sycasey said:
Just to continue to point this out:
The broader point, if you look closely at iwantwinners' arguments, can be summed up as: "Why bother?"
You can't control people's thoughts, so why bother calling out racism? You can't stop all gun violence, so why bother with gun control? These Parkland kids have no experience, so why bother speaking out? Why bother supporting them? It's all virtue signaling, so why bother? Why bother? Why bother?
Again, this is a toxic attitude if it is allowed to broadly take hold in a democracy. It's not stupid to care about things or look for solutions.
So wrong. You're an ideologue, so when you read dissenting posts, I'm sure all you see is ideology. I'm surprised you didn't go "people will always murder, so iwantwinners probably doesn't want laws against murder".
There are political agendas to advocating for "racism" as being the #1 social problem of our day, so the outrage and the willingness to be dishonest about instances and broader trends of "racism" are what I object to.
Shouting racism does nothing, it's NOT a solution. That's why it's virtue signaling. Shouting "racism is bad" makes one an idiot. Next, it will be "don't beat your wives". Thanks. Just what wife beaters need to fix their own thoughts.
People glorify racism for many reasons. The social movement surrounding "racism awareness" is almost fully propaganda, misleading the public about LE interactions with these victims, asserting things to be false even after it is discovered that it is proven to be false (hands up don't shoot). Duke lacrosse, professors admonishing students due to race furthers the university's urgency in creating more SJW type classes dealing with race and gender.
The gun debate is also dishonest because the only policy change you should be advocating for if it is the sole goal to eliminate gun violence is to abolish the 2nd amendment It' fact that banning assault rifles will not fix the propensity to shoot people, mass or otherwise, as most firearm and mass shooting violence are from non- semi-autos. What will prevent mass shootings and firearm violence generally is the abolishing of firearms 100% (even illegal ones), fixing the hearts and minds (culture, values) of Americans who engage in this violence, or arming everybody. We know firearm violence generally doesn't occur in a location where it is known most or many are capably armed with a firearm. Nobody shoots up a police station, but they'll shoot up a church or school.
I have zero problems with banning assault rifles and further access restrictions, I have a problem with the dishonesty in advocating for it in the name of mass shootings, or the insinuation that it will curb firearm violence at all. More people die every month on the streets than they do in all the mass shootings the last 20 years. An honest person wants guns banned entirely, if at all because an honest person acknowledges mass shootings are small but emotionally devastating, and that restricting firearms does NOTHING to curb the trend of shooting people in schools. Nothing.
It's like taxes. Vague appeals to higher taxes using morality as a crutch are absurd. What is the appropriate tax margin for all brackets so that when we reach it, I can tell you to piss off when you INEVITABLY justify asking me for more. This is what will happen with firearms. Ban assault weapons, school shootings continue, and they will justify asking for more.
You're using HS kids to peddle an agenda they know nothing about. They are co-dependent humans at this point. Would you take seriously HS students peddling the tea party anti-tax movement? As one person said recently, if you can't even take care of your own BR and can barely sort out your own life let alone the world, how can you honestly tell yourself you can stick your neck out into the world and advocate change...It's an attempt at vanity and affirmation of self-worth disguised as an advocation for virtue. Not saying it's insincere, but that's really what they're doing. They aren't self-aware enough to know their own failings and vain attempts at changing the world. When you have real conflict within yourself about being helpless in your own life, feeling overwhelmed, an attempt at emotional equilibrium can be (and has been) political activism; political and moral virtue signaling.
You're not interested in solutions, or you'd never utter the words "unconscious bias". You're interested in concocting "problems" that generate urgency in furthering "solutions" that align with your political, social, and cultural agendas. If you'd
