That’s not true. The poor are also getting richer, just at a slower rate. The gap is larger, but the median income is still going up. Adjusted for inflation the median income per person has been trending up since at least 1980. In inflation adjusted terms, the median earner is $10,000 richer than the median earner in…

True. It redistributes anything that isn’t nailed down to foreign countries and makes everyone poorer in the near term outlook.

By your own logic, where context is irrelevant, your perpetual quoting is equally offensive, because singing along to a song is essentially quoting said song. Also people took quite a bit of umbrage with the mischaracterization in the title. They weren’t chanting it.

California has the largest wealth gap and worst standard of living in the country. In what world is that not inherently destructive. They literally have a full time slug class of exploited people.

They all do. Usually around 28. If they take care, 40 at the latest.

“Singing rap songs and blithely bopping to a Chris Brown song no less when so many have lied about Black men assaulting them is not fucking cute.”

Humans make music. How does singing along to that human made music dehumanize someone?

No, I think the good byproduct of black culture being mainstream culture is it bridges divides and also a black person makes money from it.

Because everyone has realized that the things that actually harm black people in aren’t white people buying and singing along to their music.

The disingenuous titling is pretty bad.

Have Jewish pop artists made it a mainstay in their popular music for 30 years in this hypothetical? If so, probably.

Are you confusing stoicism with individualism? Literally the only major point of individualism is that the individuals rights are supreme over the state or the collective. If you think the bill of rights is pretty neat, you are an individualist. It also means you represent yourself, not as a representative of some…

This doesn’t even make sense. DC has the strictest gun laws constitutionally allowed.

“Because nothing about being a white man infringes on their rights or privileges so they don’t have to think about their identity in relation to shit like “am I allowed to continue living today?” or “is somebody going to violate my body today?””

That’s why I was addressing Ugh and not you.

First, street harassment is gross and people shouldn’t do it. That said, you think you get street harassment because you are a respresentative of the identity of women? As opposed to gross people finding you attractive (which isn’t anything you do to bring on)?

That isn’t even accurate though. The federally government has a overrepresentation of black women in the executive branches (10.6% of the workforce vs around 7% of the population). They make up 9% of GS14 and exec positions. That is the level where the sausage of government is made.

The idea that lived experience is a good measure to build policy is laughable. Especially since we know that people who are living an experience are the least likely to have an objective stance on it. Especially if they are contributing to their lived experience being horrible (which isn’t always the case, but is…

Individualism doesn’t mean you have to operate by your lonesome. It just means that individual rights are supreme over collective or states rights. It is just favoring negative rights (freedoms from) vs positive rights (privileges to). Individuals can still work together towards what they want, but you get to skip out…

What does that even mean? The google machines doesn’t even have an explanation of those two words together.