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2023-07-12 Home Front: Politix

'60s Denialism: Affirmative Action's Last Ditch Defense

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-07-12 07:09|| || Front Page|| [17 views ] Top

#1 Lets face it. If this nation was run on original principals and actual, you know, equality of opportunity, not outcome, the fight for survival between the homeless-because-mentally-ill and the unemployable-because-just-plain-stupid would be a grim spectacle.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-12 07:24|| 2023-07-12 07:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Untenable: The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America's Cities

Sort of skips over the upper and middle class Black flight that happened concurrently as desegregation permitted them the opportunity to escape from what we are now all too familiar with in the inner city. That removed a cap on de- civilizing that subsequently developed.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-07-12 08:00|| 2023-07-12 08:00|| Front Page Top

#3 How do you escape from impoverished misery? Get married, stay married, get employed, stay employed, pay cash, go to church and control your vices. It’s what everyone in America other than Hollywood believed in the 50’s minus the graduate from college aspect that has been ruined forever.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-12 10:01|| 2023-07-12 10:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Like the Southeast Pacific's Cargo Cult Phenomena -- magical thinking.

Posted by magpie 2023-07-12 10:33|| 2023-07-12 10:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Moynihan is one of the few Dems I ever respected.

Look up "Defining Deviancy Down". I was brought up reading WFB and DPM and a few others.

It really is simple in concept though fighting the grift monster is not easy of simple.

Posted by AlanC 2023-07-12 11:44|| 2023-07-12 11:44|| Front Page Top

#6 And those who have been negatively impacted by so-called 'Affirmative Action' for over 5 decades, what redress is available for them ?

Posted by Besoeker 2023-07-12 11:56|| 2023-07-12 11:56|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ SNAP, weed, free merchandise in any jurisdiction with a Soros DA and an infinitesimally small chance at Powerball.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-12 12:04|| 2023-07-12 12:04|| Front Page Top

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