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Total Members Voted: 11

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

[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.

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/

The QB shot some people?

[LarryBnDC]

 

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?

Because Republicans are a bunch nihilistic assholes who work for Putin?

[facilitatorn]

I was going to say because the republicans now proudly wear the butt plug and ball gag of their Russian overlords proudly for all to see. They are a kooky sadistic death cult with a racist raison d’etre, more terrorist group than political party in every respect.

[Hamilton Samuels]

Tax Day kicked to May 15.

https://theweek.com/5things/972632/irs-reportedly-delay-tax-filing-deadline-by-month

[bambu.]

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.

There is;

https://meaww.com/what-is-niggling-us-vogue-called-absurd-after-it-accused-daily-mail-of-racism

What is 'niggling'? US Vogue says Daily Mail was 'racist' in Meghan Markle article, Internet says 'it's absurd'

US Vogue has been called “absurd” after it accused The Daily Mail of racism for using the word “Niggling” in the headline of a Meghan Markle article. In 2017, the British daily middle-market newspaper used the phrase “a niggling worry” alongside Prince Harry and Meghan's engagement photo, which American Vogue found racist. The phrase was reportedly used as a signpost to an inside piece by Sarah Vine.

As per the Oxford dictionary, ‘niggling’ as an adjective is 'used to describe a slight feeling of worry or pain that does not go away' or 'not important'

[bambu.]

This though, if as portrayed, is definitely racist;

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9372319/Retired-LAPD-detective-filmed-telling-black-teen-cage-little-monkey.html

[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.

There is;

https://meaww.com/what-is-niggling-us-vogue-called-absurd-after-it-accused-daily-mail-of-racism

What is 'niggling'? US Vogue says Daily Mail was 'racist' in Meghan Markle article, Internet says 'it's absurd'

US Vogue has been called “absurd” after it accused The Daily Mail of racism for using the word “Niggling” in the headline of a Meghan Markle article. In 2017, the British daily middle-market newspaper used the phrase “a niggling worry” alongside Prince Harry and Meghan's engagement photo, which American Vogue found racist. The phrase was reportedly used as a signpost to an inside piece by Sarah Vine.

As per the Oxford dictionary, ‘niggling’ as an adjective is 'used to describe a slight feeling of worry or pain that does not go away' or 'not important'

I guess four years is pretty recent...

[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.

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.

Thanks.  I posted in reply to Bambu's "niggling is now seen as racist" post.   He posted no link so I have no idea where that might be.   ETA -- just saw his later reply.   What a lot of silliness.   

[kidcarter8]

This though, if as portrayed, is definitely racist;

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9372319/Retired-LAPD-detective-filmed-telling-black-teen-cage-little-monkey.html

Why is this an issue?

[kidcarter8]

McCarthy:  Docs say 10% of immigrant kids at border have COVID

"And that's today, before it even spreads among them.

[bambu.]

This though, if as portrayed, is definitely racist;

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9372319/Retired-LAPD-detective-filmed-telling-black-teen-cage-little-monkey.html

Why is this an issue?

Surely you jest.
Retired White LAPD detective allegedly telling a Black teen to get into...............until the m..........
In this day and age!
It's an issue with the big boss cop of today, he's ordered a review of the retired detective's cases when he was not retired.
70 years ago a person saying that might be able to claim ignorance as that's what they were taught at home or in their community.
70 years ago, not today.

[LarryBnDC]

McCarthy:  Docs say 10% of immigrant kids at border have COVID

"And that's today, before it even spreads among them.

Says the no mask wearing super spreader rally attendee...

[LarryBnDC]

This is just fuck8ng brilliant.

They’re bitch8ng about tax cuts?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/03/17/stimulus-lawsuit-gop-ohio-attorney-general/

[LarryBnDC]

The Sedition Caucus

Why do Republicans hate the idea of America?


https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/03/17/stimulus-lawsuit-gop-ohio-attorney-general/

[facilitatorn]

The Sedition Caucus

Why do Republicans hate the idea of America?


https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/03/17/stimulus-lawsuit-gop-ohio-attorney-general/

It’s what death cults do. If DeWine isn’t term limited, he should throw the putz into a wood chipper.