Not sure if I should file this under conspiracy nut or take it seriously.
In a world where Hydra is real ( and Soros the Red Skull ) and the Media Political Complex has less than zero credibility, whacko conspiracy theories are staged as fact by all sides. And some of them are real.
Russia supporting Trump? Bull.
England's rulers lying to their subjects? Absolutely believable. Just look at the Brexit mess.
A cabal of communists in England conquering Russia to establish the world Empire the Soviets failed to achieve? Why not?
Lizard men from the core of the planet secretly running the government, and Michelle Obama is their Ambassador? Oh, heck, sure, why not.
I still have my doubts that this was just a case of the elites run amok. There's no doubt they did, but it's deeper than that. Sure there's a lot of good folks doing good law enforcement work in the FBI. No doubt, many of the people who ran amok investigating Trump have also done good law enforcement work. We don't judge criminal activity based on what non-criminal activity that person may also do.
The problem is that when you have the elite leadership willing to do such things, what are we to believe about the people who are hired and promoted through the ranks. If there is going to be bias in their biggest of decisions (certainly attempting to bring down a sitting President is a big one!), then are we really expected to believe that in their day to day decisions they are going to be free of similar bias? These are progressives of our society. Just look at how they act in all other areas where they have taken power. Our education system is a prime example. They simply do not tolerate those with a different opinion. They are among the most intolerant people out there. Why expect them to be different when they gain power in an institution such as the FBI. The simple fact is that progressives can not be trusted to not push their political agenda when they are given power. It really is that simple.
People talk about the Epstein Sex Island thing like it's NEW's. Qanon brought it to light over a year ago. Remember how pizzagate was just another "rightwing conspiracy"? Surprise, b***'s
Also.
That's literally how Ilhan Omar described the events of 9/11. “Far too long we have lived with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen, and frankly, I’m tired of it, and every single Muslim in this country should be tired of it,” Omar said at the event. “CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.” How about, and frankly, I'm tired of your state-mandated-religion being forced upon America like it's the new enlightenment? I stand with President Trump. If you don't like America, GTFO!
I stand with President Trump. If you don't like America, GTFO!
Amen! She has also made antisemitic remarks and claimed that she is more "patriotic" than people born in this country. I don't think so. Right after her inauguration she made a statement to the effect of "let's impeach the motherf***er". True patriotism doesn't include undoing an election because you are butt-hurt. She cries racism for being told to GTFO. It has absolutely nothing to do with race, and frankly, I hope the door hits her in the ass on her way out.
Stop talking about it. I'm going to stop calling you a white man. And I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.
Exactly.
NOT "African-American". NOT "Asian-American". NOT "Mexican-American". NOT "White-American".
....just...AMERICAN.
Not "white man", "black woman"...not "gay man" or "lesbian woman"...just "man" and "woman".
Why focus on anything else? Except in certain circumstances (i.e. gay/lesbian coming into play when you want to hit on someone at a bar)...it just doesn't matter.
When, in life, does it honestly matter if a man or a woman is black or white or brown or yellow? Seriously?
Writing about the English conquest of Ireland... No, actually, after centuries of British oppression and genocide...Hold on, I mean after centuries of religious war... Oh, heck, all that... The opinion was written that the only way to keep the hatred from being passed down, generation to generation, was to take all the children, and raise them elsewhere so they wouldn't be taught the hate.
It's been tried in limited ways but mostly by horrible dictatorship regimes, see today's Chinese Concentration camps for their Muslims. I'm unaware of any success stories.
So, not an option. But the path of reducing racism in the U.S. has been mostly successful. The primary failures have been the Party of The Klan's policies on the Welfare State and race. They just cannot keep from assuming skin color determines intelligence and responsibility.
Perhaps if we took all the Party's children and raised them free of those prejudices being passed on? Nope. Not an option.
An open discussion on race & prejudice? Great idea! Let's begin with the concept of "projection", honestly cover the history of racism, and social programs.
And especially I want every person, regardless of skin hair or eye color, to be outraged that the Party that created Jim Crow laws accuses anyone who disagrees with them in the slightest detail is called racist to shut them up.
Like calling someone Hitler, which cheapens the Truth of Hitler's crimes against humanity, false racism accusations cheapen the crimes committed by real racists. And it's the real racists who throw such accusations the most.
To be clear, not everyone who uses that dishonest projection is openly racist. There are many parrots.
But it's a safe assumption that those who use the technique of racism accusations to silence opponents are either racist scum, or have been indoctrinated by 24/7 Klan Party propaganda.
How to tell the evil from the fooled is a serious question.
It's the equivalent of saying "I don't see color". It's like not calling Chinese food, "Chinese food".
See color. Enjoy it. Eat Chinese food. Enjoy it. "Insulate, don't isolate" but that works both ways. You can't move here and expect to not adapt to our culture and then contrarily expect us to cater to your needs.
Welcome to America. Bring your culture but don't spit on ours. Be an African American. Unfortunately, the left is trying to make "African American" different from "American". No. "African" is a noun modifier but AMERICAN is still what you are. You don't get special treatment, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying some sweet barbeque and blues. Don't act like it's racist to recognize cultural nuances. It's actually quite nice.
BTW I had Mexican for dinner. Is it wrong for me to say that? FFS.
I totally agree with you as of "See color..." But I'm not sure Freeman means "I don't see color". More like "quit making color what it is not".
Color means nothing about how good a person is or if they are destined for anything. Skin color does indicate some genetic traits, like sickle cell anemia or where your ancestors lived in relation to sunlight & vitamin D, but not character.
At least as far as we know. Raise a bunch of German babies in the Australian outback by Aboriginal people and vice versa, you'd get sunburned folk in tune with nature and dark skinned accountants.
I had a rant on IQ, the book The Bell Curve, and eugenics, accidental & deliberate, but deleted it as irrelevant to the question of an actor's opinion. Maybe I shouldn't have.
“It’s probably one of the hardest things of my career to work through,” she said. “I personally removed 77 bullets from 32 victims … It was like an assembly line.” . . . “I lied,” she said in the affidavit to DoH Medical Quality Assurance Investigator Rafael B. Aponte “It is a false statement. I just made it up.”
I haven't read the referenced article. Instead I'm reading classic SF from the Gutenberg Project. Stuff from 1955 about space travel has a MUCH higher factual content than a year's worth of The Nation.