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    What a non-response. Pick whichever year you like, America has never lived up to its professed ideals. For example, in school we learn that the U.S. is a melting pot: “Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses!!”

    Except, immigrants who would now be considered White faced significant racial discrimination in the 1800s, Chinese immigrants faced racism/horrible working conditions, Obama deported more than Trump did in his first term, and now Trump is kidnapping immigrants off of the street. This country is rotten to its core.

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        4 months ago

        We shouldn’t continue to treat people like shit because our ancestors treated their ancestors like shit.

        “Blacks where enslaved and even after being released we’re never allowed to build equity and generational wealth in America and when they tried we killed them for it, but we passed the civil right s act so they really need to learn to integrate and stop doing crime and ghettos” is the dumb take we fight against today.

        But DEI is just targeted class correction which is why it triggers the racists, but what needs to happen is that class equalization needs to happen across racial, ethnic, regional, generational boundaries.

        No one (well, extremely few) does crime if they can make a good living. Stop taking away opportunities and driving people into their survival instinct.

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            I think their argument was not that the Civil Rights Act and similar legislation have done nothing, but that they haven’t done enough yet, and that people who like to pretend that “because we have passed certain of these laws, the work is done and everything is equal now, our best option is to pretend racism is all gone and just let every compete fairly in the all-better world” are either dreaming or lying.

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        4 months ago

        On the contrary, as the contradictions become more apparent we will be forced to decide between fascism or radical systemic change. Just as the status quo of feudal surfs came to an end, so too must this current system.

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            4 months ago

            Cynical and bitter mutualist & consequentialist. I hate accelerationists and their apologists as much as I hate fascists. I don’t have access to this account during weekends.

            Your profile description is shockingly accurate. Like holy shit that gave me a laugh. Thanks for that hon.