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While I agree with most of your post, I have to take issue with this line.Although people on the Right tend to lump the whole Left together, they are wrong to do so.
The government caused it. If a man lived with his family, they were cut off of government aid.Black men deserted their family responsibility which has led to violent behavior among young blacks.
Hilarious when a fuckup tries to explain something.Just like the 'Right', what we generally call the 'Left' consists of many currents of thought.
Holding our attention right now is the 'woke' component of the Left, who by traditional definitions, are hardly 'Left' at all. (Traditionally, the Left believed in civilizational progress; science and reason; the rule of law (they just wanted it extended to previously-marginalized groups, with equal rights for all). The 'woke Left' hardly even pays lip service to these ideals now.)
And there are still traditional liberals, who adhere to the ideals mentioned above, but believe they can be achieved within a market economy, albeit one in which the state intervenes a good deal to help 'level the playing field'.
And then there is the 'Hard Left', which includes as its main, but not only, component various species of explicit Marxists.
Although people on the Right tend to lump the whole Left together, they are wrong to do so.
The differences are significant for political strategy, since we (on the Right) need to be able to make temporary alliances with those parts of the Left with whom we agree on specific issues. (For example, there is a current on the Left which opposes most forms of gun control -- these are people who are planning, explicitly, to kill us some day.
But for the moment we have a point of agreement. If we could unite with Stalin to defeat Hitler, we can unite with these people to defeat extremist gun control measures. See, for example, The Socialist Rifle Association, here: [ Socialist Rifle Association ]. By the way, these people are just as quarrelsome as some on the Right are, and at the moment, they're arguing among themselves. It's worth going to this link and reading about their latest internal dispute.)
And ... some of the explicitly Marxist Left are not-stupids (. They are very misguided, wrong in many things, refusing to learn from history ... but they're not ignorant and not stupid. (And often at odds with their emotional, reason-scorning pals in the 'Woke' part of the Left.)
One of their organizations is sponsoring discussion on the Ukraine war today.
I suspect it will be well worth listening to.
It will be here:
The war in Ukraine and how to stop it: An online discussion of socialist anti-war strategy
Saturday, February 25, 1pm US Easternwww.wsws.org
Black families lived in close knit communities in the 1950's. LBJ is largely responsible for the deterioration of Black families with his welfare programs.The government caused it. If a man lived with his family, they were cut off of government aid.
Not true. “Anti-war” and “pro-war” must be defined in terms of a particular war, or else it is practically meaningless.The “anti war” Left is never anti war whenever a democrat is in the White House and are now out war drumming Dick Cheney …
Ding, ding, ding….we have a winner…The government caused it. If a man lived with his family, they were cut off of government aid.
That’s it? That’s all you have is to personally attack someone you don’t know? Deep thinker you’re not.Hilarious when a fuckup tries to explain something.
Hilarious rewrite of history fuckup.Black families lived in close knit communities in the 1950's. LBJ is largely responsible for the deterioration of Black families with his welfare programs.
The fact is Black families were close knit and law abiding in the 1950's.Hilarious rewrite of history fuckup.
What happened in Tulsa Oklahoma to one such black tight community?
No, it’s not.The fact is Black families were close knit and law abiding in the 1950's.
You obviously need a history lesson.No, it’s not.
By law abiding you mean repressed by laws, police action and societal racism.
You’re a fool.
The out-of-wedlock birth rate for blacks in the late 1950’s was only 20%. Post-great-society it is closer to 75%.The fact is Black families were close knit and law abiding in the 1950's.
You are correct.The out-of-wedlock birth rate for blacks in the late 1950’s was only 20%. Post-great-society it is closer to 75%.
Yes, I know history.You obviously need a history lesson.
Efforts by social scientists to explain the rise in out-of-wedlock births have so far been unconvincing, though several theories have a wide popular following. One argument that appeals to conservatives is that of Charles Murray, who attributes the increase to overly generous federal welfare benefits. But as David Ellwood and Lawrence Summers have shown, welfare benefits could not have played a major role in the rise of out-of-wedlock births because benefits rose sharply in the 1960s and then fell in the 1970s and 1980s, when out-of-wedlock births rose most. A study by Robert Moffitt in 1992 also found that welfare benefits can account for only a small fraction of the rise in the out-of-wedlock birth ratio.The out-of-wedlock birth rate for blacks in the late 1950’s was only 20%. Post-great-society it is closer to 75%.
That may be true, but the implied causal relation is dubious at best. Also, in the 1950s the out-of-wedlock birthrate for whites was only about 3%, but today it is almost 30% — percentage wise a much greater increase.The out-of-wedlock birth rate for blacks in the late 1950’s was only 20%. Post-great-society it is closer to 75%.
After Appomattox??? Hardly! They pretended to become color blind after the 1960s. But our brains are pattern-matchers, they go on statistics. If you grew up where I did, you quickly learned about venomous coral snakes -- rather rare -- and non-venemous king snakes (or one species of them), which both have red, yellow, and black strikes. King snakes are good for reducing the rat population. So even if you want to kill coral snakes, you want to preserve king snakes.If we had 25 million more Black people who were on the same footing as white people I would have no problem. I have a friend who is a retired high school teacher who still calls Black people the N word. He believes that after Appomattox, white people became color blind. He sure as hell isn`t.
The late (and liberal) scholar John Flynn (discover/popularizer of the it's-all-IQ-refuting "Flynn Effect") explained it this way: there are so few responsible Black men to marry. Then the question becomes, why is that?Efforts by social scientists to explain the rise in out-of-wedlock births have so far been unconvincing, though several theories have a wide popular following. One argument that appeals to conservatives is that of Charles Murray, who attributes the increase to overly generous federal welfare benefits. But as David Ellwood and Lawrence Summers have shown, welfare benefits could not have played a major role in the rise of out-of-wedlock births because benefits rose sharply in the 1960s and then fell in the 1970s and 1980s, when out-of-wedlock births rose most. A study by Robert Moffitt in 1992 also found that welfare benefits can account for only a small fraction of the rise in the out-of-wedlock birth ratio.
A brilliant reply. I am sure everyone who reads this is like me ... awestruck by your towering intellect. (Or maybe it's just that everything is hilarious to you. There are such people ... continually laughing and giggling, unable to stop ... usually found in institutions.)Hilarious when a fuckup tries to explain something.
Why would anyone try to explain a bullshit opinion post which you presented.A brilliant reply. I am sure everyone who reads this is like me ... awestruck by your towering intellect. (Or maybe it's just that everything is hilarious to you. There are such people ... continually laughing and giggling, unable to stop ... usually found in institutions.)
