Posts by MeanMrMustard

Once government health officials see through data that 80 % their population has been vaccinated and case numbers drop dramatically, they will assume herd immunity has be established and therefore social restrictions can be lifted.

I disagree. That's precisely when they start to lock down because of "variants".

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Systemic Racism: What’s Your View? Is it As Pervasive As Some Suggest?

by minimus in

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the president of the united states says we have to do something about this.

many politicians and people agree that we are all affected by the scourge of systemic racism.

what’s your view of this?

MeanMrMustard

@iXav:

Yeah. This whole concept has the scent of bull shirt surrounding it, doesn't it?

The thing is that when a rational group of individuals get together on a former JW forum and try to make sense of the idea of "systemic racism", the conversation starts by defining terms - a completely reasonable place to begin. And before we know it, rational definitions are proposed.

But when you corner, if you can, a true believer in "systemic racism", you can't seem to get a plain, coherent definition. They waffle around because they want to assert the most ridiculous idea, that when said out loud in a succinct way, makes them sound exactly racist. The country is steeped in "systemic" racism because they view the world through the lens of power struggles, like a good Marxist critical theorist. It is assumed, a-priori, that racism is baked into every level of society, from soup to nuts, to bolster the white dominant hold in this power struggle. This is where they start their entire view of the world. This is the foundation. It's not "systemic" because you can define the concept and prove it through evidence, it's "systemic" because it just is - as if it were a brute fact, as obvious as 2+2=4. To deny systemic racism is like denying math, and only shows your "fragility".

From that point on it is the job of the SJW anti-racist to find the racism hiding everywhere. That is, to be "critical" and show how "problematic" all aspects of society actually are - exposing the racism that's under the surface of every situation.

Hence you get the forked up logic of the 1619 project. You get the woke crowd from the Smithsonian declaring that fundamental virtues like being on time, hard work, delayed gratification are just signs of "whiteness".

Ironically, the anti-racist ideas are actually the most racist by definition. And now, as politicians back and promote legistion with these ideas, they are, in fact injecting racism into the system again, making the "systemic racism" real ... well, at least how rational people would define it.

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Systemic Racism: What’s Your View? Is it As Pervasive As Some Suggest?

by minimus in

jw
friends

the president of the united states says we have to do something about this.

many politicians and people agree that we are all affected by the scourge of systemic racism.

what’s your view of this?

MeanMrMustard

You have a right to your opinion and you can call it BS but having a definition will still help your argument.

I have been in many threads on this very site on "systemic racism". I have begged for a coherent definition. It always seems to be the opponents of the idea that the country is a big racist hell hole trying to figure out what the leftist postmodernists might mean.

I don't think this country is racist.

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Systemic Racism: What’s Your View? Is it As Pervasive As Some Suggest?

by minimus in

jw
friends

the president of the united states says we have to do something about this.

many politicians and people agree that we are all affected by the scourge of systemic racism.

what’s your view of this?

MeanMrMustard

@iXav:

I think the concept of "systemic racism" was created to push political policies that wouldn't pass on their own merits. And that most claims of systemic racism are bull shirt. The claim that the foundational principles of this nation are racist is hog wash.

But if it is defined as "government preference by race", then it exists - exemplified by the Democrat party.

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Systemic Racism: What’s Your View? Is it As Pervasive As Some Suggest?

by minimus in

jw
friends

the president of the united states says we have to do something about this.

many politicians and people agree that we are all affected by the scourge of systemic racism.

what’s your view of this?

MeanMrMustard

That said, there are too many white people in this country who look down on people who don't look like them.

The real question is who are the whites that look down on "people who don't look like them"?

It would be the whites that think blacks don't have any moral agency. It's the whites that think blacks can't operate outside the help of whites.

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Systemic Racism: What’s Your View? Is it As Pervasive As Some Suggest?

by minimus in

jw
friends

the president of the united states says we have to do something about this.

many politicians and people agree that we are all affected by the scourge of systemic racism.

what’s your view of this?

MeanMrMustard

It's confession by projection. The left thinks racism is everywhere because their fundamental view is racist.

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What Will Happen If You Do NOT Get The Covid Vaccinations?

by minimus in

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we are encouraged to all, if possible, get the vaccinations.

if you don’t, we are told that we definitely could get the virus.

fair enough.. but what happens if you decide you aren’t going to get the shots?

MeanMrMustard

The truth is 7 of 10 people who get the vaccine will die within 90 days. The other 3 will become homosexuals and start attending BLM marches on the orders of there new Chinese masters.

I got the vaccine because I was told there were nanobots in there that, when activated by the 5g radiation, would give me some superpowers. I hope I made the right choice.

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3 Types of People?

by minimus in

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as a rule, there are 3 types.

one is the dramatic over the top person where a hangnail means you might have to get your finger cut off.. the second type is —who me, worry?

i’m not going to let too much of anything bother me unless it really is armageddon.. the third type is the person in between.

MeanMrMustard

I was always fond of:

There are 10 types of people: Those that understand binary and those that do not.

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Covid 19 True Infection Rate / Proof of Misinformation

by Simon in

this is interesting.. you've probably heard of "asymptomatic spread" which is, people who are infected with the virus and are spreading it, but who have no symptoms.. but is it accurate?

is it supported by the statistics?.

this video analyses the facts and concludes that we've been given misinformation due to faulty testing.

MeanMrMustard

that is true, capitalism 101

No, it isn't.

the "non-lethal" part doesn't fit your narrative. What does it mean?

What's probably meant here is that if you are under 60 and not on death's doorstep anyway from some other disease, covid is less lethal than the flu.