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I'll give you the Cliff Notes version since many don't have the attention span:
I recommend you listen.
- China is using the Left's rhetoric against us -- How can we be the moral compass of the world when our President states we are a systemically racist nation
- Leftists are telling people just because they are minorities they start with one arm tied behind their back. This is not only a lie but very dehumanizing. Nikki Haley is a minority btw.
- China is surpassing us in military strength, specifically the Navy.
- Biden's border policies are abhorrent.
- We had to pass a Bill to test illegals coming over the border for COVD-19.
Thank you,
I will take Haley on. First, equity. She is mischaracterizing the movement. It is not about equity of outcome, nor is it about equity of opportunity. Neither is either possible or desirable. Her even discussing equity of opportunity reveals her lack of knowledge. Everyone is born with specific talents and traits, we are not all created equal. Some people are blessed with high intelligence. Some are born with strong healthy genes and natural immunity to many diseases. Some are born into wealth. Hell, even birth order has a significant impact on "equality of opportunity". Haley was born into relative wealth and was the oldest, the fact that she doesn't acknowledge or recognize those advantages speaks to her ignorance of the issue. The core concept of the equality movement is rewarding the successful, but also improving the lives of the disadvantaged. In the past our progressive tax system, higher corporate taxes, went a long way in delivering, not equality of outcome or opportunity, but making things "fair". Over the past four decades that system has been dismantled to the point that, today, there is very little "improving the lives of the less fortunate" going on. Our system should be created behind a "veil of ignorance", instead of what we have today, a system created by the elite, for the elite.
When Haley speaks of our daughter what she is really saying is that she knows her daughter is born with advantages, and instead of acknowledging that reality, and perhaps taking some of the rewards of those advantages to improve the lives of those less advantaged, she instead wants her daughter to be able to keep most of those rewards and build a "fortress" around her wealth while watching the calamity of the poor, their poverty, increase. That is about as unAmerican as it gets.
What wealth?
Her father was a professor, her mother a lawyer. She was far from "disadvantaged".
And? She was a middle class American? Is that evil these days?
Upper middle class, and no, that is not evil, or even a problem. The problem is Haley wants to play off her "minority" status, and she acts as if any minority has an "equal opportunity" like she did. She knows it is not true, I mean she sure as hell not going to move to Columbia and enroll her daughter in an inner city school, yet she wants to pretend those students at that inner city school have the same "opportunities" as she did. It is insulting. And to make matters worse, she actually believes she is entitled to all that she has gained from those advantages, like the family she was born in to or the intelligence she was born with.
And Shapiro is even worse. I mean that pompous ass really believes he actually deserves all the opportunities and success he has had. That he owes nothing back to a society that just happens to value the traits he possesses. What he fails to realize is that if he was born a 100,000 years ago, in a hunter gatherer society, if those "humans" believed as he believed, well his ass would have been left to starve to death.
I mean I hate to go all Skynard on you, but if you have never been down in the ghetto, never felt that cold wind blow, then you know nothing. People like Haley, Shapiro, should be rounded up, dropped down into some trailer park where the rent is due every Friday, with no money, and then left for a year. Bet they come out with a changed attitude.
Wrong. She said she doesn’t want her daughter labeled. Your last paragraph is at best disturbing. Those people if they are in that situation should try to improve it and not blame me or others for it.