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Percy
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Message 99 of 116 (898633)
09-27-2022 12:18 PM
Reply to: Message 89 by Phat
09-26-2022 12:01 PM


Re: Redirecting Political Discussion
Phat writes:
Do you support antisemitic or Nazi or pro-Confederacy or white supremacist conservatives?
No. White lives matter too,...
This buys into the conservative racist trope that BLM means that black lives matter and white lives don't.
...but whites have no need to assemble simply to protest injustices towards "whiteness".
So you already understood what I just said, but you recited the racist trope anyway.
We already have the GOB (Good old Boys) network which is slowly dissolving.
The good ole boy network is dissolving just as much as racism is dissolving.
That being said, I am against affirmative action...
Are you against affirmative action specifically, or against any efforts to level the playing field.
...and am watching the implementation of reparations.
You're don't reveal your position on this one, but it would be consistent with your other comments if you were against reparations, which is just another proposal attempting to level the playing field.
I don't believe that government should "legislate fairness".
So you believe it shouldn't be against the law to refuse to sell real estate or rent apartments to blacks? Or to have one water fountain for blacks, another for whites? Or to have white schools and black schools? We should bring back separate but "equal", where equal is in quotes because what was provided to whites was far superior to that for blacks?
It causes the pendulum to swing too far the other way.
The pendulum hasn't budged an inch. Perhaps the language we use has changed, we don't call them niggers anymore, but the attitudes have not.
That's one reason I am a moderate...
You're not a moderate. You're a racist.
I like the pendulum somewhere in the middle.
That would be nice, but the pendulum remains far to the right. If the pendulum were shaped like an arrow it would be pointed at white privilege, white supremacy, and religiously excused discrimination on the basis of race and sexual proclivity.
Are you in favor of the mistreatment of illegal immigrants on the grounds that they're not like us and don't belong here?
No, but I am against any policy that makes it easier to be illegal.
How much harder do you want to make it for people who have already endured hell just to get here? Where does our broken immigration system enter into your equation? What is one to do when the normal immigration process takes months to years, and that's if you're sponsored, but your family is starving now, or the cartel is threatening to kill you now? You have the compassion of devil spawn.
Are you in favor of banning books?
No, but I think that any ideology taught in an institution of higher learning should be challenged in order to develop true critical thinking in students rather than left-wing exclusivity.
The people banning books are religious homophobes, and the books being banned are LGBTQ books in school libraries. No institutions of higher learning are banning books (though I would find it believable about religious institutions). Where did you get that idea from?
Are you against gay marriage?
No. It is a secular issue in a pluralistic society. Furthermore, the church should not interfere except within its own jurisdiction apart from the government.
This is inconsistent with your other views. I have to believe it stems from something in your personal life.
Do you believe in forced birth?
I don't know enough about the issue to comment.
Sure you do. You know exactly what it is, but I'll spell it out for you. Forced birth is what happens when anti-abortion sentiments are codified into law. Forced birth occurs when someone wants an abortion but can't obtain one because it is against the law, and so she is forced to continue the pregnancy to term and give birth. As is happening right now. Some women even live in states where they have to pass through several other states before reaching one where they can obtain an abortion.
Do you believe abortion should be criminalized, even when performed in another state?
No.
Then you are against forced birth, too.
Do you believe the US is a Christian nation?
If the choices were Christian, Muslim, or Secular, I would say that our upbringing was and is largely Christian. That being said, the Moral Majority led to problems for our national politics.
Your "Christian nation" attitudes are obvious. Saying that "our upbringing was and is largely Christian" overstates the case. Only 65% of Americans are Christian, and that number is declining. Less than half of Americans belong to a church of any affiliation, and that number is in decline, too.
The marriage between patriotism and Christianity was not the best idea.
Finally some sanity.
So how did I do?
You're a typical Christian racist who doesn't believe they're racist.
--Percy

Edited by Percy, : Fix quoting error.


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Percy
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Posts: 22489
From: New Hampshire
Joined: 12-23-2000
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Message 116 of 116 (909585)
04-06-2023 8:58 AM
Reply to: Message 115 by Dredge
04-05-2023 5:20 PM


Re: What sort of Ist are you?
Dredge writes:
ringo writes:
blatantly racist
So what?
You're replying to a message from dwise1, not ringo. And why is blatant racism a "So what?" to you?
--Percy

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