jerryskids

First, I agree with you that poverty vs skin color is the root of many of the problems in the inner city. Does density contribute? Sure. But my daughter lives in Washington Heights on the upper tip of Manhattan, aka Little Dominican Republic. Pretty dense, not a lot of wealth flowing around. Yet the properties are well kept, and the neighborhood seems perfectly safe. I'm reminded of an old adage about a man stranded on an island who prays to God for rescue. A boat comes by but the guy says "thanks but I'm OK, God will save me." Later a helicopter comes, and he says the same. A long time passes and the man says, "God, I've prayed for you to rescue me and you haven't, why not?" And God responds, "I've sent you a boat and a helicopter, what else do you want?!" Money has been poured into schools with no success. Stores eat shoplifting losses until they give up and close. The black inner city culture has a unique problem. Poor Dominicans, or whites in Appalachia, don't have Ibram X Kendi and Ta-Nehisi Coates preaching to them that other people are the cause of all of their problems. With that message comes a tacit message of lack of agency-- that there is nothing you can do to improve yourself while you are being oppressed. This is my problem with the Left's message. It's why I think CRT is counter-productive, and discussions about redlining in the 70s, while helpful in explaining past results, is not particularly useful in solving the problem moving forward.

Any chance this kid is lightning in a bottle? Looks like he'll get a chance with Kirk out, albeit Lawrence is hurt too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsGSUOrVWNo

I explained that I brought up Nigerians because of your incorrect statement that AAs are not "able to" do stuff. And then you said "you people" twice again. Improve infrastructure like... put in grocery stores and other shops? How is that going? In a way you are correct: I don't really give a about them. If we find an example of true systemic racism, let me know and we can address it. Otherwise, the community can get their sh1t in order and prioritize family, education, and personal responsibility, none of which requires more stores to loot or drugs to do. But that's my way of "caring." I don't have the soft bigotry of low expectations like you do, and I treat them like adults in the greatest country in the world.

Wait, are you using 2020 employment statistics to make a point? Did anything else happen in 2020 to impact employment?

Again with the "you people." Since you are lumping me in with your caricature of what a conservative thinks, I'll tell you that there were obviously systemic issues against the American black community for a long time. I believe that those issues have by and large been eliminated, and in many cases are the opposite (favoring blacks). But if items of systemic racism are found today they should be addressed. I suspect they exist in sentencing statistics, for instance. But working on the premise that they are largely eliminated, it's time to move on and identify the current problems. I believe that the inner city black culture, and the soft bigotry of low expectations that come from the Left, are the worst fixable issues facing AAs today.

"We all" is not me, Mr. Holier Than Thou. I responded to your specific comment: Now you are moving the goalposts to say that it is a matter of education and wealth, not skin color. Well, duh. Those are indeed important factors, as are commitments to family and personal responsibility. My point is there is nothing systemically preventing them from living in those communities, it is a matter of other factors. Thanks for agreeing.

I'm serious. To make sure I understand your differentiation, an immigrant Nigerian engineer can live in communities while a 4th generation American black engineer cannot?

I generally support free speech, and do not object to people peacefully protesting for stupid things in safe, approved spaces. This was not the case at MIT however, where they disrupted classes and traffic flow. The protestors violated existing rules for such meetings and met no ramifications.

I would go months on end without posting there, then post for a while. One time I returned and I couldn't log in; instead I got some message like "We chose TNG over you. Mkay bye!!!" In my mind it was from TK, so perhaps the message specifically said it. Anyway, if nothing else, I now understand what happened.

Where are these communities which only let in certain types of blacks?

You often refer to this "vast majority of medical experts," yet you never quote any. Here, I'll quote the Finnish study from the article, which was published in European Psychiatry: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-psychiatry/article/have-the-psychiatric-needs-of-people-seeking-gender-reassignment-changed-as-their-numbers-increase-a-register-study-in-finland/D09F9414F798E0462AF911152E7BF576 Look at that, an actual scientific study! I'll end with the last paragraph of the original article, it sums it up nicely. TL;dr -- you are not helping these confused young people by ignoring their cries for help.

OK, I'm in. I'm generally free other than chunks of Monday and Thursday mornings.

I was talking availability to draft the next two days; when is the draft? If it is next week I'm currently mostly free and can do it.

Sorry but I'm out. Next two days are busy for me, particularly Friday, as is the weekend so I won't be able to watch.

This could not be more wrong. Your inability to see that a huge social contagion is going on, particularly with troubled pubescent girls, is incredibly naive. From the article: What is it that @Baker Boylikes to say? Something like "Don't be afraid to see what you see." It's right there, in front of you, yet you refuse to see it.

Yeah, I like how she sees the camera on her, then throws her shoulders back to make her b00bs look as big as possible. Effort is always appreciated.

As you know, the problem with baking/convection is the oven is large and takes a while to heat up, so I used to broil like someone mentioned. We now have a double oven where the top is a microwave/small oven which also has convection; it heats up much faster (basically it's a larger air fryer mode). It also has a "speed cook" which mixes in microwave and convection, that works pretty well and only takes a few minutes if I'm feeling even more impatient.

I know what it is, thanks. The very opening of the video states, "at MIT, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate MIT's code of conduct of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment?" The Palestinian mob there, in addition to obstructing people and classes, were chanting for Intifada, which can be interpreted as a call for the genocide of Jews (or best case, a violent uprising). So the question was a fair one. Kornbluth's (MIT President) answer was remarkably bad: "I've heard chants, which can be considered antisemitic depending on the context, when calling for the elimination of the Jewish people." I mean what the holy fock is that? Also, all of the presidents followed the lead of "only if it is directed at specific people." What horseshiot. I wish they had been asked if a call for the elimination of, say, black people, or trans people, would be considered bullying or harassment? It all comes down to where you land on the intersectional map. If you want the elimination of a perceived oppressed class, you are a disgusting phobe-a-phobe. If you call for the elimination of a perceived oppressor class, you are a good little marxist and the university's indoctrination has gone well.

What's the straw man?

One thing they could do is elect a peace-seeking government. You told us that's what virtually all of them want, right?

Oh yeah, I forgot about that place. I'm beginning to understand how I got banned there. Not blaming you, but I think TK and/or others were defending your honor by banning me.

I believe the main driver is the classic Marxist oppressed/oppressor shtick. Palestinians are the oppressed, so they get a hall pass to do... I was going to say just about anything, but I think we can leave out the "just about." How else to explain women and LGBTQs supporting a culture which subjugates, rapes, and kills women and LGBTQs? A good number of people aren't that sophisticated, they are just sheep following what TikTok and Tumblr tell them to support (cue a Leftie coming in with a Trump whataboutism...). Funny you mention brown people: the Left has conflated oppressed with brown, so in their minds the Palestinians are the brown people and the Israelis are the white, even though ethnically their basically the same, color-wise anyway.

That would of course be Israel's fault.

What do you hope to get out of therapy? What result would you consider a success?