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Anti-intellectualism Is Killing America


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You really are drunk with power, aren't you? Rules don't apply to you?

So you are equating "victim" with "Poor Whitey" ? Seriously? Oh, remember, I UNLOCKED your comment. So what are you going to complain about next oh persecuted one?
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What is it you think the KKK does when they aren't handing out candy? There are no innocent members of the fucking Klan, dude.  They're a boil to be lanced.
 
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/07/16/ku-klux-klan-hands-out-candy-in-south-carolina-during-recruitment-drive/


Yep find a powerless discredited strawman and pretend they are the real problem in this country. Pretend the drug gangs who control too many neighborhoods in this country and are spilling massive amounts of blood are minor to dumbass uneducated white trash handing out candy. Yep, the problem with our poor neighborhoods is the KKK. Brilliant.
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So you are equating "victim" with "Poor Whitey" ? Seriously? Oh, remeber, I UNLOCKED your comment. So what are you going to complain about next oh persecuted one?

 

What comment? I asked Montana to repost the LA Times link, the rest of that message seems to have been received loud & clear so no need to repeat ourselves.


Yep find a powerless discredited strawman and pretend they are the real problem in this country. Pretend the drug gangs who control too many neighborhoods in this country and are spilling massive amounts of blood are minor to dumbass uneducated white trash handing out candy. Yep, the problem with our poor neighborhoods is the KKK. Brilliant.

 

powerless discredited strawman?

 

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Also that cartoon is a classic but was only posted as a nod to Godwin's Law.  It has its own racist stereotypes on display & is an awesome footnote to history & the role of propaganda, IMHO.  And funny.

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I graduated from Alter High School in 1982 and no such thing happened to me. Religion classes were pretty pathetic except the class that examined most of the major religions form a historic perspective.

Took a lot of advanced science classes where God was never mentioned. I imagine if one is weak of mind and gullible to the rantings of an old priest blabbering damnation you might have been hoodwinked but the overwhelming majority of my classmates, many still close friends were not.

 

You graduated in '82 to start, and went to a catholic school.  The people I'm talking about are the Evangelicals, and you actually know this.  Or you pay ZERO attention to what's going on in the world.  Those are your Ghomerts, Palins, Bachmans, and whatever the hog castrators name is. 

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You graduated in '82 to start, and went to a catholic school.  The people I'm talking about are the Evangelicals, and you actually know this.  Or you pay ZERO attention to what's going on in the world.  Those are your Ghomerts, Palins, Bachmans, and whatever the hog castrators name is. 

Mehh, just pandering to their base. Santorum is the only one who actually believes that nonsense.
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Mehh, just pandering to their base. Santorum is the only one who actually believes that nonsense.


They are preaching to the "Anti-intellectual" crowd, so pandering or not( and most of them are not), they are promoting the dumbing down of America. And when people that are intelligent, act like it doesn't matter, they become accomplices.
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They are preaching to the "Anti-intellectual" crowd, so pandering or not( and most of them are not), they are promoting the dumbing down of America. And when people that are intelligent, act like it doesn't matter, they become accomplices.

Oh and the Dems are not doing the same?  LOL, they are all a bunch of whores who will say anything to get elected then do what their puppet masters desire regardless of the consequences.  

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Oh and the Dems are not doing the same?  LOL, they are all a bunch of whores who will say anything to get elected then do what their puppet masters desire regardless of the consequences.  

 

 

BULLSHIT!  I'm so tired of that " False Equivalency" crap.  One group is pushing for more people to be insured, one side isn't.  One side thinks that everybody should have the same rights, and one does not.  One group thinks that a woman should be able to control her own reproductive organs, and one does not.  One side thinks there may be some concern with the treatment of black people at the hands of the police, and the other doesn't care.  One side thinks that a CEO should pay a  tax rate as least equal to his secretary's percentage , and one says those are the job creators.  Come on, Bro, they are not the fucking same.

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BULLSHIT!  I'm so tired of that " False Equivalency" crap.  One group is pushing for more people to be insured, one side isn't.  One side thinks that everybody should have the same rights, and one does not.  One group thinks that a woman should be able to control her own reproductive organs, and one does not.  One side thinks there may be some concern with the treatment of black people at the hands of the police, and the other doesn't care.  One side thinks that a CEO should pay a  tax rate as least equal to his secretary's percentage , and one says those are the job creators.  Come on, Bro, they are not the fucking same.

LOL, what bunch of simplistic talking points. One group made up an entire lie about what happened in Ferguson and turned it into a cottage industry.

BTW, health insurance and Healthcare are not the same thing. ACA made health insurers richer and did nothing to improve ACCESS to healthcare. In fact, it is forcing the closing of quite a few rural hospitals but of course a bunch of white farmers and people living in the country don't matter to you do they?
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LOL, what bunch of simplistic talking points. One group made up an entire lie about what happened in Ferguson and turned it into a cottage industry.

BTW, health insurance and Healthcare are not the same thing. ACA made health insurers richer and did nothing to improve ACCESS to healthcare. In fact, it is forcing the closing of quite a few rural hospitals but of course a bunch of white farmers and people living in the country don't matter to you do they?

 

Traditional Springboro BS.  They are simplistic talking points, because the Ideas are SIMPLE.  And your rural hospital thing is not the result of the ACA, it's the result of the fact that so many republican governors have not added the Medicare component.  Blue states and Smart red states are not closing hospitals, Red states with dumbass governors are.  BTW, I sit on a hospital board, so I do know.

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LOL, what bunch of simplistic talking points. One group made up an entire lie about what happened in Ferguson and turned it into a cottage industry.
 

 

What group would that be, for those playing along at home?

 

Are we guessing? I'll take "Black citizens of Ferguson that were sick of a police force a federal investigation revealed to be full of racist shitbags"

 

Or you could stick your head in the sand and blame that darned liberal media, that's always an option.  And that darned liberal DoJ, too, I guess if we're going with that.  Now there's an organization known for out-there partisan politics - the US Department of Justice. Here's an excerpt from their report in case you never got around to reading it:

 

 

 

Ferguson’s approach to law enforcement both reflects and reinforces racial bias,
including stereotyping. The harms of Ferguson’s police and court practices are borne
disproportionately by African Americans, and there is evidence that this is due in part to
intentional discrimination on the basis of race.

 

 

or maybe

 

Ferguson’s strategy of revenue generation through policing has fostered practices in the
two central parts of Ferguson’s law enforcement system—policing and the courts—that are
themselves unconstitutional

 

 

or we could quote the emails passed around by the folks in charge the govt of Ferguson themselves, but as a mod you'd just have to remove them. Let's just say they were a lot worse than "Angry White Man".  

 

 

That damned liberal media, always reporting on current events that make me uncomfortable!   :liberalmedia:   I mean there was probably a black-on-black crime somewhere which is the exact same thing as a radicalized AWM shooting up a church because the people inside were black. Had about enough of that tu quoque BS in here.

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What group would that be, for those playing along at home?

 

Are we guessing? I'll take "Black citizens of Ferguson that were sick of a police force a federal investigation revealed to be full of racist shitbags"

 

Or you could stick your head in the sand and blame that darned liberal media, that's always an option.  And that darned liberal DoJ, too, I guess if we're going with that.  Now there's an organization known for out-there partisan politics - the US Department of Justice. Here's an excerpt from their report in case you never got around to reading it:

 

 

 

or maybe

 

 

or we could quote the emails passed around by the folks in charge the govt of Ferguson themselves, but as a mod you'd just have to remove them. Let's just say they were a lot worse than "Angry White Man".  

 

 

That damned liberal media, always reporting on current events that make me uncomfortable!   :liberalmedia:   I mean there was probably a black-on-black crime somewhere which is the exact same thing as a radicalized AWM shooting up a church because the people inside were black. Had about enough of that tu quoque BS in here.

Yet nothing you posted justifies the lie that was the Hand Up Don't Shoot nonsense.   What you are saying is because I believe the Ferguson police department was racist, we can lie about what really happened.

 

Oh, and the department of justice is liberal in case you haven't been paying attention.

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This is getting off the rails a bit WRT the original topic but I will say that I do feel that there's a certain element in society that celebrates ignorance, and that celebration is reflected in many aspects of pop culture. It's mostly noticeable among white people listening to hip hop music, but there's many examples in white music as well. Like white people understand the street. For fuck's sake, the stupid Confederate flag is now a news story and should have been banished long ago. I am no liberal but being a thinking person means listening to all sides of a debate. There's something to the dumbing down of our language and I do not like it, but I understand it and no amount of government will ever change it.

 

I for one cannot stand the dumbing down/ebonic/flavor of the month termination of correct usage of the English language. It really bothers me. That said, it's the fucking world we live in and we are as thinking people forced to navigate for ourselves what is the wheat versus the chaff is the order of the day.

 

People have to make decisions for themselves whom they associate with, whether it's online, in the real world or whatever.

 

It's 2015, I am getting sick of racism. It's supposed to be over.

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This is getting off the rails a bit WRT the original topic but I will say that I do feel that there's a certain element in society that celebrates ignorance, and that celebration is reflected in many aspects of pop culture. It's mostly noticeable among white people listening to hip hop music, but there's many examples in white music as well. Like white people understand the street. For fuck's sake, the stupid Confederate flag is now a news story and should have been banished long ago. I am no liberal but being a thinking person means listening to all sides of a debate. There's something to the dumbing down of our language and I do not like it, but I understand it and no amount of government will ever change it.

 

I for one cannot stand the dumbing down/ebonic/flavor of the month termination of correct usage of the English language. It really bothers me. That said, it's the fucking world we live in and we are as thinking people forced to navigate for ourselves what is the wheat versus the chaff is the order of the day.

 

People have to make decisions for themselves whom they associate with, whether it's online, in the real world or whatever.

 

It's 2015, I am getting sick of racism. It's supposed to be over.

Racism will never be over.  Too many people need it (or the perception of it ) to make a living. 

 

Ask the citizens of Greece or Detroit if Liberal is a bad word.   Sooner or later, you run out of other people's money or they move away.  Puerto Rico is a very liberal place as well....its about to default. 

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Yeah that is liberal?

 

"I don't think it means what you think it means"

So your debating tactic is to go around and tell people they don't know what liberal means?  Got it. 

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Traditional Springboro BS.  They are simplistic talking points, because the Ideas are SIMPLE.  And your rural hospital thing is not the result of the ACA, it's the result of the fact that so many republican governors have not added the Medicare component.  Blue states and Smart red states are not closing hospitals, Red states with dumbass governors are.  BTW, I sit on a hospital board, so I do know.

There is no Medicare component so I have no idea what you are talking about.  

 

They are closing because Medicare (NOT MEDICAID) reimbursements have DROPPED under ACA and many of these rural hospitals have aging clientele. 

 

Also, the hospitals no longer get payments from the Federal Govt for UNINSURED patients.  Oh I know, they should all be on Medicaid or have bought an Obamacare plan....well a bunch of them, to include ILLEGALS haven't.    And guess what, many of those on ACA plans don't have $5000 laying around to pay the deductible.

 

BTW, you  bash some states for not expending Medicaid.  Its simply amazing how the liberal mind thinks.  You simply don't care where the money is coming from.   Yep, Washington just has a big ole pot of money they can just toss every State's way and all is good.  

 

Also, Medicaid reimbursement rates to primary care and specialists continues to drop substantially.  To the point many doctors can't afford to take on Medicaid patients.   Like I said, ACA is about insurance...not healthcare. 

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So your debating tactic is to go around and tell people they don't know what liberal means?  Got it. 

 

 

Well if you think a DOJ who's former head was going soft on his Wall St buddies then going back to work for them afterwards is liberal, then yes.

 

And I'm still chuckling that liberal is some sort of bad word.

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