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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's long past due.  What an appallingly divisive, pandering, puerile gesture that was.  "Look at D.C.!  We don't support law enforcement, love criminals, and see everything through a racial lens".

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Thanks for sharing the racist a-hole interpretation of "BLM". You are probably anti"CRT" and anti"DEI" as well. 
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Both CRT and DEI are inherently racist. [/quote]

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This is irrefutable because the concept is that to solve past racism, the solution must be “anti-“ racism….which if you boil it down to what that means, it’s discrimination based on color or gender or whatever group society perceives to have the most power so that the pendulum swings back the other way to advantage those who have historically been disadvantaged.
The concept makes sense in the greater view of society over time to “right the ship”—-but the feelings it produces for individuals who are caught up in the collateral damage of the wave of “righting the ship” may not be worth the harm it does to our relationships as a society.

It’s similar with the whole DOGE concept. Even if you agree with the general idea that we should not be so many TRILLION dollars in debt and we need to get ahold of our spending and slash some waste and unnecessary expenses in order to save us from financial collapse, it doesn’t feel good to people who are part of the “collateral damage” of the slashing because they may lose jobs they loved or see programs they are working on getting cut.

I support anti-racism efforts because I recognize that it’s not enough to simply forgive the past and move on as though the atrocities on disenfranchised groups had no impact on the next generation of citizens when it comes to education and generational wealth. But then I see that the people who end up benefitting from such efforts were members of those groups who are already wealthy or grifters who then hoard the newfound wealth and don’t use it to the advantage of those communities and it is infuriating.

And I support the concept of cutting waste, but what I find to be a meaningful program may be very different from what Elon Musk decides needs to be slashed. And even when I do agree—the manner in which it’s being done is unnecessarily gleeful and insensitive (and yes I do think his autistic spectrum is playing into that).[/quote]

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