Posted by tigerbalm at 2008-05-24 02:48 PM
Your repeated long winded condescending recitation of the tired old
"The perpetrators of racism nowadays are the leftists, who want to "compensate" blacks for their inability to meet normative community standards."
is so ignorant of historical perspective and devoid current awareness of the society in which we live that it leads me to believe that you must no longer be very active in society. Or you walk through your bitter little existence blaming the system for your inability to excel.
When does history end, tiger? And when do we deal with current events? Other groups without even the ability to speak English, have improved their situations in far less time. The premise that it is the fault of the society that people don't take advantage of opportunity leaves me unimpressed. An alternative to assigning the failure to function at par is to investigate whether this inability to function is attributable to lack of native ability. Forfend the thought.
Of course, "affirmative action" as it's euphemistically called, is a political ploy to secure votes, and also a social strategy to insure that the leadership of the underperforming group is quieted by special privileges accorded them so that they are less restive. It's a tried and proven technique. We used to promote the union organizers and activists to supervisorial or low level administrative positions, and thus destroyed the union's ability to function. It was by far, the cheapest alternative. They sold out.
The process occurs in other countries such as India and the Philippines, and others, where special concessions are made.
When have sufficient opportunities been made available? How many generations are required. Even children of privilege in the black community, M.D.'s children, do not perform up to par. I'm willing to consider a permanent crutch for certain groups to keep them from being restive as are the natives in India, who are in the news today howrah.org in their rioting to enforce their demand for special privilege. Why maintain the farce and pretend that it is a program designed to enable people to overcome wrongs and debilities from long ago rather than a social policy to incorporate the less abled as participants in the general population.
Pull yourself by your bootstraps man. You can do it. Despite the curse of being a white male in this very discriminatory society you can do it. Others have blazed a trail for you.
Fortunately, tiger, I've not found myself among the marginalized people personally affected by differentiated treatment preferring a person on the basis of group identity.
It is as a believer in truth, justice, and the American Way that I oppose discrimination on the basis of group identity, which resolves itself into discrimination against individuals.
We are degenerating into a balkanized nation, and are contrary to our heritage, dealing with groups instead of individuals. But that seems to be okay with many of you, who snidely denigrate lower class whites.
