Like I said above: Ideally people would ignore Race and judge people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.The best way for people to get along is to ridicule the notion of ‘others’.
I am reading Joan C. Williams' book 'White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America. Its a short read, under 4 hours and it packs a sobering punch about the way the progressive left misinterprets the working class and the poor. I am reading it because an interview with Williams triggered an awareness of how the Australian political movement that was One Nation was reviled and ridiculed by urban leftists. One Nation supporters were mostly rural initially. I worked for some years in rural New South Wales and had come to have respect and affection for people whose views, on an intellectual level were utter incompatible with my own. But their moral foundation had, at core, a profound desire for justice and fairness.
And why do the media (liberal or conservative) love distorted caricatures
Like I said above: Ideally people would ignore Race and judge people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
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I said, ridicule the notion of ‘others’, not individuals.Getting along with people ... by ridiculing them? It seems to me that it would be counterproductive.
My brief attempts to examine American gun homicides or injuries caused by a good guy defending his home from a bad guy suggests that such incidents are so infrequent there is no rational ground for asserting any benefit from armed self defence at that level.
Some claims might be more tenuous than others, but many are clear-cut, including the case of Australia: there is no known occupying group on this land prior to the indigenous Australians (that's why we refer to them as "indigenous"), who have lived here for tens if not hundreds of thousands of years. They continue to live here. The colonisers and immigrants have been here for a mere 230 years - that's roughly three lifetimes back-to-back.
You will never hear our stories sitting around the dinner table like when my elderly mother got blocked into a car wash and by two carjackers. One ran to her window and was about to bust it out with a crowbar when she sent him running by drawing her revolver. No police report was made because these things happen all the time in the Third-World parts of America.
Multiculturalism or multiracialism is not a threat. Racial hostility between whites and non-whites isn't good though. The alt right plays into the hands of the leftists by promoting this hard white/non-white dichotomy.
While I don't live in a 3rd world part of America, I do live rural, after having grown up in the suburbs. You do not consider living out here without a gun, it's really that simple. (And it takes a semi-automatic weapon to kill a 300 pound hog racing at you). I have no real fear of home invasions, but we have feral hogs and dogs, coyote, bobcats. I truly dislike guns, but I learned to shoot them thanks to urging from Hubby and I know he is right.
It is a real shame that the anti-gun folks don't care to understand why they are necessary. Should I have a home invasion or other such threat here, it would take at least an hour to get help, if I'm lucky. Come on folks, be reasonable!
Also, and more importantly, guns may become necessary to protect ourselves against our government, that is the actual reason why it was included in the Constitution.
The government can't even get guns out of the hands of criminals (in some cases they even deliver them personally like in Fast and Furious). They have no business taking fire arms from lawful citizens. I suspect that nervousness about a well deserved revolution is what drives these efforts.