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Ah yes, ignore the message and attack the messenger. That's the ticket! Your paraphrasing what you think I said makes clear that you had no idea what I said in the first place. Given that you do so consistently, I suspect it is willful.

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Any more or any less than anyone else? Not a chance. To suggest otherwise is racist.

You're projecting again.

What I have read from the authors of CRT indicates a standpoint where racism is the primary bias. Putting events in a less blinkered racist context does not make Tulsa the slightest bit more palatable, nor does it make any other racial conflict better or worse. "Indian Wars" anyone? I bridle at putting events in a racist context, where the value judgement of good/bad is carried by the races of the actors involved. Noting that racism was at play is fine, but claiming standards that differ for one group or another is racist and I don't buy it. BSBD, Winsor

Just an aside, but 'black lives matter' would be much more convincing if blacks being shot weren't overwhelmingly shot by other blacks. There's a big difference between the right to self defense and using people for target practice as a matter of course. In competitive shooting circles, nobody really cares about race. Safety is paramount. BSBD, Winsor

What you have demonstrated conclusively is my thesis that when either side of the aisle does something that is inconceivably fucked up, the other side will not be outdone. The subject of 'History' in U.S. schools has routinely been simplistic enough to render it less than worthless. To point out dicta from either side that render it just that much worse is to show just what an All American process it is. I have history books addressing the period between 1933 and 1945 in both English and German. Suffice it to say, the focus of each is different - in English the Eastern Front was good for a couple of pages, and in German the War in the Pacific got two pages as well. It is hardly surprising that the average American knows precious little about History. I suppose that when choosing what treatment is either mandated or proscribed, it's a matter of "name your poison." BSBD, Winsor

Out of curiosity, who the hell told you that? 'Gun control' is historically quite demonstrably racist. A key argument against giving citizenship to freed slaves was the contention that <blacks>, if armed, would shoot anything that moved. Look it up. BSBD, Winsor

The Children of Israel are one big, dysfunctional family. Once adopted into the family, the race of one's biological parents is immaterial. Of course you knew that is why you have people of a broad range of ethnicities in most congregations. If Israel was to adopt the same level of inclusiveness as, say, Saudi Arabia, few, if any, Israelis would tolerate such inhumanity.. Then again, I don't hear you bitching about the antisemitism and atrocities of the muslim world, so perhaps you'd be cool with it. BSBD, Winsor

Hey, I'm not the one who ran for office promising that I would appoint people to the Supreme Court based on such criteria. Frankly, I'm not cool with any Justice who rules on the basis of their own opinions. At worst, what I'd like to hear is "I personally oppose this, but the law is clear on the matter..."

So long as the appointee is a trans lesbian of color, all the necessary qualifications are met.

Clues, $0.05.

We should invade the Bahamas.

That too.

In hockey you're expected to hit people in the face. Whatever making "monkey signs" is, it's insufficiently violent and thus unprofessional. Why do you always talk about racism? It's reminiscent of the patient who sees prurient images in every ink blot. "You have a dirty mind!" "Hey, you're the one showing me all the dirty pictures."

Nothing Woke about firing someone for conduct unbecoming.

Since we're talking legislators, their commonality is much greater with biker trash than NASA. Same math and science requirements. In lawmaking "compromise" has more in common with working out the details of gang rape than of systems optimization for space flight. In context my analogy holds.

Okay, that says it all.

It's like C^2. If C is a vector, are we talking a dot or cross product? There's a difference.

I'm in favor of cooperation, which is vastly different from compromise. Focus on commonality instead of diversity and you have a shot. I'm puzzled by how you might conclude that there's a dime's worth of difference between one side of the aisle and the other, beyond the subset of the population to which they pander. BSBD, Winsor

Who's joking? "Compromise" is the hallmark of mediocrity. A secret that is compromised is public. If your integrity is compromised you have none If your hull is compromised you sunk. And so forth. BSBD, Winsor

Bullshit, as usual. The self-definitions of the Woke incorporate a standard liturgy of Progressive, Social Justice and Racial Justice ideals, which form a distinct orthodoxy. In academia there has always been a cadre of terminally naïve and sanctimonious young people who are determined to inflict their world view upon those who require 'education.' There's no way you could have missed it in Cambridge (the Masshole variant). The part that you appear to miss is that, even though the issues raised by the Woke are often quite real, the 'solutions' espoused are generally much worse than the problems they claim to address. The concept of 'compromise' is on a par with a motorcycle gang striking a deal with an 'object of affection': "Look, lady, the whole club wants to pull a train on you but you're not into it. Let's compromise and you only have to do the President, the Sergeant at Arms and the 1%ers - no Prospects. We're being fair here." Racial equality? Fine. BLM/CRT? Racist swine. Nazis, KKK, et al? NFG. AntiFa? Not the slightest bit better. All in all, Woke has all the hallmarks of religion, and is thus a disease of denial. BSBD, Winsor

You will recall from Logic 101 that there are rather a few types of definition, to include lexical, stipulative, precising, legal, medical, nautical and so forth. Thus the implication that your preferred meanings are definitive is obfuscatory, fatuous or both.

Never been.

CRT and pretty much any *** Justice movement are pretty much in the same basket. Maybe the Justice League is an exception, but I haven't read a comic book in a while. I'm cool with equal rights and equal responsibilities - no more, no less. I take issue with anyone whose focus is one race at the expense of another, be it KKK or BLM. BSBD, Winsor