Okay, I'm sorry, maybe you weren't being dishonest; maybe you're just mind-bendingly, abjectly stupid and incapable of comprehending the factual argument that I've laid out. And maybe you're also shockingly lacking the self awareness to see how your own contradictions and hypocrisies are a perfect illustration of the kinds of self-serving, short-sighted horse shit that Black people have had to endure not just in the past but, as you make quite clear, even right now, today.
If you keep saying so. Has it occurred to you that the reason why blacks aren't making economic progress TODAY because white liberals like you are enabling their defeatist attitudes? You start telling a kid from preschool the system is rigged against him and he might as well not even try, they probably aren't going to try very hard.
You said (paraphrasing) that blacks who "crossed picket lines" 100 years ago (and were subsequently murdered) were anti-union "scabs".
I said, no they're not - because they wanted to join the unions but it was white unions who shut them out. I also then pointed out that like all other natural born persons Black migrants still had to put food on the table, so despite the fact that they sympathized with the white labor movement, they could either starve or cross the picket line.
Except they were putting food on the table by taking it out of other people's mouths... then wondering why they got beaten up. Incidentally, I feel the same way about WHITE Scabs and union-breakers.
Again, if they wanted to put food on the table, they could have stayed where they were or gotten jobs that weren't crossing someone else's picket line.
To which you said, they're anti-union scabs who crossed the picket lines and as such, deserved to have their lives violently snuffed out and chased on to the next town. That is a profound callousness and lack of basic human empathy on your part.
Uh, you do something incredibly stupid, and subsequently get killed or injured, nope, I'm not going to have a lot of empathy for you. Shooting at a cop is incredibly stupid. Crossing a picket line is incredibly stupid. Driving after you've had half a dozen White Claws is incredibly stupid.
Yes, I get that we're discussing the kinds of white supremacist violence that might have taken place a hundred years ago, but go back and read your own words - you're basically writing as an apologist for the violence of 1922 today, in 2022.
Do you not see how you've just exemplified everything that I and others have written here in rebuttals to your "ZOMG! My life was screwed by Affirmative Action" rubbish?
Well, no, because I don't deny those things happened. You guys like to pretend that Ms. Affirmative Action didn't get a job that should have gone to me. Because you don't like to admit that white people who did nothing wrong ARE getting screwed by your 'Restorative Justice" bullshit. Then you scratch your heads wondering why they vote for a Reagan or a Trump. ( I did vote for Reagan, I didn't vote for Trump). Not that my life was "Screwed" by that incident, because I eventually got an even better job and put more emphasis on my side business. Not everyone has the same options.
Now, if you are talking about a black man who got lynched because he had sex with a willing white woman, or was running for office.. I'd be the first one to say that was wrong. But if you are a strikebreaker crossing a picket line when working people in a community are trying to get some economic fairness.... um, yeah, that's incredibly stupid.
Today, I'm not sure that this kind of tactics are necessary. Mobility means that workers and companies can easily move whenever they want to. There simply ISN'T that symbiotic relationship. We don't have the "lifetime jobs" that we had in an earlier day. It's rare that I see a resume where someone worked at the same place for 30 years. But 100 years ago, that was the case, and strikebreakers were used to try to keep working people down.
