They never claim there is not racism in the United States, only that they do not agree that is why the system was built.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/19/why-new-jerseys-ven... Lawmakers in New Jersey, which is quickly becoming the new epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic, are worried new emergency triage guidelines for the state’s hospitals could push younger, whiter patients to the front of the line.
“We do know that it exists, institutional bias exists throughout all of health care,” Persichilli said Wednesday
Does racism exist? Yes. Wide scale systematic institutionalized racism? Absolutely not.
Bad luck is when you're effectively ruined by the age of 5 thanks once again to who your parents were. The only way out for someone that fits this description is to adopt a self-reliant, goal directed attitude.
Self-reliant, goal directed behavior is essentially what people not born lucky or ruined do to improve their position in life.
What society can do to help is communicate clearly that the virtues of persistence, resilency, self-reliance and goal directed behavior are "cool" or in sociological-speak, society's normative values.
Unfortunately, since Rousseau and Marx, we have birthed a counter-culture that is determined to do the opposite. It's determined to place the locus of control over one's life outside of the individual and onto a nepharious "society".
Marx personally was an unhappy, deeply defective, and cruel personality. His philosophy stems directly from this. It attracts people who share his defects- namely people filled with resentment, envy, a desire to extract revenge for perceived slights and a lust for absolute power.
The hope is that eventually, through CRISPR and other techniques, that as a side effect of improving human functioning the well-spring of such people will simply dry up.
Until then, we have to do battle with a philosophy which preaches the diametric opposite of what we know leads to human flourishing and happiness.
Poverty rates are disproportionately high among black and hispanic citizens but as a percentage of total population they are absolutely dwarfed by white poverty. What is the reason that so many white Americans are living in poverty? Is it perhaps possible that it is a similar reason that black and hispanic citizens are living in poverty?
Poverty rates are always written as a percentage of the population of that race but if you rewrite them to be a percentage of US population a different narrative starts to emerge...
~2.7% of Americans are black people in poverty. ~3.0% of Americans are hispanic people in poverty. ~6.5% of Americans are white people in poverty.
We have problems of economic opportunity in this country. Writing it off as racism is missing the elephant in the room.
Supposedly, commentors here have something of value to offer, otherwise it would just be a news headline site without commentors. I am taking whatever value I have to offer and going elsewhere. I suggest you do the same. Sure, HN will turn into a political echo-chamber but it's really that already, right? I had 10% of my karma- whatever that is and whatever it's good for- disappear in an hour when I proferred the opinion that I didn't blame Trump for the virus.
You get a result like that - people telling you that that should NOT be your opinion and here's the punch in the face to teach you that lesson- and you know the forum is already a lost cause.
Gab has a browser plugin that will let you comment on any website, including this one and not be censored. Also there are scrappy alternatives to Reddit, saidit I think is one, where its not a groupthink party.
It's just a period of time we're living through and technology will catch up with it.
Historically, problems had to go on much longer than people reading about them later realize they did before corrective action was taken. This is no different.
For all the busy-beaver downvote-assassins on HN- way to waste the days and hours of the prime of your life, fighting the losing battle against freedom!
You go girl!
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/cory_foy/status/1251705040873689088
It's also quite clear he takes issue with the Trump administration and Marc's attempts to downplay their role in the current crisis and our preparedness.
> The IRS? Turns out they're actually racist for requiring a bank account to transfer money to.
Cory didn't say the IRS is racist for requiring bank accounts, he's saying racist/classist policies prevented people from getting them in the first place.
You're intentionally misrepresenting his response to claim everything is about the current crisis — it is obviously not. Nor is Marc's original article.
This comment is totally unnecessary and really not appropriate for HN.
But I will unpack exactly what I meant. "pathetic" is literal, and used in the same sense that the parent used it; it connotes that their comment evokes pathos, and lacks ethos, logos, or bathos. A "sad-sack" is somebody who ruins the tone or vibe of a conversation with their attitude, usually by making people feel uncomfortable and sad. A "snowflake" is somebody who cannot stand being criticized, and erupts in anger whenever confronted with evidence which contradicts their beliefs.
"part of the problem" is an old rhetorical idea relating to good-faith argumentation; the idea is that if somebody repeatedly admits to all of the premises but not the conclusion, over and over, then eventually we must conclude that they are refusing to engage with the argument in good faith. "fix yourself" is pretty direct; I want the parent to read the links that I provided and reconsider their beliefs, and optionally to then re-read the original linked article and commentary and see if they come to a better understanding.
> We’ve chosen not to build a system because we’re a racist, classist country.
And there it is. Racism is to blame. All the deaths in NYC due to unpreparedness, lack of funding over decades, a shitty private health system, no decent leadership from both sides of politics ... they're actually because the US is just a racist country. The IRS? Turns out they're actually racist for requiring a bank account to transfer money to.
Sorry. You need to do better than that.
> Or, you know, break the systemic racist, classist policies that form the backbone of repression throughout this country.
Oh look, there it is again. Not enough hospitals being built? That's because we're racist. Core infrastructure falling apart? Yeah, racism. Not enough jobs to go around? That's racist too!
This is pathetic.