Social Justice Warriors - Now With Less Feminism Sperging

[Trilby]

They have an educated, and entrepreneurial (how else do you survive under communism...) population, and a beautiful island. If they could get a decent government in they could be a really smart little country and probably quite unique in that part of the world. They have fantastically intact coral and marine environments too - they could go for the high end eco tourism, biomed research, and become somewhere with a high standard of living quite rapidly.

It's not a bad island if they could just find a way to kick the Castro family and their Ilk out of office.

 

[Vault Boy]

I always wondered what would happen if you showed these kinds of people something like Hotel Rwanda or First They Killed My Father. Would their brains implode from it challenging their ideas or would they try to explain it away somehow?

They'd blame colonialism for furthering the divide between the Hutus and Tutsis, and by extension the Rwandan Genocide.

 

[Mangina Smooch Sound]

The irony behind decline of an elite liberal private school: Devine

(FYI: Current tuition, $52,993 per year, pre-K through 12 )

Lulz:

More lulz:

Bonus:

If you wonder where all this exceptional thought coming from, and how it infiltrates the schooling system, look no further than academia - here is an article by a PhD in the field of critical studies Paul Gorski (who looks, of course, like a genuine member of the Tribe)

http://www.edchange.org/publications/Avoiding-Racial-Equity-Detours-Gorski.pdf

I mean, what do you say to this passage?

Recently, while visiting a colleague’s classroom to facilitate a conversation about race and poverty, I asked a group of African American and Latinx 10th grade students about their school’s upcoming Diverse Friends Day. For one lunch period, they would be forcibly integrated, coerced into celebrating diversity by sitting with classmates racially or ethnically different from them-selves—classmates with whom some of them normally wouldn’t socialize. “They mean well, but this activity is racist,” Pam shared.2“I don’t know about racist,” Tariq responded, “but I don’t want to do it.”José added, “A lot of the white stu-dents don’t like us. I don’t want to be forced to hang out with them.”I asked Pam to elaborate on her observation that Diverse Friends Day is racist. “There’s a lot of racism in this school,” she insisted. She wondered how disturbing her lunch—the only time she could relax in a predominantly white school—was going to change that. “I think Diverse Friends Day is for white people,” she concluded.Is she wrong? I don’t think so, especially in the absence of more serious racial equity efforts, which these students agreed were missing from their school. In my experience, many “celebrating diversity” initia-tives are crafted to help white stu-dents learn about diversity—not racism, but diversity—in ways that will be most comfortable for them. In some cases, students of color are used essentially as props for the gentle diversity education of white students through activities like Diverse Friends Day. This allows white people to opt out of consid-ering racial justice while deriving social and cultural benefits from diversity awareness. It creates the illusion of diversity appreciation while entrenching inequity. Requiring students of color to par-ticipate in these diversity spectacles while failing to attend adequately to inequity can be exploitive. Pam, Tariq, and José didn’t need to share lunch with white students to learn about difference, much less how racism operated around them. They developed these insights as a matter of survival. White educators were asking them to celebrate a diversity in which their experiences were invisible. This is one way white priv-ilege persists even in the context of diversity efforts

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

Their biotech and education is surprisingly good and Cuban healthcare is decent enough that most people are vaccinated from the diseases you'd expect to see, infant mortality is pretty low and lifespan is average. It's still a filthy commie shithole with child labor, corrupt police stealing truckloads of shit and fining you at their leisure, infrastructure is crumbling since the Russians stopped subsidizing everything, and the cities' garbage collection and indoor plumbing is... inconsistent, to put it kindly. If it weren't for all the unreported income and gifts sent from family members in the US and money made under the table from American tourists they'd be far worse off.

Basically, they do all right for commies, but if you're not involved somehow in black market activity (virtually everyone is) you're going to be living in dirt poverty. But yeah, the University of Havana is legit and their biomedicine is pretty good. Imagine what they could do if they weren't stuck using computers and dial-up internet modems they got from Russia in the early 90s or were allowed to properly collaborate and do business with the Americans without jumping through exceptional hoops via Canada. Stubborn fucktarded communism is holding the country back, the people who don't see that must have never spoken to a Cuban-American before.

But we have a complete embargo on Cuba. We can't trade with them even if they wanted to. So long as it remains, and I have absolute certainty it will, we won't be properly doing business with them unless it's through another country.

 

[FuckedUp]

But we have a complete embargo on Cuba. We can't trade with them even if they wanted to. So long as it remains, and I have absolute certainty it will, we won't be properly doing business with them unless it's through another country.

I never got that. "You are NOT allowed to do business with Cuba, or even step foot in their country, because unlike our country they do not support human freedom."

 

[Doctor Placebo]

If you wonder where all this exceptional thought coming from, and how it infiltrates the schooling system, look no further than academia - here is an article by a PhD in the field of critical studies Paul Gorski (who looks, of course, like a genuine member of the Tribe)

http://www.edchange.org/publications/Avoiding-Racial-Equity-Detours-Gorski.pdf

I mean, what do you say to this passage?

Spoiler

Recently, while visiting a colleague’s classroom to facilitate a conversation about race and poverty, I asked a group of African American and Latinx 10th grade students about their school’s upcoming Diverse Friends Day. For one lunch period, they would be forcibly integrated, coerced into celebrating diversity by sitting with classmates racially or ethnically different from them-selves—classmates with whom some of them normally wouldn’t socialize. “They mean well, but this activity is racist,” Pam shared.2“I don’t know about racist,” Tariq responded, “but I don’t want to do it.”José added, “A lot of the white stu-dents don’t like us. I don’t want to be forced to hang out with them.”I asked Pam to elaborate on her observation that Diverse Friends Day is racist. “There’s a lot of racism in this school,” she insisted. She wondered how disturbing her lunch—the only time she could relax in a predominantly white school—was going to change that. “I think Diverse Friends Day is for white people,” she concluded.Is she wrong? I don’t think so, especially in the absence of more serious racial equity efforts, which these students agreed were missing from their school. In my experience, many “celebrating diversity” initia-tives are crafted to help white stu-dents learn about diversity—not racism, but diversity—in ways that will be most comfortable for them. In some cases, students of color are used essentially as props for the gentle diversity education of white students through activities like Diverse Friends Day. This allows white people to opt out of consid-ering racial justice while deriving social and cultural benefits from diversity awareness. It creates the illusion of diversity appreciation while entrenching inequity. Requiring students of color to par-ticipate in these diversity spectacles while failing to attend adequately to inequity can be exploitive. Pam, Tariq, and José didn’t need to share lunch with white students to learn about difference, much less how racism operated around them. They developed these insights as a matter of survival. White educators were asking them to celebrate a diversity in which their experiences were invisible. This is one way white priv-ilege persists even in the context of diversity efforts

Notice that none of the students complaining about racism are asked for examples and whether the racism they experience is actually anything unique or just the typical teenagers being dicks to each other is never seriously considered. Should nerds be a protected class, since nerds have a long history of getting bullied in school? Is there really anything material to distinguish the racism experienced by a black or hispanic student from the bullying of a nerd, except that the system (which is supposedly the perpetrator of racism) tells them that it's different and special and that they're deserving of special attention and treatment for it? Are these students just as racist or more to the white students as the white students are to them? None of these questions are asked, because asking such things would be racist, obviously.

I never got that. "You are NOT allowed to do business with Cuba, or even step foot in their country, because unlike our country they do not support human freedom."

The embargoes on Cuba started largely because Fidel, Che, and co started their regime by seizing all US owned property across the country without compensation. So it's more like, "Hey, you stole our shit, give it back or pay us for it. We're not buying anything from you until you do." And Cuba responded by waving a gun in America's face that his friend Russia gave to him, resulting in a tense Mexican standoff when America aimed his own guns at Cuba and Russia (Cuban missile crisis).

 

[FuckedUp]

Should nerds be a protected class, since nerds have a long history of getting bullied in school?

Well, gamers are arguably a subset of nerds...

 

[Doctor Placebo]

Well, gamers are arguably a subset of nerds...

Gamers need to realize that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Rise up nerds! Nobody will take your suffering seriously until you form your own insurgent group.

 

[Trilby]

The embargoes on Cuba started largely because Fidel, Che, and co started their regime by seizing all US owned property across the country without compensation. So it's more like, "Hey, you stole our shit, give it back or pay us for it. We're not buying anything from you until you do." And Cuba responded by waving a gun in America's face that his friend Russia gave to him, resulting in a tense Mexican standoff when America aimed his own guns at Cuba and Russia (Cuban missile crisis).

Yep, we can never forget that incident!

 

[Jarolleon]

When you don't know what exponential growth is, so all the rich guys must have cheated. Or your audience is so stupid that they must be taught what a billion is, this is the same crowd that thinks kindergarten-level "consent" must be taught to adults after all.

Edit: Someone who reposted this meme thinks it's "condescending" to assume that an adult knows what a billion is, and proves how privileged you are to attend a school where the teachers had enough time to teach basic numeracy as opposed to constant tard-wrangling.

 

[Mulletmode]

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When you don't know what exponential growth is, so all the rich guys must have cheated. Or your audience is so stupid that they must be taught what a billion is, this is the same crowd that thinks kindergarten-level "consent" must be taught to adults after all.

I don't understand how net worth works eat the rich lmao

 

[ShortBusDriver]

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When you don't know what exponential growth is, so all the rich guys must have cheated. Or your audience is so stupid that they must be taught what a billion is, this is the same crowd that thinks kindergarten-level "consent" must be taught to adults after all.

Or that the vast majority of this wealth is tied up in non liquid assists that your average fork & spoon operator would never want because they couldn't sperg out at Wal-mart with it

Or October 2019 when a bad earnings report saw a 9% drop in Amazon stock and Bezos personally lost just over $7 billion dollars

 

[dopy]

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When you don't know what exponential growth is, so all the rich guys must have cheated. Or your audience is so stupid that they must be taught what a billion is, this is the same crowd that thinks kindergarten-level "consent" must be taught to adults after all.

these fucking morons don't know what options, futures, and bonds are. real estate loses value in a downturn, too. a horribly balanced portfolio can sink you. you can't eat a put or a bond, nor can you give it to your taxi driver. fucking idiots.

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

Fuck it, I don't know where to post this, so it fucking goes here -

 

[Vault Boy]

Fuck it, I don't know where to post this, so it fucking goes here -
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The blasé approach some people have for abortions in recent years is a bit unnerving.

There's just something so morbid about dehumanizing terminologies like "lump of cells" and celebrating like this girl does.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

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I hope this is just some 2edgy4u teen trying to spark outrage. Might be, since that doesn't look like any clinic I've ever seen.

The blasé approach some people have for abortions in recent years is a bit unnerving.

There's just something so morbid about dehumanizing terminologies like "lump of cells" and celebrating like this girl does.

Agreed, I understand when abortion is necessary, but especially considering the reasons such a procedure would be necessary, it's nothing to be celebrated like this.

 

[Book Thief]

The blasé approach some people have for abortions in recent years is a bit unnerving.

There's just something so morbid about dehumanizing terminologies like "lump of cells" and celebrating like this girl does.

I'm normally pretty pro-choice, and the recent all-or-nothing pushes towards abortions, even post-birth abortions, makes me very uneasy.

 

[IdaRita]

You know, Poles has this opinion of being very self-hating and always upset, but I think in recent years Americans are ahead of us, a thousand miles at least.
Recently half of this thread is "WE ARE BIGOTED ANS STINKY NATION, GIVE ME LIKES TWITTER"

 

[Just Some Other Guy]

You know, Poles has this opinion of being very self-hating and always upset, but I think in recent years Americans are ahead of us, a thousand miles at least.
Recently half of this thread is "WE ARE BIGOTED ANS STINKY NATION, GIVE ME LIKES TWITTER"

Too many cartoons and books for kids telling them that the world is just one big happy place where everyone is just wanting to hold hands. The good news is Twitter doesn't represent anything larger than itself. Most Americans still love their country.

As for being always upset, yeah, that's what happens when you have generations that have not had any catastrophic issues for the most part. No World Wars, no Great Depression, no Civil War, no Dust Bowl, no Civil Rights Movement. Shit, not even a draft since Vietnam. Now again, most people are fine with this and realize that we have it pretty good nowadays.

But then you have Twitter, again, filled with people who want their 'great tragedy' for the history books. They read about people like Rosa Parks and think "I want to be like them!", but then they realize there's no real issues to make that happen. That's when they have to blow everything out of proportion. They have to invent big bad boogiemen to 'defeat'.

Keep in mind these same people would lack the spine to confront a real issue. If WW3 suddenly erupted with a surprise attack that killed thousands of Americans, they'd be the first to look for the nearest mattress to dive under. Or preach about how we deserve it.

Sort of like that Commie reddit screencap I see sometimes about "What would you do doing the revolution?" and some guy is like "Oh, I'd like to design the uniforms!".

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

I'm normally pretty pro-choice, and the recent all-or-nothing pushes towards abortions, even post-birth abortions, makes me very uneasy.

I'm all for post-birth abortions, but only for the people advocating the loudest for them.