…who read this bit, by race pimp and grifter Robin DiAngelo…”
Conclusion: “We must continuously educate ourselves through books, films, discussions, conferences, community groups, workbooks, and activism.” And she knows just the provider to help!
And thought about Hunter S. Thompson’s Samoan lawyer from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?
Like ships passing in the night:
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Highlighting this bit from the linked article:
There is almost no policy in Nice Racism. Perhaps that is for the best—at one point DiAngelo writes this whopper of a non-sequitur: “In discussing white people who define their politics as fiscally conservative but socially liberal, [Heather] McGhee notes that all poverty in the US could be eliminated by spending just 12 percent more than the cost of the 2017 Republican tax cuts.”
This reminds me of a communications class I took at a state college. The textbook was full of quotes like the one given from “Heather McGhee.” The authors would make a pleasant sounding but vacuous claim like, say. “Employers say that they experience less turn over when workers are allowed to express themselves about working conditions in regulary scheduled meetings.” If you followed the citation you found the source for the claim was a pop-sci article by a non-academic in a magazine that went OOB thirty years earlier. WTF? This isn’t knowledge. It isn’t even indoctrination. It’s nothing at all.
I made the mistake of going to Las Vegas this spring.
Never again.
The worst of it, and there was a lot of worse, was that I hit town days after the stimulus checks went out. The town was awash with the froth of L.A. Domestics in the casinos, fist fights in hotel lobbies. Screaming and shrieking in the streets.
Yeah, give people money, that’s how to end poverty.
And giving it to the poverty pimps is no better. The pimps around the old neighborhood drove lime-green Cadillacs, the poverty pimps today drive Volvos and live in Merriam Park.
The place where I first attended college but didn’t graduate still regards me as an alumnus. It’s for the Benjamins of course. Next year will be the 50th year reunion and the college hopes to cash in. Thing is, they are requiring all faculty and staff attend “anti-racist “ training (political indoctrination.) Won’t be getting a nickel from me.
There’s nothing left of the GOP besides cheap own-the-libs populist appeals to the absolutely lowest common denominator, combined with appeals for money. The absurd race-hustling of the Dems demands some non-ludicrous opposition. Instead we get clown shows.