or worse and had no written language and barely had a spoken language. Thousands of years later when the incredibly talented composers in Europe were composing the most beautiful music ever heard Most of the minorities were living in mud huts or worse and had no written language. When Shakespeare penned his incredible plays, sonnets and poems most of these minorities were living in mud huts and had no written language. When America put humans in world orbit and sent them to the moon, yeah the minorities were still living in mud huts and had no written language.
But I will give them this: They have come a long way... thanks to the white people who brought them medicine, food, education, language, opportunity. They would still be living in mud huts raping women, enslaving other tribes but we brought them into the 20th century (yeah I know it's the 21st century but they are fighting tooth and nail to not get here). BUT look how far they have come!!! They can now form sentences and write... And what do they say and write? They call us racist names and my favorite is the ironic "White Supremacist" As though we haven't convincingly proved that. Now they make up stories to shore them up. Did you know that black people put man into space??? I didn't know that but "Hidden Figures" proves it and it's all true of course, wink, wink. But, But! Did you know that just putting the words of a rap song on facebook will get you jail time? Imagine that Shakespeare said something SOOOO BAD that just writing his qoute in Facebook would get you put in jail. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” They really mean that "Truth Goodness and Beauty" = "white supremacy.
A long time ago, I attended a lecture about the Miwok. The lecturer held up a Miwok "brush" that was a made from a root that had very stiff threads that could serve as bristles. And she asked us "Isn't this clever?"
My thought was that it was clever -- 5,000 years ago! The Egyptians were crafting beautiful combs. At the time this Miwok hairbrush was being grown, in Europe, amazing silver and ivory boar's bristle hairbrushes were being made. It's all about fetishizing the 'Primitives'. Somehow they're just so much smarter and amazing and wise and amazing and inventive and amazing... that you can just overlook all the slaughter between the various tribes, the fact they'd foul where they were living so badly and hunt out the animals in an area that they HAD to migrate.
And when they did that - did they use wagons? Carts? Anything with WHEELS? Nah. They dragged their goods on travois. (A primitive vehicle, common among the North American Indians, usually two trailing poles serving as shafts and bearing a platform or net for a load.) Wheels? We don't need no stinkin' wheels. They were 'stewards of the land' the same way a bank robber is a 'steward of the money'. So NATURALLY we've got to 'integrate indigenous knowledge' - whatever that is. Farewell to Kris Kristofferson
https://www.insidehook.com/music/kris-kristofferson-dead-88-actor-musician Affirmative Action Doesn’t Work, and MIT Knows It. University officials have acknowledged that racial disparities in academic preparation begin at the K–12 level.
The pool of black applicants nationwide who have competitive SATs for MIT is very small. Journal of Blacks in Higher Education: The Widening Racial Scoring Gap on the SAT College Admissions Test QUOTE: In 2005, 153,132 African Americans took the SAT test. ... MIT grants admission to about 5% of applicants, who average about 780 on the Math SAT. High SAT scores in no way guarantee admission to MIT.If we raise the top-scoring threshold to students scoring 750 or above on both the math and verbal SAT — a level equal to the mean score of students entering the nation’s most selective colleges such as Harvard, Princeton, and CalTech — we find that in the entire country 244 blacks scored 750 or above on the math SAT and 363 black students scored 750 or above on the verbal portion of the test. Nationwide, 33,841 students scored at least 750 on the math test and 30,479 scored at least 750 on the verbal SAT. Therefore, black students made up 0.7 percent of the test takers who scored 750 or above on the math test and 1.2 percent of all test takers who scored 750 or above on the verbal section. Will you get into MIT? Check Your Acceptance Chances with this Acceptance Rate Calculator! QUOTE: 1. SAT Score of 1580 or Above: Can You Get Into MIT with a 1580-1600 SAT? o Competitiveness: Very Good o Estimated Acceptance Chance: Approximately 7% o Students with an SAT score of 1580 or higher possess a highly competitive profile at MIT, outperforming three-quarters of the accepted applicants. While your chances of acceptance are above average, please note that MIT's admission process is extremely competitive. 2. SAT Score Between 1550 to 1570: Can You Get Into MIT with a 1550-1570 SAT? o Competitiveness: Above Average o Estimated Acceptance Chance: Approximately 4-6% o Scoring in the range of 1550 to 1570 places you in a favorable position compared to most applicants. Although your scores are higher than many who apply, it's essential to recognize that MIT's admission remains highly competitive. Also, the disparity begins well before kindergarten.
You could take 100 2 YO black or brown children and have an Asian immigrant family adopt them and live in an area not predominantly black or brown and I would wager that 97 of the 100 would be able to pass the educational requirements to attend MIT. More than anything else the problem, especially for blacks, is their culture AND public schools.
With some sadness I would also add that if you did the same experiment with white children you would get the same result BUT only 25 out of 100 white children raised by their biological parent(s) would qualify for MIT AND most would probably need to have a tutor to prep them for the tests to qualify. Again the problem is their culture and public schools. Fran Lebowitz... Insane, retarded, or under the influence of Marx, drugs, and/or alcohol. Authoritarian progs have no concept of Constitutional law as written and amended.
She is also tribe, and has the same Messiahs as a significant majority of tribe across the West - 7--75% - who yearn for the "good old days" of their Messiahs - Lenin and Stalin.
Some of the rest MIGHT be decent human beings. Ms. Lebowitz? Nacho much. If you look into her writings, posts, proclamations and commentary you will soon discover her philosophy is one of hate. In many ways like Hillary's expressed by her heartfelt belief that all Republicans are deplorables. The left is a culture of hate, a hate so strong that they would destroy their homeland to inconvenience everyone on the right. AND, that is exactly what they are doing and they are doing it with "joy".
OneGuy: When the Dead Sea Scrolls were written all, 100%, of these "minorities were living in mud huts or worse and had no written language and barely had a spoken language.
The Dead Sea Scrolls were written by Middle Eastern people who were largely brown in color. The Scrolls were preceded by high civilizations thousands of years previous. To mention just a few: Egyptian culture on the lower Nile River, brown people with some admixture of sub-Saharan genetics; Nubian culture on the upper Nile, largely sub-Saharan genetics; Chinese civilization on the Yangtze and Yellow rivers, not white; and the Indus Valley Civilization before the arrival of Indo-Europeans, not white either. All of these cultures had writing, cities, long-distance trade, and stone and wood architecture. OneGuy: In many ways like Hillary's expressed by her heartfelt belief that all Republicans are deplorables. That is not correct. Clinton said some Trump supporters were deplorable, hence unreachable politically. Your comments (unremarked by other commenters here) stand as a type example. "The Dead Sea Scrolls were written by Middle Eastern people who were largely brown in color."
I baited you. I knew you would make that your hill to stand on. Today many people in the Middle East are "brown" somewhat, maybe but 2500 years ago not so much. But it doesn't matter dont'cha see. To you it is a "white" issue; "white supremacy", and everything must be used to bash whites to prove you point. While the Dead Sea Scrolls were written by people who did not look much like someone from Sweden if they were to walk the streets today it is unlikely and maybe even insulting to call them "brown". But if it makes you "feel good" to mischaracterize them that way it changes nothing. OneGuy: Today many people in the Middle East are "brown" somewhat, maybe but 2500 years ago not so much.
The Dead Sea Scrolls date to the third to first century BCE, so not quite that old. The Mishnah, from about the same period, indicates that Jews were the color of "boxwood, neither black nor white but of an intermediate shade". Nor were they Indo-Europeans, but more closely related to Arabs. OneGuy: But it doesn't matter dont'cha see. It's directly relevant to your point about "minorities living in mud huts . . . " It's YOUR claim about minorities. OneGuy: While the Dead Sea Scrolls were written by people who did not look much like someone from Sweden if they were to walk the streets today it is unlikely and maybe even insulting to call them "brown". Gee whiz. Jews were considered outsiders when they migrated to America in the early 20th century, escaping from pogroms and then Nazi purges. Even though they generally had light complexions, they were barred from many country clubs, neighborhoods, and colleges. |