Racial Demographics

[TeyshaBlue]

PS

GFY

[CuckingFunt]

Improving educational and employment opportunities, at least in part by considering factors including race into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group.

So how many generations of children are you willing to sacrifice in the hopes that helping them after the formative years is the solution?

The ?

[ElNono]

Just when this thread was gaining intellectual momentum...

Go Bruins!

Nevermind

[CuckingFunt]

Green eyes =spawn of Satan.

Using my dating history as statistical fact, I agree. Fully.

[CuckingFunt]

For someone with such a large vocabulary that is an awfully incorrect usage of the word religion. I get that you frown upon social norms but that hardly makes them a religion.

No. They're considerably more pervasive than a religion.

[LnGrrrR]

Using my dating history as statistical fact, I agree. Fully.

Pshaw and fiddlesticks!

[Winehole23]

Come on, now you're just toying with us.

Edit: Being an atheist myself, I would like to think that society's norms changing to reflect anti-racist notions is more due to evolved rationality, rather than a sort of unthinking loyalty.

I would like to think so too, but clowning evolved as well. MONKEYS ARE WICKED SMART.

[Winehole23]

Irrational or Arational? (For instance, if I choose Mountain Dew over Coke, it's arational, ie. no rationality is behind it, except perhaps the rationality of which flavor I prefer.)

Um, do I have to pick?

If you did indeed mean irrational, irrational in what way? For instance, we call it irrational when someone doesn't save money for later years, but in a sense it's "rational" because those years are not promised, and you can't take it with you. I'm sure there are various other forms of irrationality that could be argued with rational as well.

I wasn't being precise.

What people do isn't usually rationally motivated or executed. It's done for love, glory and gold. The books about it are bound in leather, the leaf is gilt at the edges and all the words within are read some time later. That is reason.

[Winehole23]

So then you were using that word in a positive sense? I asked you this above. You ignored it. I ask once again.

I thought I was being descriptive.

[Winehole23]

Turns out the linkage to Francis Bacon isn't even tenuous, so that's another miss...

[TeyshaBlue]

mmmm....Bacon.

[Wild Cobra]

Give us a solution that doesn't require anyone to give anything up then.

I wish I had a good solution.

People need to stop listening to those who blame others, like Jesse Jackson. They need to instead listen the things Bill Cosby has to say.

Ever listen to Bill Cosby or Morgan Freeman on race? Or less popular MLK quotes?

[CuckingFunt]

Anyone else not the least bit surprised WC apparently didn't understand any of the youtubes he posted?

[Blake]

Anyone else not the least bit surprised WC apparently didn't understand any of the youtubes he posted?

I'm wondering if anyone might actually be surprised.

[Wild Cobra]

Anyone else not the least bit surprised WC apparently didn't understand any of the youtubes he posted?

What do you think I don't understand about them? maybe I see things in the messages you don't.

[TeyshaBlue]

What do you think I don't understand about them? maybe I see things in the messages you don't.

Unquestionably, you do. However, that doesn't mean those things actually exist.

[CuckingFunt]

What do you think I don't understand about them?

Well, you apparently feel they are in some way relevant to the argument(s) you have thus far made.

maybe I see things in the messages you don't.

Potayto, potahto.

[ChumpDumper]

What do you think I don't understand about them? maybe I see things in the messages you don't.

Maybe you hear dogs telling you to kill people.

[Winehole23]

http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/fa...l32/idols.html

[Agloco]

I wish I had a good solution.

People need to stop listening to those who blame others, like Jesse Jackson. They need to instead listen the things Bill Cosby has to say.

What do you think it takes to change the mindset? These things don't just magically happen. It requires an investment in people. Real resources are needed and that's going to cost someone something at some point.

[LnGrrrR]

It's done for love, glory and gold..

That's kinda my point. If something is done for love, glory, or gold, who's to say it's not rational?

[Winehole23]

Fair enough. Needn't be though.

[LnGrrrR]

Fair enough. Needn't be though.

I think, in many cases, rationality is in the eye of the beholder. I think it's much easier to prove that one is thinking irrationally (ie. everytime I wash my car, it rains, therefore, washing my car = causing rain) than acting irrationally. We'll all got our weird hopes and dreams and wants and needs, and they're bound up somewhere in weird unexplainable connections in our head. But that opens up a whole new set of philosophical worms.

[Trainwreck2100]

I wish I had a good solution.

That's cause there is no solution for the parameters you want, for someone to gain, someone has to lose. It's the law of conservation.

[Wild Cobra]

What do you think it takes to change the mindset? These things don't just magically happen. It requires an investment in people. Real resources are needed and that's going to cost someone something at some point.

Agreed, but the investment we are doing now is doing almost no good after the children go through the formative years. Too many already believe they have no future, therefore they don't strive for one.