Affirmative Action
Bob Lefsetz’s Original Post – “Affirmative Action”
“I feel powerless. You’ll tell me to vote, and I do, each and every time”
“…but it seems more about putting one’s finger in the dike as opposed to making positive change. It didn’t used to be that way, then again I came of age in the sixties, when everything was possible and everything was up for grabs. It was all about going forward, questioning norms and authority for a better life for everyone.”
So you want to go forward, questions norms and authority? So do I! And we have had affirmative action since March 6, 1961 and it’s been the law of the land for more than 62 years.
“This reminds me of the wealthy, who always say they did it alone and are entitled to their riches.”
Who EVER said such nonsense? Here’s what the IRS tells us (and they should know):
“The top 10 percent of earners paid 74 percent of all income taxes and the top 25 percent paid 89 percent. Altogether, the top fifty percent of filers earned 89 percent of all income and were responsible for 97.7 percent of all income taxes paid in 2020.”
And what does THIS have to do with anything, let alone affirmative action?
“…we all need to get along. Isn’t that what Rodney King said? Oh, he’s dead.”
True, King died on June 17th of 2012 in the swimming pool at the home he bought with the $3.8 million dollars he was awarded by the city of Los Angeles in 1994. He was also engaged to one of the jurors in his trial, who found him at the bottom of his pool.
“Rodney King’s death in June was the result of accidental drowning, although alcohol, cocaine, marijuana and PCP found in his system were contributing factors, authorities said Thursday.”
Yes, he is dead, but it’s not because of white nationalists, angry racist police, or a lack of affirmative action. He abused a variety of illegal drugs and fell into his own swimming pool. So what’s your point in saying:
“Oh, he’s dead.”
And then you hop on your moral virtue-signaling high horse to preach:
“So in the sixties we recognized that certain people were at a disadvantage and this needed to be rectified. Let me see… Do we want people of color to sit in the back of the bus? Be unable to go to college? Well, the dirty little secret is that many Blacks are forced into substandard schools sans the rest of society. And this impacts them their entire life. So they may not be as well-prepared for college as others who were the beneficiaries of a better education. But we’re all equal, right?”
Back of the bus? Unable to go to college? You’re old enough to remember that this kind of crap ended more than 60 years ago. Yes, we are all equal, but our Constitution and the Supreme Court guarantees equality of opportunity, not equality of outcomes.
“May not be as well-prepared for college”?
The Supreme Court NEVER said that, nor did they reject all laws pertaining to race. But preventing Asians from being allowed to go to Harvard is ALSO racism. More than 60 years ago. Martin Luther King Jr. told us:
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
But Bob Lefsetz wants to continue judging people by the color of their skin. Get over it, Boomer!
And then you hop on the abortion bandwagon:
“And you told my mother that she couldn’t have an abortion. Are you proposing eugenics? Absolutely, we just don’t call it that.”
You seem to forget that the strongest advocate for legal and taxpayer-funded abortions is Planned Parenthood, founded by Margaret Sanger.
“In promoting birth control, she advanced a controversial “Negro Project,” wrote in her autobiography about speaking to a Ku Klux Klan group and advocated for a eugenics approach to breeding for “the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extinction, of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.”
And it wouldn’t be a Bob Lefsetz post without bringing in President Trump.
“Somehow Hunter Biden is the worst criminal in the world but Trump’s kids are saints?”
NOBODY ever said “Trump’s kids are saints”. But whistleblowers, testimonies in Congress, emails, videos and recordings reveal Hunter Biden to be a whore-chasing, crack and sex addict, and an influence peddler who received multi-millions from Chinese and Ukrainian interests, with the full knowledge and support of President Joe “The Big Guy” Biden, and all verified by Hunter Biden’s laptop, which the FBI and DOJ kept hidden until after the midterm elections.
And what rock are you living under???
“Because god forbid someone gains an advantage, that the law works in their behalf. It’s your fault that you’re gay or trans and we’re going to teach you a lesson by closing doors. We say we’re all about freedom, but it turns out that freedom’s for us, not you.”
Closing doors? Mother and fathers are each celebrated for one day per year. Gays, trans, and the entire LGBTQ+ alphabet soup folks get an entire MONTH for Pride celebrations and parties on the White House lawn. Guys who feel like girls get to compete on women’s swim teams and athletes who have worked and trained for many years to excel at their sport lose to a guy who is still a biological male. Doors are certainly closing, but not for gays and trans people.
Then you go on to attack and insult the Supreme Court:
“Respect? How can you respect the Supreme Court? Lackeys, tools of the right. There’s an agenda, and it’s not in your favor, the majority, the average citizen, it’s all about protecting the whites and corporate interests, too often the same damn thing.”
You are SO lost in your left coast la-la land of virtue-signaling and liberal angst that you can only resort to attacking the Supreme Court and Republican politicians, even as President Biden announced:
“We have plans to build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean. We have plans to build in — in Angola one of the largest solar plants in the world. I can go on, but I’m not. I’m going off-script. I’m going to get in trouble.”
And next you cry crocodile tears for poor people who have large flat screen TVs, but can’t afford good food or a new car.
And yes, poor people have flat screens. But you can’t afford good food and you can’t afford a new car and…it’s capitalism. Any change will bring socialism and you don’t want that, do you?
Maybe you do.
Like Medicare.
And Social Security.
Medicare and Social Security are NOT Socialism. Neither are public schools, libraries, fire departments or the police. Do your homework – get educated! Workers pay INTO Social Security and Medicare throughout most of their working life and I pay more into Medicare every month. Schools and the police are all funded by state and local governments who determine budgets for these services through local elections of representatives who then democratically establish taxation and funding for all of them. But you’re not done with your nonsense just yet:
“That’s what the Supreme Court says. We’re all born and then you’re on your own. However it plays out it’s your fault.”
They NEVER said any such thing. Now THAT is a lot of hogwash!