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Originally Posted by flowerkill
it's ironic, this opposition against AA. It comes from a false perception that blacks and whites start from the same point, so giving blacks a leg up is seen as unfair.
That blacks and whites leave from the same starting point is of course ludicrous.
try driving around in the back of a car with two black men sitting in front. It's really shocking how much you get pulled over. The weird thing is, they totally seem to accept this situation.
There's a nice parallel between blacks and poor whites:
African Americans, at some levels, have completely internalized the perception that black culture is inferior to white culture.
And poor whites have completely internalized that voting conservative is good for them because of some cultural issues, even if this means worse healthcare and education for their kids and a crumbling infrastructure. So, basically they sacrifice their kids to some idealogistic issuess:
- Having guns (which the Democrats don't really oppose anyway, but get painted as the villains nonetheless)
- international 'security' issues.
- tax breaks for the wealthy, this one is really insane. Poor whites have been talked into drinking the Kool-aid that it's better for them to vote for a party that gives money to the rich, instead of tax breaks to the poor and middle class families. You gotta admire all the Rovian spin on that one. Especially if you consider that the wealthy and upper middle class don't tend to invest in America, but invest overseas, or in companies that ship jobs overseas. That's not evil, that's simply good business sense. Overseas ow wage businesses are simply more profitable.
Also, think about this one for laughs. After WW2, us troops have been in Germany and Japan for 50 years or more, this the troop presence mccain wants. Partly because of that, German and Japanese infrastructure is the best in the world, surely MUCH better than America. Why do rightwingers insist on showing Iraq the same courtesy? How are Halliburton built, US taxpayer funded Iraqi bridges exactly helping poor whites over here??? Riddle me that.
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Pretty much how things are. Life is unfair most people realize that and deal with it.
That fact that there is a term such as DWB (driving while black) should give off a hint.
There are different hot spots for concentrated liberal views and SF Bay Area is definitely one of them which correlates with the question ask on this thread.