Atlanta school administrator segerates it's white and black students apart from each other.

[Hermit Philosopher]

It's not as oppressive as it used to be. Or at least, one might like to think that. But maybe we're going backwards.



It would only have the opposite effect.

Yes, I agree completely with you. My comment was sarcastic.

 

[Kooky]

It's not as oppressive as it used to be. Or at least, one might like to think that. But maybe we're going backwards.

Are you kidding? People are being cancelled and persecuted because of political correctness, religious extremists are arming themselves, and the savage frontier regions are once again curtailing women's rights.

 

[Stevicus]

Yes, I agree completely with you. My comment was sarcastic.

I knew it was sarcastic, but I couldn't think of a witty sarcastic retort at the moment.

 

[Stevicus]

Are you kidding? People are being cancelled and persecuted because of political correctness, religious extremists are arming themselves, and the savage frontier regions are once again curtailing women's rights.

It doesn't necessarily seem that way at ground level. None of this is particularly new to America, although it seems to vary by degrees when comparing the present to previous eras.

I think the main problem we're seeing today is due to a diminished sense of vigilance and skepticism on the part of the populace. I've noticed this has been a trend since the 1980s, whereas before, people used to be more cynical and called out the government more often. We don't have that anymore. In fact, there's been far more misplaced trust and faith in the government and ruling class in recent decades that we've set ourselves up to become more oppressed and regressive as a society.

 

[Kooky]

It doesn't necessarily seem that way at ground level. None of this is particularly new to America, although it seems to vary by degrees when comparing the present to previous eras.

That makes it sound worse, if anything.

I think the main problem we're seeing today is due to a diminished sense of vigilance and skepticism on the part of the populace. I've noticed this has been a trend since the 1980s, whereas before, people used to be more cynical and called out the government more often. We don't have that anymore. In fact, there's been far more misplaced trust and faith in the government and ruling class in recent decades that we've set ourselves up to become more oppressed and regressive as a society.

As far as I can tell, your previous generation's anti-elitist, anti-government counterculture simply became the current generation's elitist government support structure (and I mean "elitist" here not necessarily in the intellectual sense).

 

[Stevicus]

That makes it sound worse, if anything.

Well, maybe it is getting worse.

As far as I can tell, your previous generation's anti-elitist, anti-government counterculture simply became the current generation's elitist government support structure (and I mean "elitist" here not necessarily in the intellectual sense).

I think people got duped and distracted, frankly.

 

[crossfire]

Oh yes. “Oppressive”. I’m sure that people in North Korea or Afghanistan would agree wholeheartedly with you, that people in America living in one of the most comfortable places in earth with more rights than they know what to do with, are “oppressed”.

Just because North Korea and/or Afghanistan can get away with it doesn't justify us doing it.

If you are referring to abortion laws, let us not forget that it is the left pushing the idea that “men can have babies” also. So, this is not just a women’s issue anymore. “Birthing people” as they prefer to call them now includes men, so it is “offensive” to say that abortion is all about “controlling women’s bodies”.

Any pregnant man should be free to get an abortion if they so choose, just as any pregnant woman should be able to, imo.

 

[Twilight Hue]

It doesn't say what has been done to her, if anything has. In my opinion if she had been any other race she probably would have been fired immediately or put on leave pending an investigation.

I noticed that too.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I read the article to see if they had any particular reason for doing this, but the most I could find was this:



So, she wants a community of only one race of people and exclude other races? Why would she want that?

It does go against the late Martin Luther King's statement of judging by the content of character and not by the color of their skin.

I can only surmise she thinks racial issues are irreconcilable and hopeless, so segregation is the only solution which is ironic givin that was done in the era of Jim Crow.

Why she would want to go back to that is a mystery to me.

Maybe she thinks segregation would be more refined then in the past I'm guessing.

Either that, or she's just plain racist against white people.