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Old 10-18-2016, 11:27 AM   #3041
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1. Are whites males in America losing rights?
2. IF YES, is fighting for those lost rights deemed racist/sexist?

examples could be anything from war on christmas to work/university quotas
First answer is a clear "no". Providing rights to other groups do not denigrate the rights of those who already enjoy them. Quite the opposite.
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Twitter does have a history of shadow banning people, so that part at least is not really shocking to me. It's operated in highly ideologically charged fashion.

I'm not even sure he's a cartoonist anymore. Is Dilbert still a thing? He's more of a blogger.

Incidentally, though, I would definitely care what Bill Watterson thinks about basically anything.
Well he makes a new one every day, so I'd assume it is still safe to call him a cartoonist.
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Maybe lead is also part of the problem. leaded gasoline when it was in, lead paint. Lead bullets. Whatever.
Lead exposure should be decreasing though. It's one theory behind the decreased crime rates. You would need increased exposure over the last 20 years for it to be a cause
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When did the GOP become the party of the persecuted?
When the country's demographics got to the point where the women and brown people's votes outweighed theirs..

Yes that's being cynical, but the GOP themselves knows their shrinking demographic problem but keeps not doing anything about it.
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Lead exposure should be decreasing though. It's one theory behind the decreased crime rates. You would need increased exposure over the last 20 years for it to be a cause
I wasn't fully serious, but I was thinking about the average age of Fox viewers. That being said, does cognitive damage from potential lead poisoning wear off?
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This brings up a question..

1. Are whites males in America losing rights?
2. IF YES, is fighting for those lost rights deemed racist/sexist?

examples could be anything from war on christmas to work/university quotas
No they aren't losing rights in the constitutional sense. They are likely losing privilege in the feminist/equal rights sense.

So is fighting to restore or maintain inequality/Priviledge racist/sexist --- Yes

However being against quota's or against PC language doesn't necessarily make someone racist/sexist. It good be a reasonable policy position.
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Six witnesses corroborate the former People Magazine writer's accusations, including one that was with her during the incident that Melania wrote a demand letter about.

http://people.com/politics/people-wr...named-sources/

EDIT: And oh good, Micheal Moore has a surprise movie, Michael Moore in Trumpland.
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Is Twitter shadowbanning me? If so, I see it as treason: https://t.co/7aYzHiZyyZ #Trump #Clinton

Looked a bit more, he's hardcore. Retweeting Cerno and sounds a tonne like him. Still don't get the importance of the hypnotoonist.
Scott Adams only became a thing because he ended up being right about Trump winning the nomination. He's also melting down partially because he believed Trump would win a landslide over Hillary, which is obviously now a pipe dream and if anything we'll see the inverse occur. And reading his feed I guess he supports Gary Johnson now? After previously supporting Hillary and Trump both. He just seems desperate for attention at this point.
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Adam's desperation for attention is less a point and more of a torus in a maximally symmetric, simply connected, n-dimensional Riemannian manifold with a constant negative sectional curvature.

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Well he makes a new one every day, so I'd assume it is still safe to call him a cartoonist.
Ah. I didn't know that; I haven't read one of them in years.
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This brings up a question..

1. Are whites males in America losing rights?
2. IF YES, is fighting for those lost rights deemed racist/sexist?

examples could be anything from war on christmas to work/university quotas
1. yes, since 1833, and now there are illegals taking their jobs, women voting, gays marrying, been downhill for almost 200 years, them poor fellows.
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No they aren't losing rights in the constitutional sense. They are likely losing privilege in the feminist/equal rights sense.

So is fighting to restore or maintain inequality/Priviledge racist/sexist --- Yes

However being against quota's or against PC language doesn't necessarily make someone racist/sexist. It good be a reasonable policy position.
Another simple example. At my office we have a floor of 20 people. If anyone wants to put up a Christmas decoration in their office they have to ask the other 19 people. If anyone says no.. it's kyboshed. We lost Halloween this way. But I can put up Chinese New Year decorations and K-Pop posters no problem

But yet the company still has a Staff Christmas party and Children's Christmas giveaway with Santa.

Where's the line? I think this is what frustrates people. Only whites are racists.
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Another simple example. At my office we have a floor of 20 people. If anyone wants to put up a Christmas decoration in their office they have to ask the other 19 people. If anyone says no.. it's kyboshed. We lost Halloween this way. But I can put up Chinese New Year decorations and K-Pop posters no problem

But yet the company still has a Staff Christmas party and Children's Christmas giveaway with Santa.

Where's the line? I think this is what frustrates people. Only whites are racists.
Those aren't rights. Those are private company policies. Are some people too sensitive about things like Christmas decorations? Absolutely. But that has nothing to do with the government or Trump.
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"Rights" are enshrined by the US Constitution and therefore can not be lost.
I think its pretty clear at this point if Trump got elected they would be lost quicker than a sports sock in the wash.
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Another simple example. At my office we have a floor of 20 people. If anyone wants to put up a Christmas decoration in their office they have to ask the other 19 people. If anyone says no.. it's kyboshed. We lost Halloween this way. But I can put up Chinese New Year decorations and K-Pop posters no problem

But yet the company still has a Staff Christmas party and Children's Christmas giveaway with Santa.

Where's the line? I think this is what frustrates people. Only whites are racists.
as long as everyone can eff' up everyone else's celebration its equal though, you've just got to get your thumb out and start complaining more about Dawali and the year of the rat.
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Another simple example. At my office we have a floor of 20 people. If anyone wants to put up a Christmas decoration in their office they have to ask the other 19 people. If anyone says no.. it's kyboshed. We lost Halloween this way. But I can put up Chinese New Year decorations and K-Pop posters no problem

But yet the company still has a Staff Christmas party and Children's Christmas giveaway with Santa.

Where's the line? I think this is what frustrates people. Only whites are racists.
You have a stupid company, the correct way to handle Christmas is everybody gets to celebrate what they want to in their space and people can see how unique things are. People don't have the right to not be offended.

To me that's PC gone ary vs any kind of ism prejudice thing. That case though isn't the majority. It's the example that proves the rule. If the worst thing in your life was that you couldn't put up Christmas decorations I don't think that's a reason to vote for trump or a cause of people voting trump.

Now a person who didn't get into college because a person through an affirmative action program got in ahead of them probably has a legitamate greivance that would need to be discussed with nuance.
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His whiny baby shtick really is nothing new. Sad!

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as long as everyone can eff' up everyone else's celebration its equal though, you've just got to get your thumb out and start complaining more about Dawali and the year of the rat.
If whites complain its racist.
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as long as everyone can eff' up everyone else's celebration its equal though
That's really all you care about? Even if everyone is equally miserable? A parable:

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