RE: White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville
August 18, 2017 at 5:58 pm
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2017 at 6:21 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 18, 2017 at 5:46 pm)wallym Wrote:(August 18, 2017 at 4:03 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Way to justify doing nothing in the face of racism, Wally. Very impressive.
Doing nothing, in this case, is better than engaging in a way that accomplishes nothing and carries the risk of escalating the violence.
KKK/Nazi level racism lost a long time ago. Now the issue is shitty education. But that's a more complicated issue. Because when all those woke white folk out battling Hitler 2.0 have kids, you can bet your ass they're sending them to the school with the least poor minorities they can find.
Well, even assuming, as you do, that whatever a person does accomplishes very little it;s still not nothing...and if a palace is built inch by inch or foot by foot we still end up with a palace. I understand why you see vast futility in life. I only suggest that there i a failure of the long view in such an appraisal.
We don;t -need- heroes fighting great villains in decisive victories....it;s enough that marginally decent people prevent tiny inequities again and again, over time. You don't win a war, ultimately, by routing the enemy in a single day, but by taking inches of his land year over year. Or, at least, this is a far more reasonable and inexorable strategy of victory.
I want the the white supremacists to lose...and while it would be nice to decapitate them myself, in my own lifetime..is this a reasonable expectation? Probably not. Will taking what they call "theirs" millimtere by millimtere over generations somehow -not- yield the same outcome? I;m just sayin...chin up, everybody is somebody to someone, everyone's contribution counts towards the goal, lol.
I'm going to post this, because it seems to me to be something that more people could use, it leaves no room for doing nothing, it leaves no room for uncertainty, or for inactivity in the face of gentility. Take it or leave it, make of it what you will.....this is as close to a prayer as exists in my mind.
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