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Total Members Voted: 11

Voting closed: February 15, 2022, 10:51:36 AM

[Hairy Lime]

http://www.salon.com/2021/03/17/mcconnells-filibuster-threats-are-already-backfiring-biden-signals-support-for-major-senate-reform/

What more does he think he's going to do that he is not already going to do?

[kidcarter8]

These senseless acts of anti-Asian violence have finally garnered the national attention they deserve, but they have also invoked anti-Black sentiment and reignited the trope of Black-Asian conflict. Because some of the video-taped perpetrators appear to have been Black, some observers immediately reduced anti-Asian violence to Black-Asian conflict. This is not the first time that the trope has been weaponized. Black-Asian conflict—and Black-Korean conflict more specifically—became the popular frame of the LA riots in 1992.


I think you are being a little sensitive.  I dont think anyone equates violence against ASians to BLACKS attacking Asians.

Its been mentioned here - and in a  few places, but that is not the entirety of it.

[LarryBnDC]

There are a whole bunch of federal justices who will come under further scrutiny..  maybe the courts will get unpacked...



https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/543389-dem-senator-suggests-fbi-background-investigation-of-brett-kavanaugh-fake?rl=1

[LarryBnDC]

These senseless acts of anti-Asian violence have finally garnered the national attention they deserve, but they have also invoked anti-Black sentiment and reignited the trope of Black-Asian conflict. Because some of the video-taped perpetrators appear to have been Black, some observers immediately reduced anti-Asian violence to Black-Asian conflict. This is not the first time that the trope has been weaponized. Black-Asian conflict—and Black-Korean conflict more specifically—became the popular frame of the LA riots in 1992.


I think you are being a little sensitive.  I dont think anyone equates violence against ASians to BLACKS attacking Asians.

Its been mentioned here - and in a  few places, but that is not the entirety of it.

Im not being sensitive because I didn't write that. I just quoted the Brookings Institute

[bambu.]

"niggling" is now a racist word, according to the usual suspects.

[bambu.]

SINCE 2005...

Australia has REDUCED its carbon emissions by 14%.

Canada has reduced its by 2%.
New Zealand has INCREASED its by 4%.

Source...Sky News.

The EU is to introduce green taxes on imports...from some countries, including Australia.
China is exempt ...because it's a "developing nation"....reportedly.
LOL

Stuff the EU.

Australia should immediately whack a "stuff you" import tax on every single item imported from the EU.
Including but not limited to...EU cars, EU white/electrical goods, the spray 'light whipped cream" made in Belgium I just discovered in my fridge, tomatoes from Italy, seafood from Norway...etc etc etc.

Australia is obviously trying a lot harder than Canada, NZ and other critics to reduce its carbon emissions.

"Prime MInister Scott Morrison to meet with US Climate Envoy".
Good.
Maybe US Climate Envoy might have suggestions as to how Australia could reduce its carbon emissions to zero by 2050 and not go broke, keep the lights on and keep industry, and the economy strong.

Could be why VIC state and maybe another in my world will be introducing a per km tax on fully electric cars.
No gasoline used, no gasoline tax paid.

[barton]

To be niggardly in one's use of words is to impoverish language.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/niggardly


I have no respect for the over-sanitizing of language,  from any ideological perspective.  Especially when the word's derivation has zero relationship to the offensive word it's been linked to.   

[bambu.]

Now Michelle Obama has bought a ticket to ride the "Meghan express".

Again: Harry and Meghan's son Archie is not entitled to be called "Prince"...as he's a great grandson of the Monarch but not the son of those in direct line to the throne.
It's the rules.
Meghan obviously didn't study the rule book closely enough.
The children of Harry's brother William, ...who is king in waiting after his father Charles...are entitled to be called Prince and Princess.
Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis.
No racism, no discrimination of Archie, it's the way things are.

[Hamilton Samuels]

So much winning for Team Biden: (Reuters) - Wall Street ended higher on Wednesday after the Fed predicted a fast economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and said it would maintain its interest rate at close to zero.

In its statement following its two-day policy meeting, the Federal Reserve projected a rapid jump in U.S. economic growth and inflation this year as the COVID-19 crisis winds down, and repeated its pledge to keep its target interest rate near zero for years to come.

Wall Street extended gains after Fed Chair Jerome Powell said during a news conference that it is too early to discuss tapering-off measures to support the struggling economy.

"The Fed statement today was more optimistic than some expected, they raised their outlook for both economic growth and the labor market. The market's view of the statement is that it was fairly optimistic," said David Carter, chief investment officer at Lenox Wealth Advisors in New York.

Bodes well.

[Hamilton Samuels]

These senseless acts of anti-Asian violence have finally garnered the national attention they deserve, but they have also invoked anti-Black sentiment and reignited the trope of Black-Asian conflict. Because some of the video-taped perpetrators appear to have been Black, some observers immediately reduced anti-Asian violence to Black-Asian conflict. This is not the first time that the trope has been weaponized. Black-Asian conflict—and Black-Korean conflict more specifically—became the popular frame of the LA riots in 1992.

The trope failed to capture the reality of Black-Korean relations three decades ago, and it fails to capture the reality of anti-Asian bias today. A recent study finds that in fact, Christian nationalism is the strongest predictor of xenophobic views of COVID-19, and the effect of Christian nationalism is greater among white respondents, compared to Black respondents. Moreover, Black Americans have also experienced high levels of racial discrimination since the pandemic began. Hence, not only does the frame of two minoritized groups in conflict ignore the role of white national populism, but it also absolves the history and systems of inequality that positioned them there.



https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2021/03/11/why-the-trope-of-black-asian-conflict-in-the-face-of-anti-asian-violence-dismisses-solidarity/

Also from that piece: COVID-related anti-Asian bias is not inevitable. While “China virus” rhetoric has been linked to violence and hostility, new research shows that priming Americans about the coronavirus did not increase anger among the majority of Americans toward Asian Americans. But anger among a minority has invoked fear among the majority of Asian Americans.

And you left this out, too: "new research shows that half of Asian Americans across ten different national-origin groups feel they have “something” or “a lot” in common with Black Americans when it comes to government, political power, and representation.

Put differently, half of Asian Americans across ten different national-origin groups DO NOT feel they have “something” or “a lot” in common with Black Americans when it comes to government, political power, and representation.

So, it's nice opinion piece, but it's just that.

[kidcarter8]

uhhh................ what?

[LarryBnDC]

To be niggardly in one's use of words is to impoverish language.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/niggardly


I have no respect for the over-sanitizing of language,  from any ideological perspective.  Especially when the word's derivation has zero relationship to the offensive word it's been linked to.

Is there a recent controversy over this word?

The DC Mayor accepted an aide’s resignation over an uproar when he used the word in terms of budgeting and folks in the meeting freaked. The Mayor rehired the guy a day or so later when 5he furor subsided. 5hat was back in 1999.

[LarryBnDC]

These senseless acts of anti-Asian violence have finally garnered the national attention they deserve, but they have also invoked anti-Black sentiment and reignited the trope of Black-Asian conflict. Because some of the video-taped perpetrators appear to have been Black, some observers immediately reduced anti-Asian violence to Black-Asian conflict. This is not the first time that the trope has been weaponized. Black-Asian conflict—and Black-Korean conflict more specifically—became the popular frame of the LA riots in 1992.

The trope failed to capture the reality of Black-Korean relations three decades ago, and it fails to capture the reality of anti-Asian bias today. A recent study finds that in fact, Christian nationalism is the strongest predictor of xenophobic views of COVID-19, and the effect of Christian nationalism is greater among white respondents, compared to Black respondents. Moreover, Black Americans have also experienced high levels of racial discrimination since the pandemic began. Hence, not only does the frame of two minoritized groups in conflict ignore the role of white national populism, but it also absolves the history and systems of inequality that positioned them there.



https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2021/03/11/why-the-trope-of-black-asian-conflict-in-the-face-of-anti-asian-violence-dismisses-solidarity/

Also from that piece: COVID-related anti-Asian bias is not inevitable. While “China virus” rhetoric has been linked to violence and hostility, new research shows that priming Americans about the coronavirus did not increase anger among the majority of Americans toward Asian Americans. But anger among a minority has invoked fear among the majority of Asian Americans.

And you left this out, too: "new research shows that half of Asian Americans across ten different national-origin groups feel they have “something” or “a lot” in common with Black Americans when it comes to government, political power, and representation.

Put differently, half of Asian Americans across ten different national-origin groups DO NOT feel they have “something” or “a lot” in common with Black Americans when it comes to government, political power, and representation.

So, it's nice opinion piece, but it's just that.

I didn’t leave out shit. I posted a pull quote and supplied the link.

[Hamilton Samuels]

These senseless acts of anti-Asian violence have finally garnered the national attention they deserve, but they have also invoked anti-Black sentiment and reignited the trope of Black-Asian conflict. Because some of the video-taped perpetrators appear to have been Black, some observers immediately reduced anti-Asian violence to Black-Asian conflict. This is not the first time that the trope has been weaponized. Black-Asian conflict—and Black-Korean conflict more specifically—became the popular frame of the LA riots in 1992.

The trope failed to capture the reality of Black-Korean relations three decades ago, and it fails to capture the reality of anti-Asian bias today. A recent study finds that in fact, Christian nationalism is the strongest predictor of xenophobic views of COVID-19, and the effect of Christian nationalism is greater among white respondents, compared to Black respondents. Moreover, Black Americans have also experienced high levels of racial discrimination since the pandemic began. Hence, not only does the frame of two minoritized groups in conflict ignore the role of white national populism, but it also absolves the history and systems of inequality that positioned them there.



https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2021/03/11/why-the-trope-of-black-asian-conflict-in-the-face-of-anti-asian-violence-dismisses-solidarity/

Also from that piece: COVID-related anti-Asian bias is not inevitable. While “China virus” rhetoric has been linked to violence and hostility, new research shows that priming Americans about the coronavirus did not increase anger among the majority of Americans toward Asian Americans. But anger among a minority has invoked fear among the majority of Asian Americans.

And you left this out, too: "new research shows that half of Asian Americans across ten different national-origin groups feel they have “something” or “a lot” in common with Black Americans when it comes to government, political power, and representation.

Put differently, half of Asian Americans across ten different national-origin groups DO NOT feel they have “something” or “a lot” in common with Black Americans when it comes to government, political power, and representation.

So, it's nice opinion piece, but it's just that.

I didn’t leave out shit. I posted a pull quote and supplied the link.

But the implication was that this was NOT an opinion piece, which it was. So there was some willful editing on your part. Not saying you were deceptive, per se, but only the more curious minds here would drill down to see what was truly being said in the piece and how.

So, there's that.

Meanwhile, add this guy to your massage parlor list:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/texans/2021/03/17/deshaun-watson-sued-tony-buzbee-massage-therapist/4732786001/

[REDSTATEWARD]

First, Biden plainly believed that Republicans would be responsive in some sense to a popular majority electing Democrats and their agenda. Second, he also seemed to believe that as a result, Republicans would end up being motivated by a good faith desire to find common ground in the public interest, rather than responding to that majority repudiation by doubling down on anti-majoritarian tactics and revanchism.

Everything we’re seeing now confirms that Republicans are radicalizing in that latter direction. So if Biden is rethinking those original expectations, that would really constitute the sort of warning shot that Republicans should worry about....

That gibberish brings out a head slap.
Did he miss the election results, all of them?

You mean the election results that left the democrats in control of the presidency, the House and the Senate? The results where he beat the incumbent by 7 million votes? Those results?

Sure. 
If you think it means something it doesn’t.
How come with all that “ control”’ the dems want to do away with the filibuster?