The problem is, there are not enough older people who get quoted on the net.
This is the wrong allusion to code words that were used before many bloggers were born. Any thing that happened in the early part of the 20th century has gotten lost. Most of the colloquialism, cultural eccentricities, racial politics and history of groups of people have been lost.
What the heck does that mean, VRB? Robeson was a communist. Claiming that calling him a socialist is a code word for black is nothing but a lie. But we are getting a lot of that from the Obama cultists.
Robin R,
I guess you didn’t get it. I thought you knew what the word “wrong” meant. Yes there were blacks who were communist, but every racist in the south use communist, communist instigator, commie sympathized to mean blacks who got out of their place and of all things when they wanted liberty.
That what I meant knowing nothing of history, apparently the black colunmist doesn’t either.
I expect you to contradict me, because you think my life experience is invalid. It doesn’t fit in your lollipop world of the enlightenment.
VRB,
Since you claim to understand the word, “Wrong,” then let me be the first to tell you: you are wrong.
Simply put, anyone who thinks that “Socialist” is a code word for “black” is oversensitive. If that includes you, so be it.
If anything, “socialist” has a closer association with “Chinese” than even with Russians, who claimed to be flat-out Communists, when the Chinese merely claimed to be socialists with a goal for communism.
Until blacks reach 1.2 billion people and 1/5th the world’s population, your assertion is ridiculous.
This is what I mean, I didn’t use the word socialist, I used the word communist. I was trying to explain that the columist had perhaps made that association.
Now you tell me what I didn’t hear and see on TV, hear my parents talk of what some people were called when those leaders tried to negociate civil rights or organize black folk to seek their civil rights. A black child under Jim Crow didn’t have the luxury of living a blissfully ignorant life. In case you didn’t know I am 63 years old and grew up in the south.
Nope, never heard of Lew Rockwell. Googled him, and can honestly say I don’t agree with his viewpoint.
I’m 40 years old, and I’ve lived all over the United States, and come into contact with a vast variety of people of all races, religions, ages, viewpoints, etc.
People are people. People are responsible for their own actions, their own decisions. Actions and words have naturally-occurring consequences.
If I misjudged you, I apologize. However, my reaction is because I’m tired of moving goalposts, oversensitivity, identity politics, “authenticity”, grudges, etc, that get in the way of people being people.
Is there racism in the world? Undoubtedly. Is there racism in the United States? Equally undoubtedly. Is it better than it was 20 years ago? Again: undoubtedly. Some things cannot be changed overnight, but need time and younger generations.
But we do future generations no service by combating racism with opposite racism, by nurturing grievances, by failing to understand the basic principle: first do all you can yourself; when you’ve done all you can on your own, only then ask others to change for you. Through your efforts to improve yourself and your situation through your own efforts, you will have a deeper understanding of the underlying problems, and won’t be fooled by a smooth-talking snake oil salesman, or won’t be enamored by plausible ideas that are unworkable in practice.
Bottom line: it never works to redress a victimization by creating more victims.
That may be only tangentially related to your response, but it is my attempt to explain why I reject Democrats and Libertarians in general, and Lew Rockwell in specific.
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You can’t parody stupidity and dishonesty like that.
The problem is, there are not enough older people who get quoted on the net.
This is the wrong allusion to code words that were used before many bloggers were born. Any thing that happened in the early part of the 20th century has gotten lost. Most of the colloquialism, cultural eccentricities, racial politics and history of groups of people have been lost.
What the heck does that mean, VRB? Robeson was a communist. Claiming that calling him a socialist is a code word for black is nothing but a lie. But we are getting a lot of that from the Obama cultists.
Robin R,
I guess you didn’t get it. I thought you knew what the word “wrong” meant. Yes there were blacks who were communist, but every racist in the south use communist, communist instigator, commie sympathized to mean blacks who got out of their place and of all things when they wanted liberty.
That what I meant knowing nothing of history, apparently the black colunmist doesn’t either.
I expect you to contradict me, because you think my life experience is invalid. It doesn’t fit in your lollipop world of the enlightenment.
VRB,
Since you claim to understand the word, “Wrong,” then let me be the first to tell you: you are wrong.
Simply put, anyone who thinks that “Socialist” is a code word for “black” is oversensitive. If that includes you, so be it.
If anything, “socialist” has a closer association with “Chinese” than even with Russians, who claimed to be flat-out Communists, when the Chinese merely claimed to be socialists with a goal for communism.
Until blacks reach 1.2 billion people and 1/5th the world’s population, your assertion is ridiculous.
Nathan of Brainfertilizer fame,
This is what I mean, I didn’t use the word socialist, I used the word communist. I was trying to explain that the columist had perhaps made that association.
Now you tell me what I didn’t hear and see on TV, hear my parents talk of what some people were called when those leaders tried to negociate civil rights or organize black folk to seek their civil rights. A black child under Jim Crow didn’t have the luxury of living a blissfully ignorant life. In case you didn’t know I am 63 years old and grew up in the south.
Are you one of Lou Rockwell followers?
Nope, never heard of Lew Rockwell. Googled him, and can honestly say I don’t agree with his viewpoint.
I’m 40 years old, and I’ve lived all over the United States, and come into contact with a vast variety of people of all races, religions, ages, viewpoints, etc.
People are people. People are responsible for their own actions, their own decisions. Actions and words have naturally-occurring consequences.
If I misjudged you, I apologize. However, my reaction is because I’m tired of moving goalposts, oversensitivity, identity politics, “authenticity”, grudges, etc, that get in the way of people being people.
Is there racism in the world? Undoubtedly. Is there racism in the United States? Equally undoubtedly. Is it better than it was 20 years ago? Again: undoubtedly. Some things cannot be changed overnight, but need time and younger generations.
But we do future generations no service by combating racism with opposite racism, by nurturing grievances, by failing to understand the basic principle: first do all you can yourself; when you’ve done all you can on your own, only then ask others to change for you. Through your efforts to improve yourself and your situation through your own efforts, you will have a deeper understanding of the underlying problems, and won’t be fooled by a smooth-talking snake oil salesman, or won’t be enamored by plausible ideas that are unworkable in practice.
Bottom line: it never works to redress a victimization by creating more victims.
That may be only tangentially related to your response, but it is my attempt to explain why I reject Democrats and Libertarians in general, and Lew Rockwell in specific.