Fair enough. However, the “causes” today are a joke. It just amounts to a bunch of crybabies whining about privlege or complaining because some group is ostensibly being “victimized”
US student is sentenced to 15 years hard labor in North Korea for trying to steal a political banner
CTFU at this post. Don’t forget the horrible tie and those socks.
I only feel bad for the parents because they will have to avoid ALL future Christmas parties and other social gatherings thanks to the humiliation that their son brought on the family.
I’ll say two things here.
The first is about crybabies. Yes, there is an extreme group that pushes every agenda in the name of social justice. The idea for a “safe space” on a college campus where your opinion isn’t challenged it’s coddled is insane to me. Trying to get every letter under the LGBT banner is also quite annoying. However, they still fight for just causes. Income inequality, racism, privilege (this DOES exist!), and so on are legitimate social problems that need to be addressed if we’re ever going to be a country of equals.
The second is privilege specifically. To say it’s just crybabies complaining about it is seeing the tree without taking a look at the forest. Privilege in the white world is a real thing. That privilege leads to social cancers such as nepotism, cronyism, and the like while shutting out others from obtaining that same level of prestige. Privilege starts early, too. From the pre-school you attend, the college that accepts you, to the business connections you have access to. White people, of course, want to bury this because it’s been so good for them. They don’t know the hardships everyone else faces because they’ve been closed out of all these opportunities for so long.
And you might say, “what about poor white people?” Well, poor white people benefit from the government. Just take a read. And they’ve been benefiting for a LOT longer than any other race in the nation. So of course when others ask for the same help those white people feel threatened and say no.
I guess this post is dragging, so I’ll just stop here.
Typical obligatory Internet mention of “strawman”, what does that have to do with anything? Who said bombing NK would be justice anyway? As to my mention of bombing NK into oblivion, it’s called hyperbole. Maybe the site isn’t populated by SJW, but I see an awful lot of mentions of “privilege”, so I’m going to have to beg to differ there.
He was also probably one of those racist douche bags who spews racist slurs at people on CS GO when they have an accent. I am glad he got what he deserved. This is only the beginning they actually cut out your limbs and do human experiments on you in those North Korean death camps.
But its not cool to allow countries like this to exist as well. The government of north Korea is holding 21 million people hostage.
No love for aryan Spiderman.
@odin, why hate on the Germans? Still mad about the royal rape of 1939?
Nothing gives you or anyone the right to decide whether or not a country should be…“allowed” to exist or not based on how it treats it’s citizenry. Americans in particular have no place getting haughty about what nation is or isn’t a tyranny when they tolerate that foolishness as the status quo right at home. If you want equality, justice, peace, and other silly things like that, do something about it at home first before getting riled about the lack of those things abroad.
You think I’m salty about German names cause of WW2? That didn’t even cross my mind.
Otto is just a idiotic name, like you’re an idiotic poster. Keep reaching, Pedro.
I agree about racism, the other two you mentioned (privilege and income inequality) I’m not so sure about. About income inequality in particular, it seems to me that it goes against some of the basic tenets that the US was founded on. Equal opportunity (if there is not equal opportunity, then that is a separate issue altogether) was promised, not equal outcomes. But what’s worse is that the problem itself is being overstated. Basic economics says that income is not a very good indicator of well being, however, consumption is. If you look at studies on consumption inequality (I can post some if you like) you will find the problem isn’t nearly as pronounced as people make out.
As to your comments about privilege, I see what you’re trying to say, but I think you may be missing the point a little. I don’t see the things you mentioned as “white” problems, more as problems of class. When I was attending a private liberal arts college in Pennsylvania (coincidently, this is where I began to hate SJW) we had a pretty diverse population, many people from all different races. However, using a lot of the black students I came to know as an example, none of them came from impoverished backgrounds or from the “ghetto”, they were all very privileged and came from some of the best private schools in the country. It certainly wouldn’t be far fetched to say that they were certainly more privileged and had more opportunity than the “poor white people” you mentioned. In conclusion, the main point I am trying to make is that privilege is more of a class problem than it is a race problem.
That information was actually essential to my point. Anyway, I don’t need you to find me credible, you’re just some guy posting silly pictures on the intrawebs
Well he did do something stupid but we all have at one point or another especially when we were younger. Heck there are people a lot older that do even dumber shit and never learn case in point most of the people in this thread that are laughing on his back and saying he deserves it. The least you can do is TRY and have some empathy for the guy, remember the last stupid mistake you did and imagine getting 15 years of hard labor for it. Sad fucks…_.
This is fucking stupid, you’re essentially saying the rights of oppressive dictators to do whatever they want with human fucking beings is more important than the hundreds and thousands of said human fucking beings (no different from you, your friends, or your family) that are being downtrodden, imprisoned and even killed by them on the regular.
Fuck outta here with that bullshit, we got organizations who can intervene if someone mistreats an animal they own over here, to say that about a country is to say it’s citizens matter less than our animals, and that’s some fucking bullshit.
Equal outcomes is one thing, but when you create the game and create the rules to favor you there’s no way to really reach the same exact outcome as a black person. America has had laws on the books giving minorities the short end of the straw for the vast majority of its existence and was only really addressed in the 1960s. Fifty years might sound like a lot but it’s a drop in the bucket to a country that began forming in the 15th Century. Shit, we still have states actively trying to marginalize minorities to keep the white voter base happy and to deprive them compensation they’ve been due because of systemic racism.
You can post those consumption studies if you’d like. I’ll read them. It just won’t change the fact that during the growth of America, minorities were simply blocked by legal measures from reaping in the bounty. Those laws have had disastrous effects in the wealth and connections that minorities could build to pass down to future generations and continue to grow.
Whites have stacked class in the U.S. way in their favor. Poor whites benefit from this because even blacks who go to college have the same chance of getting a job as a white high school dropout. So yes, privilege is still tied to race. You might be a rich black person but in America, you’re still seen black first and rich second with the former severely hindering your chances to continue succeeding.
You ready for the influx of NK refugees then?
I didn’t say I had a solution to fix NK I just think “It’s their country let them fuck their citzens over any way they like” is a shitty way to bury your head in the sand and a terrible attitude to have, little better than the “bomb the fuck out of it” (whoops he played the "I was just trolling/hyperbole/ironic get out of jail free card afterwards) guy.
Hey sorry man I’m just being an ass. But I think you are an ass too.
The core of your argument is that class leads to a certain level of privilege rather than skin color, which is not true in larger communities, or, populations if you will.
You need to step out of that neoliberal, new age hippy bubble and get some real life xp