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Ocasio-Cortez: I Acknowledge My Privilege Being Born 'Cisgendered'
February 3rd, 2019 at 10:00:36 AM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
I admit that I should have listened to the interview before commenting on the headlines. In context, she really is speaking in the same jist as someone who says "I was born with legs, so I can't really understand the trauma of needing a wheelchair my whole life". |
February 3rd, 2019 at 10:15:45 AM permalink | |
aceofspades Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 83 Posts: 2019 |
I agree with Paco -- there is nothing racist in this post nor is there anything advocating violence if "sicko" or "dope" is vulgar then I need a new dictionary |
February 3rd, 2019 at 10:46:56 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
Why him specifically, who set him up as an expert on anything. What makes him more of an authority on what we should be 'thankful' for. His opinion is just as valid as anybody elses. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
February 3rd, 2019 at 10:53:36 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
The race/victim card is huge these days. Rush made a good point last week. If having 'white privilege' gets you everything you want in life, why are so many people trying to claim they're black or native American. Because those are the real privileged people, not whites. It got Fauxcahontas, into Harvard, and that guy from India into 6 upper tier colleges when he pretended to be black. Is there anybody out there pretending to be white and trying to get all those 'white privileges'? I don't think so. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
February 3rd, 2019 at 11:04:56 AM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | There were as late as the sixty's. The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
February 3rd, 2019 at 11:06:44 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18136 |
Being thankful for something basic and considering it “privileged” are two different things. The President is a fink. |
February 3rd, 2019 at 11:32:11 AM permalink | |
aceofspades Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 83 Posts: 2019 |
Why should anyone be "thankful" for a gender, sexual orientation (born this way) or race? These are all immutable - it would be like being thankful for oxygen Sure, you can be thankful you were born in America and not the Congo, but that is geography, not immutable characteristics of merely being born |
February 3rd, 2019 at 11:43:34 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
The only things you can be truly thankful for are your own actions, things you have actual control over. Everything else in your life is out of your power to control. Who your parents are, where you were born, your IQ, how wealthy your family is, on and on. Who would you be 'thanking' for these things anyway, random chance? That's just silly. I can only be thankful for the good decisions I made, and the bad ones I didn't make. There would be a lot more happy people if this was their attitude. Instead of carrying a grudge over things they had no control over, they should take action to change what they can. (I know, I know, people love to thank some invisible god for everything. But that's just a cop out for taking responsibility for your life, blame it all on some god instead, or fate, or destiny. That's more silly than blaming random chance.) If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
February 3rd, 2019 at 1:42:33 PM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18633 |
Oxygen. Yeah, people aren't thankful for water either until they don't have any. If your car rolls over and you're stuck trapped hidden at the bottom of a ravine, you can remember all the stuff you will be missing that was very ordinary. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
February 3rd, 2019 at 2:01:29 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | If you need to be thankful, be thankful to all the smart people that came before you that worked their brains and asses off to give us the modern wonders we take for granted. Thanking some invisible god for things you had no control over is a ridiculous waste of time. I'd rather thank Einstein and Edison and Newton.. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |