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Oh well if they’re young suburban adults nvrmd
So, I was just hanging out with friends, enjoying a smoothie at this nice outdoor place – don’t worry, we had masks, everyone was distancing! We’re totally about that. We heard something coming around the corner, and it sounded like a parade? My friend Jinny gets on her phone (well TBH she was already on it) and googles whether there was a parade scheduled for tonight, like a circus thing, but before she gets her results we see them. It’s a bunch of guys dressed in black with signs and umbrellas, and they’re, like, chanting? I got it on my phone, and I think it was something like Hey Ho, Hey Ho, Oligarchical Capitalism and its Inherent Systemic Oppression of BIPOC and Non-Heteronormative Paradigm Gender Non-Conformity Has Got To Go, or something, and I’m like, whatever –
But then one of them smashes a window, and I thought, can you believe that?
“NBD,” says Jenni. “They have insurance. Trust me. My dad’s in insurance.”
“I know we’re just hanging around downtown to escape the stultifying milieu of our soul-sapping suburban lives,” says Todd, I know, that’s so Todd, “but I have this sudden welling of passion for a cause I’ve barely spent any time thinking about. The sight of these people, their manifest passion, makes me think we should find a store and set it on fire.”
“Awesome,” said Lee. “And let me just say here and now that several of those androgynous people have made me suddenly question my own identity, and I am now going to change my pronouns to ‘they.’”
I guess it was just the heat of the moment – literally the heat, the crowd had set fire to the restaurant where we were sitting – but we just got up and fell alongside, and started marching and chanting and throwing things, and IDK it felt like I was part of something for the first time, so we went inside the drug store and Todd jumped over the counter and got some lighter fluid and we went to the bookstore next door and drenched some stuff and set it on fire. We all did a group pose for the ‘Gram and called it a night, went back to the car and drove back to the boring burbs, laughing, like, what was that about.
You know how you get caught up in something and go with the moment and you’re burning a restaurant and the next day you’re, like, okay, we were in the moment, but then it turns out it was for justice? That’s awesome. I wonder if I can put it on my intern application resume.
Published in General
Your correct.
8-)
And we shouldn’t underestimate the impact of auto-correct, either.
This and their social justice degrees will really help them.
Interviewer: What did you do for your gap year?
Applicant: Community service.
I seem to remember the Dims demanding that “have you been convicted of a crime?” be removed from employment applications.
Howie Carr loves that phrase “he was turning his life around”; when Howie talks about some miscreant in the Boston area it often pairs up with “he was an aspiring rapper” and “his fiancé” (baby momma).
That is what I keep telling myself
Pronoun mix ups still not as bad as loose/lose.
So many loosers getting it wrong.
I’ve heard about those types.
It’s a mute point.
Its the same logic behind the ‘you know, the majority of people on welfare are white’ canard; they think we are ignorant racist who will change our minds when we ‘learn’ that its predominantly white people who are negatively affected by something (in this case, our desire to uphold common decency and the rule of law).
These are the conversations best suited to the internet.
They find ethics and principles confusing.
From the figures I’ve seen the total number of those (either individuals or households, I don’t remember) receiving welfare, whites and blacks are about even.
The dullards at AP are claiming white privilege for their rioters. This goes hand in hand with their AP Stylebook Institutionalizes Gaslighting! for the AP Styleguide. The chuckleheads are too dense to realize that terrorism is something one does, and if one does it they are terrorists.
Dear stupid, your precious darling are assaulting people, burning down homes and businesses, looting, murdering, and generally indicting themselves with every tweet and claiming it is to protest white privilege. So, you claim white privilege for them.
And you wonder why the American people disapprove of you in record numbers.
Next time I go into town I’ll stick a Trump sign on your building and watch it burn.
According to the lefties, only right wing extremists have actually killed anyone.
Three guesses why (you’ll only need one).
It ain’t murder if it’s reparations.
But then consider that blacks are only about 12% of the population…
There is that. Left unsaid. There was no welfare percentage for racial or ethnic group.
It might be based on old information, they’ve been doing this for awhile, now.
We also need to remember that the left, especially, sometimes has unusual definitions of who is “white.”
Yup and several city and state jurisdictions have made it illegal to inquire about salary history as well. Speaking as a mostly retired recruiter, that is one of the major reasons I mostly retired. Mostly.
Well, this is from a 2017 article and it looks like it uses 2011 statistics.
The following percentages are recipients of welfare based on race. Total of all five categories equals 100% of US population receiving welfare.
• Black – 39.8%
• White – 38.8%
• Hispanic – 15.7%
• Asian – 2.4%
• Other – 3.3%
How much might it have changed? And in which direction.
Yes, and the Dims and their BLM and Antifa troops mostly come at night… Mostly…
Yes, and blacks make up only about 12% of the population. I’ve also encountered the data point over time that California alone has something like 1/3rd or closer to 1/2 of all welfare cases, nationally.
Yeah, I’ve never understood white hispanic, white non-hispanic, black hispanic and black non-hispanic as racial categories. What about mixed-race hispanic and mixed race non-hispanic. Etc. I’ve seen a program where a Puerto Rican said; I’m Puerto Rican. I have white skin and kinky hair. I’m not black or white — I’m Puerto Rican.
Do you remember when The View was debating whether Kamala Harris was really “black”?
Why would I watch that show?
This is complicated but calls for secession, with prejudice.
It’s very nice, but I couldn’t watch even half of it. OTOH, I did watch about ten seconds of Joy Behar asking the group if Kamala was really black and IIRC Whoopie shrugging her shoulders.