Quote Originally Posted by Kalam View Post
Have you looked at the wording of the Build Back Better bill the Dems are trying to pass? The wording of many of the provisions are to specifically earmark massive amounts of money for specific racial groups (to the exclusion of others). At some point when all your "advertising" goes one way we have to assume you actually mean it and will follow through if you can.

Of course the main problem right now is that the poor BIPOC community being advertised to doesn't trust the Dem party. And why should they? The Dems are the party that flooded BIPOC neighborhoods with criminals through "criminal justice reform" and ravaged them by promoting looting all of last year. Even uneducated poor people (but apparently not highly educated, rich progressives) understand how the progressive agenda of the last 2 years was always going to end up.

FWIW I believe the Democratic Party has every intention of trying to buy votes through straight bribery of BIPOC communities, which is what a big chunk of the BBB bill they are trying to pass is. However their ideas of how to govern are just so horrible that the money will actually do the opposite of intention and make those communities worse. And at some level the communities themselves understand this, which is where a lot of the resistance is coming from.
Correct.

Left-wing racism basically assumes that people of color are unable to rise out of poverty and also unable to resist a life of crime, so therefore the government must take care of them, and also go easy on criminals from those communities.

What occurs is a cycle of dependence upon subsistance via government, plus neighborhoods terrorized by a violent criminal element.

The best way to empower black neighborhoods to thrive is to get the criminal element off the street with a zero tolerance approach, and then open real opportunities via programs which provide vocational training and preparation for college.

For example, idiot liberals think that eliminating the SAT is the right decision for college admissions, because on average, black and Hispanic people do worse on the test.

Smart people would realize that this actually HURTS the minority students who are smart yet not achieving the best grades due to life circumstances, as they can no longer show their potential via a standardized test. Furthermore, the "preparation gap" can be easily and cheaply closed by providing free SAT test prep classes to lower and lower-middle-class schols.

The former is pandering bullshit, whereas the latter actually helps minority students have a better chance for college admissions.

Basically the left's approach is, "You're a victim of societal oppression, therefore nothing is your responsibility and we will always take care of you, no matter what."

The right's approach is, "Let's see what we can do to solve the problems in your community, and give people more opportunities to help themselves."

Democrats don't want minorities to rise out of poverty, because they'll lose votes. This is especially true because minorities aren't very much on board with all the extreme trans and feminism issues, so they are already starting to slowly move to the Republican side for those reasons alone. Take away the financial and race-baiting pandering, and they'll lose minority voters in droves.