You don't think much of Saudi Arabia either, do you?
Never mind.
The millennials if not you will come to make peace with Israel. Why? The internet! It's not just zeros and ones--it moves at the speed of light.
That's a clear message in "The New Arabs", if one is quick to pick up on your prediction. As I told you "The Medium is the Message"
And by-the-way, I always keep a dictionary at hand when I read and I usually never need to have recourse so when you write the word "meatspace" [ without quotation marks or even a footnote, and on the same page, please! ] you had me go to the Urban Dictionary. How was I to know to whom you intended your book to be read. I read a lot, but I do not "Text".
If it wasn't for Brown v Board of Education we would never be hearing the words racism or discrimination or inequality so much. I have come to hold the Brown decision did little to help the Blacks. As of today nothing is substantially different. Black complain residential communities are still segregated and schools today are essentially resegregated. So where's the progress?
The blunder that was Brown was Judges assuming the role of social pathologists in regard to behavioral and developmental interests of elementary school children by its opinion holding that the way to cure legal inequality is to enforce social equality.
There must be a cause for every effect. What causes racism or unequal treatment between the races? The cause of all this inequality is misunderstood. It is but a symptom of a more fundamental issue. The failure to understand is excusable, except for the educated. It is not " white discrimination" that retards Black progress, except in trivial ways that has benefited a few. The underlying root of the problem is the denial--unintentional or perhaps adverse to one's agenda -- by both Blacks and Whites -- to come to understand and accept the impossibility of social assimilation which persists, obviously, even after 100 years of the Brown v Board of Education decision. Blacks interpret this as race discrimination by whites thinking if there was no discrimination there would be no inequality and assimilation would in time prevail. They have it inside out. It's the inexorable difficulty by Blacks to achieve assimilation that they are experiencing racism making race the one major domestic insoluble social problem. And the sad fact is the problem is a burden to the Blacks, not to the Whites, but the Blacks think the problem is the Whites, not the Blacks. The Blacks are caught in a trap and there's no way out. Black resentment of discrimination and inequality will continue to percolate unabated with Ferguson-like events over and over until Blacks finally come to understand Self-Segregation or Nationalization is the only solution for interpersonal equality and social justice, as did Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X --and that, for all practical purposes -- is only in theory. If all men were archangels there would be no inequality or discrimination as assimilation would never be an issue.
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Every human society, civilized or uncivilized, throughout history has had a system of class privilege based on something--a royal birth or impressive wealth or one's religion.... or one's race. Monarchism is a system of privilege based on birth. Plutocracy is a system of privilege based in wealth, Nepotism is a system of privilege based on personal relationships, Theocracy is a system of privilege based on a religion and Racism is a system of privilege based on race.
In summary, my view of the situation is that black agitation and its offshoots in “diversity” politics and multi-culturelism having its origin in Brown v Board of Education tragically promotes an antagonistic, alienated, oppositional black politics that serves only to polarize the races, has only marginally helped Blacks and will end either in separation or a national movement, ultimately to the Blacks advantage and the Whites blessings.
No, Neshore, you don't understand. If I know Juan Cole I'll bet he could not resist a way of getting his digs in on the evils of the reactionaries and conservatives and capitalist exploiters but delivers it within a satire facade. You know what I mean. It's like the gunslinger who says: "Smile when you say that, Brother" and you better show a smile even if forced if you know what's good for you.
I was so energized and so elated reading the comments it was sheer joy. Everyone was so uninformed and sophomoric.
Please get thee all to Bury or Nisbet on "The History of the Idea of Progress".
There's nothing "wrong" with our industrialization, our capitalistic civilization, our social orders. In every way we are getting better all the time. I do not need to define the word "better". If you think about it when from the fact of knowing something you will know what it is to know that thing.
I smiled when I read the headline.
You don't think much of Saudi Arabia either, do you?
Never mind.
The millennials if not you will come to make peace with Israel. Why? The internet! It's not just zeros and ones--it moves at the speed of light.
That's a clear message in "The New Arabs", if one is quick to pick up on your prediction. As I told you "The Medium is the Message"
And by-the-way, I always keep a dictionary at hand when I read and I usually never need to have recourse so when you write the word "meatspace" [ without quotation marks or even a footnote, and on the same page, please! ] you had me go to the Urban Dictionary. How was I to know to whom you intended your book to be read. I read a lot, but I do not "Text".
If it wasn't for Brown v Board of Education we would never be hearing the words racism or discrimination or inequality so much. I have come to hold the Brown decision did little to help the Blacks. As of today nothing is substantially different. Black complain residential communities are still segregated and schools today are essentially resegregated. So where's the progress?
The blunder that was Brown was Judges assuming the role of social pathologists in regard to behavioral and developmental interests of elementary school children by its opinion holding that the way to cure legal inequality is to enforce social equality.
There must be a cause for every effect. What causes racism or unequal treatment between the races? The cause of all this inequality is misunderstood. It is but a symptom of a more fundamental issue. The failure to understand is excusable, except for the educated. It is not " white discrimination" that retards Black progress, except in trivial ways that has benefited a few. The underlying root of the problem is the denial--unintentional or perhaps adverse to one's agenda -- by both Blacks and Whites -- to come to understand and accept the impossibility of social assimilation which persists, obviously, even after 100 years of the Brown v Board of Education decision. Blacks interpret this as race discrimination by whites thinking if there was no discrimination there would be no inequality and assimilation would in time prevail. They have it inside out. It's the inexorable difficulty by Blacks to achieve assimilation that they are experiencing racism making race the one major domestic insoluble social problem. And the sad fact is the problem is a burden to the Blacks, not to the Whites, but the Blacks think the problem is the Whites, not the Blacks. The Blacks are caught in a trap and there's no way out. Black resentment of discrimination and inequality will continue to percolate unabated with Ferguson-like events over and over until Blacks finally come to understand Self-Segregation or Nationalization is the only solution for interpersonal equality and social justice, as did Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X --and that, for all practical purposes -- is only in theory. If all men were archangels there would be no inequality or discrimination as assimilation would never be an issue.
'
Every human society, civilized or uncivilized, throughout history has had a system of class privilege based on something--a royal birth or impressive wealth or one's religion.... or one's race. Monarchism is a system of privilege based on birth. Plutocracy is a system of privilege based in wealth, Nepotism is a system of privilege based on personal relationships, Theocracy is a system of privilege based on a religion and Racism is a system of privilege based on race.
In summary, my view of the situation is that black agitation and its offshoots in “diversity” politics and multi-culturelism having its origin in Brown v Board of Education tragically promotes an antagonistic, alienated, oppositional black politics that serves only to polarize the races, has only marginally helped Blacks and will end either in separation or a national movement, ultimately to the Blacks advantage and the Whites blessings.
No, Neshore, you don't understand. If I know Juan Cole I'll bet he could not resist a way of getting his digs in on the evils of the reactionaries and conservatives and capitalist exploiters but delivers it within a satire facade. You know what I mean. It's like the gunslinger who says: "Smile when you say that, Brother" and you better show a smile even if forced if you know what's good for you.
But he does it exceedingly well. That's an art!
I was so energized and so elated reading the comments it was sheer joy. Everyone was so uninformed and sophomoric.
Please get thee all to Bury or Nisbet on "The History of the Idea of Progress".
There's nothing "wrong" with our industrialization, our capitalistic civilization, our social orders. In every way we are getting better all the time. I do not need to define the word "better". If you think about it when from the fact of knowing something you will know what it is to know that thing.
Heavy is the head consumed by news.
Refreshing, delightfull, interlude-- your stock just went up.