tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post5579454726527121905..comments2024-03-28T09:56:06.298-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: Poor Whites Are The Future of Poor BlacksGrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-17737808984950536792016-06-09T11:10:21.265-04:002016-06-09T11:10:21.265-04:00People were warned that the Demoncrat party was fo...People were warned that the Demoncrat party was for evil and not for good. It wasn't somebody else's fault people refused to listen. They reap what they sow. Promote evil, get evil. Pretty simple, even those who graduated Yale and Harvard can figure that out if they give it a try.<br /><br />Ymar Sakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-69302356804526459442016-06-08T20:45:39.265-04:002016-06-08T20:45:39.265-04:00I also think that, though these statements by Soto...I also think that, though these statements by Sotomayor and Trump are not necessarily racist -- it would be fair to say that their sentiments are about equally "racist" in the political sense of the term. Sotomayor was relying on the experiences of members of her ethnic group in claiming that 'a wise Latina woman' would usually make a better decision than a white man. Trump is saying, "Well, this guy's a Mexican," and clearly he means ethnically since the guy is an American citizen by birth. (Although he may also be a Mexican citizen by birth -- their law assigns it differently -- but he's clearly made his life in America if he's a Federal judge.)<br /><br />Ultimately it doesn't matter. The politicians are right about the field of battle. This isn't a philosophical dispute, and in our politics Republicans who talk this way are racists. He broke the rules, and didn't talk about a diversity issue in a way that made the diverse side sound wiser, better, more likely to make a good ruling. Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-48602093641593916542016-06-08T20:28:23.177-04:002016-06-08T20:28:23.177-04:00You have to understand, from the perspective of Es...You have to understand, from the perspective of Establishment Republicans what he said <i>was</i> racism -- the very definition, as they've been taught to understand it. And they've been taught to understand it by being beaten with it. To suggest that someone can't or won't do his job for racial reasons is to invite a "racist!" firestorm. They can't believe he did this because they've all spent decades having this particular lesson hammered into them. <br /><br />This is a long way removed from the definition a philosopher would use, but it makes sense given the specific way it has been taught and reinforced to these professional politicians. <i>Vox</i>, which is also a political site, has what they describe as a <a href="http://www.vox.com/2016/6/8/11873338/donald-trump-racist-racism" rel="nofollow">"thought experiment"</a> to show how racist it was. Now, philosophers do thought experiments. So let's hear theirs:<br /><br />"Let's imagine, for instance, that a black presidential candidate, Barry Cooker, suggests that a white judge couldn't oversee a lawsuit against him. Here's how that might look, with the wording taken from the Wall Street Journal's report on Trump's racial and ethnic test for a Hispanic judge, except with names and some identifiers switched out:<br /><br /><i>Mr. Cooker said US District Judge Bob Stevens had "an absolute conflict" in presiding over the litigation given that he was "of white heritage" and a member of a predominantly white lawyers' association. Mr. Cooker said the background of the judge, who was born in Indiana to white Americans, was relevant because of his campaign stance against police brutality against black Americans and support for financial reparations to compensate for centuries of anti-black policies like slavery and segregated housing. "I want him to pay reparations. It's an inherent conflict of interest," Mr. Cooker said.</i>"<br /><br />So, what you probably notice is what I immediately notice: there's no such thing as a white lawyer's association with an equivalent name to "La Raza." "La Raza" means "the Race." It refers specifically to the fake "Race" that Mexican politicians have been trying to cook up for decades as a way of papering over their own internal diversity issues. There is no "White People's Lawyer's Ass'n" existing to convince people of German and Irish descent that they were really part of a master race, and if there were it would be declared illegitimate and discriminatory by the courts. <br /><br />I think to be genuinely racist, you have to believe that something called 'race' is real, and that it refers to some biological fact about a person, and that this biological fact at least partially determines their character or abilities. To believe that someone belongs to a culture, or that a member of an ethnic group is likely to have had certain experiences that will incline them to think in a given way, that's not really racist. It's not really racist when Sotomayor did it, or when Trump does it. It's ethno-centrist, maybe. But that's a distinction we don't bother to make in politics. We just make a version of Ann Althouse's arguments about science and women: it's fine to say that women are different from men, as long as the difference always proves that they're better. You have to talk about diversity in the same way: any differences that ethnicity might make must be ways in which the 'diverse' groups are superior. Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-91897188598610784572016-06-08T18:12:23.966-04:002016-06-08T18:12:23.966-04:00Full Speech: Donald Trump San Diego, CA (5-27-16)...Full Speech: Donald Trump San Diego, CA (5-27-16)<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljKFZchvV8U<br /><br />Excerpt about the lawsuit:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkiZRAAvy5g<br /><br />at 4:28<br /><br />“the judge, who, we believe, happens to be Mexican, which is great, I think that’s fine. You know what, I think the Mexicans are gonna end up loving Donald Trump, when I give all these jobs. OK? I think they are gonna end up, I think they’re gonna love. I think they’re gonna love me."<br /><br />The above quote is the basis for all the kerffluffel and claims of racism. What truly frosts my cookies is that nobody, including the Republicans in high public office mouthing off about it, has bothered to find out what he actually said, and notice that this is in no way a racist statement.<br /><br />He does rake the judge over the coals for his actions, and, in layman's terms, he makes a cognizable case for recusal. The judge, in fact, is a member of La Raza, and an affiliate of La Raza has called for a boycott of all Trump businesses. <br /><br />There are some people who have been saying that La Raza is an innocent name, but it is a plainly racist organization in at least Texas and California, and has been famous for it, for years.<br /><br />I don't mind criticizing a candidate for things the candidate has actually done. Our media has been making it up as they go along, and the stupid Republicans have been trusting the media to tell the truth.<br /><br />ValerieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-66277242229262507582016-06-08T12:23:39.017-04:002016-06-08T12:23:39.017-04:00The country that Used to be America (UTBA) gave th...The country that Used to be America (UTBA) gave this person a good life, and a chance to build a home and family, after leaving school at 15. I don't think I could make it today, under the same circumstances.<br /><br /> ravennoreply@blogger.com