Now this was truly funny! Welcome back! Don't worry about losing Parler....you're safer not posting there anyway....
I wasn't talking about "diversity education." Normal university education is what I meant. It serves two purposes when it comes to addressing prejudice--1. it broadens the knowledge base and provides more perspectives than their lived experiences growing up and 2. it puts them on a college campus with a lot of different types of people, enlarging their own lived experience. It doesn't automatically make people non-racist, but there is nothing that does that. It's simply one of the better mitigators of prejudice--it helps open the mind to be exposed to, and live with, the kinds of people who didn't live in your neighborhood and also to be exposed to new thoughts and ideas that may have never come up around the dinner table or at the local high school. Plus, of course, education is important for many other things, so investment in higher education for more people helps society in many ways, not just as an anti-prejudice measure.
College students for the most part have inquisitive minds. Inquisitive minds tend to be progressive and not racist. Sometimes it takes time to get there.
The military introduced this Irish american dairy farmer from Iowa to diversity....started with going to bootcamp and then on to the Naval Training Center....made my first real close black friend in school there...we played music together and when we got back from the war he bought a van and rode home to Chicago...I hitched a ride to Iowa and he had dinner at my family's table...nobody in my family had ever eaten or spent time with a black person nor had one been in our home until that day...it was an education for them all.....there are many schools that do broaden our vistas and open our minds.
Calm. The. Fuck. Down. I'm just trying to stop the arguments and insults. I just skimmed all those posts. I have never ever ever heard the term both sider and that it was a personal insult. If you read her post I didn't know it was an insult to you. So both sider means racist? Link?
How about that World view of US law enforcement aiding the coup? So far they've arrested state legislators and several out of district policemen ...someone held up the support for Capitol police for at least 90 minutes and 3 GOP legislators were in regular contact with the organizer of the coup....hmmm....let's make this an S2 drama....
I believe what is agitating OB is that he does not care for the term both sider as it suggests both sides should not be discussed on an equal level. His anger stems from a single question. Why can't both sides be discussed? He also feels both sides is an insult because it does not have a positive connotation.
I was going to blame not having a bong at work but in a joking way.....please don't take this seriously...just trying to "lower the temerature"....my new favorite term
Caption contest: Capital Police> Always ready! Here's what the Capital Police should have done, when the unruly mob of mind controlled Trump zombies, were two thousand feet away from the building. Shoot for the knees as they circle the horde.
