@georgeob1,
georgeob1 wrote:
You are dead wrong in just about every category of your preemptive judgments about me. Though I do reject the contemporary group identities imposed on us by current fashion , as well the associated distortion of our constitution, which addressed the rights of individuals as opposed to groups. My experience in life has taught be that individal variations everywhere are generally greater and far more significant than the supposed differences in these group identities. I have also observed that little lasting good has been accomplished by government action based on such group identity.
Notwithstanding what you just wrote above, you previously wrote that you approved of government action, i.e., singling out groups, for differential treatment such as depriving same-sex couples the right to marry (a right enjoyed by similarly situated opposite-sex couples). Thus, your positions from one posting to the next are contradictory. The Fourteenth Amendment expressly prohibits any state from depriving any person of equal protection of the law. It says what it means, it means what it says. No distortion there. States do not have any authority to discriminate against similarly situated persons.
Quote:Finally I recognize that the only real solution to these issues is the recognition of the significant individual qualities of people in preference to the relatively insignificant group categories with which we currently label them. The assumption that increased government directed and enforced efforts to correct past wrongs, with even more group identity based enforcement, won't have far worse and lasting adverse side effects than the thing it ostensibly seeks to rectify, strikes me as ludicrous.
That's a lot of words to swim through and try to figure out what you're saying. Are you railing against desegregation? What is you beef? Be clear.
Quote:I have longed practiced those principles in my daily and professional life, while, at the same time, trying hard to avoid the sappy banalities of political correctitude.. It has served me very well indeed.
You haven't stated in this particular post with any clarity what principles you live by. You previously announced that voters in California had the right to use the power of the state to discriminate against gays. And you are wrong, both legally and morally.
Quote:Do you really know that the Extermination of Jews in Europe during WWII "didn't teach me anything" or indeed that I needed to be taught anything at all in that area? It seems to me that you are being rather presumptuous and prejudicial... not to mention undeservedly offensive.
I am saying what many of us have already said: Donald Trump is a racist and a bigot, among other horrible things (e.g., misogynist), and you're okay with that. Why would you be okay with that when history has taught us about the evil that flows from such ugliness?
Quote:Mass exterminations are a continuing feature of the modern world - from the extermination of native peoples in the new world (largely, but not all, through inported diseases) ; to the famines in Ireland which killed 4 millions in a three year period the 1850s (all while the country was a net exporter of food to England , from farmland seized and appropriated by the English) to the extermination of the Circassians by Nicholas I in ~ 1875; the extermination of Armenians by the Ottomans in 1915; the extermination of Ukranians, Lithuanians Tatars and irreconcilables by Lenin and Stalin; the Holocaust in WWII Europe; and the exterminations of Mao on China and Pol Pot in Cambodia that followed. The list is long indeed. The still ongoing extermination of non Moslems in Mesopotamia, Syria and Africa suggests we have not seen the last of it. .
It appears there may be far more to this than you to realize, acknowledge or even understand.
I am aware of man's inhumanity to man. The reason so much attention is given to the Holocaust is due to the vast similarities between Hitler's rise to power and Trump's rise to power and his clear use of Hitler's playbook. That is something you have yet to acknowledge.
