I live in a small city (about 14,000 population) in West-Central Wisconsin. The larger city (about 52,000 population) next to us just announced they’re bringing in refugees (from unknown countries) so they can provide them ‘housing, medical care, and employment’. Their only stated reason? “Diversity”
The irony is that all the crowing about "diversity" is accompanied by hamfisted efforts to make everyone look talk and think the same. My city here in tidewater Maryland hangs rainbow flags along Main St imprinted with the words "We are all equal here". The creeps who are responsible for this won't be happy until everyone is a non-descript gray blob of indeterminate sex. Diversity, my ass!
I saw a Maryland Sheriff from a county I don't recall being interviewed by Ben Bergquam of Bannon's War Room and Law And Border. My god is Maryland screwed! The Sheriff says that it has become virtually lawless now.
Just look into the history of the 'Temperence' movement of the 1890s. That movement then produced the Volstead Act of 1919 and the age of prohibition. It's real reason was that alcohol was being made and used as fuel on probably thousands if not hundreds of thousands of farms and homesteads and Rockefeller wanted the early cars to run on dirty petroleum. It took until about 1935 before that act was revoked, by which time there was a 'gas' station on every corner. I wonder why they don't teach that in schools? (I'm English BTW).
Before Congress enacted national prohibition many if not most states had local prohibition laws. It was something that appealed to some locales and if Congress had kept its mitts off it, everyone would have been better off.
But did they have police officers going around destroying farmer's distilleries that were producing alcohol for machinery? It's one thing having say a bye-law to curb the consumption of alcohol say in a public park to preserve respectibility, but quite another for the closure of bars and banning the consumption of alcohol piecemeal. I only know what I've read so I have no real knowledge of how this played out in the USA. The very first Model T Ford's had a lever which turned the carburetor from accepting alcohol to petrol (gas). I'm guessing by the early 1920s this was phased out for a single petrol (gas) carburetor.
It was something that was enforced differently in each locale. The commercial interests behind distilleries have benefit from portraying all prohibitory movements as tyrannical. And no I'm not a teetotaler.
My alma mater is in a dry town in upstate NY. A college town. No fireworks needed.
I'm not sure what your point is. Here in the UK at the moment, I can walk outside my house and round the corner here, since June 2020, the lamp-posts on the 'main road' (it's a tiny road) are displaying 'a clean air zone' sign. I live 12 miles outside Manchester city centre. I live in green fields. Air pollution has never been a problem here. Who has instructed these signs to go up? There has been no consultation with the residents. This is all part of the WEF's Agenda 30 plan and all local councils are going along with it because no resident has kicked up a fuss until now. We're all waking up to what '6uild, 6ack, 6etter' really means. Towns up and down the country, where people have not complained sufficiently, now have a charge to drive through the city centres. This has nothing to do with 'pollution' or their frenzied 'climate change', but is all to do with taxing the people until the pips squeak. The councils are bankrupt. The country is bankrupt. People just don't know it yet, but not only have 60% been given 1,2,3,4,5 or 6 life-threatening injections, but their 'savings and pensions' are teetering on an abyss, that only war will solve. The funny thing is, just like the Temperance movement, it has all been played out before, century after century using the same tried and tested formulas and because man only lives three score and ten, it is forgotten about, just like the people who have been jabbed certainly don't want to talk about it now. It hurts too much to think they have so stupid, so ignorant, so blinded by their arrogance.
The funniest thing I find, is when officials con people into thinking their jabs are free. Of course they are, because people don't pay taxes do they, to fund Big Pharma's profits or fund the Vaccine Injuries Compensation Fund when someone is damaged so much, that even a vaccine fanboy cannot deny it. This is the world we live in. If, as you say, 'it was something that was enforced differently in each locale' you can bet it wasn't anything to do with what the people really wanted.
Well I think that last sentence of yours would be incorrect. Back before there was state provided support for families with no or low income, women and children were left in dire straits by drunken husbands and fathers. Women were often in favor of temperance. To compare the American temperance movement to the ludicrous environmental posturing of your local meddling bureaucrats is pretty far off the mark.
No one in the dry town where I went to college felt oppressed.
In the corporate world, 'Diversity' is an opaque way of saying not 'straight white men'. Many people are aware of this, but most have been hoodwinked by the media. Equity is the same circumstance. People associate this word with equality.
I once had a discussion with a fairly educated friend about Bidens mantra to promote equity in government. The media has been portraying it in a positive light. My friend thought it was a noble and compassionate goal. Until I showed him the definition of equity. A marxist concept that promotes discrimination. Usually against 'straight white men'. Seems to be a pattern.
This is the only group that doesn't fit the subjective definition of 'marginalized', 'disadvantaged', 'underrepresented' or 'minority'. Words the media like because it elicits empathy and more clicks.
Any of those words: "marginalized", "disadvantaged", "underrepresented", "minority", even words like "the masses", are so generic as to be completely meaningless. They make me tune out the speaker who uses them. But that bland blanket meaninglessness makes it so easy to trot them out and target, say, the white male applicants for a job. So much of this verbiage is the language of hell: ambiguous, destructive, malignant. Are we happier for having spent the past fifty years dumping all over white men? Look around. It doesn't seem so. Funny how we exalt every other racial and sexual trait, but white maleness is "toxic". My husband and I raised two sons, and I encourage them to pick up the anti-male slurs and flip them right back at the idiots who spout them.
Mom of 3 pasty-white sons here. They all are smart and hard-working, but have had to deal with multiple learning disabilities (which includes difficulty comprehending the speech of anyone with an accent) throughout their schooling. So my oldest son kinda flipped things around with a coworker who tried to throw the "racist" label at him. Son is currently working in a job with noisy machinery, and there's a minority coworker there who nobody wants to work with because he won't work. My son has requested that this guy not be assigned to his location, because the guy has a thick accent, and my son REALLY wouldn't be able to understand him in the noisy area. But the guy got assigned to his area one day, and things weren't going so well, so the guy got all worked up and started accusing my son of being racist, etc. (which is a joke, b/c my son's best friend since kindergarten is Hispanic) My son countered with, "You're discriminating against me! I got a disability! You can't discriminate against me!" (My son was deliberately laying it on thick - he's NEVER made a big deal about his disabilities before that I know of) The guy didn't know what to do with that. The company had wanted to fire him b/c he was so unproductive, but had to build a case against him so they wouldn't get hit with a civil lawsuit for discrimination. But within a day of that shift with my son, he quit on his own. I had to laugh at my oldest son's creativity. What a hoot!
I can't like this enough! God bless you and your family. Your son sounded like he was being genuinely honest with a guy who'd probably never had anyone stand up to his bullshit before. One thing it's good to remember is that everyone is toting some kind of load over his physical or cultural traits: Jews feel discriminated against, women have made a big thing of "patriarchal" attitudes, blacks feel like they're dealing with racism. Etc, etc. It's good to remember that everyone is insecure about something.
You know, I think the "racist" slur is so overworked that people are now resorting to "homophobic" in order to cow others into silence. I've had that one thrown at me by family members. It's funny because I have a lot of "gay" friends. But if you don't spout the party line you get slapped with a label.
I recently read about a situation where a corporation was having a women’s job fair for STEM jobs. Many young men attended by claiming they are non-binary 😁 brilliant! I think this may be the workaround for discrimination against men. Claiming Trans status would work also. However, It shouldn’t be done in athletics. That’s really unfair.
Aw thanks. Raising children is the most meaningful thing I've ever done. But you'd have to ask them about how good we were. I can say this: my husband was a bright light for them, slept on the ground with them during campouts with the Boy Scouts, read to them at bedtime and a million other things. I don't know how single mothers can do it.
Sometimes the programming backfires. When I hear the word "diversity" I smell bullshit.
I live in a small city (about 14,000 population) in West-Central Wisconsin. The larger city (about 52,000 population) next to us just announced they’re bringing in refugees (from unknown countries) so they can provide them ‘housing, medical care, and employment’. Their only stated reason? “Diversity”
The irony is that all the crowing about "diversity" is accompanied by hamfisted efforts to make everyone look talk and think the same. My city here in tidewater Maryland hangs rainbow flags along Main St imprinted with the words "We are all equal here". The creeps who are responsible for this won't be happy until everyone is a non-descript gray blob of indeterminate sex. Diversity, my ass!
Or dead.
I saw a Maryland Sheriff from a county I don't recall being interviewed by Ben Bergquam of Bannon's War Room and Law And Border. My god is Maryland screwed! The Sheriff says that it has become virtually lawless now.
The Eastern Shore is pretty conservative, but my City elected a Democrat mayor and you can see where that leads if you look at Detroit and Baltimore
I wonder if they get funding for this "Diversity"? It smells.
Just look into the history of the 'Temperence' movement of the 1890s. That movement then produced the Volstead Act of 1919 and the age of prohibition. It's real reason was that alcohol was being made and used as fuel on probably thousands if not hundreds of thousands of farms and homesteads and Rockefeller wanted the early cars to run on dirty petroleum. It took until about 1935 before that act was revoked, by which time there was a 'gas' station on every corner. I wonder why they don't teach that in schools? (I'm English BTW).
Before Congress enacted national prohibition many if not most states had local prohibition laws. It was something that appealed to some locales and if Congress had kept its mitts off it, everyone would have been better off.
But did they have police officers going around destroying farmer's distilleries that were producing alcohol for machinery? It's one thing having say a bye-law to curb the consumption of alcohol say in a public park to preserve respectibility, but quite another for the closure of bars and banning the consumption of alcohol piecemeal. I only know what I've read so I have no real knowledge of how this played out in the USA. The very first Model T Ford's had a lever which turned the carburetor from accepting alcohol to petrol (gas). I'm guessing by the early 1920s this was phased out for a single petrol (gas) carburetor.
It was something that was enforced differently in each locale. The commercial interests behind distilleries have benefit from portraying all prohibitory movements as tyrannical. And no I'm not a teetotaler.
My alma mater is in a dry town in upstate NY. A college town. No fireworks needed.
I'm not sure what your point is. Here in the UK at the moment, I can walk outside my house and round the corner here, since June 2020, the lamp-posts on the 'main road' (it's a tiny road) are displaying 'a clean air zone' sign. I live 12 miles outside Manchester city centre. I live in green fields. Air pollution has never been a problem here. Who has instructed these signs to go up? There has been no consultation with the residents. This is all part of the WEF's Agenda 30 plan and all local councils are going along with it because no resident has kicked up a fuss until now. We're all waking up to what '6uild, 6ack, 6etter' really means. Towns up and down the country, where people have not complained sufficiently, now have a charge to drive through the city centres. This has nothing to do with 'pollution' or their frenzied 'climate change', but is all to do with taxing the people until the pips squeak. The councils are bankrupt. The country is bankrupt. People just don't know it yet, but not only have 60% been given 1,2,3,4,5 or 6 life-threatening injections, but their 'savings and pensions' are teetering on an abyss, that only war will solve. The funny thing is, just like the Temperance movement, it has all been played out before, century after century using the same tried and tested formulas and because man only lives three score and ten, it is forgotten about, just like the people who have been jabbed certainly don't want to talk about it now. It hurts too much to think they have so stupid, so ignorant, so blinded by their arrogance.
The funniest thing I find, is when officials con people into thinking their jabs are free. Of course they are, because people don't pay taxes do they, to fund Big Pharma's profits or fund the Vaccine Injuries Compensation Fund when someone is damaged so much, that even a vaccine fanboy cannot deny it. This is the world we live in. If, as you say, 'it was something that was enforced differently in each locale' you can bet it wasn't anything to do with what the people really wanted.
Well I think that last sentence of yours would be incorrect. Back before there was state provided support for families with no or low income, women and children were left in dire straits by drunken husbands and fathers. Women were often in favor of temperance. To compare the American temperance movement to the ludicrous environmental posturing of your local meddling bureaucrats is pretty far off the mark.
No one in the dry town where I went to college felt oppressed.
They are the military that will be used against us to destroy our republic if possible. Stay vigilant. Get armed, 2024 is going to be wild.
UUGGHH!
In the corporate world, 'Diversity' is an opaque way of saying not 'straight white men'. Many people are aware of this, but most have been hoodwinked by the media. Equity is the same circumstance. People associate this word with equality.
I once had a discussion with a fairly educated friend about Bidens mantra to promote equity in government. The media has been portraying it in a positive light. My friend thought it was a noble and compassionate goal. Until I showed him the definition of equity. A marxist concept that promotes discrimination. Usually against 'straight white men'. Seems to be a pattern.
This is the only group that doesn't fit the subjective definition of 'marginalized', 'disadvantaged', 'underrepresented' or 'minority'. Words the media like because it elicits empathy and more clicks.
Any of those words: "marginalized", "disadvantaged", "underrepresented", "minority", even words like "the masses", are so generic as to be completely meaningless. They make me tune out the speaker who uses them. But that bland blanket meaninglessness makes it so easy to trot them out and target, say, the white male applicants for a job. So much of this verbiage is the language of hell: ambiguous, destructive, malignant. Are we happier for having spent the past fifty years dumping all over white men? Look around. It doesn't seem so. Funny how we exalt every other racial and sexual trait, but white maleness is "toxic". My husband and I raised two sons, and I encourage them to pick up the anti-male slurs and flip them right back at the idiots who spout them.
Mom of 3 pasty-white sons here. They all are smart and hard-working, but have had to deal with multiple learning disabilities (which includes difficulty comprehending the speech of anyone with an accent) throughout their schooling. So my oldest son kinda flipped things around with a coworker who tried to throw the "racist" label at him. Son is currently working in a job with noisy machinery, and there's a minority coworker there who nobody wants to work with because he won't work. My son has requested that this guy not be assigned to his location, because the guy has a thick accent, and my son REALLY wouldn't be able to understand him in the noisy area. But the guy got assigned to his area one day, and things weren't going so well, so the guy got all worked up and started accusing my son of being racist, etc. (which is a joke, b/c my son's best friend since kindergarten is Hispanic) My son countered with, "You're discriminating against me! I got a disability! You can't discriminate against me!" (My son was deliberately laying it on thick - he's NEVER made a big deal about his disabilities before that I know of) The guy didn't know what to do with that. The company had wanted to fire him b/c he was so unproductive, but had to build a case against him so they wouldn't get hit with a civil lawsuit for discrimination. But within a day of that shift with my son, he quit on his own. I had to laugh at my oldest son's creativity. What a hoot!
I can't like this enough! God bless you and your family. Your son sounded like he was being genuinely honest with a guy who'd probably never had anyone stand up to his bullshit before. One thing it's good to remember is that everyone is toting some kind of load over his physical or cultural traits: Jews feel discriminated against, women have made a big thing of "patriarchal" attitudes, blacks feel like they're dealing with racism. Etc, etc. It's good to remember that everyone is insecure about something.
You know, I think the "racist" slur is so overworked that people are now resorting to "homophobic" in order to cow others into silence. I've had that one thrown at me by family members. It's funny because I have a lot of "gay" friends. But if you don't spout the party line you get slapped with a label.
I recently read about a situation where a corporation was having a women’s job fair for STEM jobs. Many young men attended by claiming they are non-binary 😁 brilliant! I think this may be the workaround for discrimination against men. Claiming Trans status would work also. However, It shouldn’t be done in athletics. That’s really unfair.
That's wonderful! You must be great parents.
Aw thanks. Raising children is the most meaningful thing I've ever done. But you'd have to ask them about how good we were. I can say this: my husband was a bright light for them, slept on the ground with them during campouts with the Boy Scouts, read to them at bedtime and a million other things. I don't know how single mothers can do it.
Off topic, I had a magnificent half Newfie half lab many years ago! Never find another like him.
I've had both and they are great. All the kids in my neighborhood thought my Newfoundland dog was a bear. It was hugh but very loving.
They're wonderful! One of my fav breeds!