Check Your Privilege Holocaust Survivors

Posted by khalling 11 years, 2 months ago to Culture
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I am not a tweeter by habit-but this is ridiculous (MSNBC). My favorite retweet-they got free healthcare and all!

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  • Posted by Maphesdus 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
    ― Warren Buffett

    And Christians aren't being persecuted in America, they're being told to stop engaging in persecution. To say that oppressors and their victims are morally equivalent is moral nonsense.
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    Posted by Maphesdus 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Alright, that's easy. The war on drugs. People of ethnic minorities are systematically persecuted for illegal drug use, even though white people actually sell and use illegal drugs at a higher rate. There's a book all about the issue which you can read here:

    The new Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness:
    http://www.kropfpolisci.com/racial.justi...

    And I can disprove your misconceptions about affirmative action, as well. The claim that affirmative action discriminates against white people is a popular myth among conservatives, but that's all it is. A myth.
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  • Posted by Rozar 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Agreed. That's why I initially stated that it isn't always racist or xenophobic. And I initially stated it was tyrannical which regardless of the accuracy of that word still expresses my feelings on the issue.

    Stop calling everyone who supports border control racist.
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  • Posted by Maphesdus 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You want me to list rational reasons to be against apartheid and racial segregation? How about because they're unjust, destroy freedom, and violate basic human rights. Are those good enough reasons for you?
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  • Posted by Maphesdus 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Those other things are different from welfare. And we shouldn't be interfering in the free market at all. If border control is a form of interfering in the free market, that's just one more reason to be against it.
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  • Posted by Rozar 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Do they have to wait ten to twenty years before they use the roads or the schools? Or before they can be treated at a hospital that they can't afford? How about 20 years before they are allowed to use the public parks, or patronize any business that has been subsidized by the taxpayers?

    And yes that is why they have border control, so they can interfere with the free market. That's what I meant when I said they use border control for economic reasons.
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  • Posted by Maphesdus 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Because people ought to be free. What more reason do I need? Is freedom not sufficient justification in and of itself?
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  • Posted by Maphesdus 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Welfare is a legitimate concern, but we don't need to block immigrants from entering the country to block them from welfare. All we need to do is establish a waiting period of sufficient length before any immigrant is eligible to receive welfare. Ten to twenty years should be sufficient.

    As for jobs and cheaper labor, the free market should determine how much people get paid for any particular job. To "protect" jobs from cheaper labor is to interfere in the free market.
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  • Posted by evlwhtguy 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The context helps, thanks, now I understand a bit better. Can you imagine if a fox host said something similarly vapid from..."the other side" ...hey wait...I thought Jewish people were also a downtrodden minority!!! Jewish people once got the kid glove minority treatment, now not so much. I first noticed the liberal intelligencia abandoned them when Hillary Clinton kissed Yasir Arafats wife. It seems like some other Jewish guy was betrayed with a kiss...who was that....someone from Galilee I think.? Why any Jewish person ever votes for a Democrat is beyond me. Please....those of you who are Jewish....come home to the Republican Party!!!!
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  • Posted by iamA2u 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You baselessly assert "but white people do have certain advantages in the U.S. that people of other ethnic backgrounds do not". Please cite an unambiguous, clearly documented case where whites have advantage. I will cite the counter example which is affirmative action, where clearly a white student must perform better than an "other ethnic background" student.
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  • Posted by iamA2u 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    In broad principles, we agree on no immigration restrictions at all, but in specifics, that does not work when mere residency gives a person socially provided benefits.

    Milton Freedman , a somewhat smart and of slight libertarian view, economic authority, has a great YouTube video on this subject http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3eyJIbSgdSE...
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  • Posted by Maphesdus 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It depends. It's not possible to overcome disadvantages if you refuse to even acknowledge them (a broken sink doesn't fix itself), but at the same time, focusing on disadvantages too much can make them into a bigger barrier than they actually are. I suppose the point is not whether you acknowledge disadvantages or not, but whether you analyze them in order to solve them, or use them as an excuse to disavow responsibility for your own lack of success. The problem is that many conservatives often mistake the former for the latter.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Wow. I reject identity politics. I reject focusing on the advantages/disadvantages of identity groups. Putting the advantages/disadvantages of two groups on scales takes identity politics to an absurd level. It would have been racism in the past. Now it's just a joke.
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  • Posted by Maphesdus 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Alright, how about an opposition to apartheid, segregation, and racial Nationalism?
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, since the automotive standards for Mexico aren't as stringent as the US, there's not much that he would have been getting away with - unless he was stealing white Cadillacs and transporting them to Mexico. But then that wouldn't be as much smuggling as transporting stolen property.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Why? You make these assertions with absolutely no rationale as to why they should be accepted.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Or perhaps some people have a life.

    According to Wikipedia, there were in excess of 300,000 Chinese immigrants. I don't think it much of a stretch to extrapolate that the other immigrants from the rest of Asia, India, and other areas of non-white skin color would number in excess of a million.
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    Posted by Maphesdus 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I wouldn't say a "fast track," but white people do have certain advantages in the U.S. that people of other ethnic backgrounds do not have.
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  • Posted by Maphesdus 11 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Carjacking is theft, so obviously I would not endorse that. I also would not support selling drugs to children. However, I would not prohibit people from bringing drugs into the country, as I believe all substances should be legal, without exception. But that's a different topic.
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