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December 08, 2014 07:50 AM UTC
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Sounds like a job for Fladen.
Seems sensible to me.
People haven't been 'walking behind a plow' since the debut of John Deere's 'Waterloo Boy' in 1918 – two years before women were given the right to vote under the 19th Amendment.
Note to Roni: this is what 'plowing' looks like. You'll notice there's no one behind the plow.
So what your saying then, ever since the advent of modern farm machinery like, the tractor and the AR-15, in real life today's melon farmers are really just a bunch of tough-talk spewing wussies — not the hearty pioneers and frontiersmen they pretend?
…who simultaneously rant against a government they hate while being employed (and subsidized) by said government.
And you can buy one from Cory Gardner’s father.
Those were the days….
"Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again…''
There must be a mistake. I heard on the Mike Gallagher and Bill Cunningham radio shows that racism in America just didn't really exist anymore. (Oh, except the hatred of white people by Barack Obama, Eric Holder and Al Sharpton.)
Yeah, that's it.
But we are told that is solely based on policy differences. And suspicions about the authenticity of that birth certificate. And his funny name.
Perhaps she took the new Jeffco School Board approved AP History and has never learned about this rather unsavory chapter of American History?
Guess these TPers are only for armed white freeloaders who don't want to pay modest grazing fees so they can enjoy the use of land they don't own for free standing up to the government. When it comes to "those" people or libruls, government authority must be respected or else and if you can't pay for it or own it yourself, do without. Except for Medicare. Government needs to keep it's hands off their government program Medicare.
How do they keep track of all the hypocritical diametrically opposed pieces of bull and nonsense they claim to believe in? I guess they just select whatever conforms to hating minorites, that black (though they'd use another term among themselves) family in the White House and libruls in any given case.
Good lord. Has she been in a coma the past 20 years? The common moldboard plow has been the most important implement of environmental destruction throughout history and up to the present moment in modern, technologically advanced America.
Any farmer who is in the federal farm program parked their plows long ago…it's impossible to maintain conservation compliance by using one.
The far right seek to build the world in which they wish they lived rather than the one we're constantly moving toward. The GOP, moving us onward toward a new decade, the 1850s.
(oops, itchy trigger finger)
They long yearningly for the halcyon days of their youth, when things were so much better. So much less strife. So much happier. They never realize that there was no social unrest because Ol' Jim Crow and his brethren kept people of color "in line" (and if it didn't they could always be reminded of their place with beatings, hangings). Wars were always just (until we soon after found out how unjust they could be). And women were far less abortiony and far more focused on having dinner on the table.
This woman, in a follow-on post, says she never considered this implication because she is "color-blind." Blind certainly to the general economic plight of blacks in this society. Blind certainly to the lingering effects of centuries of racial injustice. Blind certainly to the way in which the police look at black faces and white faces differently. Blind as all hell.
When everyone gets white justice, we can start calling it just "justice." When we discard the made-up notion that is race and eradicate even the perception of people in racial terms from our society and our institutions, then we'll be "post-racial."
GLWT. People are inherently tribal. It's a survival mechanism evolved in to us.
Bull. I know plenty of people who love to meet people from other cultures and backgrounds. I think there are basically two types. There's the type who fear anything different, who don't want to try anything new, any unfamiliar food, music etc., and the type who love to try new things, meet people and experience art, music, lit, food, dance, history of other cultures. I just know too many people of the latter type to accept that we're all programmed to be super tribal as a survival mechanism. And we need the latter for long term success.
The history of our species certainly includes hostility between groups and there is survival advantage to approaching newly encountered "tribes" with caution but long term survival is a different story. Groups mixing with each other and learning from each other, creating hybrid groups with expanded knowledge and skills is demonstrably the most successful long term survival mechanism. In fact it's vital that some group members be willing to take the plunge and start being more open to "others". That's how knowledge gets exchanged.
The most isolated tribes get stuck, failing to make the advances while those who live in the larger messier world of interaction, even though that interaction has always been risky and included violence, are the ones who have been most successful at propagating and advancing the technology and knowledge of the human species. Hyper-tribalism would have left us all as a relatively small struggling population living in the stone age. Complete lack of caution is obviously high risk. We're probably a mix of programming for both with the impulse to overcome caution enough to benefit from what "others" have to offer the key to long term success of the species.
The most isolated tribes get stuck, failing to make the advances while those who live in the larger messier world of interaction
Although they sometimes get reality TV shows like Duck Dynasty or Sarah Palin's Alaska Adventure.
Yeah well there's messy and then there's messy!
Let’s assume, arguendo, that your premise is correct—tribalism is inevitable. Even so, we are the ones who determine the parameters along which tribal lines are drawn. Perceived race is only one of many such possible components. In fact, in many areas, dividing traditional multiply interconnected family groups (clans, tribes, what have you) would be impossible to do by race. This tells us that while race can be used as a division among tribes, it need not be used to determine who is clansman and who an outsider. Once we understand that tribes are constructed according to our own notions about in-group and out-group members, we must also admit that these constructs can be broken down and remade in other ways– ways that better serve our society (with varying levels of difficulty, of course).
Race does not exist naturally. We (northern Europeans) created it to allow ourselves to be racist—to demean, devalue, and degrade others who looked different from us. There is no basis in biology, psychology, or any other science for Melanin-based discrimination. We created it to allow us to separate our white selves from, quite literally, the animals who surrounded us.
Well observed,
Well written, Pcat.
I gag a little every time some white pundit claims that they are "color blind", or "don't see color". Like hell they don't.
I find it very interesting that the right wing blog world, in unison, decries the injustice of the Eric Garner murder, but doubts any injustice in any of the young people of color who have been killed by police.
Protesting Garner's murder is OK; protesting any youth's murder is a waste of time better spent plowing something.
Wait! Wait!
It was a joke, you know.
And she apologizes to any PC constipated asshole who might have been offended.
OMG……The only reason she was in the running at all was to make Tancredo and Brophy look reasonable and rational.
. . . how'd that work out?