[INFJ] This will make you rage

Milktoast Bandit said:
#balancematters
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Wyote said:
Your rage is a symptom of their effective marketing on you
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While true, I personally don't view it as a reason to sit back and accept it. I do believe positive change is possible. Life progresses. It takes considerably more effort to resist change. More mental gymnastics, more lies, more willful destruction of personal integrity. Those in power resist change and money is the tool they use to push their narrative against progress. Reality is progressive by nature. There will be change. We may not see the full blooms of goodness in this lifetime, but it is there and America will catch up with rest of the world eventually but there is no chance of that if we give up and consider it a lost cause.

Yes shit income, high prices, bull shit fees etc keep all races as financial slaves and all the crap that goes with it, but this country was founded on the 'supremacy' of whites and built on the backs of blacks and that persists today even as more races, including whites, struggle in the financial system. The first step to fixing an issue is gaining awareness of the issue. The protests, rage, and demand for accountability and equality is an attempt to apply a torniquete so we can stop bleeding out in the streets, regain our strength and continue our progression. The power of money is finite. I enjoy rambling!
 
Milktoast Bandit said:
While true, I personally don't view it as a reason to sit back and accept it.
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Milktoast Bandit said:
I do believe positive change is possible. Life progresses. It takes considerably more effort to resist change. More mental gymnastics, more lies, more willful destruction of personal integrity. Those in power resist change and money is the tool they use to push their narrative against progress. Reality is progressive by nature. There will be change. We may not see the full blooms of goodness in this lifetime, but it is there and America will catch up with rest of the world eventually but there is no chance of that if we give up and consider it a lost cause.

Yes shit income, high prices, bull shit fees etc keep all races as financial slaves and all the crap that goes with it, but this country was founded on the 'supremacy' of whites and built on the backs of blacks and that persists today even as more races, including whites, struggle in the financial system. The first step to fixing an issue is gaining awareness of the issue. The protests, rage, and demand for accountability and equality is an attempt to apply a torniquete so we can stop bleeding out in the streets, regain our strength and continue our progression. The power of money is finite. I enjoy rambling!
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Milktoast Bandit said:
While true, I personally don't view it as a reason to sit back and accept it. I do believe positive change is possible. Life progresses. It takes considerably more effort to resist change. More mental gymnastics, more lies, more willful destruction of personal integrity. Those in power resist change and money is the tool they use to push their narrative against progress. Reality is progressive by nature. There will be change. We may not see the full blooms of goodness in this lifetime, but it is there and America will catch up with rest of the world eventually but there is no chance of that if we give up and consider it a lost cause.

Yes shit income, high prices, bull shit fees etc keep all races as financial slaves and all the crap that goes with it, but this country was founded on the 'supremacy' of whites and built on the backs of blacks and that persists today even as more races, including whites, struggle in the financial system. The first step to fixing an issue is gaining awareness of the issue. The protests, rage, and demand for accountability and equality is an attempt to apply a torniquete so we can stop bleeding out in the streets, regain our strength and continue our progression. The power of money is finite. I enjoy rambling!
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You're not going to fix anything by racialising the fuck out of everything.
 
Wyote said:
exactly
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For some reason, race is a more important category than ever. It feels like a giant backwards step to me.

The same fundamental logic that race and ancestral injustices give us unequal rights in the present (as opposed to its material legacy) could just as easily be applied in other ways.

For example, the United States was built by whites. Their ingenuity, their values, their toil, their European cultural patrimony developed over millennia; European technology, hard won uniquely in the world. The nation would not exist without whites. So why the fuck should 'black people' claim to have any stake in the profits at all? It was nothing to do with them, and as has been established in the past few months, our claims to rights are intrinsically tied to our race.

Let's just re-organise the whole world along racial lines and have a grand re-accounting. BLACKS - you suffered unfairly under slavery = reparations. WHITES - the other races have profited from your intellectual property = reparations. &c. ad infinitum.

This is the kind of backlash that is building if you don't make an earnest attempt to actually dismantle the power of racial categories.

I can just imagine it now - some religious dude making an analogy with the Prodigal Son. 'Hey y'all. Imagine a white guy building a house with his own toil and knowhow. He learned how to lay the bricks and laid em. He learned how to plumb and plumbed it. He learned how to wire the electrics and wired it. Then some black guy comes in twenty years down the line and expects half of the place! That's America.'

You can call that a strawman if you like, but it's not a complete strawman, is it?
 
Imagine this: suppose that you're a non-black person living in a black neighborhood. You suffer all of the systemic inequality that comes with living there. The disadvantaged start in life, the proximity to violence, the poorer schools, &c.

Perhaps you don't suffer the problems that come with 'appearing black', but nonetheless you have still inherited a greater part of the 'systemic racism' that afflicts black communities. You literally live the structural legacy of slavery, segregation, and Jim Crow... but you're not black.

There are no guilty white folks going to wash your feet. Nobody who wants to pay you any reparations whatsoever... because you're not a member of the 'correct' race.

Well... fuck that guy, I guess?
 
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Imagine this: suppose that you're a non-black person living in a black neighborhood. You suffer all of the systemic inequality that comes with living there. The disadvantaged start in life, the proximity to violence, the poorer schools, &c.

Perhaps you don't suffer the problems that come with 'appearing black', but nonetheless you have still inherited a greater part of the 'systemic racism' that afflicts black communities. You literally live the structural legacy of slavery, segregation, and Jim Crow... but you're not black.

There are no guilty white folks going to wash your feet. Nobody who wants to pay you any reparations whatsoever... because you're not a member of the 'correct' race.

Well... fuck that guy, I guess?
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you want your feet washed?
 
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