| William_the_Bloody |
08-09-2016 11:53 PM |
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Originally Posted by djchameleon
(Post 1728161)
Do you realize why there was a need for affirmative action in the first place? The regular system was already leaning heavily on giving whites that privilege, advantage and just unfair pass over other minorities. Goofle is acting like it's such a horror to only give blacks something when the way the system is, it is already in a sweet spot where whites are having an greater advantage than any other race. The only unrealistic thing about reparations is that they will NEVER occur as far as whites are in the position to stop it. They don't want to lose any of their privileges. What's wrong with free education for the rest of eternity? It creates a skilled labor force to fill jobs that severely need people. I feel like more STEM jobs would end up getting filled and it would be good for the nation as a whole.
The thing about the bloated military budget is that. They keep cutting back from the troops while increasing this budget. The majority of that money goes to civilian contractor groups that are doing jobs that our troops should be doing. While they go around closing down bases and buying up more tanks and other weapons. Do you think they even care to buy more updated equipment to protect our troops? FUCK NO.
This is true.
That's nice and all but the government doesn't currently give a fuck about any of that. It's also nice to see where your priorities are but I guess it makes sense since you wouldn't be included in the education aspect. The current taxes that are being taken out barely go to roads and services. I don't know about the UK but in the US our infrastructure sucks ass and is in severe need of being updating but all this time they are still taking taxes away from people while not applying it to that. The crap part of taxes is that you don't get to decide what it goes to but they still come around and take it. They funnel it where ever they see fit and majority of the time those lofty things that you listed get so few of those tax dollars that they are still struggling.
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Free education for black Americans? Interesting idea, but it would never happen. People aren't going to vote to have their taxes raised if doesn't benefit them, particularly if they see it's going to put them at an competitive disadvantage, relative to another group in society. Even if you took the money from the defense budget, it would most likely cause animosity amongst other racial groups, not just whites.
People only have political power in so much that the Democrats or Republicans need your vote. The Democrats have had Black Americans solidly in their corner since the 1960's, so unless they threaten on mass to vote Republican if they don't get free education, no movement on that front will ever happen. Even if they did, the Democrats would risk losing solidly white working class states like Pennsylvania, Ohio and Wisconsin over the issue, I imagine California, Florida and New Mexico would be at risk to.
As someone who is paying off the indentured servitude of student loans, I'm a strong advocate of free post secondary education for everyone, but that is a reality in North America that will never happen. (Canada or the US) so the best we can opt for is bursaries for people coming from low income backgrounds. That and voting for parties that will lower tuition for everyone. |
