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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:09am On Apr 02 |
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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:02am On Apr 02 |
budaatum: The problem is with your understanding.
Talent is not "nothing but opportunity", ben, and I never said it is. You can have all the opportunity in the world, but you wouldn't develop a talent for anything without commitment to practice and the application of effort. And a talent is not innate, but a thing you must commit the effort to learn and practise to develop.
In fact, without opportunity and learning and a lot of practice, you'd have no significant talent whatsoever.
I can provide you with opportunity by putting a piano in front of you but that opportunity will not enable you to play it well if you do not learn how to play it and practise much too.
If a talent or ability is innate, you'd just pick it up and know how to do it well with no training or practice, which no one has been recorded to be able to do with just about anything.
Lionel Messi became one of the greatest football players through a combination of, immense early talent (meaning he learnt quick since he was not playing football before he learnt to walk), rigorous training (which is effort), and a high football IQ, (which is a learned skill since football IQ is not a thing one is born with). Developing his skills from age four, he moved to Barcelona's La Masia academy (for the opportunity to learn), refining his low center of gravity for dribbling, perfecting free kicks, and utilizing a "stop-and-start" movement to dominate defenders.
All the bolds above imply learning through practise and effort. Messi was not born with the innate ability to walk, not to talk of kick a football. And he still continues to practice and learn and develop his skills on the training ground, hence his ability and his talent.
Provide your own AI prompts so we can see your unflawed AI, please. Just saying mine is flawed is not convincing. Why no other person has been greater than Messi? He was scouted and joined Barcelona after impressive showings at Rosario with Newells Old Boys when he was around 10-11. Jealousy can't bring you to admit he is a specially talented person. You have to bring in the medication for growth hormone deficiency. Didn't think anyone who has parented could be that callous |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:52am On Apr 02 |
GracieX3: There is no evidence that Garland funded Willis. That is a politically motivated lie.
Shame on you.
Nice try to shift the facts away. Noem, Bondi, Hesgeth and Patel are all unqualified for their jobs. Incompetent reverse DEI hires by Trump Story is that Trump is thinking about firing Pam Bondi.I have criticized her many times here. If basilico tells you that you are pregnant better start shopping for diapers. 
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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 2:24am On Apr 02 |
budaatum: This simply shows what you don't know.
What you call innate, I call educating inside the womb.
And forgive me for saying you don't have the "innate ability" nor desire to comprehend what I am teaching you, and you are refusing to apply yourself so that it can be innate in you too.
I agree. You have to apply yourself too.
You should go read about Mozart. No innate ability whatsoever until his parents literally glued his hands to a piano for hours everyday and innated piano playing into him.
Your ceiling is determined by the opportunity you have and the effort you put in. Both will move the ceiling so you don't bump your head on it.
What is funny about your position is the simple fact that you can not have the so called innate ability to do what you do not have the opportunity to train for.
If Messi were born in say USA where the football he plays is not played as much, he'd likely have applied himself to playing another sport, and you'd be here claiming that different sport ability is what is innate in him.
Do know that black women were never known to have innate ability in tennis until a father decided to innate tennis playing in to his children. And you will never be innate in Olympic swimming or ice hockey in Nigeria until we create the swimming pools and ice rinks to practise in. Another toddler level argument. Many children are born with a talent, a good education system identifies the talent early enough to fully develop the child wholesome . Was actually surprised Shaquille O'Neal has a PhD. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 2:16am On Apr 02 |
benalvino3: The pilot sits and lets the autopilot take control. Many times a crash happens because the pilot is fighting with the computer system, causing key safety mechanisms to disengage.
A pilot should be situational alert, he should be able to understand what is going on in different scenarios and take the best needed action, otherwise the plane is doing most of the heavy lifting.
My point is, there is a difference between flying a plane and be a genius of a pilot. The fact you have all the qualifications does not make you the best. So when I said anyone can fly a plane with basic instructions, while that statement is true, I don't mean it literally. Judge Ketanji Brown is a DeI hire. She can't define a woman because she's not a biologist. ( She can , she didn't think fast enough to give an answer woke mob demands). She has clashed with other judges over her positions on some litigation before court, actually she has been schooled. Yet she has all the papers plus experience. Today she said if you steal a wallet in Japan , you are under their jurisdiction when talking birth tourism / birthright citizenship. In short ,You can have poor pilots despite them being fully qualified.There gave been 2 cases in the last decade where a pilot deliberately crashed a passenger airliner. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:57am On Apr 02 |
benalvino3: You’re not getting what I mean. Sure, anyone can fly a plane, but that doesn’t mean airlines hire just anyone who can. I’m talking about hiring truly qualified pilots, the best from a pool of skilled professionals. Like it or not, DEI puts a question mark on that. These people don't understand. Flying a plane is not exactly rocket science, it's easier than say writing code. In coding you learn more by making mistakes then debugging A pilot cannot afford to make a mistake. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:42am On Apr 02 |
benalvino3: Anyone can fly a plane with minimal instructions, what raumdeuter or Charlie Kirk are talking about is if the person is the most qualified, the best from the basket or the person was selected even if they are not the best option because of their color.
This is common sense. Flight school is prohibitively expensive. It doesn't require a graduate degree as such but a pilot must be methodical, sharp , patient , observant and alert at all times. The autopilot does most of the work in modern planes right after liftoff to landing. So there is plenty of room to lower the requirements among the candidates who meet the basic criteria for the First Officer whose usually under the watchful eye if the Captain. A First officer usually has the CPL then an advanced flight course (ME/IR) then accumulates hours under the Captain. There is also continuous training of pilots including going for advanced simulator tests every few years . New model , new training for the pilots. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:14am On Apr 02 |
GracieX3: I'm really worried for the guy. We were talking about how some things (cars) are expensive in Nigeria, then he just shifted to Hezbollah and Obama.
This is how madness starts.  I'm very normal and sober. I like pointing how Obama was a disaster to the whole world to those who call trump supporters cultist. So yes I'll twist anything to remind us all what a useless person Obama is. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:04am On Apr 02 |
GracieX3: I think you are on drugs.
What you are saying makes no sense. Hezbollah don turn car dealer  Chatgpt. Project Cassandra was a decade-long DEA investigation into Hezbollah’s global criminal network. Led by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), specifically agents like Jack Kelly and illicit finance expert David Asher.
Modus Operandi: It tracked a multibillion-dollar cocaine trafficking and money-laundering scheme that used Lebanese banks and U.S. used-car dealerships to fund militant activities. This involved buying thousands of used cars in the U.S. and shipping them to Cotonou, Benin, and Nigeria to be sold for cash that was then funneled back to Hezbollah.
Termination: Effectively stalled by the Obama administration to preserve diplomatic relations with Iran during the 2015 nuclear deal negotiations
By now you should know I don't just post anything without evidence. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:24pm On Apr 01 |
GracieX3: If you moved a car costing 1500 dollars from USA to Nigeria, you would be able to sell it for 5,000 dollars I hope you aware that Hezbolla from their South America bases and sleepers in America weretrafficking cocaine and other hard drugs to mainland America. They was laundering the money by buying American cars and selling them abroad especially in Nigeria. They were sending over 2000 used cars a month to Nigeria. When the DEA investigation Project Cassandra was about to start making arrests Obama stopped them. He was negotiating the jpcoa deal with Hezbollah who are sponsored by Iran. Another reason to hate Obama. Talk about competence also . |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:47pm On Apr 01 |
GracieX3: Please, was Kristi Noem not even removed by Trump himself after her silly controversies?
Have Hesgeth and Patel not made blunder after blunder with leaks and misstatements?
All three of them do not have the necessary experience for their jobs.
Then let's talk about Pam Bondi who disgraced herself in front of the senate as she couldn't handle simple questions at a hearing. She like a belligerent witness. A disgrace.
As for Charlie Kirk, he used the word "qualified". He questioned if a black pilot is qualified. Please is there such a thing as an unqualified pilot whether black or white? You should be asking Merrick Garland who paid Fani Willis $2 million to go after Trump. That's competence |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 2:41pm On Apr 01 |
ono: Where’s Reed - LordReed, by the way ? He was swallowed by the river goddess. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 2:40pm On Apr 01 |
DeepSight: + This example is always at the back of my mind when discussing affirmative action.
Nonetheless I am not sure you understand how affirmative action is worked out and applied in the USA.
Secondly in areas of particular expertise, no unqualified person can get through, affirmative action or not. This you will not find any pilots or doctors who do not meet the standards of the industry.
Thirdly and most importantly, the backwardness of the North in Nigeria did not arise from any lawfully endorsed past injustice of the state as is the case in America, where white people were legally given unmerited privileges for over a century. And black people were wildly marginalized and discriminated against for centuries.
Therefore the social justification is strong in America while it is not in Nigeria.
Finally, please know that the preponderance of Northerners in govt positions in Nigeria is not a function of quota system, it is a function of a Northern hegemonic system and a culture of Northerners directed towards public service roles and systemic dominance. Don't forget that in an election a winner is not declared on Percentage of registered voters. It's on who won votes cast. If 50% turnout the winner of that 50% vote count prevails. An election is the more accurate opinion poll. In jest, opinion polls can replace elections if pollsters were not biased. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 2:34pm On Apr 01 |
Exactly. The idea of racial or tribal quotas casta doubts on the ones who earned their positions on merit. Simple question.If someone decided that NBA must have whites ,it will definitely lower standards. raumdeuter: Since you are a Nigerian and familiar with Nigeria, I will use the Nigerian example
what do you think about Northerners in Nigeria benefitting and getting placed into top govt position due to quota system
Do you think its good for Nigeria that some people have a lower standards to get into positions?
When you get to a top position say NNPC and see a Hausa person what does your mind first go to? Maybe that this guy is not qualified and only got there because he was from the North. In some cases you might actually find out that this Northern man was a smart guy who went to Unilag UI Ife Nsukka Zaria and came tops like Prof Jubril aminu
Imagine you got to a surgeon table and see Doctor Abubakar Audu from Yobe state, maybe something will whisper in your mind that Are you sure this guy will know what he is doing?
You see that what was designed to help Northerners now became an albatross on the smart ones where everyone now doubt their abilities |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:44pm On Apr 01 |
DeepSight: + This has nothing to do with his understanding of his place of residence. It would be more related to his personal values if at all true. It's childish , meaning you expect nothing but bias from him. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:29pm On Apr 01 |
DeepSight: + You cannot deny that a person who resides in the USA is most likely to have a deeper understanding of the way things work and happen there. Of course this does not mean that they are always right. Ijebos who went cold on a lady who needed visa help because she supported Trump. That's a poor yardstick. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:25pm On Apr 01 |
GracieX3: Stop shifting the goal post.
Charlie Kirk questioned if a black pilot is qualified. Deepsight asked you if you know any pilot that is not qualified (did not do the minimum flight hours or training)
Either Charlie kirk made a foolish, racist remark or all black (and all races) are qualified.
Furthermore, diversity includes Hispanic, Native American, and Asian races. Why does Charlie Kirk only focus on black men and women when it comes to DEI.
The biggest DEI incompetent hires in government in the last year have all been Trump appointments- Hesgeth, Noem, Patel- all incompetent and unqualified for their jobs A plane is not like keke . The late Senator John McCain. How was his flight record? When you bring in people of colour and women into hiring pilots, you will lower standards. You are a good driver I guess, a lot of careful drivers with plenty of experience are not good drivers. Wrt appointment, the democrats will never appreciate Trump choices , they always look for reasons to denigrate them. I don't join lyn h mobs just because you want me to join. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:19pm On Apr 01 |
DeepSight: + You never responded to my epistle. Did you read it at least. It would be sad to make the effort and have it not read.
Ol boy forget sports. That one get tribe. E.g: Brazil and football. Kenyans and marathons. There are cultural and environmental factors of influence there. A field of studied technical expertise such as aviation or medicine is quite different. It's on my bucket list |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:59am On Apr 01 |
DeepSight: + So if you understand this, then you should have known Kirk was talking sh**t. He wasn't I would not get into a plane that wants women and people of color as a prerequisite. Kirk asked someone in a video I posted, if the quality of NBA would go down if they insisted whites have to be in the team. What you think? |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:54am On Apr 01 |
DeepSight: + And with your knowledge, is there any airline that would put a pilot on a plane if that pilot if not fully proficient? Never, a plane is not like a car where you can park , get out and resume journey. It's a problem when an airline starts looking at what race to hire. I have been on a flight where a flight returned a few minutes after takeoff over a storm , we were forced to turn back. Cost the company quite some amount of money. In the morning they sent the Chief pilot with another plane to collect us. At that time a flight cost the airline $5000 per hour all factors constant. As ICT head,I was aware they blamed the first pilot for that debacle ,other airlines took off successfully apart from ours. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:42am On Apr 01 |
IjeBos: Hours (practice and experience) are the most important thing when it comes to flying Basilico: I've sat in the jump seat(passenger seat) of a plane several times so I have experience flying planes.
 
I'm sad for what we call education nowadays. People keep proving you have to be low IQ to be MAGA. I have ever done a short stint working for an airline as the ICT Manager. I setup their call centre , liased with the developers of an online booking system ,redid their ICT infrastructure - server room, plus network servers including an exchange server plus CCTV . Spent quite some time at the airport terminal check in.. The employees were crazy, having been used to manual ticketing and loading they never wanted a system which managed the airline . They would get bribed to underreport hand luggage. Which gives the pilot a very good idea of the amount of fuel for the flight. The pilots were my friends that's how I managed to get the jump seat. So yes I know more about flying behind the scenes , than the average person, you can include the cabin crew there. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:31am On Apr 01 |
nedu666: Trump has no powers to conduct elections for states because that is the exact meaning of this epistle The USPS falls under the executive not states. A state cannot force it to send forgeries to any one. Just like social media can delete false information. A ballot to an ineligible person is a forgery. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:50am On Apr 01 |
The No kings protest was about Trump being a dictator. Senate has refused to pass the VoterID Act despite the house passing it. So much for a dictator.
Let's see how long before a judge blocks this.
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Tuesday cracking down on mail-in voting across the country, the Daily Caller learned first.
The executive order will require the Secretary of Homeland Security to create a list of verified U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote in each state with the Social Security Administration’s help, according to a fact sheet shared with the Caller.
The presidential action will also require that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) only send absentee ballots to those on each state’s approved mail-in ballot list. Ballots will now have specific secure envelopes, with unique barcodes for tracking, the order mandates.
States will be provided with their revised list of confirmed voters no less than 60 days before each federal election under the order.
The executive order also tells the U.S. Attorney General to prioritize investigating and prosecuting anyone accused of sending ballots to ineligible voters,
The USPS strictly should not deliver ballots to an ineligible person. If it's been made aware. Im eager to see how an Obama or Biden judge will twist this. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:32am On Apr 01 |
IjeBos:
  Just leaving this here. Noem claims she wasn't aware. I doubt she was. Her husband's a creep She was probably too busy dating Corey Lewadonski, whom she had hired as her Chief of Staff Probably this Canadian teacher inspired him
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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:24am On Apr 01 |
Sanctuary Madness: California Politicians Let Two Honduran Illegals Walk Free — Then They Murdered a Young Mom
A 24-year-old single mother working two jobs to support her little boy is dead — gunned down in her car in Sunnyvale, California, on January 7, 2026. Kembery Chirinos-Flores was found shot multiple times, a shotgun left at the scene. She leaves behind a 5-year-old son who will grow up without his mother.
The killers? Two illegal aliens from Honduras: Franquin Inestroza-Martinez, 30, wanted for a separate murder in New Jersey, and Gerzon Chirinos-Munguia, 32, the victim's ex and father of her child, with a history of domestic violence.
Both had been in custody before. ICE placed detainers on them. Santa Clara County politicians, loyal to their sanctuary policies, ignored the requests and released them back onto the streets anyway. No notification to federal authorities. No deportation. Just another day protecting criminal invaders over American lives.
The pair were finally arrested on March 5 after a SWAT takedown — too late for Kembery. DHS slammed the county hard: "Santa Clara sanctuary politicians REFUSED to honor ICE’s arrest detainer... This insanity of refusing to turn cold-blooded killers over to ICE must end."
A child is now motherless because politicians chose foreign criminals over their own citizens. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:16am On Apr 01*. Modified: 3:47am On Apr 01 |
JD Vance yesterday said the WH task force on corruption believed Nur Ilhan Elmi Omar committed immigration fraud. He also said the WH believed she has ties to the Somali fraudsters of Minnesota. Finally located the most accurate source of Ilhan Omar life. First . Omar in her surname was not her real father. In 1995, Ilhan entered the United States as a fraudulent member of the “Omar” family. That is not her family. The Omar family is a second, unrelated family which was being granted asylum by the United States. The Omars allowed Ilhan, her sister Sahra, and her father Nur Said to use false names to apply for asylum as members of the Omar family......... Before seeking asylum, Ilhan Abdullahi Omar’s name was Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, her father’s name was Nur Said Elmi Mohamed, and her sister Sahra Noor’s name was Sahra Nur Said Elmi. Her three siblings, who were granted asylum by the United Kingdom, are Leila Nur Said Elmi, Mohamed Nur Said Elmi, and Ahmed Nur Said Elmi.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/08/the-years-of-living-fraudulently.phpWhat you have is a criminal living in America, serving in congress and taking every anti america stance possible. I'll rope in deepsight as a way of proving I hate corruption of any kind. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:08am On Apr 01 |
USAID. Just like CIA did in Ukraine working with USAID, the same tactic was used in an effort to remove Trump. Eric Ciaramela had been overheard saying early Jan 2016 saying they would remove Trump.
Eric Ciaramela the CIA analyst based at the WH was the whistleblower who said Trump call to Zelensky regarding Burisma corruption reached impeachment status . Eric Ciaramela was one of the analysts who drafted the ICA saying Putin interfered with 2016 elections. The intelligence community had concluded Putin had no powers to do that, but Obama ordered them Brennan, Clapper and Comey to rewrite the assessment. Ciaramela and 4 others rewrote the ICA within 3 weeks. Normally an ICE can take months.
Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes USAID money was funneled to an organization that created fake Ukraine and Russiagate evidence against Donald Trump
The CIA then worked with the agency to use that evidence in the impeachments against Donald Trump to remove him as President
Literally treason
“New reporting reveals that USAID and a CIA analyst were behind a project that later led to one of Trump's impeachments independent journalist
— USAID effectively created this organization called the Organized Crime and Corruption Research Project Reporting Project — We also know that it did the foundational research that was essential to bringing the impeachment case against Trump in December of 2019. It was what the CIA whistleblower relied upon in his initial complaint in lDecember of 2019
So those are the facts
— So this is basically a situation where the CIA person in the White House who've been left over by Obama writes a a complaint describing alleged violation of the law. This was then picked up in the house, impeached Trump, the Senate of course declined to hear it. But I think what's so interesting here is that this is an organization that's behind it that's funded by USAID that would not exist without USAID in what I think you have to consider to be domestic politics, which is absolutely forbidden.
— So this looks like regime change tactics that the CIA and USAID had done abroad being brought back home against Donald Trump” |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:32pm On Mar 31*. Modified: 6:35am On Apr 01 |
IjeBos: Hours (practice and experience) are the most important thing when it comes to flying Basilico: I've sat in the jump seat(passenger seat) of a plane several times so I have experience flying planes.
 
I'm sad for what we call education nowadays. People keep proving you have to be low IQ to be MAGA. In the cockpit it's only youthe Captain and the First officer , it's very interesting seeing how they go through the motions. . Very professional no room for mistakes. When an airline wants to bring in DEI quotas ,I would not use that airline. |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:01pm On Mar 31 |
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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:51am On Mar 31 |
DeepSight: + Now I have watched your video (edit: looks like you just added another one).
The simple fact is that if he was only against the way in which people have manipulated the Civil Rights Act towards other ends, he should have said so clearly. His subsequent attempts to explain away his initial remarks are not honest. The Civil Rights Act was a moral and legal necessity in the United States and along with the Voting Rights Act it came to correct more than a century of deprivation of rights based on race.
Affirmative Action, and the principles of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion which he complains arose from the Civil Rights Act are not evils - and more importantly, did not in fact arise from the Act as he claimed - which I will show below. They are ideological frameworks set up to correct institutional exclusion and the marginalization which black people had suffered for ages. Without such frameworks, it is not possible to correct the institutional and economic harm done to a segment of the population for ages and which had become radically entrenched in many ways.
The same principle was deployed and still stands in South Africa after apartheid. And it makes sense. When you are moving from an apartheid system to an egalitarian system of true equality of rights, there is the necessity to correct entrenched inequalities and you can only do that by giving those who have been locked out of the system a real chance to be included - which is what undergirds the idea of saying, look, to correct the imbalance, we are now going to give priority to these people - just the same way we gave priority to white people for ages! What is not fair about that?
Do you know that for ages the American government for example, gave out virtually free expanses of land to white people? They did not do this for black people. Now that was a policy that created generations of wealthy white people - without any question of merit. At the same time it impoverished black people and shunt them to the margins of society putting them in the economic position whereby they would have to work in servitude.
If such privileges were given to generations of white people which account for the generational wealth white people have as against the generational poverty of black people - tell me, what is wrong with saying, okay, now that we are done with segregation and all that, lets give a real chance to the marginalized people by now prioritizing them?
This is the core of affirmative action and DEI and there is nothing wrong with it. In South Africa, after apartheid, it was introduced as BEE (Black Economic Empowerment) and laws were made establishing minimum quotas for black ownership of businesses and black employment, which still stand till today. For a person who talks about context it is sad that you miss the context here - no one woke up suddenly to grant the blacks these privileges from no where, the context was the deprivation and abominable discrimination they had already suffered and the only way to bring them to par on board would be to apply these privileges - which frankly are still nothing compared to the ages of discriminatory privilages granted to whites which elevated them economically in the first place.
It is important that you understand in this that segregation in the USA was nothing but apartheid as well. IN FACT, it is the very definition of apartheid BECAUSE apartheid means apartness.
I have written long so let me tie it up - If the complaint of Charlie Kirk was against affirmative action and DEI principles, then he should not have attacked the Civil Rights Act. Above, I have shown that there is in fact nothing wrong with both affirmative action and DEI in the context and circumstances, but let me take it a step further. Let me show you that he was even wrong in linking both to the Civil Rights Act -
I have argued this before and I reproduce it here.
Here goes:
As I said, the Civil Rights Act did not legislate Affirmative Action.
Title VII & Title VI prohibit employment discrimination and discrimination in federally funded programs - thus the Civil Rights Act is an anti-discrimination law. It states that employment decisions should not be made "because of an individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin."
This is exactly what it set out to do because of the overwhelming existing discrimination against Black people. I hope you understand that we are talking about a movement and a law that saved blacks from segregation, much systemic discrimination including housing discrimination and accompanied with the Voting Rights Act empowered blacks to vote by removing many of the systemic impediments blocking blacks from voting.
Note that: Title VII includes a specific section (Section 703(j)) which states that employers are not required to grant preferential treatment to any individual or group due to an imbalance in the number or percentage of protected groups in their workforce. This language was intended to prevent the act from being interpreted as a mandate for racial quotas.
Thus it is very very wrong to claim that the Civil Rights Act was problematic or "went too far" with respect to affirmative action.
Affirmative Action actually arose thereafter though executive orders and judicial pronouncements in the context of the succeeding period and the zeitgeist of the time which was directed towards restoring as much equality as possible.
Therefore it is clear that Charlie was VERY wrong in saying that the Civl Rights Act was a mistake. In fact, he was not schooled on the details of the Act as I have shown above.
Now finally, just to show you that there was something insidious about his opposition to the Civil Rights Movement as a whole, what was his problem with Martin Luther King? He made statements attacking such an icon - I cull -
"1. On the MLK Holiday: Kirk questioned the national celebration of Dr. King, stating, "I think we’ve made a huge mistake in the way we have idolized and deified Martin Luther King."
2. On King's Legacy: He referred to King as "not a good person" in various broadcasts, often citing King's personal life or his later-stage political views on economic redistribution as reasons to distance the conservative movement from his legacy."
What was the motivation behind these attacks on the person of Dr. King? Phew. I'll digest this slowly by slowly.... |
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:02am On Mar 31 |
Obrigardo: Garbage man, many people are flying off the tyrant predator train, but you'll still carry it head on as a badge of honor. That's a black American I'm told you have to be in America to be considered knowledgeable |