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Haghstull
Exactly. Individual rights are primary. The individual is the ultimate minority. That’s why you have to guarantee people stuff on a universal basis. We’re getting somewhere, Barry.
Stuff? Like free doctor visits, or the right to self-defense?
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I have only heard the term “American exceptionalism” as used by right-wing globalists trying to convince post-fighting-age elements of the electorate that Vietnam and Iraq were reasonable strategic decisions rather than moral travesties, because U.S. children have a special responsibility to fight foreign wars.
You have only heard the term associated with something you don't like? Therefore, that is what the term means?
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Maybe you can explain to me why I should have more respect for people who use the term as a positive.
Maybe other people mean something different than your little straw-man definition when they use the term?
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Congratulations—you’re chinese. This ‘all in service of the collective’ attitude is not American or White, period.
He didn't say it was. This is your assertion, stated in a way designed to accept the assertion as fact. They must teach this in your Mass-Comm classes now.
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Putnam has been researching for a long time, Nick… and he’s been disingenuous for longer. Link me to something specific?
How about you link to something that actually supports this assertion, since you asserted it, instead of asking him to do the work?
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I think that conflating culture with race is a big mistake, though. Not such a big mistake a few hundred years ago, perhaps, but after centuries of global European domination, the story is much more complicated.
Are you actually stating, or even trying to imply, that culture is not associated with race??? That an Arab raised in Mecca won't have a different set of values obtained from his mono-racial culture than an Arab raised in Ft. Worth?
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I went to public school in central Florida. I had lots of black classmates, too. I’m still not an apartheidist, and neither are the vast, vast majority of Americans who interact with the black, brown, and yellow people of the world every day.
We all did. This is why Racism is the most towering straw man of the modern era, second to absolutely nothing else.
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At the moment, the age of adulthood is 18. If the population votes to move it up or down, so be it.
At the moment, and for every moment in human history, the age of adulthood is a highly individual matter, and government edicts do not create adults out of children, despite your confident assertion.
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At the moment, education contains only a very modest sports/music component.
This also depends on why you go to school, and what you choose to do in that school, despite your confident assertion.
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If the electorate votes to change it, so be it. My proposal does not ‘forbid’ anything.
How kind of you!
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The object is to raise the floor on educational opportunity and quality of life for children in this country. Keeping the ceiling low is not an end in and of itself.
And whose job is that? "Ours"?
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Hierarchy cannot be eliminated. Some people are, in an agonizingly real sense, simply worse than others at everything, and these people will always suffer. But the least we can do is give them a puncher’s chance at beating the odds.
You are truly a propaganda-trained piece of shit. Do you fail to appreciate that since the Johnson administration many MANY trillions of dollars have been transferred to these people, and they have a better chance of beating the odds here than anywhere else in the world, and yet they remain worse than other at everything, so what did the money buy? More pieces of shit like you, is what it bought.
He must work for CNN. Notice the pattern of this dipshit's posts? This is the last one I will do for you, so it's now somebody else's job to point out the straw men -- if you guys want to keep reading his propaganda.